On Mon, 12 May 2014, Sean Hunt wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, omd <c.ome...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Sean Hunt <scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
> > wrote:
> >> with "For this decision, the valid options are the players. Upon the
> >> resolution of this decision, its outcome, if a player, is installed
> >> into office, and the election ends."
> >
> > Violates R1006.
>
> Feature.
>
> >> Proposal: Clairty (AI=1)
> >> {{{
> >> Amend Rule 2420 (Score) by replacing "increase their score by that
> >> number." with "increase eir score by that number, rounded down. If
> >> this would result in em having a negative number of points, instead
> >> eir score is set to 0".
> >> }}}
> >
> > There's a precedent that you can't increase by negative anyway.
> >
>
> hmm?
The rules once said some Item could be "Decreased by N". I found a
scam way to have N come out negative (it wasn't lower bounded). So
of course I tried to "Decrease" the Item by a negative amount and
get lots of said Item (I think a winning amount).
Precedent was that "decrease" inherently meant in common language
to "take away a physical thing" and didn't apply in the negative
direction (Or maybe "decrease" was interpreted to mean 'move towards
zero'). So scam failed.
Can't remember any keywords to look for it on.
-G.
