On Sat, 27 May 2017, Quazie wrote:
> You used to be able to win by paradox - I think that got boring after a
> while which is why it's gone - but two CFJs of the type you're talking
> still wouldn't have met the bar for a win back then methinks.
We strictly barred CFJ-logic from paradox wins because they were trivial.
We started with this (R2110):
If the legality of an action cannot be determined with finality,
or if by a Judge's best reasoning, not appealed within a week of
eir Judgement, an action appears equally legal and illegal, then
the Speaker shall award the Patent Title of Champion to the
first Player to publicly note that condition. The Herald shall
record that this Title was achieved "by paradox" in eir report.
This tied it to actions, trying to keep it from straight undecidable
CFJ statements. It did lead to a CFJ-self-paradox win or two, so we
blocked a bunch of those trivial conditions by the end:
A tortoise is an inquiry case on the possibility or legality of
a rule-defined action (actual or hypothetical, but not arising
from that case itself, and not occurring after the initiation of
that case) for which the question of veracity is UNDECIDABLE.
Upon a win announcement that a tortoise has continuously been a
tortoise for no greater than four and no less than two weeks,
the initiator satisfies the Winning Condition of Paradox.
Probably a bit of ennui in getting rid of it; whenever a true gamestate
paradox comes up, I think you'll want it back, so you might want to bring
it ahead of time...
