On Saturday 01 December 2007 14:25:36 Taral wrote:
> On 12/1/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Proto-Proposal:  Mark decay
> > (AI = 2, please)
> >
> > Amend the rule "Marks" by appending this text to the list of ways
> > to gain and lose Marks:
> >
> >        (-*) Two seconds before the end of each month, each entity loses
> >             eir holdings of each color of Mark, rounded down to the
> >             nearest multiple of 100; for each 100 Marks of a given color
> >             that e loses, e gains 1 VC of that color.
> 
> What about just having forced conversion? Why two seconds?
> 
> -- 
> Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Please let me know if there's any further trouble I can give you."
>     -- Unknown
> 

The two seconds is so that, one second after marks are converted to VCs, the 
VC decay takes effect.

(Mark decay happens 2 seconds before, VC decay happens 1 second before)

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