On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Elliott Hird wrote: > Not sure I like decay. Hoarding money is, er, not > something I would say has to be legislated away. [...] > I'd prefer there to be an incentive for new players to trade and hold > offices to climb up the ranks.
It doesn't work that way. Non-decaying funds lead to either; (1) apathy if they're plentiful (just like ergs now, everything's cheap so no one cares); (2) stagnation if they're rare (everyone hoards them for their own sakes and new players never get them). Any of these systems, frankly, need balancing to work. -G.