Alternate original seven faction mod

[Dio]

I was specifically mentioning the embedded logo in front of his desk...

[Buster's Uncle]

That's the ultimate symbol of greed, (not counting Gordon Gecko and Donald [Sleezebag],) Pac Man.

Though I will say Morgan himself seems to be doing very serious jumping jacks against me at the bottom of your post...

[Dio]

I am glad that you finally see how I plan to take over the money ratings after dominating the forums with my activity. Also, I am happy that you agree with my decision to include moons because I (Morgan) always talk about how my corporation will be taken beyond planet's surface.

[Buster's Uncle]

Perhaps you (Morgan) intend a visual pun, at that.

Pay me in American money - I don't take yer space dollars, of which you gots only 12.

[Geo]

Pay me in American money - I don't take yer space dollars, of which you gots only 12.

I may be able to provide probe infiltration info on the rest of his savings on the energy bank...

[Buster's Uncle]

No point - he spends it on shop goodies as fast as EC comes in, instead of making himself a Bank multi-billionaire like I am.  Interest is OP.

[Dio]

That interest is only powerful because you have a few million energy credits in The Bank (Property of Morgan Bank). I have since that time proven a ability to save my money for the bank. You do not know how close I am to being equal with Ete in saved energy credits.

[Buster's Uncle]

No, I've got over two billion in the Bank - and I clearly need to go have a look at the top ten accounts...

Interest used to be something like 2% compounded daily before sisko cut it to .08 to slow down the dawning of the day that me and Name break the innerwebs with the weight of the wealth.  But once you've gotten up to around 10,000 EC, you'll no longer be able to earn posting ECs as fast...

ariete made his entire fortune with a single 50 EC deposit back when interest was REALLY OP, and Name's fortune was just a deposit of a few thousand once 2.3 years ago, and I took forever to catch up and pass him posting an alarmingly high percentage of my winning PC in the form of science articles at 10 EC a pop...

[Buster's Uncle]

I've got 2,255,981,510 EC in the bank, count the commas, and I see ete is up at the point of earning over 2 EC a day, which adds up as it compounds.  -And with this post, I have 500 EC, the maximum deposit, five shy of the point at which I do so to minimize the hit from the 5 EC deposit fee...

Yes.  I earn in excess of 200,000 EC a day in interest, and I still make 500 EC deposits anyway; I'm greedy, and I use it to motivate me to post moar.

[Dio]

I have been surprised at how quickly Geo has risen in the number of energy credits saved in the bank.

[Buster's Uncle]

He must be depositing, too, because he's earned at least 2350 EC and only has 66 showing in-pocket.  I had not noticed his rise - been paying less attention to the Bank this month.

The people at the top of the money in-pocket list, like Green?  Doing it wrong.  That fake forum money could be making fake forum money.

And ariete just makes a withdrawal w/o worry any time he feels like stickying a thread...

[Geo]

Oh, that's easily explained. I made two deposits in a row a few days ago. I saw the bank mentioned and then saw the amount by the PC.

[Buster's Uncle]

While we're entirely off topic talking about fake forum money, I ought to mention that the size of my Bank fortune is puny compared to what it ought to be - at some point over about a year-and-a-half ago after I finally passed Name, I knocked a digit off the end of my, Name, sisko, Kilkakon and ariete's fortunes to reduce the disparity with everyone else.  In short, I would be worth substantially in excess of 20 billion by now, given over a year of compound interest, if there hadn't been an artificial adjustment.  In don't remember exactly when I did that, and the math's a bit complicated for my blood even if I did, but the difference adds up to substantially more than x10, I believe...

I'd have done it again, actually, earlier this year, but either a control has disappeared in a forum update, or I've seriously forgotten something.  No sign of a way to tamper with Bank accounts anymore, though I never cheated in my favor that way.

[Geo]

Talking about bank account tampering, I noticed a few zero-post registrees with a 1,000 energy on their account? And that was probably just the top of the list...

[Buster's Uncle]

I never knew what the deal with that was, but I imagine that if you checked those accounts, you'd find that every single one signed up in the first month or so after sisko set up this forum in early 2010 - and it stands to reason that the factory default on the SMF software gave every new registrant 1,000 EC exactly before sisko changed the setting.  -And I bet every one of them bots.  They make my Mighty Bot Slayer/buncle powers tingle at a casual glance.

I'm almost tempted to put that setting back at 500 EC or so, and turn off the all-free-all-the-time avatars, if only I thought people would do it instead of going without...  But far too few people have taken advantage of our copious store of installed avatars free to change under that system, and I want people not running around nekkid to the max I can encourage, so no go on that...

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You haven't noticed anything different about your account, have you?