See rule 2152, "Mother May I?"
An action that is ILLEGAL is something that can be done, but it violates the
rule in question. Doing something ILLEGAL will, unless it somehow goes
uncaught, result in a card. Most of the time, the action still works, though.
An IMPOSSIBLE action is literally that, impossible. Attempts to perform that
action literally do nothing.
On 11/18/2017 1:32 PM, Corona wrote:
Yeah, and there's the anti-ossification rule for the worst case.
By the way, could someone explain to me what is the distinction
between the possibility and legality of an action in Agora? From what
I gather, it seems to be that illegal actions can change the game
state if no one calls you out on it, is that right?
On 11/17/17, Alex Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
On Fri, 2017-11-17 at 19:38 -0700, Reuben Staley wrote:
Oh, another thing: We'll need some way for all players currently
registered to get some of these currencies, otherwise Agora will
be stuck forever, as nobody will be able to write proposals..
Yes, we do need to do that.
There are at least four emergency methods of keeping the nomic going if
something goes wrong with the pending mechanism (distribute a
nonpending proposal without three objections, illegal but possible
distribution of a nonpending proposal by the Promotor, distribution of
a nonpending proposal by the Prime Minister, impossible but self-
ratifying resolution of a nonexistent proposal by the Assessor that
subsequently cause a rule change when it self-ratifies).
Ideally, though, we wouldn't have to use them.
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