Apr 22nd 2010, 3:19:41
marty:
Remove the 2B bug but increase the costs of corruption beyond the .1% that it is in express. Corruption places a large penalty on running turns with more than 2B dollars, but it does not place a penalty of human errors such as not logging in while selling stockpiles, or accidentally selling significantly more than 2B --- its those types of errors which ruin gameplay and make the game less enjoyable.
However, having corruption and removing the 2B cap does not place a penalty on human error because a player can spend any corruptable money before running a single turn and taking the corruption penalty.
As well, it does not change gameplay because people are still going to stock food to avoid paying the large corruption charges. People are still going to de-stock food in order to purchase goods. If anything, it would speed up the decline of food prices, and the rise of military prices, because people would no longer be required to sell in 2B chunks -- at the risk of getting grabbed with 4B dollars on hand.