| quaxocal (Golden Rainbow) | Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 10:13 am 
After sifting through my corps to see what loans I could pay back, I noticed three brand new loans from the World Bank!
Has anyone else gotten these loans? I'm going to write the gamemaster tomorrow letting them know about this directly, as we were told to do so.
Q |
| John R | Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 10:16 am
I've already done it. |
| quaxocal (Golden Rainbow) | Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 10:25 am
I don't see how the world bank could be loaning anything when you alone in Stardust are loaning out GODLOADS of money.
I have 20T in loan offers currently still up personally. |
| Treasurer (White Giant) | Friday, January 30, 2009 - 06:11 am
I told you that was what they were going to do. |
| John R | Friday, January 30, 2009 - 03:45 pm
Quote:If indeed there is shortage of money for loans, the world bank will provide the loans.
We are however not doing anything to make that happen and are not interested in any interest income.
If we see it on a large scale, we will reduce the interest of world bank loans to 0.5% or even eliminate it and set it to zero.
The gamemaster
That was part of a reply to my email regarding a possible shortage of game cash in the future. |
| Treasurer (White Giant) | Friday, January 30, 2009 - 04:32 pm
When was that email Laguna? Just curious.
They instituted the cash limits to dry up the availability of loans from players to players. If they are uninterested in loan interest as they claim, Why not just go ahead and offer the loans from World Bank with ZERO interest when there is a lack of available loans to accept from players with excess cash?
The point is we knew this was their intent from the get go. They do not want players with large cash positions, they do not want vets to have a huge leg up from n00bs that is noticeable. They forced us to sell cash for coins in the early portion of this process at UNGODLY EXCHANGE RATES (15T for 20 coins) just to try and get under the finance fee limits. Then when demand for coins slows down, they start offering coins to completely kill demand so when they tinker with the econ model and destroy the CEO corps by not paying them properly for products sold, they can make a HUGE profit by selling cash back to needy CEOs that have run into cash shortages at a REDUCED RATE because they destroyed the cash market singlehandedly.
LETS ALL STAND UP AND APPLAUD.
Way to go W3C. |
| John R | Friday, January 30, 2009 - 04:33 pm
Sunday. |
| Treasurer (White Giant) | Friday, January 30, 2009 - 04:37 pm
That is BS. They are in such a hurry to decrease any observable advantage that a vet might have over a new player by forcing them to reduce their OBSERVABLE cash holdings and convert to NON-OBSERVEABLE coins.
Instead of thinking that the reason for newer players not sticking around may be as a result of serious lack of communication from administrators, incapability of fixing bugs that have been reported months before, ignoring customer needs, not keeping promises, etc. |
| FarmerBob | Friday, January 30, 2009 - 06:05 pm
Dan. Deep breaths. Repeat after me. I will not get banned again. I will not get banned again. I will not... |
| Embattled1 (White Giant) | Friday, January 30, 2009 - 06:35 pm
Yes it would be a pity if you got banned Treasurer as people who stand up and ask difficult questions are always in short supply.
I also happen to think the current changes are less than exactly helpful to new players. At least those who would like to play the game and not merely game it by subverting bugs and rules inconsistencies to their advantage.
It seems to me a terrible shame that a beautifully detailed and intricate system of trade has been ruined. Whether by an unforeseen bug or by deliberate intent matters not. The matter does need to be addressed and corrected. I can't help noticing each time I log on the number of countries with a president has gone down. Now early days but if that trend continues surely it can not be a good sign for the general health of the game? |
