On Tuesday, 23 June 2020, 16:08:36 GMT+1, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > ok. I'll go ahead and plan for a week for something that's so uncertain > that I might as well just wait it out. no, not gonna. That's my personal > attitude and like it or not, somewhere in Economics 101 is the fact that > uncertainty suppresses economies, even on a toy scale. Saying "hey you > can just change your strategy every time we get into scam/bug mode" is the > kind of thing that frustrates people and killed land, and spaceships. > Also consider your role: one of the things that soured us more quickly on > shinies is that o [the designer] pulled at least one scam off the bat and > maybe two and we got tired of that... hey here's something for your thesis
We should really bring back some sort of skunking rule. (For people who don't know about it: the "skunk" rule was invoked immediately after a scam caused a win, and cancelled any economic reset as a consequence of the win, expect that the winning scammers' economic values were zeroed. I forget what exact mechanism was used to declare a win a skunk, but it was probably Agoran consent or something similar. The win still counted, though. It probably could have itself been scammed, but AFAIR, nobody did.) It strikes me as a fair way to allow scams to occur, but without allowing them into interfere with the rest of the gameplay. That way, people seeing an opportunity to win don't end up accidentally ruining the game for everyone else. For what it's worth, I think that "manually" skunking this scam by proposal would be a reasonable way to resolve the circumstance; I doubt either the scamsters, nor the other players, would have a problem with the resulting gamestate. -- ais523
