On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Kerim Aydin wrote: > To be clear, I think your proposed fix of "making lots of simple ways to > earn shinies" would work just as well as a fixed basic income, as long as > there are enough of those things from the beginning for non-officer players > to do, that they can have some level of positive equilibrium without a > huge amount of effort. One suggestion I'd really encourage is putting > together a basic simulation to figure out where equilibrium points might lie > in this game, and making sure there's no split between the "haves" and the > "have-nots" in the equilibrium.
Another possible solution: make the welcome purse some kind of income-generating investment (e.g. land or similar, modified to have some kind of earning) rather than cash. Maybe everyone could have a land grant, but the rules for earning shinies from land grants can vary to have some of the diminishing return behavior you suggested earlier.
