Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 06 Apr 2010 03:28:31 UTC
Add the following bullet point to rule 3.2.1, “Numbers and Variables”:
* If a rule states that new Colonists start with a certain value for a variable, then when that rule is first put into the Ruleset, all Colonists shall have that variable set to that value.
Inelegant wording, but it’s the best I could do.
Isn’t the usual wording just to say that “Colonists start with 50 Energy” rather than “New Colonists start with 50 Energy”? This also opens up unexpected effects where if we modify a new player rule further down the line (say changing “equal to lowest variable among other players” to “mean”), it would reset all existing players’ variables.
I’m not sure what the proposal title is supposed to mean.
on a different technical ground; it doesn’t seem to cover amending, rather than adding, a rule. (This could have happened, say, in my dynasty when electricity was added.) By the way, my favourite wording for such rules is “defaulting to 50”, or whatever; this handles all three potentially undefined situations (existing Colonists + new rule, new Colonist, unidling Colonist who last idled before the rule was enacted).
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