BlogNomic: The Ninth Dynasty of ais523

You almost certainly want “attempted to perform an illegal action” there. Actually performing illegal actions is impossible, because it’s against the rules, and it’s the rules that determine what is and isn’t possible with respect to gamestate.

Okay. I’ll wait to see if anyone else flags anything up and post an amendment proposal.

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Note that I will almost certainly vote against this again in the future as well since it’s nearly impossible to enforce properly.

I was thinking of something along the same lines - we seem to be spending more time undoing illegal gamestate than playing Clingboom, here.

The tricky aspect is covering cases where Player A performs an illegal action, and Player B then innocently performs their own apparently legal (but related) action which turns out to be based on an illegal gamestate.

(Anybody can revert actions, by the way, not just admins.)

I still think the illegal moves were not done on purpose, but are mainly due to confusion. Let’s get tracking online and let everyone familiarize with rules (which changed quickly the last days I think it will be way better then.

I don’t think anyone’s saying that any moves were deliberately illegal, just that if there’s no great incentive to make sure your moves are correct. (Apart from the minor one that if you get an important move slightly wrong, you might not get the chance to try it again, if someone else beats you to it.) If it’s just confusion, then a penalty for getting it wrong might encourage players to focus a bit more.

Re: Kevan - Yep, that’s exactly the point. I’m not talking about punishing people for illegal moves. My motive is to encourage people to read the rules more carefully, so we don’t have to spend so much time reverting the gamestate.