Welcome to DRTS - Team 23:
Team 23 is the first definition of a DRTS game (Discrete Real Time Strategy).

- 1. A match is made of a determined number (series) of movements; expressing each movement a discrete state of the match.

- 2. All players commit their movement(s)/operation(s) just at the exact moment of each of the match movements.

- 3. Each player's movement(s)/operation(s) can be a combination of actions, moves, piece battles, invocation of objects, fulfilment of operations and player or team mechanics, buildings, upgrades...

- 4. It is possible for players and teams to carry out defensive and offensive strategies by means of the available actions in the game. Both defensive and offensive strategies can be used to score player or team points, and to prevent or subtract points from opposing players or teams.

- 5. The goal of winning the match is awarded to the team/players with the highest score at the completion of the last movement of a match.

- 6. The game is played on a (virtual) board with marked squares.

- 7. DRTS is a CREATIVE genre: giving rise to the possibility of defining and writing an unlimited number of different rules of this game genre, with all the desired variations in rules or dynamics of games, with an infinite number of possibilities.

- 8. The implementation of a DRTS game is the implementation of a discretization process.

- Number of movements: A match is composed of 20 movements.

- Duration of a movement: Each movement is extended through 20s.

- Duration of a match: A standard match lasts 6 min.

- Number of squares: The game is played on a board of 42 squares.

- Board layout: The board layout is rectangular; 6 by 7 squares.

- Number of teams: There are 3 teams in a game.

- Number of players: There are 8 players in a game.

- Pieces per player: Each player has 3 pieces; a Water piece, a Fire piece, and a Plant piece.

- Basic move: Pieces can move one square crosswise. Additionally, they can move one square diagonally to meet up with pieces of the same team, capture enemy buildings, or capture opposing pieces.

- Battle (capture mechanics): The capture of a piece is committed by placing it on the same square as an opposing piece belonging to a different team.

- Battle (capture rules): a Plant piece can capture an opposing Water piece, a Water piece can capture an opposing Fire piece, a Fire piece can capture an opposing Plant piece.

- Number of items: At the start of the game each player has got 4 Stars, 2 DeathStars and 1 Blackhole.

- Recovery: Players can retrieve their pieces when they are captured.

- Generator: Pieces can be converted into a generator to score points.

- Player score: Each capture of an opponent's piece adds one point to the player.

- Piece capture: Each captured piece subtracts one point from the player who owns the piece.

- Team score: Each capture of an opponent's piece adds one point to the current player's team.

- Winner: The team with the most points at the end of the last movement wins the match.

- Golden point: If there is a tie in team points on the last movement, more are made, with a maximum of 40. Once the golden point is reached, which is an advantage of one team point over the opposing teams, the match is finished.

- Number of operations: Each player has got 2 piece moves (or operations) in each movement of the game.

- Pieces' move: The pieces move crosswise, moving one square up, down, left or right.

- Piece move: A piece move counts as a single move.

- Item invocation: A new invocation of an item counts as a single move.

- Item invocation in a move: A piece may move and perform the invocation of an item at the same point. This counts as a single move.

- Diagonal move to own piece: If a piece is on a square diagonally next to another own piece, this piece can make a diagonal move towards our other piece.

- Diagonal move to ally piece: If a piece is in a position one square diagonally next to an ally piece, that piece can make a diagonal move towards the other ally piece.

- Diagonal attack move to enemy piece: If a piece is in a square diagonally adjacent to a capturable opponent's piece, it can make a diagonal attack move towards the opponent's piece.

- Diagonal attack move in prediction: If a piece is on a square that is close to a diagonal square that is adjacent to a square containing a capturable opponent's piece, the piece can make a predicted diagonal attack move.

- Diagonal star movement: A piece with a star status can move one square diagonally in any direction it wishes.

- Number of teams: there are 3 teams in a match; Team 1 (green), Team 2 (yellow) and Team 3 (blue).

- Beginning of the match: At the start of the match, players start without an assigned team.

- Team capacity: Each of the three teams has a maximum capacity of 3 players.

- Team mechanics: A player may request to join a different team at each movement of the game.

- Slot availability: If a team has any available slots and a single player decides to join that team, the player is assigned to the team.

- Exchange: If a player tries to join a team in which there is no slot, and there is another player from the opposing team trying to join the first player's team, the two players exchange teams.

- Fight over a slot: If several players try to join the same team and this team has only one slot, the team is assigned to the player with the highest individual score.

- Fight over an exchange: If several players try to join a team in which there is no slot, and another player from the opposing team they are trying to join wants to make a team exchange, the player with the highest score is the one designated to make the exchange.

- Automatic assignment: If a player has not chosen a team before movement 5 of the match, they are automatically assigned to one on movement 6.

- Number of items: At the start of the game each player has got 4 Stars, 2 DeathStars and 1 Blackhole.

- Usage: The invocation of a Star; a DeathStar; or a Blackhole, consumes one unit of each respective item.

- Generator: A piece can become a generator at any time.

- Recovery: Any piece can be recovered after a 2-movement penalty.

- Multiple invocation: If several players (of any team) decide to build an item on the same square, no item is built.

- Invocation: A piece can become a Star if the player has Stars available in the item list.

- Status: A piece that becomes a Star gets the status of a Star piece for 2 movements.

- Battle capabilities: A piece with Star status can defeat all non-Star pieces of opposing teams in battle.

