Proposal: Why is it Called Leapfrog When
Reached quorum, 4-0 with 1 DEF and Jury voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark. Copying to a subrule of Rule Amendments per that rule.
Adminned at 03 Dec 2024 15:35:44 UTC
Throughout the ruleset, change the name of the “Leapfrog” Move to “Leapsnail”. Update its text to read as follows:
If one exists, randomly select a non-Slug Snail before the Finish Line whose Moves are within 2 of yours. Set your Position to be 1 greater than the selected Snail’s. Optionally, you may add to the random selection Snails who have been directly eligible Leapsnail targets for you at some time in the past 24 hours of this Ongoing Race.
Nerfing Leapfrog, as promised. Also experimenting with a new idea to reduce the “players need to react immediately to play optimally”. The general concept is that you can choose to act at any time, but other players will still be able to treat your gamestate as it was before for determining the conditions of their actions if it’s been less than a day. Applied here, the strategy of “I stare at the tracking page until someone is just barely in Leapsnail range, then Leapsnail for maximum distance” falls apart because a less attentive player will still get a full day to react to their opponents zooming by them and be able to do the same thing. Since it can be tedious and annoying to have to go digging through the gamestate history to find eligible targets, I’ve made it optional. The system isn’t anywhere near perfect, but it should help a fair bit.
Habanero:
Note that with this change, you can now Leapfrog 1 forward by rolling yourself; this is an intentional nerf.