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   1 <div class="statement-body">
   2    <!-- GOAL -->
   3    <div class="statement-section statement-goal">
   4      <h2>
   5        <span class="icon icon-goal">&nbsp;</span>
   6        <span>The Goal</span>
   7      </h2>
   8      <div class="statement-goal-content">
   9        Don't get destroyed by the troll.
  10      </div>
  11    </div>
  12    <!-- RULES -->
  13    <div class="statement-section statement-rules">
  14      <h2>
  15        <span class="icon icon-rules">&nbsp;</span>
  16        <span>Rules</span>
  17      </h2>
  18      <div class="statement-rules-content">
  19        If you have stones, shoot <const>1</const> or more of them.
  20        <br>
  21        If you don't have stones, shoot <const>0</const> exactly.
  22      </div>
  23    </div>
  24    <div class="statement-section statement-warning">
  25      <h2>
  26        <span class="icon icon-warning">&nbsp;</span>
  27        <span>Rule Evolution</span>
  28      </h2>
  29      <div class="statement-warning-content">
  30        The following ideas are still in flux, waiting for some
  31        opinions.  Please drop a word on the
  32        <a href="https://www.codingame.com/contribute/view/507070b7925f661e2d2835c14f950b9d157e">
  33          contribution's page
  34        </a>
  35        or
  36        <a href="https://forum.codingame.com/t/troll-vs-castles-brainstorm/184827?u=jbm">
  37          on the forum
  38        </a>
  39        <ul>
  40          <li><s>
  41            Is it even worth publishing? can the problem be totally solved?
  42          </s></li>
  43          <li>
  44            More maps? (a map is a {road length} × {initial stone count} pair)
  45          </li>
  46          <li>
  47            Leagues? I could conceive the referee being permissive
  48            (allow 0 stones thrown) in the first one, and then strict.
  49            Off the top of my head:
  50            <ol>
  51              <li>single small map, cheating is tolerated, boss plays 1</li>
  52              <li>the four maps, no cheating, boss plays tit for tat</li>
  53              <li>full map continuum</li>
  54            </ol>
  55          </li>
  56          <li>
  57            Fog of war? (see only troll position, not enemy
  58            throw/stones left) Probably not in this game, be it simple,
  59            variable (seeing enemy stones is a boolean decided randomly
  60            as part of the map) or by distance.
  61          </li>
  62          <li>
  63            Praise for my artistic skillz
  64          </li>
  65          <li>
  66            Other remarks?
  67          </li>
  68        </ul>
  69      </div>
  70    </div>
  71    <div class="statement-victory-conditions">
  72      <div class="icon victory"></div>
  73      <div class="blk">
  74        <div class="title">Victory Condition</div>
  75        <div class="text">Your opponent loses.</div>
  76      </div>
  77    </div>
  78    <div class="statement-lose-conditions">
  79      <div class="icon lose"></div>
  80      <div class="blk">
  81        <div class="title">Defeat Condition</div>
  82        <ul>
  83          <li>The troll reaches your castle.</li>
  84          <li>When no player has stones left, the troll is closer to your castle.</li>
  85        </ul>
  86      </div>
  87    </div>
  88    <div class="statement-section statement-protocol">
  89      <h2>
  90        <span class="icon icon-protocol">&nbsp;</span>
  91        <span>I/O Protocol</span>
  92      </h2>
  93      <div class="statement-protocol-content">
  94        Just read the sample code.  You can figure this out.
  95        <br>
  96        You're currently allowed the default SDK timings.  I think it's
  97        one second for the first turn and 50&nbsp;ms then, but don't
  98        quote me on this.
  99      </div>
 100    </div>
 101    <div class="statement-section statement-expertrules">
 102      <h2>
 103        <span class="icon icon-expertrules">&nbsp;</span>
 104        <span>Expert rules</span>
 105      </h2>
 106      <div class="statement-expert-rules-content">
 107        <p>
 108          The following maps are currently available and randomly yet
 109          extremely fairly (you wouldn't believe the effort that went
 110          into this) chosen uniformly at random among the following:
 111        </p>
 112        <table>
 113          <tr><th>Road length</th><td>│</td><th>Stones</th></tr>
 114          <tr><td>──────────</td><td>┼</td><td>──────</td></tr>
 115          <tr><td><const>6</const></td><td>│</td><td><const>15</const></td></tr>
 116          <tr><td><const>6</const></td><td>│</td><td><const>30</const></td></tr>
 117          <tr><td><const>14</const></td><td>│</td><td><const>30</const></td></tr>
 118          <tr><td><const>14</const></td><td>│</td><td><const>50</const></td></tr>
 119        </table>
 120        <p>
 121          You can also override them via game
 122          settings <tt>roadLength</tt> and <tt>initialStones</tt>, so
 123          long as you remember you won't be choosing them for ranking
 124          play.
 125        </p>
 126      </div>
 127    </div>
 128    <div class="statement-section statement-protocol">
 129      <h2>
 130        <span class="icon icon-protocol">&nbsp;</span>
 131        <span>Change Log</span>
 132      </h2>
 133      <p>
 134        I'm not maintaining the full changelog here anymore as the
 135        <a href="https://troll.desast.re/troll.git">game's source
 136        repository</a> is now publicly available.  I'll just make note
 137        of the single latest change, so you can know how far behind you
 138        were lagging.  Patches welcome, BTW.
 139      </p>
 140      <p>
 141        This draft's last change is:
 142        <strong>
 143          trolls can be of different races.
 144        </strong>
 145      </p>
 146    </div>
 147    <div class="statement-story-background">
 148      <div class="statement-story"
 149           style="position: relative; min-height: min-content">
 150        <div class="story-text">
 151          <div style="text-align: center">
 152            &ldquo;Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).&rdquo;
 153          </div>
 154          <div style="text-align: right">
 155            &mdash;&nbsp;J.R.R. Tolkien, <i>The Hobbit</i>
 156          </div>
 157        </div>
 158        <div class="story-text" style="margin-top: 4em">
 159          <p>
 160            Based on an involuntary suggestion by
 161            <span class="card" cg-codingamer-card-popup=""
 162                  userid="user.codingamer.userId">
 163              <a class="pseudo"
 164                 href="/profile/dbfa96e0ac9b77a3db679628f27224ae8509333"
 165                 title="Zaap38">Zaap38</a>
 166            </span>
 167            on the #Fr channel.  The original appears to be by
 168            <a href="http://andre.lovichi.free.fr/teaching/ea/2015-2016/cours/troll/Trolls_et_chateaux.pdf">
 169              Romain Andr&eacute;-Lovichi
 170            </a>.
 171          </p>
 172        </div>
 173      </div>
 174    </div>
 175 </div>