[s-b] Consultation: Retroactivity

["Geoffrey Spear" <wooble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I submit the following Consultation:
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Does an otherwise legal action that purports to "retroactively
simulate" something have any effect on the gamestate?
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Reasoning:

Rule 4E26 prohibits any retroactive effects.  It allows retroactivity
to be simulated, but it does not allow simulation to be done
retroactively. The intent of the simulation clause of Rule 4E26
clearly requires that actual actions be specified, and make sit
possible that those actions change the gamestate in ways that appear
to be retroactive though they occur either instantaneously in the
present or at some time in the future, not in the past.  It is clearly
*not* intended that the sort of "X is hereby retroactively simulated"
handwaving that has plagued B Nomic far too often recently can
magically fix the gamestate.

-- 
Wooble
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