[s-d] Re: [s-b] The start of an economy

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 6.10 PM, Dan Schmidt wrote:

> I put Conspiricy 2 out of it's misery by quiting it
> and I advise the members of WBI to do the same.
>
> I create a new society called Q-Gardening Inc. with
> the following charter:
> {{
> Anything that applies for Membership in Q-GI that
> possesses Tildex and a Garden is accepted.
>
> At the beginning of a Checking Period each member is
> forced to transfer six Tildex times the number of
> Plants e owns to Q-GI, If e cannot then all Tildex
> transfered to Q-GI by that Member is transfered back
> to em and Q-GI Ousts that Member. Then all Tildex
> owned by Q-GI is transfered to the Minister of Q-GI
> and the Minister of Q-GI is forced to weed and water
> all Plants in each Member's Garden.
>
> This Charter is changed if a majority of members agree
> that it is.
> }}

The problem with this is, if I recall correctly, is that some ancient 
CFI decided that in fact Societies can't actually *cause* a player to 
take actions because an outsider must "specify to a Public Forum that e 
is taking that action". So this society won't actually save any work 
for anyone, since they still have to post saying "I give X tildex to 
Q-Gardening Inc.".

What you probably want to do is to have players pay every nweek, rather 
than every checkpoint.

If you're interested, I drafted a charter for a very similar society a 
few nweeks ago but never had time to actually instate it; the charter's 
included at the bottom of this message.

I also have one other idea for reducing watering costs, which I'll 
propose in just a moment.


{{
__Gardener's Guild Charter__

The name of this society is The Gardener's Guild. For the purposes of 
this charter, it will simply be referred to as the Guild.

Its members may be referred to as Gardeners.

One member may be referred to as the Head Gardener. The Head Gardener 
is the Societal Minister for the Guild. The Head Gardener may give the 
position of Head Gardener to any other Gardener at any time; that 
gardener must agree to the transfer before it can take place.

The Guild has a list of players called its Customers. Any player may 
become a Customer of The Guild by paying 15~ to The Guild and 
requesting to be a Customer.

At the end of each nweek, every Customer of The Guild who hasn't give 
at least 5 +(C*N) tildex to The Guild during that Nweek ceases to be a 
member of the Guild. Here C denotes the highest watering cost of any 
plant in that player's garden, and N denotes the number of plants in 
said garden (the numbers are as of the end of the nweek - no paying 5~ 
over an empty garden and then planting a dozen Thorn Bushes).

At the beginning of each Checking Period, The Guild gives enough tildex 
to the Head Gardener to pay the watering costs of all Customer's 
Plants; the Head Gardener must then do that. It is the Head Gardener's 
job to recognize this.

The Head Gardener may Terminate a Customer's contract at any time; this 
causes The Guild to give that Customer an amount of Tildex equal to the 
amount e most recently paid to The Guild, less the amount of Tildex 
that the Guild has spent on that player's Plants since then, after 
which that player ceases to be a Customer.

The Head Gardener may alter this Charter at any time; however, e may 
not change it in such a way that existing Customers cease to be 
Customers, or in such a way that a Customer's plants will not be 
watered by the Gardener's Guild during the current nweek.

At the end of each nweek, The Gardener's Guild gives 3~ to every 
Gardener and 3 extra tildex to the Head Gardener.
}}

--
Wonko

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
     -Dave Barry (1947 - )

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