[spoon-discuss] Junk

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I had an Idea for what to do on the Grid. The basic idea here is 
that the Grid is covered with wreckage from the old grid, all compacted 
and slightly fused together. The junk has varying height, each square 
having its own height of junk.
	The junk is separated into Mounds, interconnected sets of squares that 
all have height. Each square that has junk on it can be tunneled into; 
but if all the squares of a mound are tunneled, the mound collapses. 
This can be bad if your bot is under the mound.
	We each get one robot; the robots dig around looking for stuff, and do 
stuff with them. There's no concrete goal yet, though it might be good 
to start with, say, a one-in-twenty chance of finding a Shiny Thing 
while you dig.
	The robots are battery operated, starting with 100 units of energy, 
and unable to exceed 150 units; any robot action takes some energy 
(moving is 15, digging into a filled square is 20, etc.). They also 
have solar panels to replenish their power - each robot gains 20 energy 
back every nweek, unless they're in a tunnel under the Junk.	

	I have another section to this, which I'm leaving out right now, 
covering Parts. They're a lot like speeder upgrades - you find them in 
the junk and attach them to you, and they give you extra functionality. 
For example, Lithium Batteries might let you store more Energy, and a 
Big Stick might let you beat up other Robots.
	No hit points, yet...


Any thoughts? Here's the proposal:

I protopropose:
{{
__Rising from the wreckage__

Append to r1635 the text:
{{
A square A and a square B are said to be $TYPE connected if B either is 
the same square as A, or is $TYPE Consecutive to a square that is 
connected to A, where $TYPE is one of Rectilinearly, Diagonally, or 
nothing.
}}

Create a new rule:
{{
__Junk on the Grid__ {*(Environments:Grid:Squares)*}

Each square of the Grid has a Height. Each square can also either be 
Open or Filled.

If a square of Height one becomes Empty, its height becomes zero.
If a square's Height is ever zero, it immediately becomes Open.

A Mound is a set of squares such that every square in the set is 
Rectilinearly connected to every other square in the set, every square 
in the set has Height greater than zero, and every square that's 
rectilinearly connected to a square in the set but not in the set has 
Height zero. [[i.e., a pile of junk squares surrounded by non-junk]]

If every square in a Mound is Open, that Mound Collapses - every square 
in it becomes Filled and has its height decreased by one, and all 
JunkBots in these squares are destroyed.
}}


Set the Grid to have heights as follows, where the height of each 
square is the number given, and all squares are Filled except those 
with height zero:

{{
1 4 0 1 1 5 5 5 4 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
2 4 0 1 1 4 2 0 1 0 1
5 2 1 4 0 1 4 1 4 1 4
2 4 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 2
1 0 1 1 6 6 7 5 0 1 5
1 1 4 3 5 2 5 1 0 1 4
0 1 2 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 5 1 2 4 0 1 0 1 0 0
5 5 0 1 0 1 4 1 4 0 0
0 1 1 4 0 0 1 1 1 0 0
}}
[[This map was generated by taking an 11x11 grid of zeroes, throwing in 
35 or so random 9s, and then averaging each square with its neighbors]]


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 owns a JunkBot 
dictates what actions it takes; that is, the owner of a JunkBot may 
cause it to take any action it could legally take.

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 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.

No Junkbot can have more than 150 Energy; if a JunkBot has more energy 
than it is allowed to have, it loses energy until it no longer has too 
much.
}}


{{
__Junkbot Abilities__ {*(Environments:Grid:Junkbots)*}

A JunkBot can pay 15 energy points to move itself to an Open square 
adjacent to its location.
A JunkBot can pay 20 energy points to cause a Filled square adjacent to 
its location to become Open.
A JunkBot cannot spend more energy than it has.
}}

}}

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