We all have to determine current shiny balances (more recent than the last 
report) every once and a while. Making that more painful than necessary gets a 
thumbs down from me.

Gaelan
> On Sep 4, 2017, at 9:10 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 4, 2017, at 5:28 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu 
> <mailto:ke...@u.washington.edu>> wrote:
> 
>> Random grab, an old version:
>> 
>> Rule 1941/3 (Power=1)
>> Fees
>> 
>>      If the Rules associate a non-negative cost, price, charge, or
>>      fee with an action, that action is a fee-based action.  If the
>>      specified cost is not an integer, the actual fee is the next
>>      highest integer.
>> 
>>      To perform a fee-based action, a Player (the Actor) who is
>>      otherwise permitted to perform the action must announce that e
>>      is performing the action and announce that there is a fee for
>>      that action.  Upon said announcement, the action is performed,
>>      the Actor's kudos are decreased by the fee.
>> 
>>      [Need to add a 0 trap for over-spending, the old one had 0-trap
>>       mechanics that wouldn't work anymore]
> 
> Given that all of the zero-trap mechanics are already covered through the 
> definitions of assets and the existing “pay” action, I’m not clear on what 
> benefit a more sophisticated definition of “spend” would have over making it 
> synonymous with “pay Agora”. It’s neat to see, though.
> 
>> [Note, in this version, you never have to say what the fee is, you just
>> say "I do X by paying a fee" and the recordkeepor figures out what you
>> paid].
> 
> I actually don’t mind this, so long as the fee schedule is somewhere easily 
> published. Since I’m the recordkeepor for Shinies anyways and am about to be 
> responsible for publishing those facts, this gets a thumbs-up from me.
> 
> -o

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