> On Nov 17, 2017, at 4:51 PM, Corona <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can't Agora just go in debt? That's outrageous! Nevermind, I'll just > get the 46 sh. by rule 2508.
Agora cannot go into debt, because the rules aren’t written to allow it. Under the current rules, each Shiny is a discrete asset. They’re fungible and completely indistinguishable from one another, so we don’t track them individually, but an entity’s balance is defined as the number of such entities it possesses, and thus cannot be negative. Agora cannot “borrow” Shinies. The current system defines a fixed pool of Shinies (currently pegged to 70 times the number of players), with Shinies being created in Agora’s possesion or destroyed from it as necessary. I believe - and I know I’m not alone in this - that this fixed pool is a serious damper on Shiny-driven economic activity. Many mechanics involve transacting with Agora, and increasingly often Agora is unable to fulfil those transactions. One or the other will probably have to change, and most of the outstanding proposal drafts either attack the problem of a fixed limit on Shinies or repeal Shinies entirely. We’ve had the Shinies system for approximately a year, so we may well be reaching the end of our experiment with it. It’s certainly been interesting, though I won’t necessarily say successful. Shinies-related problems have driven at least two of our longest-standing players to distraction and caused at least one Canteus Cygnus. We’ve been persistently unable to address the core problems, for reasons I won’t claim I have a full handle on. If you have ideas, please have a crack at it. -o
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