spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Giant Hamster Balls

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am almost as opposed to proposals that require me to do a lot of math to 
understand them as I am to repealing bandwidth restriction.

:-/

--gritter

At 06:12 PM 1/29/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> [[This proposal is not as demented as the subject line makes it sound.]]
>
> [[I realize that this proposal does a bunch of calculations, which I
> don't necessarily want to inflict on Dave - if necessary, I could write
> a script which would input each player's Dimensions and calculate the
> effects. And I think this is generally more fun than Property.]]
>
> I propose:
>
> __The Rat Race__
> {{
> 1. Change all occurrences of the term 'Distance' in the current ruleset
> to 'Displacement'. [[This frees up a useful term and makes it more
> technically correct.]]
>
> 2. Create a rule: __Distance__
> {{
> The Distance between one player and another is calculated as the square
> root of (the sum of (the square of each of (the difference between one
> player's value and the other's, in each Dimension))).
> }}
>
> 3. Create a rule: __Hamster Balls__
> {{
> A Giant Hamster Ball is a game object. Any player (but not a non-Player)
> may state eir desire to equip emself with a Giant Hamster Ball by
> posting a message to a Public Forum.
>
> At the end of an nweek, after scores have been calculated, if a player
> has stated that e wants a Giant Hamster Ball, then eir score is lowered
> to the highest multiple of 20 Points which is less than the score.
> [[The places in the Dimensions where you can get Hamster Balls occur
> only every 20 points.]] Then that player is given the Giant Hamster Ball
> and is no longer considered to want one.
>
> The Giant Hamster Ball (GHB) surrounds the player who owns it at a
> radius of 5 units. If a player with a GHB has a Displacement [[from the
> Origin]] of less than 10, however, the ball is shattered by a mysterious
> force and ceases to exist before any effects of GHBs are calculated.
>
> At the end of an nweek, after Dimension changes have taken place, these
> effects are calculated for all Players, in order by increasing
> Displacement:
>
> 1. If a player without a GHB has a distance of 5 or less from a player
> with a GHB, the former player has been Run Over by the Hamster Ball.
> This player has eir Dimensions recalculated, such that they have changed
> by only half as much as they otherwise would have. If there is another
> player with a GHB within a distance of 5 from that new location, this
> step is repeated. The player's Speed and Displacement are adjusted
> accordingly.
>
> [[ For example, a player who got +1 Activity, +18 Score, and -2 Charm
> but got Run Over would instead get +0.5 Activity, +9 Score, and -1
> Charm. The effect of this is that you didn't actually get to your
> destination, because you were Run Over on the way.]]
>
> 2. If a player with a GHB has a distance of 10 or less from another
> player with a GHB, then both players have Collided. A Dimension and one
> of the two players are picked randomly, and the selected player gains 5
> in that Dimension while the other loses 5. Then, for each of the two
> GHBs, there is a 50% chance that it is destroyed in the collision.
>
> [[ When two GHBs run into each other, the players bounce off in a random
> direction, and the GHBs may be destroyed. ]]
> }}
>
> }}
> --
> Rob Speer