Woah! Strain & Specimen Confusion
All kinds of activity has been happening to the GNDT based on mistakes, exploits, and confusion over the terms Strain versus Specimen and their erratic use in the ruleset. Here are two things that bugged me:
1. Rules 14 and 15 make no sense using the new definition of Specimen instead of Strain. The Virus cannot be a new Specimen because Specimen belong to a Strain, so it cannot have an entry in the GNDT, have Size, etc. I think Knightking was making changes to the Virus based on Specimen count not Strain count, but actually the Virus could not change its Size at all because Specimen do not emit or absorb any Elements, Strains do. It's totally meaningless. Likewise the classifications of rule 15 are for Specimens, not Strains, so actions based on those classifications shouldn't work. A quick call for judgement for the rewording is needed here and a plan to fix all the GNDT changes arising from this mess.
2. Any player's exploit of the mistaken Enactment of rule 11. I think since we had a CfJ on this already, we should also retroactively address any exploit of the error. I think the player should revert their Size to what it should have been, following the spirit of the rule and maybe they should take the Breath back, too. Don't force another CfJ.
I think a Specimen is a Single population count worth of a Strain, right? It's unnecessary and confusing! We should drop the word Specimen entirely in my opinion.
1. Rules 14 and 15 make no sense using the new definition of Specimen instead of Strain. The Virus cannot be a new Specimen because Specimen belong to a Strain, so it cannot have an entry in the GNDT, have Size, etc. I think Knightking was making changes to the Virus based on Specimen count not Strain count, but actually the Virus could not change its Size at all because Specimen do not emit or absorb any Elements, Strains do. It's totally meaningless. Likewise the classifications of rule 15 are for Specimens, not Strains, so actions based on those classifications shouldn't work. A quick call for judgement for the rewording is needed here and a plan to fix all the GNDT changes arising from this mess.
2. Any player's exploit of the mistaken Enactment of rule 11. I think since we had a CfJ on this already, we should also retroactively address any exploit of the error. I think the player should revert their Size to what it should have been, following the spirit of the rule and maybe they should take the Breath back, too. Don't force another CfJ.
I think a Specimen is a Single population count worth of a Strain, right? It's unnecessary and confusing! We should drop the word Specimen entirely in my opinion.
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