- Star accumulation: If another Star is used on a piece, it gets a Star piece status accumulation of +2 movements.

- Invulnerability to DeathStars' influence: A piece with a Star is invulnerable to attacks from DeathStars in their areas of influence.

- How to create: To create a DeathStar, a piece must make a move to another square after the player has selected it from the item list, provided there are DeathStars available.

- Building: The resulting DeathStar occupies the position that the piece occupied before its move.

- Restrictions: If there is an ally (or own) piece in the DeathStar's construction square, its construction does not take place.

- Influence area: A DeathStar has an attack area of influence of three contiguous squares directed towards a diagonal near the square where it is located.

- Arrangement: A DeathStar can be arranged pointing at square 1, 6, 37 or 42.

- Capture of pieces by the DeathStar: If a piece of an opposing team piece is placed in the area of influence of the player owning the DeathStar, it is captured.

- Scoring: A capture of a piece by a DeathStar adds one point to the owning player and their team.

- Capture of a DeathStar: If an opposing team piece is placed on the same square occupied by a DeathStar, it is captured.

- Capture of your team's DeathStar: It is possible to capture an ally DeathStar.

- DeathStar's capture while building and disassembling: If a DeathStar is built at the same time that an oppopent's piece moves to the same square, the DeathStar is built and destroyed consequently. The DeathStar eliminates the opponent's pieces within its reach, but it does not add score in favour of the player or their team.

- How to create: A Blackhole can be created by one piece in a move; always with availability of Blackholes.

- Mechanics: Pieces that move into a square with a Blackhole are absorbed, and the Blackhole disappears.

- Building: A Blackhole is created in the position that the piece had before its move.

- Restrictions: A Blackhole is not created if there is an ally (or own) piece in the building position.

- Scoring: A piece that visits a square with a Blackhole is absorbed, subtracting one point from the player who owns the piece and their team.

- Invocation: A piece can become a Generator on any move; by moving to a square or by holding position.

- Restrictions: A piece does not commit the invocation of its Generator if there is an ally (or own) piece on the same square.

- Status: A piece converted into a Generator cannot move or perform other actions. It can be captured by all pieces.

- Scoring: Every 3 movements in which the generator continues to be deployed, it generates one point for the player and one point for the team.

- Capture: Any piece placed on a generator's square eliminates the Generator. When the piece belongs to an opposing team, it adds one point.

- Team Meetings of different players: When 3 pieces from three different players from the same team are placed on the same square, they create a Meeting.

- Team Meetings' mechanics of different kinds of pieces: When three pieces of different kinds (Water, Plant, and Fire), which are not on the same team, are placed on the same square, they create a Meeting.

- Benefits of a Meeting with different players: If a Meeting of 3 different players is held, all three players present at the Meeting get an extra Star every 3 movements.

- Benefits of a Meeting with different kinds of pieces: If the Meeting of pieces of the 3 different kinds is maintained, the players owning the pieces present in the Meeting get 2 extra Stars every 3 movements.

- Recovery: All captured or absorbed pieces can be recovered after a penalty. This/these piece/s cannot be used for 2 movements immediately after being captured.

- Restrictions: A piece cannot perform a Recovery in a position where there is an ally Generator or DeathStar; or in a position where there is a Blackhole.

- Area: A player with the availability of Recovery may recover their piece(s) on the squares 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27 or 28.

- Extended Area: A player with Recovery availability who can only recover their piece(s) in 4 or less of the squares 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 or 24 can use an extended Recovery Area. This extended Recovery Area includes squares 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18; and 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30.

- Definition: When several pieces that do not belong to the same team are placed on the same square, a battle takes place on the square.

- Capture mechanics: The capture of a piece is committed by placing it on the same square as an opponent's piece belonging to a different team.

- Capture rules:
A Plant piece can capture an opposing Water piece,
A Water piece can capture an opposing Fire piece,
A Fire piece can capture an opposing Plant piece.

- Battle mechanics in each square: when different pieces are placed on the same square, a combinatorial battle of all different pieces is performed.

- Pieces of the same kind: when two pieces of the same kind move to the same square they both capture each other.

- Both pieces are Stars: When two Star pieces of different teams move to the same square they both capture each other.

- Holding position in a Battle of pieces of the same kind: When a piece moving to a square encounters an opponent piece of the same kind which is holding position on the square, the moving piece captures the piece of the same kind holding position.

- Holding position in Star versus Star Battle: When a Star piece moving to a square encounters an opposing Star piece which did not make a move in the last move, the moving piece captures the Star piece holding position.

- Scoring: Each combination of 1 piece against a 1 piece in the battle gives the player (and their team) a point (+1).

- Scoring (capturing a piece): A piece will score +1 point for each piece captured.

- Scoring (captured piece): A piece can only be captured (-1 point) once in a battle.

- Team score after each capture: a team scores +1 point for each combination of capturing pieces from opposing teams.

- Order: In a square battle, all actions to conduct the Battle are undertaken in the following order:

0. Conversion of states: from piece to Star, and from piece to Generator,
1. Management of player allocation to teams,
2. Blackhole absorptions,
3. Counting Generator points,
4. Increasing the Team Meeting counter before the battle,
5. Captures of DeathStars by their areas of influence,
6. Battle calculation of the pieces; capture of pieces from different teams,
7. Elimination of captured Generators,
8. Review of the Team Meeting counter after the battle,
9. Elimination of captured DeathStars.