BlogNomic: new entry to the glossary

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Proposal: new entry to the glossary

self-killed - coppro

Adminned at 08 Jul 2011 23:46:10 UTC

Add a new entry to the glossary for “Spend” reading as follows

To spend a resource tracked by a number is to lower one’s own value of that number by the cost. Unless otherwise specified, a Gladiator may not spend such that they would have a negative number of that resource afterwards.

Not strictly necessary but we’ve had this issue before; good to clear up the “spending into the negative” once and for all.

Comments

Yoda:

07-07-2011 18:05:32 UTC

This is already covered by “Unless otherwise specified, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers, and any action that would set those values below zero is an illegal action unless explicitly otherwise stated in the ruleset” and “Unless otherwise specified, when â€œXâ€ is a number, to spend X of a numeric value â€œVâ€ means to subtract X from V (i.e. replace V with V-X)”.