Fake Forum Economy

[Buster's Uncle]

Okay, all 14 leaders are up.

I think I need to 1.) Add full names and leader titles, and 2.) like with the bases, need to customize the descriptions; I'll take member input on customized descriptions, in fact, I'm not going to do any of it without input...

[Valka]

I've just had a look in the shop, and I have a question: I see that the RL religious symbols have a cost of 0.

Why doesn't "There is no god?" Atheism isn't a religion, but it's also not a joke.

Unless you meant this as indicating some other thing...?



Okay, I have a few more questions:

Some kind of beverage for those of us who don't drink either alcohol or coffee?

Sometimes people just need a cute kitteh, too.

I can has cheezburger? (the hamburger seems to be lacking cheese...)

[Buster's Uncle]

I have had thoughts along the same line as the last, Mylochka just told me to make you a kitten at breakfast, and I'll whip up a soda today.

A belief that there's nothing is, QED, a religious belief, but I've never heard an atheist admit it.  If some do, I'll classify it a religion and cost it at €0 like the religions, QED.

[Buster's Uncle]

Mart on quantum observer theory and religious belief here http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=16689.0, split off from this thread.

[Valka]

I have had thoughts along the same line as the last, Mylochka just told me to make you a kitten at breakfast, and I'll whip up a soda today.

A belief that there's nothing is, QED, a religious belief, but I've never heard an atheist admit it.  If some do, I'll classify it a religion and cost it at €0 like the religions, QED.

Incoming PM. I'm not going to hijack the thread to argue about this here, but I've got some very strong concerns on this issue.

Thank you for the kitten and soda, though.

[Buster's Uncle]

Maybe in the thread I linked?  No need to be private on a policy discussion, necessarily.


The burger now has cheese, I limited how many items show in postbits, 4, to keep post-length-related scrolling reasonable (and fixed up the Trophy to something more reasonable yesterday, same reason) and the leaderheads all have full names ('cept Domai) and proper titles displaying (not that I think Brother is Lal's proper title, which ought to be Secretary-General).

Also, Draz was good enough to make a version of the Mogen David display the Shema Yisael in Hebrew in the use message properly, so I have replaced and gifted replacements to the three previous owners.

Now to add an item to the gift shop and then google an icon and make a script for the next...

[Buster's Uncle]

Soda pop has been added to the Café and Gift Shop - pushing the Flower onto a second page.  I think I'll split the Café and Gift parts into separate categories...

After I cook supper.  brb

[Buster's Uncle]

...I wanted that coke-in-green-bottles look, but I think the thing's just too small 'cause I could only widen it so much w/o ruining the silhouette.  How would the group like the attached instead for sody pop?

Grilling supper took too long, and then the innerwebs connection gave out for a couple hours.  Now to search for a gift shop icon...

[Buster's Uncle]

Gift Shop up, and items arranged.

Would y'all rather I used the cup for a milkshake?  Does Birthday Cake go with the consumable food/drinks, being food, or the gifts, as I created it intending?

[Buster's Uncle]

I have created two new Café items (the cake is a lie) and moved the Birthday Cake to the Gift Shop where it really belongs.

Also a new icon on the Bases category.

And so to bed.

[Buster's Uncle]

...I think today I should be trying to find the Gifting auto-PM script and correct the spelling of the subject line.  I always highly detested having PMs sent in my name with a grammatical error in the subject line...

While I'm in there, I reckon I'll try to track down the scripts for the Games Room and try to see how the games work and how I might re-jigger the games to have even odds instead of being so profitable, as I Have No Name discovered, to my regret, in the very early day of the Shop - I'd like to re-enable the Games Room Pass and provide what entertainment value the games can provide.

Finally, I've heard from another person who didn't realize that there are three pages of bases and only saw the big expensive ones and declined to scroll down.  (Do something to the category name and rename a little one to top the list - they display in reverse alphabetical order, for some reason.)

[Geo]

Why the €uro symbol as the forum's 'currency'?

[Buster's Uncle]

Because.

Really; a whim I can change if there's sufficient demand - since its in my postbit, convenient to copy/paste w/o bothering entering a special character; also, it's a modified E, and that fits EC well.

[Eadee]

Well, since it's in front of the numbers I won't confuse it with Euro's.

[Buster's Uncle]

Good.  It's no good if it causes confusion/discomfort for a significant number of members - and we've a lot of Euro(pean)s.

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BTW - The Trophy in my postbit was Gifted to me.  I intended the item as a thanks/recognition Gift, not something for self-aggrandizement, though, now that I have it, I do hit (use item) when I'm in my Inventory and enjoy the ego-boo.