Re: Economic Fees Poll (was Re: DIS: Beginning of October Land Deletion Poll)

[Kerim Aydin]

On Sun, 30 Sep 2018, Aris Merchant wrote:
> Okay, poll for everyone:
> 
> 1. Have you ever been involved in the economy because it was required
> to take main game actions?
> 2. If so, did you enjoy it?

Yes.  I've both enjoyed and not enjoyed.  There were some (required to 
participate) that I felt sidelined for months because I just couldn't
get into them for some reason.  Then there were some that were great.
It's more of a "is this particular system a good game" game design thing
then a general rule about fees being bad/good.

> 3. Do you think that the game is better with or without this kind of fees?

For me, fees serve two purposes:

1.  A filter.  We get more of the "Here's [the first draft of a proposal
that's totally buggy], and I pend it" junk to sort through when proposals
are free.  If we could mandate proposal review, fees wouldn't be necessary,
but having tried various methods, fees seems the least intrusive way to do 
that.

2.  Rewards:  "since you 'won' a round by some good gameplay, you get to
do twice as much X as other people for a bit.