Re: What's wrong with Olympia today (long)

From: granboul@clipper.ens.fr (Louis Granboulan)

Date: Wed, 20 May 1992 07:20:51 +0000

In article <1992May18.223618.13301@tellab5.tellabs.com> dennis@tellabs.com (Dennis Faherty) writes:
>
>fletcher@netcom.com (F. Sullivan Segal) writes:
>> 4.	There should be a banking system which allows money to
>> 	be deposited safely in the name of the faction so that there
>> 	will be no reason to kill PC's except for revenge.
>
>The banking system could be started by an enterprising player
>(sort of like the Starlight Courier). This would allow banks to be
>robbed by attacking the stack which represents the bank branch
>in the town. The bank should turn a profit, if banks accept deposits
>for a fee (Knights Templar would guard people's money for a
>percentage during the Middle Ages). Banks could lend money (how
>would you foreclose? You could take possession of a ship or
>castle, but if a madman spends it on an army, what are you going
>to do with that?) Banks would allow the easy transfer of funds,
>given the deposit of money in the 1st National Bank of Drassa,
>and withdrawn from the Bank of Port Aurnos. Banks could even
>issue their own notes (money), effectively increasing the money
>supply (as long as there wasn't a run on the bank to exchange
>paper money for gold). The possibilities are interesting....

I've tried to organize such a bank, but the biggest problem is
that no player has enough gold to have many stacks that lend
money.
Since I am guildmaster of Performers' union, I had the possibility
to earn the necessary funds to begin such an enterprise. But the
entertainment rules have changed, and I can't complete this work.
So I am willingly to organise a Philharmonic Orchester in Cnossa,
and I hope you will come to hear us, because 150 people are too
much for Rich's algorithms.

I have lend money, but only to friends that I'm sure they are
good friends, for example my friend Arhhain, who permitted to
Charlotte her journey to Kircarth. She is now the antenna of the
magician's guild in Kircarth.

If you want to organise this bank, I will probably take participation
in this enterprise, but we should be about 5 or 10 old players if
we want to be useful.
I suggest that the magicians could participate to this work, since
they are able to teleport, and they can move important funds very quickly.

The problem is of course that the banks need to be protected. I think
that the minimal force to dissuade an attack is about 30 guards lvl 3,
with a leader lvl 5.
You can send your suggestion by e-mail, rather than in the news, so
our serial killers can't hear us.

Dancing Mammoths

granboul@ens.fr

References

What's wrong with Olympia today (long)
dennis@tellabs.com (Dennis Faherty)
Mon, 18 May 1992 22:36:18 +0000

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What's wrong with Olympia today (long)
dennis@tellabs.com (Dennis Faherty)
Mon, 18 May 1992 22:36:18 +0000