Fake Forum Economy

[Rusty Edge]

I assumed the interest feature simply wasn't working.

[Buster's Uncle]

Oh, it worked - I Have No Name made a few thousand in the Games Room in early 2012 and made, as far as I know, one deposit back when the interest was set at 5%; and was crowding three billion EC until I did my last edit to reduce the top five in the Bank -including myself- to 1/10th, which was the third or forth time I've done that.  ariete deposited 50EC four years ago and is worth €1776233 - after three or four order-of-magnitude reductions in the interim.

5% a day was clearly too high; .0811 seemed unfair to everyone below the top five.  Maybe 1% will prove to be a better balance.

[Unorthodox]

Make a steal from bank item....

[Buster's Uncle]

Do you know how?  I certainly don't.

[Buster's Uncle]

Just for record-keeping purposes.

BUncle  €371310852
I Have No Name  €368699161
sisko  €81502452
Kilkakon  €54840209
ariete  €1776233
Rymdolov  €9696
NewAgeOfPower  €7967
Unorthodox  €7748
Geo  €4804
Yitzi  €4778

I need to check the Bank just after 8 and see how much interest has accreted to each of the top ten accounts, and get a feel for how it's going...

[Buster's Uncle]

BUncle  €375023961 (+3713108)
I Have No Name  €372386153 (+3686991)
sisko  €82317477 (+815024)
Kilkakon  €55388611 (+548402)
ariete  €1793995 (+17762)
Rymdolov  €9793 (+97)
NewAgeOfPower  €8047 (+80)
Unorthodox  €7825 (+78)
Geo  €4852 (+48)
Yitzi  €4826 (+48)


Hmm.  Now I'm tempted to change it back to .0811 tomorrow for comparison purposes...

[Buster's Uncle]

Just now, while I was in there to make a deposit:

BUncle  €414260432
I Have No Name  €411345984
sisko  €90929708
Kilkakon  €61183484
ariete  €1981687
Rymdolov  €10818
NewAgeOfPower  €8888
Unorthodox  €8644
Geo  €5362
Yitzi  €5331

I wonder.  1% was over 10x what sisko had set it to for a long time.  Would .5% be better?  -Yitzi is currently making a lot more interest a day than he ever would posting...  €533 would be an exceptionally busy day with lots of science article threads posted for ME...

.5% would still be an EC a day for anyone with as little as €200 Banked, and halve the exponential curve internet-breaking rate at the top of the list.

What say the peanut gallery?

[Buster's Uncle]

Note:  sure everybody wants more fake money for no real reason, but it can be like to game difficulty is too low when Banking and the interest rate makes it too easy - no fun.  Right now, the lower five in the top are less than a year to never being embarrassed for funds to buy anything in the Shop at fairly frequent whims.

I do think .0811% interest ratcheted the difficulty level too high.  I'm just not sure 1% is the best balance...

[ColdWizard]

Abolish the decadent capitalistic interest system and replace it with an inherently more evil and pervasive "like" system where X number of "likes" earns the poster Y bonus posting EC. This will incentivize either quality posts or spamming of inane - but popular - drivel.

[Buster's Uncle]

Life is too much of a popularity contest as it is...

[ColdWizard]

Popularity is just feedback run amok.

[Buster's Uncle]

Popularity is like having football in school - it end up overshadowing what's more important, like actual merit (like education being what schools are for).

[Buster's Uncle]

I decided to make a modest increase in Bank interest, to a whole percent a day, since the rounding seemed to work out wildly adverse to smaller accounts - .0811% a day should have been registering €1 for accounts with €120 or more, yet seemed to require north of €800 to show any accrual.

Wrong.

I was thinking of .811%, not .0811%.

I suck at the maths.

[Valka]

1. How far down am I on your list? I know I'd have more if I posted more, but some of my posts were so consistently eaten by browser crashes (the Lazarus add-on doesn't work properly on this site) and I finally just gave up.

2. "Likes" can be a popularity contest where the "cool kids" rack up the points and the rest are left far behind; some people at TrekBBS already have hundreds of "likes" and we've only had that feature for a short time. Some people have yet to gain their 10 points for receiving 50 "likes" (don't ask what the points do, because nobody knows). At best they're a shorthand way of saying "I like what you said" without resorting to one-line posts or even just a smiley (which many boards consider to be merely spam). I give them out sparingly at TrekBBS, in places where I don't intend to make a post myself, but still want to give the poster a bit of approval for what he/she said. But they've got to be an exceptionally good or funny post for me to do that.

[Buster's Uncle]

1.  I know of no way to see Bank standings below the top ten.  I can poke around your forum account and find your bank balance -edit it if I had to- but not comparative standings.

2.  Yes.