[s-d] Re: [s-b] General Recognizer

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 31, 2004, at 9.56 AM, Dan Schmidt wrote:

> Your forgeting about rule 2/4:
> All distinguishable Game Objects should have unique
> identifiers. Objects indistinguishable from each other
> need not have separate identifiers [[So a players
> points don't need to be named separately, but
> different players do]].
> An abbreviation or nickname for an object may be used
> in place of its identifier provided that the context
> makes it unambiguous which object is being referred
> to.
> So the second loophole does work.

Fair enough.
However, I still don't think the scam worked quite the way you wanted 
it to.

The problem is that when you forfeit the game, you don't cease to be a 
Game Object. You just become a Lost Soul, a Game Object that has pretty 
much no effect. Upon rejoining, therefore, you're not a new player, 
you're just the same player again. Which means, I would think, that you 
haven't 'reentered' the game, you've only 'rejoined'. It's more like 
reactivating an old email account than getting a new one.

As a result, you can't draw a card immediately after rejoining, because 
you already drew one, even though you turned into a Lost Soul briefly 
since then.

You also won't get another 500~, as you didn't enter the game again, 
you just turned your Lost Soul back into a Player.

So effectively, the scam did nothing - you gave all your ~, points, and 
cards to your society, you left, rejoined, drew a card, gave it to the 
society, and then quit and rejoined many, many times without getting 
anything to give each time.

The end result is no different than if you had simply drawn a card.

--
Wonko

Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992  because we 
received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may 
reapply if there is a change in your  circumstances.
  ---Department of Social Services,  Greenville, South Carolina

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