Citizens with high clearance levels should be completely immune to the effects of low-level rules.

I’m not sure this helps us much. What counts as “specifically”? Will a Yellow Rule of “kill all Green Citizens” work, or do I have to say “kill all Green Citizens, who are considered Citizens for the purposes of this rule”?

I’m also not sure that I see any problems with the current rule. I quite like the idea that higher ranks are safely screened off and simply don’t exist from a lower-colour rule’s perspective.

If you want a rule to apply to a higher-level citizen, you should get a higher clearance.

@lilomar: you can do that even without this rule, simply by mentioning Citizens by name, or even by saying “all Green players”. So proposal rule isn’t making things any worse, given that they’re broken anyway.

Player is not defined in the rules. Referring to a citizen by name would only pass if it had a really good reason.

“Player” doesn’t have to be defined to have a meaning, unfortunately (although it quite possibly includes idle Citizens). Most words in the rules aren’t defined, and thus use normal English definitions.

But if I’m not a Citizen for the purposes of a Red-clearance “kill the player who goes by the name Kevan-G-BGN” rule, then I don’t have a Clone-Number, nor would my “death” trigger “whenever a rule or a game action causes a Citizen to die”.

Rules below your clearance do not apply to you. If the rule is going to be amended, it should make it harder to work around that, not easier.

What if there was a Red rule that said “Any Green citizen may punish a citizen who violates this rule” or something similar?

The computer is wise.  Listen to the computer.

lilo vetoed this as an FYI

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