On Wed, 23 May 2018, Cuddle Beam wrote: > What could maybe be done is have Offices be "self-service" in a way. If you > want to do something related to it, you look for the last mail and continue > the chain. > > It would be a different Office paradigm though. But maybe it works. With > the current system, Offices don't scale well with low activity (but scale > really well into massive activity).
How does it work with tracking microtransactions in a dozen currencies along with land production of same currencies? In particular if we allow people to transfer "all their currencies" or similar not-immediately- determinate conditionals?) Or if transfer success/failure depends on other game circumstances (e.g. you try to pay for pending a proposal but it's already pended). Self-service websites might work for basic transactions, but this drops flexibility (like allowing act-on-behalfs, contracts, etc.), and even if such a site captures 90% of the transactions, someone would still have to do the remaining 10% by hand and then the time savings are lost. The underlying issue is that part of "Flavor of Agora" to preserve is figuring out how you can use (or abuse) language to do all these complicated things within the constraints of announcements. And since we like to do that kind of thing, having "the next person in line" have to figure out whether your transaction succeeded before doing theirs is a recipe for uncertainty. (with an Officer, you get a consistent viewpoint and a single source of CFJ calling when the Officer can't sort it out). I'm not meaning to be negative here at all just thinking through the possibilities. I'd *love* to do Land through a web interface with instant feedback.
