On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, V.J Rada wrote: >> >but is there anything the prohibits spending >> >shinies below 0? >> >> Yes, it's like the 1st sentence of assets. You can't go below 0 shinies. > > Thanks! > >> Anyway ordinary meaning of spend enforces common sense here. > > It's reasonable to say that ordinary meaning says the shiny is > no longer available to whomever spent it. > > But why does the "ordinary meaning" mean the shiny goes to Agora? > > The actual rules definition (for AP) is that the AP is removed > from the game entirely. When something is "spent", by common > language, it's no longer useful. So I'd say that "common language" > tells us that when you spend something, it's spent and gone - > not back in Agora's hands. Since that's the definition for "spent" > for AP, why doesn't it apply to shines?
Actually, that's not a bad outcome: "In circumstances where another asset would be destroyed, an indestructible asset is generally transferred to Agora, subject to modification by its backing document and the intervention of other rules." (Rule 2166, Assets) So the person tries to destroy it and it goes to Agora instead. -Aris
