If this passes, the first person to 5 points will be able to win the dynasty with a few minute’s worth of actions. Seriously. (I’d love it if this passed, just in case nobody else figured out how to do this, but I don’t really like to give that much advantage to whoever admins it.)

Ah, I’ve realised the bug: “for eight points” is ambiguous; I interpreted it as meaning that doing so gains the player 8 points, presumably it was meant to mean that it loses the player 8 points. Now I can see both meanings, it’s not at all clear which one should be considered the correct one…

Clearly, the one that makes sense and doesn’t have infinte recursion?

@Excalabur: it doesn’t say anywhere in the rules that picking an interpretation that doesn’t allow actions to be repeated infinitely should be favoured over one that does in the case of ambiguity. As always in nomic, just because something is obviously intended doesn’t necessarily make it correct.

CoV for ambiguity.

Such a minor point, and I love the idea.  Please make it clearer and repropose; this would be a great rule.

I dislike the idea, in fact.

nor may any player achieve victory based upon text in “Work in progress”

Achieving victory “based upon text” is extremely ambiguous, I think.  What if the “Work in progress” rule allows a player to increase their points under certain circumstances, while another rule spells out a victory condition involving gaining a bunch of points?  I would say that anyone who increased their points under the WIP rule cannot achieve this victory condition because the achievement was “based on text” from the WIP rule.

On another note, anyone could use this rule to block a soon-to-be-player from joining/unidling by adding eir name to WIP, since then it would be illegal for any admin to allow em to become an official player.  “Under no circumstances”, after all!