Ruling — Civolution

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How do I set up the game?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: Civolutionbg-400602-en-1e

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook · p.8 · Setup

10 In games with two or three civilizations, you must cover encampments in the territories of the continent with blocking tokens . To do this, take the territory tokens and flip them back side up. In a 2-player game , cover the 10 encampments that show the /gid01780 icon or the icon by placing onto

RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook · p.39 · Solo mode: Setup

Set the game up as in a 2-player game , but carry out setup steps 12 to 16 only for yourself as a single civilization. Afterwards, set up V.I.C.I's play area next to your console as follows: Take the 22 cards for the solo mode . Place the 7 display cards (with a purple mark and a number in the top r

RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook · p.8 · Setup

Place the 7 stackable discs of your color onto the game boards: one disc onto space 0 of the score track, a one disc onto the left space of the Favor of Agera track (at the bottom of the sequence board ), b and one disc onto space 0 of each of the 5 progress tracks on the progress board . The discs

RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook · p.9 · Setup · Option A (newcomers): · Setting up the research display:

Now, each civilization receives its starting cards. Depending on how well you know the game, you can do this in one of two ways: 13 For your first couple of plays, we recommend using pre-made starting hands. To do this, take the starting marker cards and find the 6 cards showing a number in the bott

RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook · p.9 ·

Option A (newcomers): For your first couple of plays, we recommend using pre-made starting hands. To do this, take the starting marker cards and find the 6 cards showing a number in the bottom left (1 to 6). Shuffle these and give each civilization one at random. Return any excess starting marker ca

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 336 ms · ask 14950 ms · total 140130 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 124833 ms · generation 15297 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 319 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 319 boosted
answered-before recall: no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 6, 2026 14:10

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook (corpus doc 319)	Setup	p.8	0.047712 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook (corpus doc 319)	Solo mode: Setup	p.39	0.047643 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook (corpus doc 319)	Setup	p.8	0.047123 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook (corpus doc 319)	Setup · Option A (newcomers): · Setting up the research display:	p.9	0.046032 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook (corpus doc 319)		p.9	0.045921 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook (corpus doc 319)	1 weather indicator · Setup	p.6	0.045541 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook (corpus doc 319)		p.3	0.045009 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	69
#8	RULEBOOK Civolution — Rulebook (corpus doc 319)	Setting up the research display: · Option B (advanced): · Option A (newcomers):	p.10	0.04374 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 336 ms · first delta 15198 ms · total 140130 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 124833 ms · retrieval 336 ms · ask 14950 ms · gateway work 15297 ms · total 140130 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3126
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 138.5 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.065 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 47s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 247), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.