Proposal: Market Values
Times out and passes 4-0. +2 Fuel.-Bucky
Adminned at 30 Nov 2014 20:06:34 UTC
If “Orbit Contents” is a rule:
Add a new rule titled “Worth of Substances”:
Each Substance has a Minimum Worth between 1 and 10 and a Maximum Worth between the Minimum Worth and 30; these are tracked privately by the Traffic Warden. Each substance also has a Market Value, which is different for each Moon. Market Value is tracked in the subsection of the “Market Values” wiki page corresponding to that Orbit’s Moon.
The Market Values wiki page is considered gamestate and may only be modified in ways allowed by the rules.
If there is a Moon without a section on the Market Values page, any Shuttle may add an empty section to it for that Moon. For each section of the Market Values page, for any Substance S not mentioned within that section excluding Iron, any player may add the text “One S is worth: - Iron” to that subsection. That text shall be referred to as the “Sentence of Value” for that Substance.
As a weekly action, for each Substance and each Moon, the Traffic Warden should privately choose a random number between that Substance’s Minimum Worth and Maximum Worth, inclusive, to be that Substance’s Market Value for that Moon. The Traffic Warden shall then change the numeral (or hyphen) within the Sentence of Value to reflect the current Market Value.
The Substances are:
• Sulfur
• Ice
• Iron
Add a new rule titled “Trading Posts”:
A Trading Post is a type of Structure. If a Shuttle’s Orbit contains a Trading Post, that Shuttle may, as a daily action, exchange any amount of one Substance for an amount of another Substance that is of equal worth. An amount of Substance’s total worth is calculated as its Market Value in that Orbit times the quantity of Substance.
Blank the Market Values wiki page, then add “Io”, “Europa”, “Ganymede”, and “Callisto” sections to it. Add Sentences of Value for each Substance within each section.
Add a Trading Post to each Orbit with an Orbit Number of 5.
Hum…here’s my second attempt at some kind of trading mechanism. I still kind of want some inter-shuttle trading later, but I figure we should get trading going on on the ground before we require interaction.
But no need to have a whole wiki page to track nine numbers, this could just go in the rule itself.
Economy could end up being TOO fluid, but we’ll see
Bucky:
I need to think about this for a while. I’d feel better about it, though, if prices were expressed in terms of a fourth, non-minable resource like (kilograms/pounds of) Silver.