On 10/25/17 14:44, Kerim Aydin wrote: > It doesn't work that way. When everyone's their own specialist, no one is. > Trading for the stamp win condition is up there with trust tokens as a > standalone and fairly useless activity, insufficient to support an economy.
[...] > With respect, I think this minor tweak will add very little. I respect > the work put into this to date, but we need either a major, major overhaul > with strong goals and objectives other than this stamp win condition, or > just let the whole fluctuating economy go. > > To be clear, by "let it go" I mean: > > - Get rid of stamps. > - Fix all prices to set levels. > - Stop worrying about total shiny level, create however many needed. > - Shinies become the "basic income augmented by officer salaries". > - Create a multi-sector economy that you can enter via multiple paths > (land or other asset-based) base buy-in to a specialty is shinies. > > I'm willing to abandon Stamps and Speculation as core mechanics, but I don't think they need to disappear entirely. If you make the frozen proposal, I'd appreciate simply leaving stamps as assets and stripping out their usages while I ponder something more inline with your vision.
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