Re: DIS: Why did PAoaM fail?

2020-06-23 Thread ATMunn via agora-discussion
Top-posting because I'm not really replying to anything in particular. I personally really enjoyed the idea of PAoaM, though I think I was starting to lose interest in Agora in general around the time it was being played. I don't exactly remember. Either way, I think it's a cool idea and should

Re: DIS: Why did PAoaM fail?

2020-06-23 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On 2020-06-23 01:41, Reuben Staley wrote: That was the second problem: like with all Agoran economies, the resources tied into the main game. But they had no alternate purposes. Addendum 3: I brought up alternate purposes for assets but did not expound at all. I think alternate purposes for

Re: DIS: Why did PAoaM fail?

2020-06-23 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On 2020-06-23 01:41, Reuben Staley wrote: Even if Contracts had been more highly utilized back when Arcadia happened, I don't think it would have fixed the towering walls to progress for the uninitiated Arcadian. If you are just beginning, you own no pipeline. If you want to get more paper to

Re: DIS: Why did PAoaM fail?

2020-06-23 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On 2020-06-23 01:41, Reuben Staley wrote: I have no idea how well I articulated my thoughts. I was basically writing my long-suppressed thoughts about Arcadia down as I remembered them. If I think of anything else I'll continue this thread tomorrow. Quick addendum: the second part all about

Re: DIS: Why did PAoaM fail?

2020-06-23 Thread Reuben Staley via agora-discussion
On 2020-06-22 18:14, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: It's generally agreed that the PAoaM economic model didn't work out. I take slight issue with the way this is phrased. I would say that the model itself is not flawed, but the implementation. I can easily see an economy based on

Re: DIS: Why did PAoaM fail?

2020-06-22 Thread James Cook via agora-discussion
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 00:15, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > It's generally agreed that the PAoaM economic model didn't work out. Unlike > the shinies economy, which is generally agreed to have suffered from > unpredictable boom bust cycles that were more annoying than anything else,

Re: DIS: Why did PAoaM fail?

2020-06-22 Thread Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion
On 6/22/2020 5:14 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > It's generally agreed that the PAoaM economic model didn't work out. Unlike > the shinies economy, which is generally agreed to have suffered from > unpredictable boom bust cycles that were more annoying than anything else, > I

DIS: Why did PAoaM fail?

2020-06-22 Thread Aris Merchant via agora-discussion
It's generally agreed that the PAoaM economic model didn't work out. Unlike the shinies economy, which is generally agreed to have suffered from unpredictable boom bust cycles that were more annoying than anything else, I don't know any consensus about why it failed. And unlike Politics, which was