Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Getting Away

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> On 10/5/02 at 11:19 PM Wonko wrote:
> 
>> Quoth Glotmorf,
>> 
>>> On 10/5/02 at 10:52 PM Wonko wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I Force Destroy (3,4).
>>>> I move to (5,4).
>>>> I borrow 2 points from Luigi, buy a Pinball gun, and knock Orc away
>> from my
>>>> speeders (and out of eir own, by the way :)
>>> 
>>> Your speeders, as in the 40 airspeeders at (6,3)?
>>> 
>>> They're not there any more.  I bulldozed them when I strip-mined there
>>> yesterday.
>>> 
>>> Sorry, guy.
>> 
>> r1077:
>> Mining is performed by contract mining companies
>> 
>> You haven't even made a provision for creating these yet; You can't strip
>> mine!
> 
> Later on in r1077:
> 
> "Strip Mining can be conducted for a cost of BNS 75 on a surface square that
> is not of type mud, does not contain a brook, and is not occupied by players
> or impassible stationary objects."
> 
> Rule 33:
> 
> "Whenever one section of a rule conflicts with another section of the same
> rule, the section which appears later in the rule takes precedence over the
> earlier section."
> 
> The later section of r1077 says strip mining can be conducted.  This takes
> precedence over the earlier section that talks about contract mining
> companies, especially since they don't exist yet.
> 
> I conducted strip mining.

Fair enough. It's still a friggin' confusing rule.

-- 
Wonko

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