nichdel, is debts being pulled? I should be releasing fairly soonish (as in the next day or two).
-Aris On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:30 PM Nic Evans <nich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 08/31/17 16:50, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Nic Evans wrote: > >>> I'm opposed to anything that doesn't scale with need. A regular payday > >>> would mostly benefit the already successful players. > > This is where I disagree, primarily. We've never had a system that > didn't > > allow a base level of activity on a weekly or monthly level (proposals & > CFJs) > > just for being a player. > > I'm not sure I see the complaint here. Under AP there is a minimum, and > in Debts you can just keep making CFJs and proposals indefinitely - you > just can't buy stamps or estates until you settle debts. > > What I mean here is that giving X shinies to each player is a > compounding advantage for players that are really good with shinies. > They don't need that advantage. Thus, any free shinies should be given > out based on need, and when a player reaches a point where they can > efficiently use their shinies, they don't receive the bonus anymore. > > > > > And officer-work, volunteer as it is, has always granted perks within the > > system, and I think it's important to reward work. I'm not sure why a > regular > > payday is a bad thing - if accumulation is an issue, I'd suggest dealing > with > > it on the other side with taxes. > > > > I'm willing to try various systems, but don't like moving away from the > > two principles of "everyone's allowed to have a base activity level" and > > "officers get some rewards above that". > > > >> Actually, on this note maybe we should consider a monthly set of shiny > >> rewards for minor achivements. Things like: > >> > >> *Authoring the most passed proposals in the last month > >> *Judging the most CFJs in the last month > >> *Being the director of the most used agency in the last month > >> *Etc > >> > >> Ideally, things that any player could accomplish at any time. > > An old system we had: > > > > You could be awarded Boons for doing good things and Albatrosses for > doing > > bad things. Everything from standard office-keeping to random occasional > > things (like Birthday recognition) granted boons. Monthly activity level > > each month was Base + Boons - Albatrosses (as earned in previous month). > > > > Glance through following randomly-selected ruleset for Boon to see range > of > > things we awarded: > > > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2004-September/001691.html > > > > > > > > >