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Another try at fixing the Defusal issue

BlogNomic: The Eleventh Dynasty of ais523 [Unofficial] May 8, 2026
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In the rule “Designs”, perform the following changes, where the ins tag indicates text to be inserted, the del tag indicates text to be removed, and the surrounding text indicate the location in that rule where the inserted text should be placed and the deleted text should be removed:

If all the Wires of a Design are Broken, or all Defusers other than the creator of that Design have either Failed that Design or Refused that Design, the Supervisor or the Creator of that Design should at their earliest convenience perform a Defusal Check, which is an atomic action with the following steps:

  • If no Defuser has yet scored from this Design, the Defuser who most recently Cut a Wire of this Design scores 1 and if the Design was made by the Supervisor, they then score 1 again.
  • If that Design was not safely defused since the last time all its Wires were Uncut, and if this step has been performed at least five times for that Design with the same Defuser claiming that Design each time, add that Defuser to that Design’s list of Defusers Who Failed.
  • If that Design was defused, but not safely since the last time all of the Wires in that Design were set to Uncut, set the State of all Wires in that Design to Uncut by commenting on that Design that the bomb was defused unsafely and has been reset. Skip the remaining steps of this action.
  • If that Design has never been defused safely, and there is at least one Defuser other than the creator of that Design who has not yet Failed that Design or Refused that Design, skip the remaining steps of this action.
  • If that Design was defused safely: ** The Defuser who most recently Cut a Wire of this Design scores an amount determined by the Scoring Scale for this Design. From this point onwards, no further Defusal Checks may be performed on this Design (this status is known as the Design being “Complete”, and is tracked by checking the history of Expertise to see whether or not this step has previously been performed for this Design). ** The Defuser (if any) who was most recently added to this Design’s list of Defusers Who Failed during a Process a Wire action scores half the amount specified by the Scoring Scale.
  • The Creator of that Design (if they are not the Supervisor) scores the number of Defusers Who Failed on that Design.
  • The Creator of that Design (if they are not the Supervisor) scores half the number of Defusers who Refused that Design.
  • Post a comment on that Design, specifying the Type and Output of each Wire in that Design, and (if the Design was not defused safely) specifying a sequence of Wires which would (if Cut and Processed) have defused that Design from its initial state. From this point onwards, no further Defusal Checks may be performed on this Design (this status is known as the Design being “Complete”, and is tracked by this comment).

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