Reached a quorum 0-6.—Yoda
Adminned at 25 Jun 2011 23:00:31 UTC
In the rule “Species”, it says:
A Zombie is characterized by:
[..]
a Species, that must be one of those listed in the rule “Speciesâ€.
[..]
It further says:
The Location of each Zombie shall be listed together with its Health, Species, and Owner in the Garden Patch page, immediately below the Plot where they are located.
I do believe that all zombies currently in the Garden Patch do not fit these conditions and thus do not legally exist. The Rule “Species” actually is an empty Rule, as we recently realized in an discussion. Here’s the reasoning: Since there is no definition of “Subrule” in place, we use the normal english definition. I quote from en.wiktionary.org:
A narrow rule which defines the specific meaning of a broader rule
I emphasize that a subrule is explicitly a rule, thus not part of another rule. Yoda also pointed out that otherwise (if a Subrule was part of its parent Rule) lots of Proposal would have had unwanted side effects, just think of the many “Change rule X”-Proposal that would replace the Subrulkes of X as well.
If we accept these statements as facts, then the rule “Species” is empty, because it contains only Subrules. At the very least, several of the zombie definitions (though not all) were introduced as subrules. Those are definitly illegal.
Here’s my fix:
Remove all zombies from play and reset all players Defeat values (as no legal zombie reached a house yet) to 0.
Since this is my first CfJ, I hope everything is in order. :-)