Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [assumed promotor] distribution of proposals 6960-6961

[Roger Hicks]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 15:43, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
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> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Elliott Hird wrote:
>> i.e., incentives for officekeeping only work if you can hoard the
>> spoils and use them for your dastardly, dastardly* deeds in the
>> future.
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> I think you misunderstand, by the way.  When I say "every so often", it's
> much much LESS often then with Ergs that I have in mind.  Say quarterly or
> even annual adjustments.  Not weekly or even monthly; enough time to hoard
> but knowing you need to hatch your scheme within the next several months.
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> Since it's about game balance, a very, very good way is to soft-code
> supply and decay and leave it up to officers within bounds; e.g. an officer
> can mint 1-5 of eir currency or decide to tax at a certain rate between 0 and
> 20% and decide frequency (but no more frequent than once a quarter), and the
> officer's money supply policy becomes an election issue.  Real election issues
> are good! (remember the Poobah?)
>
(Quietly shuffles over to G.'s side...)