Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [DoV] [Proposal] Closing the door behind me
Falsifian wrote: >> hope that the economy gets reset or something Also sorry: I was planning to try something hyper-inflationary on my Agoran Birthday earlier this week, to try to force the need for a reset (e.g. pledging to give back 2/3 of coins of anyone who gave me them) but it's been a heck of a week over here and I just plum forgot.
Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [DoV] [Proposal] Closing the door behind me
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 11:55 AM James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 18:09, James Cook wrote: > > Are we just going to let a steady stream of sufficiently dedicated > > players claim their standard victories? I say we raise the bar a > > little. > > By the way, I don't mean for this comment to take away from G.'s > victory. G. built quite a large balance over a long time, and eirs is > the first Coin victory I've seen. > > Victory should be a rare and celebrated achievement. Now that someone > has beaten the Coins game (and now that I've slipped a victory in too, > thank you very much) let's close that and start on something new. I'll > be voting for a fairly high fee in the hope that the economy gets > reset or something before anyone reaches it. An effect of victories that don't reset things for everyone is that there's a long race for the first winner, but then lots of people are close and cross the finish line relatively quickly after that. If you don't want a "glut" of winners (but also don't want a complete reset of everyone upon a win), a couple interesting ideas (that we haven't tried IIRC) are (1) an automatic increase in the threshold when someone wins, which in this case would reduce the incentive to just sit on a winning amount of coins until you feel like winning or (2) actually formally recording in the Herald's Report, for a particular type of win, who got 1st place, 2nd place, etc. -G.
Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [DoV] [Proposal] Closing the door behind me
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 14:55, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 18:09, James Cook wrote: > > Are we just going to let a steady stream of sufficiently dedicated > > players claim their standard victories? I say we raise the bar a > > little. > > By the way, I don't mean for this comment to take away from G.'s > victory. G. built quite a large balance over a long time, and eirs is > the first Coin victory I've seen. > > Victory should be a rare and celebrated achievement. Now that someone > has beaten the Coins game (and now that I've slipped a victory in too, > thank you very much) let's close that and start on something new. I'll > be voting for a fairly high fee in the hope that the economy gets > reset or something before anyone reaches it. > > - Falsifian I think that economic wins are a valuable and important part of the game. I don't think we should necessarily change the mechanism every time, but I do generally prefer to see them come with a built-in reset (whole or partial). Wins where the goal is to amass a collection, like Ribbons, are different sometimes, but I do like the idea that purely economic activity-based wins should come with resets. -Alexis
DIS: Re: BUS: [DoV] [Proposal] Closing the door behind me
On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 18:09, James Cook wrote: > Are we just going to let a steady stream of sufficiently dedicated > players claim their standard victories? I say we raise the bar a > little. By the way, I don't mean for this comment to take away from G.'s victory. G. built quite a large balance over a long time, and eirs is the first Coin victory I've seen. Victory should be a rare and celebrated achievement. Now that someone has beaten the Coins game (and now that I've slipped a victory in too, thank you very much) let's close that and start on something new. I'll be voting for a fairly high fee in the hope that the economy gets reset or something before anyone reaches it. - Falsifian
