On 2 July 2013 17:51, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, here's a question for you (pertains to the Infractions proto too). > Should we try for a multi-currency system of some kind (with multiple > bank currencies of different liquidity) or stick with Yaks for everything > for the time being. (Not sure there's a reason to make Yaks a bank > currency since supply is basically salary-governed, though no harm > thinking about it).
I really like the idea of a multi-currency system and have ideas of my own to share about that, but I think we should give Yaks a try. I want to see what happens this quarter without making any major changes to them. The change I would make at the moment is auctioning off VCs, maybe with a supply like you suggested here: G. wrote: > My proto-proto for VC supply would be: > > 1. When a person becomes a player, 4 VCs are Minted in eir possession, > and 4 VCs are Minted in the bank. > [8 per player is chosen as being enough to cycle from default 4 to > the ceiling of 12]. > > 2. When a person deregisters, the recordkeepor will destroy 8 VCs that > the bank owns (if the bank doesn't have 8, they are destroyed as > they cycle through before payouts are made). > > So this a fixed supply (commodity) if the # of players remains fixed. But > technically, like everything else, it's a tightly-controlled fiat currency. > In this case, "fiat" just means that there's a bank (and bank manager) that > acts to control supply, as opposed to automagic unlimited creation and > destruction. We need something to spend Yaks on, and since the Distributability system can be got around with no effort, auctioning VCs for Yaks seems like a good idea. Of course, if scshunt's Chamber of Commerce proposal passes, then that's something else, but I doubt if players will often bother to set their proposals to something other than the default chamber, though. Perhaps in the future Yaks could make a transition to being Stem-like, with the currencies you can actually spend being auctioned off occasionally. Infractions could result in Blots/Rests, the Promotor could sell a batch of Papyrus each month or week, etc. (Not that we would just go back to a copy of the old system.) -- Walker
