Can we recruit new players lol? I miss o for one. And the japanese character guy. 6-7 is far less than we once had.
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:17 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > -- >From V.J. Rada
