[Bnomic-private] Re: State of Emergency

[Glotmorf]

On 17 Dec 2003 at 22:08, Daniel Lepage wrote:

> Athena's Society does not have the power to enforce its Tontine 
> regulations - a player on the verge of Garbage Collection must be On 
> Leave, and On Leave players may not take actions. Which is probably not 
> a good thing, as coming On Leave is an action.

Interestingly, Athena's Society's charter was considered to 
have had the power to enforce its Tontine on Orc in a 
Spacesuit; eir points got transferred to the remaining members 
just before e got GCed, and that was sufficiently long ago 
that it's now a legal action.

Interestingly, r205, in the most recent form I have on file 
(205/5), says a player comes Off Leave when e performs an 
action.  It then goes on to say that while a player is On 
Leave, e cannot perform actions.  If we were to look at the 
combination of these two, one might interpret it to say that 
any actual action a player performs must be while Off Leave, 
and if e happens to be On Leave at the time that's assumed to 
end as soon as the action is performed.

In which case, Mr. in a Spacesuit's compulsory action of 
yielding all eir points to eir fellow Athenians should have 
taken em Off Leave, at which point e'd be GCed three nweeks 
later instead.

Still works, though.

						Glotmorf

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