Nomic:Game 2005-04-02:Whether it is allowed to remove all pieces on the board

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All rise.

My, my. Here we are again. If I didn't know better I would think that a crime wave had struck our utopian Nomic world. Suddenly people are finding loopholes in the rules out of spite, and then blaming the game for it. As if gaming wasn't a social activity from the beginning. Humph.

Anyway.

So, what do we have here? Oh dear... :(

Jonathan seems to have made a move on the board, consisting of... er, dropping an "atom bomb" on the whole board, obliterating all the pieces.

Look: reading verbatim from r309, Pieces of a type without regulation are considered to have no behaviour. And later, For the purposes of this rule, a move is an action performed by a player on one of the player's pieces, possibly indirectly affecting other pieces.

I don't even have to appeal to emotion in this case. The rule clearly states that removing every frickin' piece on the board, allegedly with an "atom bomb" having no regulated behaviour is illegal. Besides, "atom bomb" is not a legal name for a piece type.

Hold on while I take a deep breath here.

What does this whole exercise amount to, if we peel below the surface? Vandalism. I mean, we must assume that the defendant, as a rational player, has read and understood the rules, and that he is thus breaking them knowingly.

I suggest a fittingly harsh punishment: remove ten points from the lad and ban him from performing any moves, legal or illegal, on the board for three rounds.

Court dismissed. Cripes.