On 11/12/25 02:24, Mischief via agora-discussion wrote: > On 11/12/25 12:24 AM, Janet Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > >> I'll admit that's fair for 9259. I was in a hurry to do *something* >> after seeing the numbers (and I had limited time for Agora that day, so >> I wrote those proposals rather quickly). The exponential growth is >> coming to a head *right now*, and while the balance point may need >> tweaking, I also think, for a few reasons, that the proposal is better >> than just allowing players to continue accumulating the equivalent of >> exponentially more radiance wins. (I recognize we are both >> self-interested here, and this is potentially somewhat motivated >> reasoning on my part, but I don't think that's most of it.) > An alternative would be to just remove the ability to convert spendies into > radiance.
Sure? I'm happy to propose that, but I don't see how that's strictly worse for the players who have already participated. >> And, regardless, I don't think that's a fair characterization of 9260. >> It's a rebalancing, certainly, but it would come with sufficient notice >> for people to plan around, and it would apply equally as well to anyone >> else trying to start playing the subgame. > I don't follow. There are already at least five players with more than 16 > hectares, and those are investments that can't be reversed at this point. > Certainly I agree it's worse for people who have played than the status quo. (And note that 16 was chosen as the number in the welcome package, i.e. as the base allocation, not as "people who are already wealthy".) I do, however, disagree that this is a "kneecapping", but it's possible we're just defining that differently. Regardless, having *zero* chance for people who start playing later to catch up (whether because they're newly registered or just got around to it) does not, in my view, produce interesting gameplay. This would be one way of at least starting to address that; I'm happy to hear alternatives. (The "reset on each radiance win" proposal is one of them.) -- Janet Cobb Assessor, Rulekeepor
