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"The Dalek Question II" by John Lewis

added 04 Jun 2005 20:15
Solved29/29
Cooked1/29
Difficulty2.10
Style4.06
Rigidity6.58
Shortest Solution
NameOriginal
Length45 moves
ByJohn Lewis
On04 Jun 2005 20:15

Comments (turn spoilers off)
3334 The Dalek Question II John Lewis (411) Sat 02 Jul 2005 20:29  
  Moved to graveyard:
This level was kind of pointless to begin with...
 
2980 The Dalek Question II Max (61) Sun 12 Jun 2005 16:35 SPOILER
  Wow, so it does. I never noticed that! No wonder that one was so confusing...
 
2883 The Dalek Question II Tom 7 (1) Sun 05 Jun 2005 11:46 SPOILER
  What, you don't want to go through every bot level to figure it out? ;) I'm thinking of jcreed's "Save me, hugbot!"
 
2882 The Dalek Question II Max (61) Sun 05 Jun 2005 11:41 SPOILER
  Hmm... Which one is that?
 
2881 The Dalek Question II Tom 7 (1) Sun 05 Jun 2005 10:33 SPOILER
  Not just one, in fact, Max. But in the one I'm thinking of it is easy to miss what's happening.
 
2879 The Dalek Question II Max (61) Sun 05 Jun 2005 10:04 SPOILER
  This is not a bug, John -- in fact this exotic phenomenon is already lurking in an existing Escape level. ;)
 
2872 The Dalek Question II Tom 7 (1) Sat 04 Jun 2005 21:48 SPOILER
  Yeah, this is legit and intended, if a bit surprising. Note that the dalek steps onto the panel, but never steps off (because he dies and becomes part of the pile of broken robots). Panels are triggered by the edge effect of stepping onto or off them, not by the presence or absense of something on them. (See also http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/tom7misc/escapex/design.txt?only_with_tag=HEAD&view=markup for more substantial discussion.)

It's up to level authors whether or not to make use of this fact, since it is a bit unintuitive, but it's not a bug.
 
2870 The Dalek Question II John Lewis (411) Sat 04 Jun 2005 20:16  
  I noticed this behavior with daleks and panels while playing the robot escape plan. Is this a bug?
 
2869 The Dalek Question II John Lewis (411) Sat 04 Jun 2005 20:15  
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