Remove the line “If a Bot has Systems and a Chassis whose combined Consumption exceeds its Engine’s Effective Power Output, the Bot is considered to be Defunct. The Script of a Defunct Bot is always considered to be blank.” from Bot Loadout

Add a new rule called Part Failure:

While in a bout, the systems of a Bot have a non-negative Short-Circuits value, equal to either 0 (when the system has greater than or equal to 50% condition), or half the system’s consumption (when the system has 21%-50% condition), or the system’s full consumption (when the system has less than or equal to 20% condition).

When the sum of a Bot’s Short-Circuits of all of its systems added to the the Consumption of its chassis and all of its system exceed the Effective Power Output of that Bot’s engine, the Bot’s system with the highest consumption out of all the eligible systems Shuts Down - it is considered to have 0 Short-Circuits and an effect of No Effect. This repeats as many times as necessary until the sum no longer exceeds the Effective Power Output. A system with a consumption of 0 cannot Shut Down, nor can systems that have already Shut Down.

If a Bot has Systems and a Chassis whose combined Consumption exceeds its Engine’s Effective Power Output, the Bot is considered to be Defunct. The Script of a Defunct Bot is always considered to be blank.

This rule initially has no effect on bots whose operators had a readiness of Set at the time of the proposal On a Short Fuse was made, except for this paragraph and paragraph 3 which function as normal. When one of those bots has finished the Bout that their operator had that readiness of Set for (whether that occurs after enactment or before it), this rule begins to affect them as normal, and this may occur for each of those bots. Once no bots are considered to unaffected by this rule under that criteria, any operator may remove this paragraph.