Re: [s-d] [s-b] Consultation: Dominov > ALL?

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

Properties are Game Objects too. Points are an Attribute, which usually
should have a default value according to the rules. This particular
attribute does not have a default value.

Properties, on the other hand, are more like On/Off type mechanisms, the way
I understand them. You can have different values of an attribute (0, 1, 15,
1234) but when it comes to properties, you either have them or you don't
(Inactive, Alive, Cursed, the specific title or body of a proposal, etc.).

BP

On 1/2/08, Geoffrey Spear <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 6:18 PM, Jamie Dallaire <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I submit the following Consultation:
> >
> > {
> > As of the time at which this Consultation is submitted, at an exchange
> rate
> > of 5 mackerel for 1 point, would it be possible for the Player named
> Dominov
> > to exchange all of his points for exactly 500 mackerel?
> >
> > Reasoning: The above exchange would necessitate 100 points. I submit
> that
> > Dominov has AT LEAST 28 points. Because the rules do not provide a
> default
> > score for any game object, the number of points that Dominov had upon
> > joining the game is undefined. As such, and regardless of game custom,
> it is
> > just as valid to assume that Dominov started with 72 points as it is to
> > assume that e started with 0 points. Rule 17 states that score cannot be
> > negative, and we can state with confidence that Dominov now has 28
> points
> > more than e started with. The number of points e currently holds cannot
> be
> > precisely defined, but it lies somewhere between 28 and positive
> infinity.
> > This interval includes 100. Also note that Dominov became a Player
> shortly
> > AFTER the Public Display of points was ratified by Wooble's Refresh
> > Proposal, during nweek 135.
> > }
> >
> > Billy Pilgrim
>
> I don't believe a Player can come to possess any Game Object without
> first gaining it.  Since a new Player has never been given any Points,
> I don't see how he could have any.
>
> Now, if Points were a Property of Players, I could buy your argument.
>
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