On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Charles Reiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Quazie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> Assuming I'm a Banker Without 3 proto-objections I proto-change the >> RBOA contract as follows: >> --- >> Add the following to the end for the RBOA conract: >> >> 9. Whenever a Player transfers a Mill to the Bank of Agora, and the >> Bank of Agora is not in possession of a Mill of that type, 200 chits >> are created in the possession of that player. Any Banker may Rent a >> mill in the possession of the Bank of Agora by destroying 20 chits in >> eir possession, indicating which Mill they are renting. The Banker >> may then transfer 2 crops to the RBOA, and have the RBOA Mill those >> crops as the Banker sees fit. The Banker may then transfer the milled >> crop back to emself. >> --- > > I don't like this. The price of milling should float like an exchange > rate or be determined in some auction or other style that will reflect > changing demand better. It should also be different for different > types of mills. (For example, in terms of current exchange rates, > milling 4 / 4 = 1 is considerably more valuable than anything one can > do with +, -, or * assuming you value X crops only slightly more than > 1 crops. Though the current exchange rates are probably a bad > indicator of the present value of crops.) Also the bank's milling > services should not be limited to bankers. And, well, I don't think a > 10+ week investment is very good for the bank. > > -woggle >
I was just throwing out an idea to see what people thought, thats all. If you have a better scheme for this, feel free to take it and make it better. I just think that the mills would be an interesting asset to the bank, but wasn't sure how to go about it.
