[Spoon-business] Speed Limit, Backwards

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What's more, if e transfers enough points, r1248 will kick in in
> reverse.  There's an exploit *buzz* waiting to happen.

Y'know, it never occurred to me that it could work backwards...

I CFI:
{{
__Uh Oh__

Statement: At the time of this CFI's submission, the score of the 
player named Wonko was not zero.

Analysis:
By r1282/1, Seniority, a player who has been playing the game for over 
two realtime years is awarded a win. Five days before the issuance of 
this CFI, Rob reached eir two-year mark; the next day, Iain reached 
theirs. There is some question regarding who was able to win, based on 
Charm and Activity, but that is not the issue of this CFI, as it is 
clear that in any case, one of them has been awarded a Win.

In accordance with r22/7, Post-Win Reset, in the event of a Win being 
awarded, all dimensions except Respect for all players are set to zero.

Thus, as of the win awarded to either Rob or Iain, all players' scores 
became zero under r22/7, including the score of Wonko.

However, at the time this happened, Wonko possessed 292 points.

Under r1248/1, Speed Limit, "If at any time the difference between a 
player's Score and what it was at the beginning of the nweek is greater 
than 250, eir score is immediately set to the value that would make the 
difference equal to 250."

At the beginning of the nweek, then, Wonko had 292 points. As soon as 
the win was awarded, e had 0. The difference between 292 and 0 is 
greater than 250, therefore Wonko's score, under r1248, is set to "the 
value that would make the difference equal to 250".

This then leads to the question of what value it is set to - 42 and 542 
both fulfill the requirement that the difference between them and 292 
is 250. The judge of this CFI is encouraged to explain exactly what the 
current value is, as r1248 refers to "the value", when in fact there 
are two such values.

However, in any case, Wonko's score is either 42, 542, or undefined; it 
cannot be zero.
}}

--
Wonko
Award Wonko a Win.
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Version: 3.1
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t+ 5 X R+ tv--@ b+++@ DI++++ D G++ e*>++++ !h r++ y?
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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