I cause myself to score 1111222233334444555566667777888899990000. (that's four
of each digit).
I call for judgement on the following statement: The Numerator CAN grant me a 5
card.
Arguments:
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The rules make use in several places of "trigger phrase events". An example of
such an event is "the Fields Wither" in Rule 2709 - it is not a definition, per
se, but rather describes something that triggers when another rule causes an
event to happen.
Trigger event phrases themselves are not necessarily actions, but I believe
that CAUSING a trigger event to happen is. I admit I don't have a particularly
strong argument for this, it just seems like common sense to me.
If causing a player to score a number is an action (as I believe it is) then it
is an unregulated action. Therefore, by Rule 2125, the rules should not be
interpreted as to prohibit me from doing it.
Rule 2125 provides three tests for an action's regulation, any one of which is
sufficient for the action to qualify. These tests are:
1. The rules limit, allow, enable, or permit its performance.
The rules themselves cause players to score numbers in some place, but in no
place do they currently purport to regulate scoring in this way.
2. The rules describe the circumstances under which the action would succeed or
fail.
Once again, the rules describe no such circumstances for causing a player to
score a number.
3. The action would, as part of its effect, modify information for which some
player is required to be recordkeepor.
This test is what usually makes causing trigger phrase events regulated. For
example, it's why I can't cause the fields to wither - that would modify
information that the Land Managor is required to track. But scoring a number
doesn't do this! It doesn't modify card holdings at all, but rather merely
enables and requires the Numerator to grant cards, and this information is not
tracked by any player.
Therefore, causing a player to score a number is unregulated.
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I submit the following proposal, entitled "Secure Scoring", with an adoption
index of 1:
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Amend Rule 2713 ("Scoring Numbers") by appending the following paragraph:
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Causing a player to score a number is secured.
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And since I just realized that the same bug exists in one of my own proposals...
I submit the following proposal, "Secure Farming", with an adoption index of 1:
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If Proposal 9333 was adopted, amend Rule 2709 ("The Growth Cycle") by appending
the following sentence to the first paragraph:
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Causing a Crop to ripen is secured.
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- Galle
