On Sun, 2023-04-02 at 11:27 -0700, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > So, by my count there's 3 people who could win via radiance pretty > much at any time due to stamps. I sure don't begrudge the wins at > all, but it's extremely demotivtating to bother to get radiance, to > know it could be reset at any time on a whim. Really gives a "no > point in trying" feeling to radiance right now except via stamps. > > Holding onto a win for later can be fine - e.g. for Ribbons, because > one person's ribbon win doesn't reset anybody else's progress. But > for radiance it seems that one method (stamps) can be banked > indefinitely and reset everyone's progress whenever, while the other > radiance methods time out, don't seem like the best game design > overall? My own first thoughts on a fix would be to make stamps win on > their own track (a separate win type from radiance), but curious what > others think. > > Maybe I'm thinking about the strategy wrong, it could be played > "radiance is only about stamps and the other methods are just little > get-aheads" but we haven't really made the game read that way?
Am I one of the people who could get a Radiance win immediately by cashing in stamps? In my case, it isn't malice or anything like that – it's a case of not being sufficiently tuned into the game to know what the exchange rate is and whether it would be worth doing, so I mostly just let things drift. (Part of the reason I haven't been bothering with the stamp game much is that ais523 stamps are so common that I can't easily trade for anything else, so I feel somewhat locked out of the game at the moment. I have some Madrid stamps too: if people are interested in trading for those, that might be a deal worth making.) I think a worthwhile approach would be to make it so that, at a minimum, the legacy stamps can be cashed in for a win without upsetting the ongoing radiance competition (even if it's just via a proposal along the lines of "if ais523 has at least N ais523 stamps, revoke N ais523 stamps from em, and ais523 wins"). -- ais523
