spoon-discuss: Gridwork 1 is Unnecessary

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:06 AM 1/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> See...I see the potential for something Just Like That happening with the 
> current version of the grid rules, as it's possible for a player to move 
> into the same location as either a Shiny Thing or a Dark Thing, and for 
> that Thing to teleport into the same location as another player, and 
> ricochet and keep on going.
>
> It occurred to me that this warranted a change.  From my perspective I 
> figured I could either fix the situation or make it worse.

I considered the ricochet effect when proposing this, but realized the odds 
of a ricochet are extremely slim.

The Grid is 20 x 20 -- there are FOUR HUNDRED units on the Grid. Given our 
current roster of 13 players (+1 on Forced Leave), the odds of a Shiny or 
Scary Dark Thing teleporting to a second location occupied by a player is 
only 13 in 400 or 3.25% !!!

I believe the odds of that ricochet continuing on to a third location and 
hitting a player is a little over 0.10 percent or about 1 in 1000.

I hardly think that warrants giving you 3 to 18 points for setting up a 
Relocation Queue for Things Both Shiny and Scary Dark.


--gritter