On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Elliott Hird <penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 7 July 2011 06:16, Sean Hunt <scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >> WHEREAS B Nomic was in fact recently discovered to have been >> locked in perpetual Emergency since 2002, such that its game can >> never advance; and > > Have you got any pointers? Thread titles, etc.; I must have missed this. > > Is there truly no way to advance?
It was discovered in an IRC conversation. I suggested that we could fix the problems with a CFI, since they don't rely on game time (which is suspended during an emergency), but on occurrences of midnight UTC. It was pointed out to me that Rule 0 says that events with absolute deadlines don't occur at all, and "the third midnight UTC" is an absolute deadline. Unfortuantely, Rule 0's increments of the Pause *also* use a midnight UTC occurring as the trigger, and while Rule 0 does except events relative to gametime which are defined within itself from being suspended, it notably does *not* except its own mechanisms from the absolute deadlines happening. The upshot of this is that when the first Emergency began under Rule 0 in 2002, the Pause never incremented, making it impossible to resolve the emergency.
