+
+ /*
+ * It might seem a bit odd that we're using me->params to
+ * create the initial game state, rather than me->curparams
+ * which is better tailored to this specific game and which we
+ * always know.
+ *
+ * It's supposed to be an invariant in the midend that
+ * me->params and me->curparams differ in no aspect that is
+ * important after generation (i.e. after new_desc()). By
+ * deliberately passing the _less_ specific of these two
+ * parameter sets, we provoke play-time misbehaviour in the
+ * case where a game has failed to encode a play-time parameter
+ * in the non-full version of encode_params().
+ */