I have the following proposed rules for a new BF Joust tournament. Please let me know what you think; in particular, should certain subsets of these be used (or all of them)? If you have a few minutes to consider interactions between them, so much the better.
(a) Enable location detection. Tournament cell array is 257 spaces long and initialized with location from center (0-127 on each side). 128 is initial value of center post and two flags. (b) Flags are placed on any square on a side between 1 and 127 (guarantees at least one cell between flags, between flag and edge, otherwise any distance possible). (c) Run off edge doesn't lose, just bumps against edge. Enables attacks to be set up from either side. (option c.1) Running off the edge loops (circular track). (d) change definition of > < to jump (N+1) where N is value of cell. If on a cell of 0, '>>>>>' is replaced with '++++>'. May interact badly with (a). This enables direct interference with opponents' code without changing flavor of BF coding too much. (e) Start pointed on edge (know absolute location but don't know location of your own flag) versus start on flag (know location of your own flag but don't know distance to edge). -Kerim
