spoon-business: CFIs: Nobody's won just yet

["Alex Truelsen" <a_skywalker85@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[[Okay, here are two CFIs, a nice little last-ditch thing. Perhaps not as 
well thought-out or stated as they could be, but...]]

CFI1:
Statement: Universal Entropy has not been pushed over 500 by Wonko's 
purchase of 5 DimShips and eir subsequent setting of said ships's Buoyancy 
to 100 entropy each.

Analysis: Rule 493 states the following: "A DimShip is capable of carrying a 
Player through DimSpace by taking on virtual dimensional values: Buoyancy 
(positive virtual value) and Ballast (negative virtual value)." Note the use 
of the word "a." Wonko can't be displaced by all 5 DimShips, and even if e 
could, e still wouldn't be at 500 entropy, because nowhere does it say that 
effects are cumulative.

Defendant: Wonko

CFI2:
Statement: No player has been awarded a Win based upon eir virtual 
dimensions as set by eir DimShips.

Analysis: Rule 493: "Ballast and Buoyancy are each limited to 100. Each can 
be set to as much as 100, even at the same time, for displacement in single 
or multiple dimensions. That is, no matter how many dimensions Ballast is 
gathered for, total Ballast must be less than or equal to 100; same with 
Buoyancy." Regardless of updates to eir dimensions, players are not awarded 
higher or lower points, entropy, or any dimension past the values set by eir 
virtual dimensions, that is, changing the value of one's score Buoyancy does 
not change one's actual score, because only "Rules that change the values of 
dimensions, though, will change eir real dimensions." (Rule 493 again) 
Therefore, no one's dimensions are changed by eir DimShips any further from 
eir actual dimensions than the Buoyancy and Ballast of eir Dimships.

Defendant: Rob

[[Gah.]]

                                              Cheers,
                                                BvS

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