Re: [spoon-discuss] Junk

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 24 Dec 2003 at 2:50, Daniel Lepage wrote:
>
> > In a setup such as ours, how would script order be determined? i.e., 
> > if
> > I and Rob both instruct our bots to move to the same space, which of 
> > us
> > gets there? Or do neither of us do so?
> >
> > In some ways this reminds of Diplomacy, where orders are written down,
> > and then all revealed at once. It makes it very easy to set up very
> > intricate plans, and even easier to knock them down.
>
> The cards in RoboRally all have numbers on them; if there's a
> conflict in clock cycle 3 between two cards, whichever has the
> higher number takes precedence.
>
> Diplomacy, on the other hand, uses support to determine
> precedence -- whichever acting piece is supported by the most
> other pieces gets through.
>
> I suppose we could have support in this game (Diplomatic
> RoboRally?), though it could also be done randomly, or perhaps
> a settable maximum energy allotment for a given action, so
> that whichever action can power up more than other actions
> takes precedence.

Or we could simply use the supportless rules of diplomacy - if two 
units without support take conflicting actions, both fail.

--
Wonko

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