On 09/22/17 21:40, Owen Jacobson wrote: >> On Sep 22, 2017, at 10:35 PM, Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> but would you consider supporting one that shrinks welcome packages? >> <image.png> >> http://www.hearthcards.net/cards/9b7efdf4.png > Alt text: a Hearthstone card with the legend “Gerontocracy Warning”, > containing an image of a “Caution: Elderly People” sign. Under the legend, > the card text explains: “Counter target Protosal (sic) that buffs the > Geronotocracy (sic) or debuffs the non-Gerontocracy.” > > I think that's a fair caution. I strongly suspect any form of money that can > be accumulated has this problem, and pissing about over the exact numbers > doesn’t make a meaningful difference to anything other than the degree of > gerontocratic wealth. Since Agora is far, far too short-lived to exhibit > meaningful estate law or any investments more reliable than straight-up > gambling, we’re reduced to either having _some_ gerontocracy, with > pressure-relief mechanisms like the Nuclear Lottery proposal presently under > contemplation, or giving up on Shinies as unworkably gerontocratic.
This is why I'm still leaning towards giving new players a Stamp (either of their own making or from the Agora Stamps proposal I posted a bit ago). My current thought is 1 Stamp + enough currency for 2 pends/CFJs. The stamps give them scaling value without immediately changing FV, while the money discourages them from spending the stamp immediately. > > -o >
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