Scarce Friction - now Desert

[Alast]

Oh yes, it definitely will eventually. Just wanted to say, if you have something or feel like making something yourself, go ahead

[Petter]

Hi All,
I've been very busy lately so hasn't been able to be so active here. I hope this doesn't come off as rude, but this thread is now 13 pages of loveliness but I can't read it all atm, so I would like to ask if there is a preferred scarce friction challenge that I can include in the next update (just a patch basically but i'd like to add a few more challenges)? Is it the one posted by Alast on the first page of this thread with the rules there? How would you gauge the difficulty? Harder than Avoidance I presume?

Cheers,
Petter

[bwisialo]

Use this substrate (on page 3) rather than the one in the thread's first post.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e6v5mpwxevblr ... trate?dl=0

The stated rules are fine. An Objective of 400 cells would be comparable to Scarce III in difficulty. Just my impression.

[Alast]

No rudeness felt at all I have now updated the substrate on the initial post to version 4 which is what we've agreed on working best.

As an introduction into smart crawlers I think 200 is fine, for more of a challenge 400 or even 600 would be good

[Alast]

I like the new Name "Desert"

[CandyYAHFT]

yeah little food, and since the game tells that dryness always means more friction I guess is a very suggestive name

[bwisialo]

I have a non-smart crawler that can complete Desert and reach 240. It can probably be optimized further. But I don’t consider it a problem for the challenge. It is an extremely optimized specimen and creating a smart solution is much, much easier.