Make game parameters overridable through game settings
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-<div class="statement-body"> 
+<div class="statement-body">
    <!-- GOAL --> 
    <div class="statement-section statement-goal"> 
      <h2> 
        <span>Rules</span> 
      </h2> 
      <div class="statement-rules-content">
-       You <em>have</em> to shoot at least <const>1</const> stone per
-       turn if you have any left.
-     </div> 
+       If you have stones, shoot <const>1</const> or more of them.
+       <br>
+       If you don't have stones, shoot <const>0</const> exactly.
+     </div>
    </div>
-   <div class="statement-section statement-expertrules">
+   <div class="statement-section statement-warning">
      <h2>
-       <span class="icon icon-expertrules">&nbsp;</span>
+       <span class="icon icon-warning">&nbsp;</span>
        <span>Rule Evolution</span>
      </h2>
-     <div class="statement-expert-rules-content">
-       The following points are still ideas in flux, waiting for some
-       opinions (leave a comment on the draft submission page!)
+     <div class="statement-warning-content">
+       The following ideas are still in flux, waiting for some
+       opinions.  Please drop a word on the
+       <a href="https://www.codingame.com/contribute/view/507070b7925f661e2d2835c14f950b9d157e">
+         contribution's page
+       </a>
+       or
+       <a href="https://forum.codingame.com/t/troll-vs-castles-brainstorm/184827?u=jbm">
+         on the forum
+       </a>
        <ul>
          <li>
-           is it even worth publishing? can the problem be totally solved?
+           Is it even worth publishing? can the problem be totally solved?
+         </li>
+         <li>
+           More maps? (a map is a {road length} × {initial stone count} pair)
          </li>
          <li>
-           More maps? (a map is a road length / initial stones pair)
+           Leagues? I could conceive the referee being permissive
+           (allow 0 stones thrown) in the first one, and then strict.
          </li>
          <li>
-           leagues? I could conceive the referee being permissive (allow 0 stones thrown) in the first one, and then strict.
+           Fog of war? (see only troll position, not enemy throw/stones left)
          </li>
          <li>
-           fog of war? (see only troll position, not enemy throw/stones left)<br>
-           <string>variable</string> for of war? (seeing enemy stones
-           is a boolean decided randomly as part of the map?) (or
-           seeing enemy stones only when troll is close to us?)
+           <strong>variable</strong> for of war? (seeing enemy stones
+           is a boolean decided randomly as part of the map?
+         </li>
+         <li>
+           alternative fog of war? (seeing enemy stones only when
+           troll is close to us?)
          </li>
          <li>
            Praise for my artistic skillz
    <div class="statement-section statement-protocol">
      <h2>
        <span class="icon icon-protocol">&nbsp;</span>
-       <spam>I/O Protocol</spam>
+       <span>I/O Protocol</span>
      </h2>
      <div class="statement-protocol-content">
        Just read the sample code.  You can figure this out.
+       <br>
+       You're currently allowed the default SDK timings.  I think it's
+       one second for the first turn and 50&nbsp;ms then, but don't
+       quote me on this.
      </div>
    </div>
-   <div class="statement-section statement-changelog">
-     <h2>Change Log</h2>
-     <ul>
-       <li>
-         Terminate game when there are no more stones in sight.
-       </li>
-       <li>
-         More pretty. (SRLSLY)
-       </li>
-       <li>
-         No more void maps. (root cause: java <const>%</const> on a
-         negative seed)
-       </li>
-     </ul>
+   <div class="statement-section statement-expertrules">
+     <h2>
+       <span class="icon icon-expertrules">&nbsp;</span>
+       <span>Expert rules</span>
+     </h2>
+     <div class="statement-expert-rules-content">
+       <p>
+         The following maps are currently available and randomly yet
+         extremely fairly (you wouldn't believe the effort that went
+         into this) chosen uniformly at random among the following:
+       </p>
+       <table>
+         <tr><th>Road length</th><th>Stones</th></tr>
+         <tr><td><const>6</const></td><td><const>15</const></td></tr>
+         <tr><td><const>6</const></td><td><const>30</const></td></tr>
+         <tr><td><const>14</const></td><td><const>30</const></td></tr>
+         <tr><td><const>14</const></td><td><const>50</const></td></tr>
+       </table>
+       <p>
+         As with anything in this <em>draft</em> statement, this
+         is <strong>subject to change without notice</strong>.  Why do
+         you think they're provided in the game input?
+       </p>
+       <p>
+         You can also override them via game
+         settings <tt>roadLength</tt> and <tt>initialStones</tt>.
+       </p>
+     </div>
+   </div>
+   <div class="statement-section statement-protocol">
+     <h2>
+       <span class="icon icon-protocol">&nbsp;</span>
+       <span>Change Log</span>
+     </h2>
+     <p>
+       I'm not maintaining the full changelog here anymore as the
+       <a href="https://troll.desast.re/troll.git">game's source
+       repository</a> is now publicly available.  I'll just make note
+       of the single latest change, so you can know how far behind you
+       were lagging.  Patches welcome, BTW.
+     </p>
+     <p>
+       This draft's last change is:
+       <strong>
+         game parameters can be overridden.
+       </strong>
+     </p>
+   </div>
+   <div class="statement-story-background">
+     <div class="statement-story"
+          style="position: relative; min-height: min-content">
+       <div class="story-text">
+         <div style="text-align: center">
+           &ldquo;Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).&rdquo;
+         </div>
+         <div style="text-align: right">
+           &mdash;&nbsp;J.R.R. Tolkien, <i>The Hobbit</i>
+         </div>
+       </div>
+       <div class="story-text">
+         <p>
+           Based on an involuntary suggestion by
+           <span class="card" cg-codingamer-card-popup=""
+                 userid="user.codingamer.userId">
+             <a class="pseudo"
+                href="/profile/dbfa96e0ac9b77a3db679628f27224ae8509333"
+                title="Zaap38">Zaap38</a>
+           </span>
+           on the #Fr channel.  The original appears to be by
+           <a href="http://andre.lovichi.free.fr/teaching/ea/2015-2016/cours/troll/Trolls_et_chateaux.pdf">
+             Romain Andr&eacute;-Lovichi
+           </a>.
+         </p>
+       </div>
+     </div>
    </div>
 </div>