On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Elliott Hird wrote:
> Not sure I like decay. Hoarding money is, er, not
> something I would say has to be legislated away.
[...]
> I'd prefer there to be an incentive for new players to trade and hold
> offices to climb up the ranks.
It doesn't work that way. Non-decaying funds lead to either;
(1) apathy if they're plentiful (just like ergs now, everything's cheap
so no one cares);
(2) stagnation if they're rare (everyone hoards them for their own sakes
and new players never get them).
Any of these systems, frankly, need balancing to work.
-G.
