To expand on Ais' argument about me, I can still feel the long-term effects
of doing that, because people still have my Stamps after all of that time.
I can't repeat the same stunt (as easily) again. I was hoping they would've
spent them by now, but I overestimated how quickly Agora moved as a game.
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 9:15 PM ais523 via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-05-09 at 09:11 -0500, nix via agora-discussion wrote:
> > On 5/6/24 15:15, 4st nomic via agora-discussion wrote:
> > > So ais523 has basically won 3 times, paradox, stones, and radiance,
> pretty
> > > much in a row.
> > >
> > > Just would like to point that out.
> >
> > A portion of this, at least the radiance portion, is because e's been
> > sitting on a large stockpile of stamps from before they had the value
> > they currently do. I wonder if we should do a one-time reduction in
> > stamp holdings, with enough warning for people to spend them before the
> > reduction happens.
>
> The large stockpile of ais523 stamps was fairly valuable back when I
> originally created it, too (and is not really enough for a win on its
> own; most of the Radiance I used for the win came from stamp trades in
> the intervening months).
>
> It's also been substantially crippling my gameplay ever since we
> switched to the new system – stamp creation is based on the number of
> stamps of your type that exist, so I haven't been able to create ais523
> stamps since the system was enacted, meaning I've been locked out from
> a portion of gameplay.
>
> (It is worth contrasting with Yachay's stamps-into-radiance win, which
> was achieved fairly quickly by a new player soon after registering –
> because Yachay stamps were easy for em to create and valuable, e was
> able to trade for stamps that gave enough radiance to win, with no pre-
> existing asset stockpile to use.)
>
> --
> ais523
>
