Fake Forum Economy

[Buster's Uncle]

Yitzi, did you see that last post?

I just made a €1,000 deposit and noticed Yitzi had dropped off the richest in-pocket list in the Shop statistics list - and feedbot, which took the 10th slot, has been disabled for years and didn't suddenly get richer.

-Some people, it just feels wrong to mess with, so gwilly's safe despite his lack of prudent depositing, but I do believe I'll rob Kirov next time I reach €1,000.  Watch him not see this in the next week+ and nobody tell him...

[Valka]

I have a couple of suggestions for miscellaneous items people can buy:

1. I've been PMing with someone on another forum, talking about stargazing, so may we please have a telescope in the store here?

2. It's raining again, and I don't have a real umbrella. But maybe a virtual umbrella would be nice for those of us who live in seasonally (or normally) rainy locales.

(of course I really shouldn't complain too much - the rain means the construction outside stopped for the day and I actually got a brief nap for an hour or so)

[Buster's Uncle]

These could happen VERY quickly, depending on whether I go to any trouble to be fancy or just find and reduce a couple cartoony drawings.

They ARE going to happen. -Any troublesome flourishes I should go for?  Glint flashing off the lens-end of the telescope, if optical?  Rain stopping at the 'bella?

[Valka]

The umbrella should be a basic rain umbrella - doesn't need to be fancy. I recommend something that will show up on the darker skins, so I don't think black would work. Showing rain hitting the umbrella and being stopped by it would be nice but not a dealbreaker if it's too much work.

Hmm... basic telescope is what I've got in mind. Nothing big or fancy.

EDIT: Sorry for the huge images! This is the basic telescope shape, but feel free to add your own embellishments. I used to have a really cute smiley of an astronomer looking through a telescope, but have no idea where to find it now.

I'm going to try to attach a few images:

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay - I love 'em.  Let's see what I can do with them.

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay, if these look good on the page and meet with your kind approval, Valka, I could still use input on where in the Shop they should go, what to charge for them -just as well err on the side of cheap, but we don't have to, as a few items people have to save up for are good motivators and that's a big part of what the Shop is for in the first place- and what the use messages say...

I should check if it's easy to put a >1 uses on an item - we could, if so, make an umbrella tear in the wind on, say, the 20th use; I couldn't bear to have the Kittehs and puppies die of old age on us, though...

-Come to think of it, that would require a second use message for used up, and I don't know how to do that, so definitely not easy enough...

[Buster's Uncle]

Poo.  I not only didn't make a profit trying to rob Kirov, I got 0, he lost 0 and I'm down 10 karma points in addition to the €1,000 spent - and karma isn't even enabled.  I'm pretty sure I spelled Kirov right -I actually copy-pasted it- but I smell a rat.

[Bearu]

The deficit of karma points might catch up with you in a spree.

[Buster's Uncle]

Poo.  I not only didn't make a profit trying to rob Kirov, I got 0, he lost 0 and I'm down 10 karma points in addition to the €1,000 spent - and karma isn't even enabled.  I'm pretty sure I spelled Kirov right -I actually copy-pasted it- but I smell a rat.

WTH!?!  Same exact result again.

[Buster's Uncle]

Humph.  The last time I made it to €1,000, I stole €400 off Kirov, only losing €600 on the deal - it's like he's got magic protection.  Tonight when I reached €1,000 again, Uno had pulled back into second place in-pocket --- and I took him for over €2,000.
 
I deposited €1,000, bought another Steal Credit to rob Kirov --- and got nothing but -10 Karma.  It's like he's got magic protection.

[Buster's Uncle]

Hmm.

Uno, is it fair to guess that your current Bank balance of €35329 is far more interest than deposits?

[Unorthodox]

Almost entirely compound interest.  I cleaned most my actual post amounts to buy out the pumpkins...

[Eadee]

Been away some time. The EC in the bank did their thing. BEWARE BU just it's less than 200 days until I'll be able to change your title again!  and maybe I even start posting stuff again.

Enjoy your impending demise! 

[Buster's Uncle]

I just reduced the top five in the bank, again, this time by two orders of magnitude - I seem to have reached a limit, as my account was showing €99,999,999,999...

[Buster's Uncle]

...I just reduced the top four another order of magnitude. [shrugs]...