[Spoon-business] JunkBots

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Facts about the following proposal:
* It contains only the very basic JunkBot stuff - what they are, how to 
get one, how to send commands, what the command MOVE does.
* It states that all commands must be sent to the public forum; it 
includes in a comment what should be changed once a script is available 
to receive and reveal the information at the appropriate time.
* I will add to the Wiki a page containing all of the Command 
Descriptions (all one, from this prop); it is my belief that while Dave 
is required to maintain a publicly accessible copy of all game 
documents, it is sufficient that he see to it that such a copy exists, 
so Dave need not track Command Descriptions in the database.

I propose:

{{
__JunkBot Madness!__

Create these rules:
{{
__Junkbots__ {*(Environments:Grid:JunkBots)*}

Each player may own up to one JunkBot. JunkBots are Grid Objects.

No player may own more than one JunkBot.

A Player who has no JunkBots may pay 10 points and 2 bandwidth to 
create one; the newly created one is owned by its creator and is placed 
on a random Empty square. If no such square exists, a random square 
with no Bots in it has its height set to zero, and the Bot is placed 
there.

}}

{{
__JunkBot Energy__ {*(Environments:Grid:JunkBots)*}

Each JunkBot has a number of units of Energy.

At the beginning of each nweek, the Energy of each JunkBot in an Empty 
square increases by 20.

When a new JunkBot is created, it has 100 Energy.

Each Junkbot has a Maximum Energy, which is initially 150. If a JunkBot 
has more energy than its Maximum Energy, it loses energy until it no 
longer has too much.
}}

{{
__Commands__

There exist objects called Commands, and Game Documents called Command 
Descriptions.

A Command Description describes a valid type of Command. A Description 
consists of a Command, a Cost, a set of Choices (which may be empty), 
and a list of effects.

Commands must be submitted in the following format:
<time>: <name> <choice1> <choice2>...
where <time> is either 1, 2, or 3, <name> is the name of the command, 
and <choice1>,<choice2>,etc. are the choices required by the Command 
Description (if there are any). The number signified by the <time> is 
the Command's Time.

During an nweek, each player who owns a JunkBot may send any number of 
commands to the JunkBot they own by posting them to the public forum.

[[Once a script is available to handle the reception and subsequent 
revelation of commands, the end of the above sentence should be 
modified to read "privately sending them to an address/webform of the 
administrator's choice.", and the following paragraph should be added:

The admin may designate an email address and/or webform to which 
Commands should be sent; if e does not, e is assumed to have designated 
eir own email address. Commands sent to other addresses are ignored. 
All Commands submitted during an nweek are private information until 
the end of that nweek.
]]

Players may not send Commands to JunkBots they don't own, unless a rule 
says otherwise.

At the end of each nweek, the administrator should make all Commands 
sent during the previous nweek available for public review. The 
Commands sent during a given nweek are said to be the Active commands 
for the next nweek; the set of all Commands legally sent to a given 
JunkBot during a given nweek is that JunkBot's Command Queue for the 
next nweek.

At the end of the first checking period of each nweek, every JunkBot 
executes all commands in its Command Queue that were sent with Time=1, 
in the order in which they were submitted.
At the end of the second checking period of each nweek, every JunkBot 
executes all commands in its Command Queue that were sent with Time=2, 
in the order in which they were submitted.
At the end of the third checking period of each nweek, every JunkBot 
executes all commands in its Command Queue that were sent with Time=3, 
in the order in which they were submitted.

When a JunkBot executes a Command, the following occurs:
If the command has a cost, the JunkBot pays that cost if able. If it 
does not have what is needed for the cost, it pays as much of it as it 
can, and ignores the rest of the command.
If it successfully pays the cost, the effects of the Command occur; if 
any one of them is forbidden by a rule, nonsensical, or impossible, 
then that effect fails to occur.

No JunkBot may execute any Command unless the Rules specifically permit 
them to.

All JunkBots may execute the Command Move.
}}

Create a new Command Description:
{{
__MOVE__

Cost: 10 Energy
Choices: Choose a direction (Left, Right, Up, or Down)
Effect: The Junkbot moves one space in the chosen direction, if it is 
able to. If this would result in two JunkBots sharing the same 
location, each JunkBot loses 5 Energy (or all its energy, if it has 
less than 5), and the JunkBot executing this command doesn't move.
}}
}}

--
Wonko

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