On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 12:56 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> 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? There's at least one well known way to get the standard diplomacy rules to generate a paradox (Pandin's paradox). That said, I think it generally speaking makes more sense to have the gamemaster adjudicate the problem into non-existence than to impose a SHALL NOT on the contestants. -Aris >
