Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-03 Thread Charles Reiss
On 5/2/09 5:23 PM, comex wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Charles Reiss woggl...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I rather dislike the bias here towards currencies denominated in large units. How about a little less such bias, like: I thought about having it depending on zm but this

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-02 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/5/2 comex com...@gmail.com: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Benjamin Caplan celestialcognit...@gmail.com wrote: comex wrote:   Repeats:   (a nonnegative integer, or infinity; default 1) [...] An Offer with zero Repeats is automatically destroyed. As was pointed out on IRC, this won't

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-02 Thread Alex Smith
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 20:16 -0400, comex wrote: Note: Please do not cast a vote like ISELL(8 zm - AGAINST)*8, as this won't do what you think. For the benefit of players too new to remember it: the last time someone tried a vote like that, it caused a row lasting almost a month before anyone

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-02 Thread Roger Hicks
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 18:16, comex com...@gmail.com wrote: The PBA, RBoA, and both Vote Markets are dead, which has made the economy a lot less interesting.  This is a draft for a replacement, which allows regular banking, trade offers, and vote selling.  Rates are manually set by the

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-02 Thread Elliott Hird
2009/5/2 Roger Hicks pidge...@gmail.com: I think the hyper-inflation of the PBA proved auto-rates are not the end-all be-all that ehird claimed they were. You weren't there for it, so I'll assume you didn't know that the whole economy stopped and, therefore, since nobody used the bank - duh -

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-02 Thread comex
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com wrote: Add auto rates and I'm sold. I'm explicitly not including auto rates in this. I actually think the PBA did pretty well, but my highest priority is preventing scams-- a bank should be a trustworthy place to

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-02 Thread Charles Reiss
On 5/2/09 3:09 PM, comex wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com wrote: Add auto rates and I'm sold. I'm explicitly not including auto rates in this. I actually think the PBA did pretty well, but my highest priority is preventing scams--

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-02 Thread comex
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Charles Reiss woggl...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I rather dislike the bias here towards currencies denominated in large units. How about a little less such bias, like: I thought about having it depending on zm but this system is already relatively annoying, as you

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-01 Thread Elliott Hird
Add auto rates and I'm sold. Sent from a sentient banana On 2009-05-02, comex com...@gmail.com wrote: The PBA, RBoA, and both Vote Markets are dead, which has made the economy a lot less interesting. This is a draft for a replacement, which allows regular banking, trade offers, and vote

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-01 Thread Benjamin Caplan
comex wrote: Repeats: (a nonnegative integer, or infinity; default 1) [...] An Offer with zero Repeats is automatically destroyed. As was pointed out on IRC, this won't ever happen. Try When an Offer with one Repeat is filled, instead of its 'Repeats' field being decreased, the Offer is

Re: DIS: Proto-Contract: Industrial Bank Agora

2009-05-01 Thread comex
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Benjamin Caplan celestialcognit...@gmail.com wrote: comex wrote:   Repeats:   (a nonnegative integer, or infinity; default 1) [...] An Offer with zero Repeats is automatically destroyed. As was pointed out on IRC, this won't ever happen. Try When an Offer