BlogNomic: The Ninth Dynasty of ais523

Much as I appreciate the sentiment, the trouble with your fix is that it multiplies by 6 the amount they can gain on the first day of the scam. Since any serious scam is likely to be ended fast, that’s almost all downside.

.  I expect that anyone who hits the cap due to a scam will be docked 25 points by proposal.

For the record, I like giving scammers a reasonable reward.

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Per Bateleur. Given that the main way to gain acclaim at the moment is through the weekly Exhibition action, this is just raising the cap for unexpectedly high Exhibition scores from 5 to 30.

On a slightly different note. I find that penalising scammers who get great advantage from something they discover is a bit unfair. What’s the point in finding a scam, which doesn’t let you win, if people will just revert your advantage when they propose a fix.

A great advantage is going to end up penalised in some form anyway - if a scammer legally gains 999 Acclaim, then Acclaim has clearly become devalued. We aren’t going to blindly propose the “first to 20 Acclaim wins” rule that we might have otherwise, and we’re naturally to adjust the mechanics so that having 999 Acclaim more than everyone else isn’t that a big a deal.

I think the trick is to only claim a small advantage from a scam, so that other players respect the scam and don’t bother trying to revert it. If you scam 2 Acclaim, the average social human will regard that as a fair reward for gently outwitting everyone, and wave it through - if you scam 999 Acclaim, it’s a large enough amount that something clearly has to be done, and insisting on a simple deduction of the full 999 is less controversial than only deducting 997 in order to leave a little prize for the scammer (who has, in addition to scamming a loophole, forced everyone to sort out the resulting mess).

Point taken.