Fweep: Too Many Cups
This Fweep is now closed; it failed to reach “more Gladiators voted AGAINST the Foul Post than FOR it”, so the Foul stands.
Adminned at 07 Aug 2011 05:18:58 UTC
Coppro unidled and gave himself the Clingboom Cup, which he was carrying when he idled four days ago. As I understand it, this gamestate update is illegal, since the Cup Weapon disappeared from play when he idled - “When a Gladiator becomes idle, he also becomes Resting.” and “When a Gladiator stops Fighting and begins Resting, they lose any Weapons they were carrying.”, so when Coppro elected to idle himself out, he became Resting and the Cup was removed from his possession.
(His action also contradicts “Only one Gladiator may hold The ClingBoom Cup at any time” in Rule 2.14.)
scshunt:
Here’s the scam:
“When a Gladiator is de-idled, if they went idle in the same dynasty, their personal gamestate retains the values it had immediately prior to their going Idle, if they are still valid.” At no time was I not idle and also not holding the Cup, but the rule about Gladiators becoming Resting made me Resting without affecting that state. The rule about losing Weapons does not apply as I was never a Gladiator (who must not have been idle per rule 1.2) who stopped Fighting and became Resting. At best, I was a Gladiator who stopped Fighting and became <SIGSEGV: NO STATUS>, but even that is debateable.
As for multiple cups, it says “Only one Gladiator may hold The ClingBoom Cup at any time,” sure. That only applies to one instance, though (consider if you replace “The ClingBoom Cup” with, say, “Harpoon”. It’s redundant, but correct that only one Gladiator may hold a given Harpoon). Nowhere does the ruleset say that there can only be one instance of the weapon called “The ClingBoom Cup”. In fact, “... [the Gladiator] gains an Instance of The ClingBoom Cup,” implying there can be multiple instances. As well, The ClingBoom Cup is a singleton item in a list that clearly is introduced with “These are some other Weapons:”. Thus there is no issue with Kevan and I each holding our own Cups.