Friday, July 27, 2007

A problem with the rules

Were I to go idle right now; then under the rules my six subsidiaries would remain my subsidiaries and quorum would drop to six. In other words, I would achieve victory despite not playing. Has this ever happened before? I know I technically wouldn’t win, because I need to be active to declare victory, but I would have still fulfilled all the victory conditions.

Anyways, if you want to win and you are not one of my subsidiaries, let me know and i’ll see if I can make it possible.

posted by Clucky at 27 Jul 2007 21:00:00 UTC Comments (9)

Comments

Bucky:

27-07-2007 21:23:35 UTC

It’s probably happened any number of times, always by accident e.g. due to an uninitialized/zero GNDT stat.

Chivalrybean:

27-07-2007 21:36:47 UTC

If I had a good idea for a new dynasty, I would allow you to buy me out and I wouldn’t mind winning. Too bad I don’t have a really good idea.

Bucky:

27-07-2007 21:47:57 UTC

Clucky:Is the issue that you can’t win or that you don’t want to win?

ChronosPhaenon:

27-07-2007 23:25:34 UTC

Please, pay attentionn to this snippet from the buy-out rule: “No Corporation may attempt to Buy Out another Corporation’s Subsidiary.”

I’m taking my subbies back, if you please.

ChronosPhaenon:

27-07-2007 23:26:45 UTC

Soorry, I ddin’t see I myself was bought out.

Josh: he/they

28-07-2007 10:11:43 UTC

Oh, that’s fun.

It seems inevitable that you’re going to get bought at some point, though.

Kevan: he/him

28-07-2007 15:10:08 UTC

You aren’t a Corporation while you’re idle. “For the purposes of the Ruleset, excluding Rules 1.1 and 1.2, Idle Corporations are not counted as Corporations.”

There would be some temporary junk data in the gamestate were Corporations were subsidiaries of meaningless text strings, though. Maybe we need a rule to explain the intricacies of player gamestate that refers directly to other players, when those players go idle (which doesn’t come up very often).

Kevan: he/him

28-07-2007 15:11:32 UTC

(Which is to say, you wouldn’t be a Corporation and so wouldn’t even meet the “if any Corporation has a Quorum of Corporations as Subsidiaries” condition.)

Clucky: he/him

28-07-2007 16:08:20 UTC

I need $6M. Just $6M cash or a myriad of other stuff. If only I hadn’t been so wasteful early on.