On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 16 February 2011 20:50, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > Seeds decay (hoarding only semi-successful). If decay > > is exponential there can be a steady state but with bursts. > > > > Finally, every so often acorns go away, too (otherwise new players will > > be left out after a bit). > > ais makes a good point here: > > "The issue is that in the erg-based economy, there was no real benefit > for officekeeping at all; compare my officer activity in the Note era, > where it gave permanent and useful gains, to the erg era, where it > didn't; that's not a coincidence. G. always tries that sort of thing > complaining about permanent buildup, etc.; we've done that a lot > recently, and it doesn't seem to work well."
It's a fair cop. But *ahem* [old-timer voice] this was based on 90% of my Agoran opinion-forming time being in the 2000-2004 Agoran Epoch which was stagnant and hoarding (at least it became that way by 2002, with a long two years of a stagnant money supply after that). Then again, since there's so few of us left who remember that, I'm happy to not complain and try erring on the hoarding side for a bit. Ergs were meant as a temporary stopgap from the last repeal as notes were getting old. Didn't think apathy would keep them around as long as it did at all. > i.e., incentives for officekeeping only work if you can hoard the > spoils and use them for your dastardly, dastardly* deeds in the > future. I think you misunderstand, by the way. When I say "every so often", it's much much LESS often then with Ergs that I have in mind. Say quarterly or even annual adjustments. Not weekly or even monthly; enough time to hoard but knowing you need to hatch your scheme within the next several months. Since it's about game balance, a very, very good way is to soft-code supply and decay and leave it up to officers within bounds; e.g. an officer can mint 1-5 of eir currency or decide to tax at a certain rate between 0 and 20% and decide frequency (but no more frequent than once a quarter), and the officer's money supply policy becomes an election issue. Real election issues are good! (remember the Poobah?) -G.
