Hey, before you go into non-integer powers, what ever happened to power-2? It seems like everything's either 1 or 3 these days. If we're not even using the hierarchy we've got, why go further.
I think it's an artifact of the rules slimming last year. Everything with power over 1 that made the cut and was worth keeping was important enough to be upgraded to power 3. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't re-fill that power-2 gap and think about the precedence structure in that context. For example, there's no reason all VC spending can't be controlled at power-2, with a single clause in a power 3 rule allowing power-2 rules to change VPOP. Personally, I advocated complex power a couple years back... the idea remained imaginary, though. -Goethe
