Monday, June 27, 2011

Proposal: Woodn’t be fair

Times out 2-7 and fails. -coppro

Adminned at 29 Jun 2011 09:01:24 UTC

Add the following text to the end of the second paragraph of the rule “Planting”:

Planting a Seed in the same square as an existing Crop replaces that Crop without destroying it.

In the rule “The Dead”, change the text

As a daily action, any Farmer may cause all Zombies for which they are the Owner to Shamble. When doing so, they may also cause any Zombie that has not Shambled in the last 3 days to Shamble. Anyway, a Zombie may never shamble more than once a day, and cannot shamble at all within 12 hours of being created. When a Zombie Shambles, the Behaviour specified by its Species is carried out once. If, at any time while a Zombie is Shambling, the Zombie moves or teleports to a Square that contains a Crop or Shed or if the Zombie is on a Square that contains a Crop or Shed when it starts Shambling, that Zombie attacks that Crop or Shed then stops Shambling unless its Powers or Behavior explicitly states otherwise. The Farmer who carries out this action may select the order in which Zombies Shamble.

to

As a daily action, any Farmer may cause all Zombies for which they are the Owner to Shamble. When doing so, they may also cause any Zombie that has not Shambled in the last 3 days to Shamble. The Farmer who carries out this action may select the order in which Zombies Shamble. A Zombie may never shamble more than once a day, and cannot shamble at all within 12 hours of being created.

When a Zombie Shambles, the Behaviour specified by its Species is carried out once. If, at any time while a Zombie is Shambling, the Zombie moves or teleports to a Square that contains a Crop or Shed, that Zombie attacks that Crop or Shed then stops Shambling unless its Powers or Behavior explicitly states otherwise.  If the Zombie is on a Square that contains a Crop or Shed when it starts Shambling, it attacks that Crop or Shed then stops Shambling unless that Crop or Shed did not exist the last time that Zombie Shambled; in the latter case, the Farmer who is acting may choose whether the Zombie ignores that Crop or Shed.

1)Removing the ability to manufacture Wood by planting many Crops in the same place.
2)Splitting the bloated second paragraph of The Dead
3)Removing the ability to paralyze a boss zombie by repeatedly planting a crop under it.  In this case, the boss’s pilot may either cause it to munch the crop it’s sitting on, or ignore it.

Comments

Winner:

27-06-2011 17:43:41 UTC

imperial

Yoda:

27-06-2011 18:52:04 UTC

Hmmmm… I kinda like the ability to produce wood/juice from planting on top of other plants.  imperial

mideg:

27-06-2011 21:24:59 UTC

against
If and when we remove the ability to create wood in this fashion, we need to take away the wood and its products from the people who used this ability. Otherwise you are making it harder and harder for new and unidling players (or those who just got outpaced) to catch up or at least stay in sight with the leading bunch.

I love #2 though, You’d gotten my vote if it would only be for #2. :-)

Bucky:

27-06-2011 22:35:43 UTC

@mideg:It’s a bug.  It was always a bug.  Therefore, we should get rid of it.

New and unidling players will have a lot of trouble catching up anyway, but the rules do contain a few ways to gain wood in a fast but non-instant manner.  Being able to convert X sun into 2X/3 Wood at a moment’s notice, however, makes the game less interesting.

aguydude:

27-06-2011 23:49:17 UTC

I never considered replanting to be a bug.

aguydude:

27-06-2011 23:49:31 UTC

against

scshunt:

28-06-2011 06:11:53 UTC

for

mideg:

28-06-2011 07:17:14 UTC

Maybe if you’d instead rework the wood-gaining to only work on plants that have been there since the last harvest?

Purplebeard:

28-06-2011 07:42:48 UTC

against The problem with repealing the replanting action is that it gives an even greater advantage to those who are able to perform this transaction before this proposal passes.

Yoda:

28-06-2011 19:26:36 UTC

against

ais523:

28-06-2011 23:04:30 UTC

imperial

Klisz:

28-06-2011 23:10:49 UTC

against