Ruling — Imperial 2030

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Before anyone takes a turn, how is everything laid out on the table?

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

Asked with: Imperial 2030bg-54138-en-1e

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

RULEBOOK Imperial 2030 — Rulebook · p.6 · Game pLay · Selecting a space on the rondel · oBJect oF the Game / end oF the Game

The six imperial Great Powers (nations) operate on the game board. The players are investors who grant bonds to these nations. The player who has granted the highest credit amount (i.e., total purchase price) to a nation controls the government of that nation and decides the actions on the game boar

RULEBOOK Imperial 2030 — Rulebook · p.7 · Separate Funds · Start of play · spaces on the rondeL · Factory · Example:

The treasury of the six imperial nations and the individual cash of the players have to be kept strictly separate. The players hold the treasuries they control in trust. They are not allowed to dispose of the treasuries personally nor lend or give away money from the treasury. However, they are allo

RULEBOOK Imperial 2030 — Rulebook · p.12 · 4. Adding power points

Based on its tax revenue, the nation gains additional power points as shown on the last line of the taxation chart (i.e., power point gains are independent of soldiers' pay or success bonuses). The newly acquired power points are added to the previous point standing on the scoring track at the upper

RULEBOOK Imperial 2030 — Rulebook · p.15 · Don't forget the power points · Be careful when concentrating on one nation · Take care of your money · Use the Swiss Bank · The end of the game may come surprisingly fast · How many turns does a game of ' Imperial 2030' usually take?

Only when a nation builds factories, places flags, and in the end plays 'taxation', can it advance with its power points. It may not be possible to avoid conflicts with other nations, but nations who set up troops and wage war all the time, will not be successful in collecting many power points. It

RULEBOOK Imperial 2030 — Rulebook · p.4 · Printed tiles · Wooden components · 1. Initial set-up (see illustration below)

1 gameboard 54 bond cards of the six nations, called 'bonds' below (in denominations of 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 16, 20, 25, 30 million) 90 flags in 6 colors (15 per nation) 6 nation flag cards 1 investor card 130 Bank notes (35 x 1 mil., 55 x 2 mil., 25 x 5 mil., 15 x 10 mil.) 1 instruction booklet 1 quick

🔧 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 273 ms · ask 5755 ms · total 6039 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 6039 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 461 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 461 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 7, 2026 05:48

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 Imperial 2030 — Rulebook (corpus doc 461)	Game pLay · Selecting a space on the rondel · oBJect oF the Game / end oF the Game	p.6	0.032787 (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 Imperial 2030 — Rulebook (corpus doc 461)	Separate Funds · Start of play · spaces on the rondeL · Factory · Example:	p.7	0.032258 (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 Imperial 2030 — Rulebook (corpus doc 461)	4. Adding power points	p.12	0.031746 (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 Imperial 2030 — Rulebook (corpus doc 461)	Don't forget the power points · Be careful when concentrating on one nation · Take care of your money · Use the Swiss Bank · The end of the game may come surprisingly fast · How many turns does a game of ' Imperial 2030' usually take?	p.15	0.03125 (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 Imperial 2030 — Rulebook (corpus doc 461)	Printed tiles · Wooden components · 1. Initial set-up (see illustration below)	p.4	0.030769 (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 Imperial 2030 — Rulebook (corpus doc 461)	Example:	p.6	0.030303 (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 Imperial 2030 — Rulebook (corpus doc 461)	maneUVer  inVestor · i nvestor · 1. Paying out interest	p.11	0.029851 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Imperial 2030 — Rulebook (corpus doc 461)	Variant for experienced players:	p.5	0.029412 (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 273 ms · first delta 5920 ms · total 6039 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 273 ms · ask 5755 ms · gateway work 6039 ms · total 6039 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4199
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 152.5 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.059 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 46s 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: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 391), 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.