Proposal: Operation Clean Up
Passes 6-0 with quorum FOR. -Bucky
Adminned at 15 Jul 2012 14:46:55 UTC
In rule 2.2.5 “Operations”, replace:
A Worker may, at any time, activate a Machine and Operate it. Upon doing so, if the Machine being Operated (known as the “Outputâ€) is Repaired, and if that Machine has a Power Link going into it from another Machine (known as the “Inputâ€) which is also Repaired, then if any effect in the following list has the the second word of the name of the Input Machine as its first word, and the second word of the name of the Output Machine as its second word, then the Worker must trigger that effect once. In all of these effects, the “Operator†is the Worker who used the action to Operate the Machine.
with
A Worker (known as the “Operator” throughout this rule) may, at any time, activate a Machine and Operate it. Upon doing so, if the Machine being Operated (known as the “Outputâ€) is Repaired, and if the Output has at least one Power Link going into it from another Machine which is also Repaired, then the Operator must choose one such machine (known as the"Input”). Then if both bold words of any effect in the following list match the the second word of the name of either the Input Machine or the Output Machine then the Worker must trigger that effect once.
The operations rule is currently very messy. I still don’t think this is the best way to write it, but I certainly think it’s better. Note that if there is a machine with two power links incoming, one of which has a specified operations effect and one doesn’t, the operator can simply choose the latter and ignore the effect of the former. I believe this would have been justified under the previous writing as well, but at least now it’s explicit. If somebody wants to rewrite this to not allow that, feel free.
Also made operating machines slightly “easier” in that power links from nouns to gerund are now usable for operating. Previously they were not.
Clucky: he/him