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kite in Re: Maintenance-free functions:

Good idea, but hard to implement.

idk, Streu says nothing..

I was hoping for some more opinions

The idea of having some sort of site-wide currency to do things is not new, e.g. here. It needs some thought and some computation to balance, and I must admit I haven't done either yet. I originally even thought that the Reliability score (or something very similar) could be the currency.

The other idea was to have some sort of voting, i.e. make it possible to create a forum thread with a survey form on top, and if people vote to stop/skip/whatever, that will be done. Voting would prevent the problem that for popular holidays (e.g. Christmas/New Year) everyone hopes for the others to spend their tokens on a host break.

Regarding end conditions of the North Stars: those now spawn with an end condition by default. It can still be changed if you wish, but if nobody does anything, they will end and not run until infinity.

I am not yet convinced of using tokens to unilaterally prolong a game. Essentially this means you obligate 10 others to play for you. So, this would have to have a high price at least. Voting would solve this, too.

Voting would also need rules, e.g. at least one week lead, only players can vote, majority wins.

--Stefan