Re: [s-d] New Player and Suggestion

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx>]

I still don't believe the game got stuck eons ago. The relevant
passages in r0 are "Pending events and deadlines with absolute dates
and times do not occur" and "...the Pause is increased by one each day
at 00:00:00 UTC". But these steps come as part of a sequence of
events, of which stopping time is step 1 and setting up the pause is
step 4.

While step 1 does cancel all events that were pending as of when the
step happens, the pause increase was not yet a pending event, and so
is unaffected.

Moreover, r33 asserts that when two sections within one rule disagree
"the section which appears later in the rule takes precedence over the
earlier section". So even if you believe that "stopping time" and
"incrementing the pause" are incompatible, the pause still updates
because the part of the rule which says it does comes after the part
which says it doesn't.

-- 
Wonko

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Rainbow Wolfe
<rainbowdreamwolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well it seems that everyone is complaining that the game was actually
> locked 3 eons ago when the clock got stuck and no one noticed. Why not use
> "windows restore" and go back to the last known point the game was working,
> start the clock and continue.
>
> If you are locked by the rules then you either better get creative, or
> realize that the rules can (generally) be bypassed. That's why Suber had
> the rule that all players must follow the rules.. even if that IS a rule,
> it can be broken.
>
> Think outside the box and get the game back on track if people are still
> interested and have time.
>
> Rainbow
>
> On 1 March 2012 01:53, Elliott Hird <penguinofthegods@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 1 March 2012 00:23, Rainbow Wolfe <rainbowdreamwolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Just a thought - you could always ignore the rules and reboot the game???
>>
>> Nobody wants to start the game of B all over again; if it has to be a
>> new game, we'd want a fresh start.
>>
>> But I'd rather play B, not B+1.
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