It helps converge game states in simple ways. Let's say you try to do X. Someone CFJs that you said it wrong for a dumb technical reason. So you want to make sure X gets done in the mean time. If you just say "I do X" with whatever technical thing corrected, then depending on the CFJ outcome, it would be uncertain whether you have done X once or twice (which might have knock on consequences if the thing is a Shiny transfer or something). By being able to say, "if my first attempt failed, I do x" is used all the time to converge game state to x having been done once. So it's handy.
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017, Alexis Hunt wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 at 21:50 Aris Merchant > <thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I oppose (not that it does anything). I rather like my judgement. BTW, > as I understand it, SHALL but CANNOT has > generally held to be impossible, except where the situation is somehow > the fault of the player under the SHALL. > > -Aris > > > On a not-really-related note, do we actually need conditional actions for > anything? Most of our conditionals amount to "If I > can do X, I do so." Could we just ban them outright? > >
