This sounds entertaining to me. It might not be a good idea to have this around forever, but for a while it should be fine.
On May 10, 24 Heisei, at 2:05 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 May 2012, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> Is this a good idea for a golem mechanic (based on Kremlin, but probably >> used many times elsewhere): >> >> 1. A fixed number of Politbureau Golems exist (say ~1/2 # of FC players). >> >> 2. Each one has a Swiss Bank Account (it can't access its bank account >> directly). >> >> 3. At the beginning of each month, each such golem is automatically >> transferred to whomever put the most rubles in its Swiss account >> in the preceding month, and its voting limit for the month is set >> to half the rubles it so received, and those rubles are destroyed. >> >> Good enough basic idea to flesh out a bit? >> >> Variant: Secret "transfer intents" can be communicated to the General >> Secretary, these take place an instant before the end of the month. >> Since this gives the General Secretary some power, e is forbidden from >> owning golems but is given a few permanent votes in recompense. >> Conversely, e is permitted to participate but e emself cannot make secret >> transfer intents, and can't make such transfers 48 hours or less before >> the end of the month. > > What, everyone's too busy figuring out their next idiotic registration > attempt to try and get some gameplay going here? > >
