To expand on Ais' argument about me, I can still feel the long-term effects of doing that, because people still have my Stamps after all of that time. I can't repeat the same stunt (as easily) again. I was hoping they would've spent them by now, but I overestimated how quickly Agora moved as a game.
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 9:15 PM ais523 via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2024-05-09 at 09:11 -0500, nix via agora-discussion wrote: > > On 5/6/24 15:15, 4st nomic via agora-discussion wrote: > > > So ais523 has basically won 3 times, paradox, stones, and radiance, > pretty > > > much in a row. > > > > > > Just would like to point that out. > > > > A portion of this, at least the radiance portion, is because e's been > > sitting on a large stockpile of stamps from before they had the value > > they currently do. I wonder if we should do a one-time reduction in > > stamp holdings, with enough warning for people to spend them before the > > reduction happens. > > The large stockpile of ais523 stamps was fairly valuable back when I > originally created it, too (and is not really enough for a win on its > own; most of the Radiance I used for the win came from stamp trades in > the intervening months). > > It's also been substantially crippling my gameplay ever since we > switched to the new system – stamp creation is based on the number of > stamps of your type that exist, so I haven't been able to create ais523 > stamps since the system was enacted, meaning I've been locked out from > a portion of gameplay. > > (It is worth contrasting with Yachay's stamps-into-radiance win, which > was achieved fairly quickly by a new player soon after registering – > because Yachay stamps were easy for em to create and valuable, e was > able to trade for stamps that gave enough radiance to win, with no pre- > existing asset stockpile to use.) > > -- > ais523 >
