Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Bank Actions

[Dan Waldron <wald7330@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 > Hmmm. Yeah, I agree that the Bank needs more funds as it currently stands. 
> As it is, our economy is sort of odd. The Bank is the only "employer", yet 
> no one "buys" much from the Bank. In such a situation, the Bank can't help 
> but become impoverished---unless it has mint powers, which our Bank does. 
> So, to keep afloat, the Bank will take the inflationary step of issuing 
> more Points. Our current Rules and the traditional size relation among the 
> Awards forces us into a position of continually devaluing our currency. On 
> the other hand, we have an absolute goal, in the sense that the condition 
> for winning is not relative to the total quantity of Points in circulation, 
> which somewhat mitigates inflation. I'm not sure what to make of this---I'm 
> no economist---but because of the win condition, there aren't any 
> real-world analogues.

We could make it so that players have to buy the ability to make proposals
from the bank.  Instead of a failed proposal fine, usually large, that
whacks players when their proposals fail, we could charge 10 points to
make a proposal and give out maybe 15 when one passes.  The banker and tax
collector would have to adjust those values to keep the system about even.

Poulenc.