Ratdom geometry

[Canuck]

After spending a couple of hours in the Ratdom quest, I'm surprised that this forum has no search hits for the words

"hexagon," "hexagons", or "hexagonal".

[Lam al Adie]

The reason may be, that it's not hexagonal.
In ratdom you only need 4 maps to run in a circle. If it were hexagonal you'd need 6 (if arranged like the atoms in a C₆-ring) or 3 (if arranged like tiles on the floor)

[Nut]

You are both right in principle
Each map is a combination of two tristars:
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[Canuck]

They do make a nice pattern, regardless (just started drawing this):

[Lam al Adie]

That's the optics, nice sketch.
Technically I'd compare the maze to a chessboard where you move diagonally like the bishop.
The tiles are a little stretched, some exits are blocked and some lead to a level above/below, but it is always a diagonal movement.

[Nut]

Diagonal moves on a chessboard - another model that fits - you are all really creative

Once we had published a big release with rather much content - and some hours later on the same day somebody said: Nice release - when do we get the next release?

Then I had invented this maze that even overpowered players can't just rush through it.
Even drawing a map should be hard, so no simple 90°
but these 120° angles and ups and downs.
Also I didn't want to show a worldmap of the layers at all, but I was overruled here.

It's really nice now to see your different approaches to handle this maze

[Canuck]

Thank you. I am enjoying exploring instead of grinding — it takes me back to the old Infocom adventures like Zork and Enchanter, with a text terminal and a pencil in one hand.

I just wish the rats would get out of my way — I don't want to kill them, but ...

[Nut]

I even had thought of an achievement if you get through without killing any rats - but then decided against

[Canuck]

That would have been very difficult. Perhaps a small fine for each rat killed, like the sheep in another quest?

[Antison]

A fine? But isn't it just a dream?