Subject: Quotas

From: Thomas Kunselman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 07:28:42 -0700

Aren't quotas interesting?  limited resources is one of the things that
make muds  in general most life-like.

I think it is a good idea to start everyone off with a certain quota, and
then have some way to increase quotas for 'good' builders/creators.  And
how do you determine what is 'good'?  Why not let the market decide?

Would it be possible to base quota increases on useage?  If someone builds
a neat room that people like to hang out in, why not give them so much
extra quota per so many units of use?  That way, the person will have the
quota to build more rooms that people might like to hang out in.

If someone programs a neato object, then why not give them increased quota
based on how many people carry around the object or how many people clone/
child an object off the generic? That way the good programmer has more
quota to build more objects.

Use would have to have a couple of different definitions to reward the
different types of creation availble, from building to programming, to
just plain old artistic description of objects of art that people carry
around cause they are pretty.

You could still establish a maximum quota for individuals, as well as a
maximum quota  of uncreated objects.  So say, someone is very popular,
yet even though their objects receive much useage, they still don't receive
more than 30 or 50 increased quota, cause 50 unbuilt objects may be a limit.

Or maybe you would want to limit the number of new objects per day, so
at the end of the day or week, when quota's would be recalculated, they
would receive the % of total quota awarded based on the % of total useage
they had acquired.

Wow, then wouldn't it be neat if people could spend their unused quota like
money? :-)

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From: Pavel Curtis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 13:28:25 -0700

Tek's notion of quota-as-currency is reasonably close to the economy planned
for MOOniversal Studios, expected to go on line in the fall, but saying any
more might spoil the surprise...

	Pavel/Haakon the Enigmatic
	:-)