nix wrote:
On 5/19/23 11:50, ais523 via agora-discussion wrote:
I'd much rather take the route of trying to get the Radiance/Stamps
system functional again, than of trying to repeal it. (Stamps in
particular are one of the most powerful "new player perks" we've seen,
and I suspect that that's a good thing.) I'd especially be against
repealing it without a replacement.
I do somewhat regret the *full* repeal we did, tho it was an interesting
experiment (that got my a Silver Quill). I've been trying to be more
hands off with economic writing because I want to see other ideas (and
I've written two of the recent ones), but I have had some ideas floating
around that would at least incorporate Stamps. The idea is basically:
* replace dreams with focuses, and have 3 or 4 focuses. Something like
Voting, Proposing, etc.
* each stamp type inherits a focus from the person it's minted by, with
stamps belonging to non-players being wildcards for focus
* players automatically get stamps of eir type, maybe at a rate similar
wealth dream (2 when there's less than 8 total of your type, 1 when
there's less than 16 total, 0 otherwise)
* cash stamps in sets, where each stamp in the set is of the same class
(or wildcard) to get the associated bonus. Cash voting stamps and get a
voting power increase, cash proposing stamps and get the ability to pend
X proposals. Scale it to large payouts for larger cashing sets, and also
larger payouts for the number of *different* stamps used.
And increasingly larger payouts for having greater military strength
than one's neighbors.
