[EricH]

Originally Posted by 1075guy

@EricH: Your analogy to the Supreme Court is not a fair one.

Q&A rulings that contradict the rules do not the rules make. This has been hashed out MANY times over the last few years. The GDC themselves have said on several occasions that the ONLY way for them to change the rules of the game is through TEAM UPDATES.

For cases where two rules are in conflict, or seem to be in conflict, the Q&A chooses which one takes precedence. That is what happened there.

Also, note the minibot welding. They allowed it by Q&A. Then it was disallowed, again by Q&A, this time because a needed material was not in <R92>. When asked about this, they issued an update to support the first Q&A ruling, not the second one, even though the second one was the correct one up until the Update came out.

Incidentally, if the Supreme Court were to issue a ruling that was in violation of the Constitution (for the sake of argument, that privately owned guns were illegal--Second Amendment), how long do you think their credibility would last? Right, it wouldn't.

If 99% of people looked at that rule and Q&A combination and saw that they would not be able to move game pieces around and have them count for more points than the peg they were on at the end of the match, the 1% should not complain that the ruling was unclear. The Q&A explained that a piece could not count on two pegs, effectively.