Buffer Gil Discussion

[sahearniitth]

I discussed this with Caskaa so I know her feelings on it but CSS recentlly asked about what we will be doing if there really was an increase in Currency droprates as our recent luck seems to suggest. Atm we have a 4.6M surplus (not including the 1M buffer which doesnt appear in the accounting thread) which will see us through the better part of a month. Depending on how runs treat us (and how prices are on 100pcs), we could see our excess grow even more.

Should we set a certain cap on excess gil and what should we do with currency past that point. CSS suggested selling it to in shell upgraders for a bigger discount. I personally would like to keep a bank of currency and give memebers who bid on -1 currency to pay for upgrade but thats way more work than I want todeal with atm so my other suggestion was to go back to letting them auto which Caskaa has issues with so that prob not a good option.

Whatever we do it will need to get approved by a membership majority first but I do want ideas on what SH think we should do if we keep increasing our surplus.

[Deathrattle]

nothing at all imo, right now.
with the 100 currency droping we could just be getting lucky. untill the surplus reaches a point where all the runs in a 6 month time frame are able to be payed for (so say the 25mil mark) we should not do anything different.

once gill gets to that point we could talk about what we could do with the gil.

we should not even think about 100's auto droping
we should not be letting upgraders get an larger discount

we could let upgraders use points on 100 drops but that idea has alot of problems with it that would need to be fleashed out

i really think we should do a gil distribution. every month or 2 or 3 what have you, then take the gil earned and divide by ppls attendance %. this could also serve to keep attandance at a higher lvl once the rush for the new af2 is gone.

[sahearniitth]

Gil distribution is more work for the SH which I am against. From dealing with attendence % calculations to having to keep track of who money is handed out to and so on.

25M in the current economy is ALOT of money. So much so that it almost becomes a liabilty. I think 2months is more reasonable if we do set a cap as 10M is much less of an issue if somthing happens than 25M.

Points might work out as long as we set a cap on where you need to be to lot it but I dont see it being a long term solution as most of the people upgrading dont have alot of pts to spare however it is a reasonable suggestion overall.

Like I said just looking for suggestions before we have to ask/vote on this as a LS since any change to policy like this will need member approval/support.

[Deathrattle]

the real problem with useing points on 100's is making sure upgraders are useing them to upgrade. to most people 100 drops are a way to make gil and what is going to happen is, some one is going to want to use points to get a 100 to sell it, because why arnt their points just as good as an upgraders.... see where i'm getting at.


how about we do a lottery. it costs 2 points to enter, everyones name gets put into a pool and the lucky winner get like 250k. and then there name gets removed from the pool. hell i dont know just grasping at straws