On Sun, 15 Mar 2009, comex wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> Is it that clear cut that the particular win rule works in the instant >> only? I generally find "When a rule comes to..." to be pretty close to >> "When it has come to pass that..." which lasts as long as the text is in >> the rules. Wrong about that am I? > > Well, if that were the case then dictators would continuously satisfy > the Winning Condition, thus winning the game an infinite number of > times.
Ah I see, I've been playing this game too long and never took a close look at the current win implementation. In the pre-2006 version, win conditions were continuous (e.g. "the property of having X points") and you had time to clear losing conditions once you held win conditions. Then you made a win announcement which pragmatically translated holding a current win condition (and no losing conditions) into an actual win, removing/resetting the win condition at the same time. -Goethe
