warster, it is true that not everyone with cash is stocking it
bear in mind that my comment originally was just for cash stockers, i did not imply in any way that everyone who has cash was hoarding it

but let us follow your line to its conclusion

let us look at an oil speculator who starts with $1.5B
he is vulnerable to losses of $6M an op to BB
he buys the oil and becomes vulnerable to $12M an op
what is the justification in that?

he puts the oil on the market and no longer has any vulnerability to spies but he runs the risk the oil will not sell
if the oil does not sell, he would have been better off to just lose the paltry worst case scenario of $100M on the off chance that someone bombed his banks up until DR made it impossible to get through
but assume our speculator is successful and now has a stash he is sitting on
why is he not churning it into more oil sales and benefitting the whole community?
if BB were stronger he would have an incentive to make sure he churned his profits back into the market

let us look at a D purveyor of fine foods who also starts with $1.5B
his risk to BB is $6M an op
he buys the food and his risk of loss immediately rises to $10M an op
what is the justification for that??
he puts the food on the market
if it does not sell, he has to dump it on his private market at $29
he could lose $11 a bushel if he bought at $40
again he is better off to run the risk that no one will BB since the risk of that happening is so small and the losses minimal
assuming he was successful why is he not doing it again rather than letting his cash sit dormant?

so we have now seen two types of D resellers who are not engaging in economic activity that would benefit the server just because they have no fear of BB

the same holds true for tech resellers
run a test right now in primary
you can steal 7000 tech points from any number of techers right now which comes out to over $10M an op but a BB after they have sold the return is $7M an op

if BB were strengthened there would be more economic activity on the servers with the new spy ops
warster's point does once again bring up the oft repeated suggestion about Democracies
we want resellers churning the market we want action
the current turn bonus system acts as a disincentive to democracies logging in very often
let us award Ds the turn bonus regardless of how often they have logged in. let us give Ds six turns every night at 0:00 even if they have logged in many times to market goods
if we do this, there will be much more market activity

this idea is not original with me so those of you who can not stomach an idea just because i thought of it can rest easy


in response to fordy's comment that is just obdurate persistence

no

when slagpit announced he was changing the spy ops in response to my suggestion he made it clear that the %s would be examined as we gained experience with the new ops

we now have that experience and it has become clear that the BB percentage is too small by at least half

this thread is not obstinance, it is evolution