Keba wrote:
> If there is no one who likes to do so, we should consider to add some
> rewards for holding an office. Ribbons and Patent Titles are nice, but
> more of a symbolic character and ergs (ok, and so as well fans) are the
> only game play reward. Most players possess some unused ergs at the end
> of a week and so they don't care about additional ergs.
Part of the reward for being CotC is being allowed discretion over
judicial assignments (most of them are random, but I have discretion
to override that, e.g. to avoid obvious conflicts of interest).
There was a "Levers of Monetary Policy" era when, well, here's a
proto-proto that gives you the idea:
* Default ergs per week can be anywhere from 2 to 6; once a month,
the PSM CAN by announcement change it by 1.
* Bonus/penalty ergs for Pilot/Marine can be anywhere from 0 to 2,
ATC can change it in similar fashion to above.
* Multiplier for office ergs is an integral multiple of 0.1 ranging
from 0.5 to 1.5, you earn ergs equal to the total II of your
offices times this multiplier, IADoP can change it by 0.1 in
similar fashion to above.
* Other offices could vary the amount of fees, e.g. Promotor and
distribution cost.
Additional idea: Ergs cycling weekly is a bit fast for players to
keep up with current levels. Replace the weekly payout with a monthly
payout four times as large, and have the ergs last till the end of the
month. Especially combined with adding some levers, this could make
players more likely to keep track of their ergs.
Also, we might want to make "I perform <fee-based action> X times"
illegal unless either X is stated directly as a number, or you make a
good-faith effort to indicate what X is (e.g. "I destroy as many of
my Rests as possible; this costs 3 ergs per Rest and I think I have
7 ergs"). The PSM isn't the only officer who has to track such
things, after all.
