Where does the bank live?

[Mickey]

I'm thinking we need to establish a location for the bank, for the purpose of giving the owner of that city a cut of the transactions.

The owner of the city would get a small percent (maybe just 1%) of all player-to-player transactions. Any transactions to/from your own account wouldn't be affected.

Thoughts on the idea? Which city?

[araT]

Switzerland? :lol: :lol: :lol:

I know I'd sure as hell like a swiss bank account :p

ooooh ooooh! and can we rob that city and steal from the bank? stick-em-up style?

T.

[TheMightySquigglies]

Geneva - everyone should have a swiss bank account ;)

Edit - and its the private baking capital of the world anyway

[TheMightySquigglies]

Switzerland? :lol: :lol: :lol:

I know I'd sure as hell like a swiss bank account :p

ooooh ooooh! and can we rob that city and steal from the bank? stick-em-up style?

T.


Awesome idea, if the city gets attacked and taken over you get an instant 0.01% of all bank accounts

How about that? Would certainly cause some battles

[Radeon]

Well u got 1 bonus city in north america, one in africa, one in asia/europe. What about Australia or South america? Or antartica? :confused:

[reklats]

Yah, either in Geneva or have several of these "bank cities" though New York is already worth quite a lot by itself it'd be the obvious choice. Perhaps each country's capital should reap some extra reward such as .1% of the bank tranasctions?

I really like the idea of bonus cities and I think there should be many more of them. Maybe a city that grants free army troops (no upkeep troops) every day or something? Germany perhaps. ;)

[War_Peace]

I'm thinking we need to establish a location for the bank, for the purpose of giving the owner of that city a cut of the transactions.

The owner of the city would get a small percent (maybe just 1%) of all player-to-player transactions. Any transactions to/from your own account wouldn't be affected.

Thoughts on the idea? Which city?

I was thinking about this one... :)

Geneva/Switzerland it is... So how does that work? Will you add that city too?

Although, I was thinking about something different:

Special Bonus for the owner of this city: The owner of this city automatically earns 5% of the total amount of Geos deposited into the world bank.

That would be a bloodbath!... :)

Also, we could track the total amount of geos in the bank...

[Timmetie]

i'm with reklats in voting for New york ;-).

no seriously, but mickey, how would this work, say i transfer 100 geo's to Luke, does luke get 95 and the bonus city 5? or luke a 100 and the bonus city 5.

[roswelljam]

How about also having a defending army (Not owned by any player) to defend the World Bank which builds up over time?

[blitzkrieg]

I thought the figure was 1% not 5%???

I like this one Mickey - you suggested it so I'm guessing the coding isn't that hard.

My vote is for Switzerland aswell - WWII Nazi and jewish accounts abound!

New York can be bonus city for stock exchange when that gets implemented.

Uranium in Australia for nukes?

[Lukepuuk]

I also think all bonus cities should be wide spread.
Australia is a great country and has nothing of real value yet.
I vote for australia unless there's another bonus city coming right up that could take its place.

[TheMightySquigglies]

How about also having a defending army (Not owned by any player) to defend the World Bank which builds up over time?

Yeah that would be great - no one can own the bank but if you beat the army defending it you get a huge bonus of geos.

The army can then grow again and it starts all over.

The bonus could also increase as the troops do.

Also it's bonus could be advertised as a temptation for players to attack.

If the troop growth was randomised it would also make it risky to attack but mainly worth it.

[TheMightySquigglies]

I also think all bonus cities should be wide spread.
Australia is a great country and has nothing of real value yet.
I vote for australia unless there's another bonus city coming right up that could take its place.

I think cotton should have been there, more sheep than anywhere else in the world!

other than that how about Australia is aluminium?

[araT]

no seriously, but mickey, how would this work, say i transfer 100 geo's to Luke, does luke get 95 and the bonus city 5? or luke a 100 and the bonus city 5.
It would be the latter of the two, after all, its a reward, not a fee... and its not like we have a finite amount of money, the monetary value of the GE Swiss bank is bottomless :D

New York can be bonus city for stock exchange when that gets implemented.
In order for a stock exchange to be implimented there needs to be a certain ammount of money in the world, and then the mint switches off.. otherwise we are going to have inflation up the wazoo because the market will never crash because we have endless money and can fix every disaster ever destined to happen... that will bring on times when people spend lots, and times when people save..

Australia is a great country and has nothing of real value yet.
I vote for australia unless there's another bonus city coming right up that could take its place.
Australia needs a beer field :lol:

Nah seriously , Oz's main resources are farming-related ie; beef / dairy products.. and sandstone, maybe it could relate to one of those two?


T.

[blitzkrieg]

I think cotton should have been there, more sheep than anywhere else in the world!

other than that how about Australia is aluminium?


hehehehe - sheep produce wool. Cotton doesn't grow on trees you know, oh hang on, yes it does.

