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GreaterMUD Ideas / Re: Fixing economic issues in GMUD - part 2 (Taxes and tolls other fees)
« Last post by Deydrania on Yesterday at 01:04:44 pm »All you'd need to do in order to stop wealth hoarding is link together all banks and set a 90 runic limit. Thus, all players would be limited to only having 90 runic in the one and only bank.
And for those that have gang houses- they'd have to actively replenish the bank account.
But all of this is moot. When a board matures, money is everywhere. Scripting spots will always fill with money. You'll see 500 runic in every room of a high level scripting spot. There's no system that could compensate for this.
If you impose a very high tax on players of 20 runic a day, what would happen to those who didn't want to constantly haul in silver or gold every single day? Would the penalty for not paying said taxes stop people from being able to play the game? If you make the penalty too light, players will simply ignore it and rich people would continue to be rich. If you make it too heavy, then only the rich people would be able to continue playing.
If you don't want to have 50,000 runic in your bank account then don't put 50,000 runic in your bank account. Money will always be an issue at high levels since we have nothing to spend it on. But having nothing on which to spend it isn't a reason to force taxes and fees and penalties because then you force every player to constantly run scripts to haul coins all day just to keep playing the game.
And for those that have gang houses- they'd have to actively replenish the bank account.
But all of this is moot. When a board matures, money is everywhere. Scripting spots will always fill with money. You'll see 500 runic in every room of a high level scripting spot. There's no system that could compensate for this.
If you impose a very high tax on players of 20 runic a day, what would happen to those who didn't want to constantly haul in silver or gold every single day? Would the penalty for not paying said taxes stop people from being able to play the game? If you make the penalty too light, players will simply ignore it and rich people would continue to be rich. If you make it too heavy, then only the rich people would be able to continue playing.
If you don't want to have 50,000 runic in your bank account then don't put 50,000 runic in your bank account. Money will always be an issue at high levels since we have nothing to spend it on. But having nothing on which to spend it isn't a reason to force taxes and fees and penalties because then you force every player to constantly run scripts to haul coins all day just to keep playing the game.