[spoon-discuss] Re: [Bnomic-private] Proposal: Jail

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> On 9/16/02 at 6:45 PM Wonko wrote:
> 
>> [[ Note: The proposal below, in my opinion, could have a pretty good
>> nomilogue to go with it. But I don't have time to write one. So if anyone
>> else can suggest a good one, I'll amend this proposal to include it, and
>> give say, all but one point of the proceeds to the author. Any takers?]]
>> 
>> 
>> I submit the following proposal:
>> 
>> {{
>> __Crime Doesn't Pay__
>> 
>> Create the following rules:
>> 
>> {{
>> __Criminal Behavior__ {*(Criminal),2*}
>> 
>> Players may have the Attribute 'Wanted'. This attribute may be gained or
>> lost only as specified by the rules.
>> 
>> A player immediately becomes Wanted when any of the following occurs:
>> *That player is kicked in the Ass four or more times within the same nweek
>> *A Bomb Gnome which that Player has Thrown Explodes on an Elbonian Airways
>> location
>> *A Bomb Gnome which that Player has Thrown Explodes at the location of a
>> Cop's Speeder.
>> 
>> }}
>> 
>> {{
>> __Jail__ {*(Grid,Points,Criminal),4*}
>> 
>> There exist 6 Grid Squares called Cells. The group of all Cells may be
>> collectively reffered to as Jail.
>> 
>> The 6 Cells have the following coordinates, respectively:
>> (1,-5)
>> (4,-5)
>> (7,-5)
>> (10,-5)
>> (13,-5)
>> (16,-5)
>> 
>> All Cells always are of substance Earth.
>> 
>> Players who are in Jail may not:
>> *Move from one Grid Square to another
>> *Spend BNS, unless a rule forces em to
>> *Catch Thrown Objects
>> *Throw Objects
>> *Give Kicks in the Ass
>> *Gain points if e has already gained 20 or more points that nweek.
>> 
>> If a player would gain BNS while in jail, the BNS they would gain is put in
>> eir Bail Fund instead.
>> 
>> If a player has been in jail for an nweek, e may then pay 300 BNS to be
>> released from jail. Any BNS in eir Bail Fund is automatically put towards
>> this cost. When a player is released from jail, e is put on a random
>> Service
>> Mall location, and any BNS left in eir Bail Fund is transferred to eir
>> possession.
>> 
>> }}
>> 
>> {{
>> __The Police__ {*(Gremlin,Grid,Criminal,Speeder),2*}
>> 
>> There exist three Gremlins called the Police Gremlins. They may
>> individually
>> be reffered to as the First Police Gremlin, the Second Police Gremlin, and
>> the Third Police Gremlin, or Cops # 1, 2, and 3. [[If anyone comes up with
>> more creative names, let me know]] If at any time one of the Cops becomes
>> Active, it is immediately given an Airspeeder and placed on a randomly
>> selected Service Mall. At the beginning of each nweek, all Cops that are
>> Hiding become Active. Whenever a Cop's Airspeeder is destroyed, the Cop in
>> question goes into Hiding.
>> 
>> Each Cop is said to be able to see all squares within five units of eir
>> location, and all Grid Objects (including players) who are on those
>> squares.
>> 
>> At the end of each nweek, all Cops who are Active move eir Airspeeders as
>> many times as they can, moving each time in the legal direction which would
>> bring em closer to the Wanted player who is nearest to em and who can be
>> seen by a Cop. [[If any of them can see you, they all chase you]] If
>> multiple wanted players can be seen by a Cop, and they are all equidistant
>> from a Cop who needs to move, the moving Cop will choose one at random to
>> move towards.
>> 
>> If a Cop occupies a square that is also occupied by a Wanted player, that
>> player is Apprehended, loses the attribute Wanted, and is put in a random
>> empty Jail Cell.
>> }}
>> }}
> 
> Couple things...
> 
> First, while I admit that the offenses you listed are things resulting from a
> player's actions, and therefore a player becoming wanted is eir own fault, I
> still don't like there being a limit on points one can earn.  If that's going
> to be in there, perhaps it should be qualified to not include points from
> proposals.
> 
> Second, your jail cell grid locations violate r301, which says the grid runs
> from 1-20 on each side, unless those negatives in your grid locations were an
> accident.  I understand your logic -- you're trying to make grid locations
> that can't be moved to or from -- but perhaps something that is unarguably not
> on the grid would be better, like confining them to Limbo, or creating a
> second Limbo called Jail, or a player attribute of Jail with possible values
> In and Not In.
> 
> Besides, what happens if we're all naughty and there's a shortage of empty
> cells?
> 
> Glotmorf

The Grid is *initially* 20x20. I made certain of that a while ago, I think
during a Less is More proposal, in anticipation of proposing things like
this.

As for the shortage thing, there's supposed to be an "if one exists" in
there somewhere. Thanks for pointing that out.

-- 
Wonko

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