So I tried to think of a way to somehow make a "virus" via agencies because they're so computer- like but I couldn't figure out a way to make some entity copy itself into other Agencies by force.
I eventually figured that I'd need something that is driven by people themselves. So I thought of the Albanian Virus meme ( http://i.imgur.com/s29Pfby.png), but leveraged by pledges/promises/agencies of rewards to motivate people to do the service too so that its not entirely charisma/humor-based, but rather, its having it be entirely rational (formal profit-wise) to just take the payment and attempt to spread the virus. I can't think of one though, but the Albanian Virus + some economic leverage seems to be the way to make some "Agoran Virus" which is driven by people's own motivations and desire to get more currency. It might tread even into a design similar to a formalized religion or cult, given how it would seem that it would need to make other people into pledge/agency-makers themselves or something which makes the concept all the more interesting for me. But yeah. I just can't think of a way yet to totally crystallize it to make it be self-sustaining (doesn't "run out" when some central budget reaches zero, it should be ideally decentralized but a centralized one could work too I guess) and able to spread (should be relatively easy via automatically rewarded publicity though) I believe. I'm going to sleep on it but I hope I can figure out some kind of prototype or find some kind of general rules which it would need to work, then see how it runs.
