"Reading it's text, if a rule of higher power defers to a rule of lower power, the rule of higher power is followed anyway." Pretty sure that's intentional.
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Aris Merchant <thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know that this is one of the scariest, if not the scariest, game > mechanics to fiddle with. That being said, Rule 1030 is pretty > obviously broken. Reading it's text, if a rule of higher power defers > to a rule of lower power, the rule of higher power is followed anyway. > This fixes that and a few other problems by changing the order. I also > numbered the items and added a loop resolution clause. > > -Aris > > --- > Title: Rule Precedence Changes > Adoption index: 3.0 > Author: Aris > Co-author(s): > > Amend Rule 1030 by changing it to read in full: > > In a conflict between Rules, the conflict shall be resolved by > performing the following comparisons in the sequence written in > this rule, until the conflict is resolved. If applying the comparison > leads to an infinite loop, then the next comparison is used. > > 1. If all of the Rules in conflict explicitly say that their > precedence relations are determined by some other Rule for > determining precedence relations, then the determinations of > the precedence-determining Rule shall be used to resolve the > conflicts; otherwise, > > 2. If at least one of the Rules in conflict explicitly says of > itself that it defers to another Rule (or type of Rule) than those > provisions shall be used to resolve the conflict unless they lead to > contradictions between each other; otherwise, > > 3. In a conflict between Rules with different Power, the Rule > with the higher Power takes precedence over the Rule with the > lower Power; otherwise, > > 4. If at least one of the Rules in conflict explicitly says of > itself that it takes precedence over another Rule (or type of Rule), then > such provisions shall be used to resolve the conflict, unless > they lead to contradictions between each other; otherwise, > > 5. If any of the rules in conflict have ID numbers, then the Rule > with the lowest ID number takes precedence; otherwise, > > 6. The Rule enacted earliest takes precedence. > > Clauses in any other rule that broadly claim precedence (e.g. > over "all rules" of a certain class) shall be, prima facie, > considered to be limited claims of precedence or deference that > are applicable only when such claims are evaluated as described > within the above sequence. > > No change to the Ruleset can occur that would cause a Rule to > directly claim precedence over this Rule as a means of > determining precedence. This applies to changes by the > enactment or amendment of a Rule, or of any other form. This > Rule takes precedence over any Rule that would permit such a > change to the Ruleset. -- >From V.J Rada
