Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Proposal: Anti-Anti-Climax

Add the following to “The Grue”:

The Grue cannot move into any cells with the value of “Exit”. If the Grue ever occupies a cell with the value of “Exit”, the Gridmaster should blank the Grue’s location at the earliest possible convenient time.

I don’t want to have to wait ANOTHER TURN just to see results.

Story Post: Watch Number 20

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Twenty” at the same time that the number 20 shows up on the screen.

A green box states:

Runners Downloading: 1

Story Post: Watch Number 19

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Nineteen” at the same time that the number 19 shows up on the screen.

A green box states:

Runners Downloading: 0

Proposal: Going out with a bang

In the rule The Lines, replace the text “Repeat the following DICE4 times: Select a random Feature and add it to the Grid. Weight the random selection such that each feature not selected during the last Initialise action has twice the probability compared to any feature that was selected last time.” with:

Add each Feature to the Grid once, in a random order.

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Story Post: Watch Number 18

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Eighteen” at the same time that the number 18 shows up on the screen.

A green box states:

Runners Downloading: 1

Proposal: Digital Shame (Ghost)

Reaches quorum 5-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 27 Mar 2023 14:26:17 UTC

In “Running”, change

If the most recent Tick was more than 24 hours ago

to

If the most recent Tick was more than 24 hours ago, or if the most recent Tick was more than 8 hours ago and only one Live Runner has no Heading,

Speeding things along just a little bit.

Call for Judgment: Remote execution

Reaches quorum 6-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 26 Mar 2023 16:07:44 UTC

After the text “If a disk Effect would report or change one or more values that are privately tracked by the Gridmaster, the Runner who is Activating the disk must privately inform the Gridmaster of the disk being Activated and all values that were chosen as part of the Effect. ” in the rule Disks, append:

It is permissible for a Gridmaster to activate a Runner’s disk on their behalf at their private request, or to Execute on that Runner’s behalf at their private request, with the Gridmaster processing that request at their earliest convenience. The effects of such a disk activation should also be handled by the Gridmaster on that Runner’s behalf, using the legal values (if any) that were chosen by the Runner for that effect.

Uphold any previous instances of the Gridmaster activating a disk on a Runner’s behalf.

The rules are a little vague on how much the Gridmaster does when activating someone’s disk, so this is an attempt to formalise it and uphold the possibly illegal instances of it happening in the past. This is intended for cases when you want to execute a disk, but technically can’t because you can’t alter your own Power to pay the cost.

Saturday, March 25, 2023

jjm3x3’s Mentorship

Misty has established a Mentorship mentoring jjm3x3

jjm3x3 has entered the chat

Hey all I am writing to make a formal declaration of intent to join in the grid.

Call for Judgment: Re-Initialise

Reaches quorum with 5-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 26 Mar 2023 08:14:21 UTC

In the rule “The Lines”, replace this text:

Loading a new Stratum is an atomic action with the following steps:

with this text:

Loading a new Stratum is an atomic action that is also called Initialise and has the the following steps:

Uphold all previous “Loading a new Stratum” actions as if they were also Initialise actions.

Somewhere along the way, we lost the definition of Initialise and I didn’t realize it. The random selection of Features depended on the wording “Weight the random selection such that each feature not selected during the last Initialise action”, but this action definition was lost, so it technically had no meaning and should have resulted in no weighting change in random selection.

Rather than undoing everything back to the last few Stratums, I think it just makes sense to uphold what’s been done so far and make Initialise a synonym for “Loading a new Stratum”. I’m open to other ways to re-word the rules to make this work out.

Story Post: Watch Number 17

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Seventeen” at the same time that the number 17 shows up on the screen.

A green box states:

Runners Downloading: 1

Story Post: Stratum 5

Your wrist-screen beeps, and a new notification in green appears among the random lines and dots:

INITIALISING GRID

New Features:
  • Warped
  • Database
  • Energized

Friday, March 24, 2023

Story Post: Watch Number 16

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Sixteen” at the same time that the number 16 shows up on the screen.

Proposal: Overclocking

Times out 3-1 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 26 Mar 2023 12:46:55 UTC

In the rule “The Lines”, in the subrule “Features”, remove the bullet that begins with “Passcoded Egress”

In the rule “The Lines”, in the bulleted list, add the following bullet just above the last bullet:

* If the Stratum is 6, set the cells D4, D5, E4 and E5 to have the value of Exit.

If the 6th Stratum is too soon or too far away for your taste, please suggest another number to use.

Proposal: Grue Houdini and assorted fixes

Times out 3-1 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 26 Mar 2023 12:40:47 UTC

In the rule “The Grue”, add the following just before the final sentence:

The Grue should then add that Runner’s Number-Crunches to its own (without subtracting any of that Runner’s Number-Crunches).

In The Lines, replace “If no Cells have a value of Battery, set the value of a random Cell to Battery” with:

If no Cells have a value of Battery, set the value of a random non-Purple Cell to Battery

At the end of the rule “The Lines”, add a new sentence after the bullet point list:

If the value or colour of a cell would be modified in the loading of a new stratum but it would be illegal to do so, that modification is skipped for that cell.

