On 7/4/20 3:52 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 7/4/2020 12:40 PM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus: >> Unless >> explicitly permitted by the Diplonomic 2020 rules, all Contestants >> SHALL NOT make use of loopholes in the underlying game of >> Diplomacy in order to gain a competitive advantage. > > I'm a little puzzled/concerned about this bit. We're introducing > proposals to modify these rules and therefore reading these rules closely, > and it doesn't seem right to forbid that? Are there specific types of > loopholes in Diplomacy (a game with very very stable rules for a long > time) that you're trying to prevent us from using?
My thinking was not to prevent paradoxes or that sort of thing, but more an instance where an unexpected interaction between two rules is intentionally used to get an advantage. I also don't intend for this to apply to any modified rules but only the initial text I draft and the original rules of Diplomacy because those aren't really written as part of the game. If there's strong opposition, I'll drop it. -- ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus, Herald, Referee, Tailor, Pirate Champion, Badge of the Great Agoran Revival, Badge of the Salted Earth
