On Tue, 4 Nov 2014, Eritivus wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 03:16 +0000, Edward Murphy wrote:
> > There is no obvious substantive difference in the overall effect on
> > the gamestate from applying these rule changes in one order versus
> > another.
>
> Suppose we accept your arguments and let the changes take effect. A
> while later, a proposal with the following text takes effect:
>
> If proposal 7701 amended rule 2424 before amending rule 2420,
> award Eritivus 1 point.
>
> What happens, and why?
Pretty much the same thing that happens if a proposal took effect that
says "If the last digit of pi is 3, Eritivus gets one point." This
sort of thing has happened many, many times.
In the current ruleset, your score would become Indeterminate.
Since score is a Switch, R2162 would set it to a previous value:
If an action or set of actions would cause the value of an
instance of a switch to become indeterminate, the instance
instead takes on its last determinate and possible value, if
any, otherwise it takes on its default value.
If this happened to some value that didn't have a rules-coded reset
upon-Indeterminate, it would remain Indeterminate until another
Proposal or similar Instrument fixed it.
-G.
