Hive
Is it backtracking if a Spider takes a longer route to a space it could reach in fewer steps?
The designer ruled on this in 2016.
- Gen Four Two · Designer · 2016-04-08
- russ · Community · 2016-04-07
- Meat · Community · 2007-08-23
No. Backtracking means visiting a space a second time. A Spider may take any exactly-three-step path that never revisits a space and keeps contact with the Hive at every step, even if the end space is reachable in fewer steps by another route.