Re: [s-d] [s-b] Emergency Resolution

[James Baxter <jebaxter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:22:35 -0500
> From: teucer@xxxxxxxxx
> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [s-d] [s-b] Emergency Resolution
> 
> On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Geoffrey Spear <wooble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Which of the historical rulesets the die roll corresponds to is,
> > conveniently, not the problem of the person resolving this decision.
> 
> How I think we do this:
> 
> 1E rulesets are allegedly all reconstructible, but I don't have access
> to the tools that would do said reconstructing.

Start with archive.org's past versions of the rules and apply the changes from the mailing list archive. It's an overcomplicated way of doing things but since 1E was less platonic then the decisions taken in 1E should be verified platonically.

> 2E rulesets, I have absolutely no idea where to get. If nobody has any
> particular thoughts on this matter, we could all agree that they are
> inaccessible; I'm against skipping that era if we can get at it, but
> if we can't, we may have no choice.

Work through from 1E. Again, this is complicated but in particular we should attempt to justify the jump from 1E to 2E.

> 3E rulesets are easy enough - that's when the wiki starts tracking them.

Not all 3E rulesets are valid due to the comment bug. The initial one is, the one at the end of nweek 112 is and the changes to the ruleset after any emergency are. All other 3E rulesets can't exist due to the comment bug preventing the nweek from increasing (and thus stopping voting).

> 4E and 5E rulesets are not part of current B Nomic history, since they
> were platonically never the rules. Exceptions: the initial rules of
> those two eras, which were adopted but forbade gameplay.

The 4E initial ruleset worked as it came from an emergency, as did any changes applied in any emergencies in 4E up until P266 allegedly passed (it didn't really pass because the comment bug platonically prevented voting on it). Since 5E was started by a post-P266 emergency, the 5E initial ruleset is not part of the game since the emergency can't have happened (no-one hit their panic buttons after P266).

> 6E rulesets are also on the wiki.


6E rulesets are fairly easy to find, we would have to take into account all the rulesets since the end of 5E though.

The other option is compsciguy's proposal to go back to 5E, which would not require working out rulesets (it would need people to agree to start an emergency though).

 		 	   		  
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