In the rule “Running”, replace the text “If the number of runners in the Exit has been at least 1 for the entirety of the last three ticks, and if one of those runners has the highest non-zero Number-Crunches out of all Runners in the Exit, that Runner has achieved victory.” with

If, during the most recent 3 Tick atomic actions (excluding this one), the number of Runners in the Exit has been at least 1 for the entire Tick atomic action, and if one of the Runner currently in the Exit has the highest non-zero Number-Crunches out of all Runners in the Exit, that Runner has achieved victory.

In “The Exit”, replace “A Runner can spend any positive amount of Power to increase their Number-Crunches by that amount” with

A Runner can spend any positive amount of Power to increase their Number-Crunches by that amount by notifying the Gridmaster of the amount of Power they wish to spend

The Grue portion of this proposal serves two purposes. Firstly, it allows the Grue to have a decent shot to escape. Secondly, it ensures that if the player who’s about to win is knocked out by the Grue, the true victory just gets delayed by a turn (since the Grue would win in their stead). This will allow the Runner to get back into position; it would suck to just randomly lose to a surprise Grue, after all.

The rest of this is just various fixes of the win condition such as preventing stratum loads from being rolled back due to setting illegal values etc.

Proposal: Whodunnit

Reaches quorum with 4-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 25 Mar 2023 05:46:16 UTC

In the rule “The Exit”, append the following paragraph:

When a Runner besides the Grue has achieved victory, the Gridmaster should, at their earliest convenience, post a blogpost announcing that that Runner has escaped.

could turn into a cluster of DoVs once someone wins since we don’t know who actually has the most number crunches

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Story Post: Watch Number 15

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Fifteen” at the same time that the number 15 shows up on the screen.

Proposal: Bump In

Reaches quorum with 5-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 25 Mar 2023 05:44:45 UTC

In the rule “The Grid”, subrule “Location”, replace “If no other Runner has this Cell in their Location at the time the message is processed, the Gridmaster sets the Location of the Runner to the requested Cell and replies with an acknowledgement of the request. Otherwise, the Gridmaster replies that the Cell is taken. ” with “The Gridmaster should then set the Location of the Runner to the requested Cell. If at least one other Runner has this Cell in their Location at the time the message is processed, the Gridmaster should also reply that the Cell is occupied.”

this could end up locking you out of a victory if you get eaten by a grue while on an exit cell. also just seems kinda antiquated tbh

Proposal: Level skip

Reaches quorum with 4-0 and 1 def -SingularByte

Adminned at 25 Mar 2023 05:42:10 UTC

As a subrule of The Lines, create a rule called “Downloading a new Stratum” with the text:

A Runner may Download by privately informing the Gridmaster that they are doing so, and that Runner is considered to be Downloading until the end of the next Tick action. If a Runner has Executed since the most recent Tick, they may not Download. If a runner is Downloading, they may not Execute.

In Running, replace the bullet point “If no Cells have a value of Battery, Load a new Stratum” with:

If no Cells have a value of Battery, or if the number of Runners that are Downloading is greater than 50% of Live Runners, Load a new Stratum

In the same rule, replace the bullet pont “Post a blog entry announcing the new Watch Number, and announcing any Runners whose Locations are cells in the Alpha Sector.” with

Post a blog entry announcing the new Watch Number, the number of Runners that are Downloading, and announcing any Runners whose Locations are cells in the Alpha Sector.

In case a stratum gets a little stale, this allows you to re-roll a new one - assuming you can get enough people to agree to give up their Execution to make it happen.

Story Post: Watch Number 14

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Fourteen” at the same time that the number 14 shows up on the screen.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Story Post: Watch Number 13

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Thirteen” at the same time that the number 13 shows up on the screen.

Proposal: CPU Benchmark

Reaches quorum with 4-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 23 Mar 2023 13:19:25 UTC

In the rule “Basic Grid Rules”, in the subrule “Status Report”, add the following bullet after the bullet “* Power”:

* Number-Crunches

Runners will probably want to know where they stand for Number-Crunches now that it’s part of achieving victory

Story Post: Watch Number 12

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Twelve” at the same time that the number 12 shows up on the screen.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Proposal: Pen Test

Reaches quorum with 5-0 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 23 Mar 2023 13:17:21 UTC

In the rule “Running”, replace this bullet:

If the Grue’s Location is in the same row or column as any other Runners (excluding those in the same Cell as it), change the Grue’s Heading to face a secretly random such Runner.

with this bullet:

If the Grue’s Location is in the same row or column as any other Runners (excluding those in the same Cell as it), select all of the Headings where the Grue would be facing such Runners, and where the orthogonally adjacent Cell to the Grue in the direction of each Heading does not contain “Firewall”, and change the Grue’s Heading to a randomly chosen Heading from this selection. If there are no such selections possible, instead select all of the Headings where the orthogonally adjacent Cell to the Grue in the direction of each Heading does not contain “Firewall”, and change the Grue’s Heading to a randomly chosen Heading from this selection if possible.

Should the Grue be aware of facing a cell containing “Firewall” and try to move in a different direction, or should it just bump against the Firewall and remain where it is?

Story Post: Watch Number 11

The voice from your wrist-screen says “Eleven” at the same time that the number 11 shows up on the screen.

Story Post: Stratum 4

Your wrist-screen beeps, and a new notification in green appears among the random lines and dots:

INITIALISING GRID

New Features:
  • High-Security
  • Database