2009/3/25 Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk>: > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:12 +0100, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: >> Okay, I guess I didn't really know exactly what was allowed since I >> just read "outline changes to the gamestate". The only thing I can see >> that would stop it is that it requires higher power than the 1 it gets >> from adoption index, but then again I don't have that high search-fu, >> so if anyone points out which rule it is I will retract the proposal. > > The problem is that you'd only create half an obligation, or so. A > breach of an obligation can't be punished (Rule 1504) unless it was > specified in some rule; and although I can imagine a proposal creating a > platonic, power-1 obligation floating around in nomicspace somewhere, > the rules wouldn't recognise that it existed. Likewise, rule 2160 also > cares about obligations, but again only ones enforced by the rule. So > the point is that if you want to do something non-instantaneous, you > should put it into the rules, or the rules won't notice. > > -- > ais523 > > But if I don't want to clutter the ruleset with "If Agora has not joined Internomic 2, the ambassador SHALL join internomic 2 in a timely fashion", how should I do?
-- -Tiger
