Friday, October 15, 2021

Katelyn’s Second Move

The enactment of Katelyn’s First Move has renumbered the Zones, meaning that Infirmary Zone (with Katelyn Dubose on Floor 3) expanded to take in the Copbots on Floor 5, which it didn’t before. But the Security rule says that “Katelyn Dubose and her Punk-Neo-mutualists cannot exist in the same location as a Copbot Swarm”.

The ruleset sometimes uses the term “location” to mean Zone, and sometimes Floor. Given the context of the Security rule (the next sentence starts “If a Copbot Swarm ever shares a Zone ...”), though, I think Zone is the appropriate reading here.

It looks like the relevant rule to recover from this is that “If the rules that define a game variable are amended, and some previously valid values become invalid as a consequence, any existing variables whose current values would become invalid are instead set to their starting value.” The game variable that is Dubose’s Floor is defined by rules of “is on a Floor” and “cannot exist in the same [Zone] as a Copbot Swarm”, with that Zone being defined by what rules exist and what zones they occupy. Repealing Surveillance Systems changes “the rules that define” Dubose’s Floor, so the value that would become invalid is instead reset.

The default Floor for a Citizen is Floor 1, so I’ve moved Dubose to Floor 1. If anyone has a different reading to offer, please raise a CfJ.

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