This rule is pretty awkwardly worded, and I can see something like five scams from a literal reading of it: subtracting a value from another doesn’t necessarily make you do anything with the result (compare to “spending ... Sun Cost” or “reducing Sun Cost by ...”); if Seeds become Crops, then clearly they have to be removed from the Gardening Compendium wiki page as they aren’t seeds any more; many types of Seed aren’t valid because their attributes aren’t unique (e.g. multiple crops have a Shade Requirement of 1); nothing says that Seeds are limited to the ones in the Gardening Compendium wiki page (in fact, the rule arguably even gives a method of defining more, by giving its stats!); and nothing seems to limit what sort of effects Crops can have on Gamestate (which is really problematic if people can define their own Seeds).

Presumably the rule isn’t meant to be taken literally, but rather on a “what it’s meant to mean” basis, which can make it very hard to play a dynasty if different people have different ideas about what the rule means.

per ais

Ok, this time I agree with what you’re saying.  Unfortunately, I don’t have any proposal slots to repropose this.

Until the above issues can be fixed.

Mmmh, BNscript does not see the seal…
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I don’t see a problem with the subtraction wording as is, though it could be sharpened.

Also, no problem with Seeds becoming Crops, though it could be stated more clearly.  As I read it, the wiki page lists the types of seeds; to plant, you replace the contents of one of your empty or occupied Squares with a copy of the seed, and then your copy turns into a crop.

The unique thing is a valid problem, though easily fixable.

Again, not really a problem with the only source of seeds being the wiki page.  Don’t we do this sort of thing all the time?  The ruleset says “There exists types of X, listed below” [or: on a wiki page, or listed as subrules, etc.]  Once there is such a sentence in the ruleset, seeds are now regulated by the rules and are gamestate, so you can’t just go inventing new ones.

This rule should specify all possible “attribute” categories a seed might have, not just the required ones.

I prefer things like seed types to be listed in the ruleset itself rather than a wiki page, but that’s just my preference.

@Ely: you need to tell the script who the new Emperor is, it still thinks Purplebeard (or maybe even me) is in charge, and thus that Yoda can’t veto proposals. (There should be a settings button top-right on the blog homepage.)

@Hix: it’s the difference between saying that a page lists a number of types of seed, and that the list of seeds is found at a particular page. That is, “There exist a number of types of Seeds listed in the Gardening Compendium wiki page” vs. “There exist a number of types of Seeds, which are listed in the Gardening Compendium wiki page”. The second implies it’s a complete list, the first doesn’t.

[ais] I “told” him already :P
Still, it does not work.
Bleh.

Doesn’t work for me, either.

The bot is fine now ;)