Suggestion on the Snitch

[Sara]

So alot of times when I'm seeing people try to catch the snitches, from the event, they use Herbificus to trap them. Back in the day we didn't even use roses to trap them. We caught them by luck or skill. I'm suggesting to make the snitches go over roses, since by right, they wouldn't beable to get trapped by roses since they're a flying ball with wings.

[Massive]

but what if they can get trapped in the roses by there branches and stuff

[Sara]

Snitches are not dumb enough to get themselves trapped. They are meant to be fast and know how to trick people. They only want you to believe they'll get stuck when they won't. Snitches can't be out-smarted.

[Rotem]

What about going over ferula, soildus or a thousand other density objects that can be used to do this exact same thing?

The only way to counter all of them is by making snitches undense which will make them go over walls as well. Bypassing roses is easy but is it the only exploit?

Then there's the question of whether snitches are hard or easy to catch without roses, personally I've never bothered to catch a ton of sntiches without abusing a narrow path inside hogwarts or some other method, I never chase snitches, they move in a random pattern and crazy fast, it's not all that much fun.

To be honest I'd much prefer to re-do how snitches work, someone find an idea for fun snitch-chasing method.

[Turb]

I've chased snitches and sometimes it works out, some of them fall into habits and make it easier, other times I just diag over and over really fast and spam my macro and it works.
I've never used roses to catch snitches, and while I do abuse small spaces on occasion, I feel like it isn't so difficult that people can't catch them without abusing. It's fun to me.

[Rotem]

I like the way Turb thinks but I'd still like to make changes to snitches. For example, right now snitches have a high chance of you failing to catch it, should this chance be increased/decreased?

Right now when Turb says a snitch falls into habits that's mostly luck, it isn't something that was designed to be that way and it's very possible to create a system that makes a snitch follow a pattern. Again, all changes you can think of are pretty much small and can be done easily, if I'm going to be opening the code and change snitches, I might as well improve them.

You also need to remember originally Justin complained people can sit and just spam the macro without needing to move, they didn't use roses but standing still was good enough. Someone is always going to complain about people not chasing snitches the way they're meant to, as long as the system is designed so poorly people will do what makes their lives easier.

With all that said, please brainstorm.