Also, note that this rule does not actually define how to score, so this proposal creates a completely unachievable (at this time) wincon.

“If a Player has the Ball, they may transfer it to any other Player by updating the GNDT; this action is known as a Kick… Any kick is known as a Pass.”

So which is it? Is it known as a kick, or as a pass? Or both? If both, why do we need both? This extra terminology doesn’t seem necessary - and could cause confusion once people start passing balls into goals, passing each other in the shins, etc.

But that’s just a semantic quibble - the gameplay changes themselves all sound good to me. 

I also don’t like the redundancy, but I put it in so that we had a nice framework in the ruleset so we could easily change the way passes work. Redundancy is something we can fix in a later proposal. :)

The time has not come to think about winning.

I am very nervous that the only thing stopping an alert player from winning in 7 hours flat is that “a player may not score a Goal without having at least ten passes” does not imply “a player with at least ten passes may score”. I think it probably doesn’t and that Rule 1.1 saves us, but it feels like a very thin barrier to be building in front of the endgame button.