[reklats]

I just thought of a problem with this...
Let's say my alliance owns the city with the bonus. Well guess what everyone in my alliance is going to start doing? Transferring all their bank funds around to build up free cash for the guy in Geneva.

[Mickey]

I just thought of a problem with this...
Let's say my alliance owns the city with the bonus. Well guess what everyone in my alliance is going to start doing? Transferring all their bank funds around to build up free cash for the guy in Geneva.
Good point. To clarify, this would be a fee, just like bank transfer fees, Paypal fees, etc. If you send 100 Geos to someone, they would get 95 and the bank owner would get 5 (or 1% or whatever we decide on).

[Timmetie]

Good point. To clarify, this would be a fee, just like bank transfer fees, Paypal fees, etc. If you send 100 Geos to someone, they would get 95 and the bank owner would get 5 (or 1% or whatever we decide on).

T, you know Nutin!

:)

[tukamotton]

I think Bank must be in a new city with no big population... what about Cancun Mexico :-D?

[Timmetie]

Ooooooor, hear me out here.

There's not really 1 bank. its spread all over the world.

so why not give people their share of the 5% through their cities worth?

lets say all cities are worth 500 mill.

a city of 10 million would give 0.1% of all bank transactions.

i'm not sure,

why i spaced,

every sentence,

probably to increase the,

impact.

[TheMightySquigglies]

hehehehe - sheep produce wool. Cotton doesn't grow on trees you know, oh hang on, yes it does.

hehe yeah my bad - was looking at the field's graphic on google earth while thinking

[Mickey]

I think Bank must be in a new city with no big population... what about Cancun Mexico :-D?
Why a new city? I realize that this will give some lucky person a suddenly great city, but we need to think long term. Current occupants aside, what is the best place to put this?

There's not really 1 bank. its spread all over the world. so why not give people their share of the 5% through their cities worth? lets say all cities are worth 500 mill. a city of 10 million would give 0.1% of all bank transactions.
There is only one bank - the "world bank". :)

You make some good points, but that way would be somewhat boring, as the money would just roll in with the tax revenues. Right now, everything has to go through the World Bank, so why not just say the bank is in a particular city and give that city owner some cash? It would likely make for a HOTLY contested city...

[tukamotton]

Why a new city? I realize that this will give some lucky person a suddenly great city, but we need to think long term. Current occupants aside, what is the best place to put this?


There is only one bank - the "world bank". :)

You make some good points, but that way would be somewhat boring, as the money would just roll in with the tax revenues. Right now, everything has to go through the World Bank, so why not just say the bank is in a particular city and give that city owner some cash? It would likely make for a HOTLY contested city...

Honolulu then... no new city... middle of pacific ocean... no much cities or homebases already... well it's my point of view.... :shock:

[bueth]

if there is such a "world bank city" then it should be in Switzerland.

imho

[Timmetie]

You make some good points, but that way would be somewhat boring, as the money would just roll in with the tax revenues. Right now, everything has to go through the World Bank, so why not just say the bank is in a particular city and give that city owner some cash? It would likely make for a HOTLY contested city...

yes true, but in the end, we'll probably have a lot of bonus cities, hundreds of recourses have been named. i'm just saying something besides that. itll most probably be just thesame as taxes (allthough during big wars the income would go up) but its those kind of things that make the game more interesting.

[reklats]

I really like where this is going but I'd like to see a city in each country or major area that received a portion of the bank transfers.

[Beezer]

Put it in Valdosta Georgia. I think someone already has a home base set up there that they would be willing to use as the bonus "city". ;) :lol:

Actually, I think that the bank should go in either Switzerland or the Cayman Islands. Both of those areas have reputations as banking centers.

[js3486]

I think cotton should have been there, more sheep than anywhere else in the world!

other than that how about Australia is aluminium?


Ummm don't Sheep grow wool?? I vote for the Land Down Under. Could I get some sheep I need to make some more sheets??

[MkhitarSparapet]

Good point. To clarify, this would be a fee, just like bank transfer fees, Paypal fees, etc. If you send 100 Geos to someone, they would get 95 and the bank owner would get 5 (or 1% or whatever we decide on).

Mickey, I know this is complex, but hear me out:

Alice has a home base in country P with the capital of p.
Bob has a home base in a country T with the capital of t.

Alice wants to send Bob 100 Geos.

Draw a line from Alice's capital (p) to Bob's capital (t). Assume it crosses the intermediary countries of Q R S with their respective capitals of q r s.

so the chain that the money follows is like this: p -> q -> r -> s -> t

p and t would get 1% of the fee each.

The remaining 3% would be divided among the intermediary countries. If there are 10 intermediary countries, then each country would get 3/10 percent of the entire transfer.

So who could get the fees? Whoever owns the capital of the countries.

After all, each country's monetary system is regulated by the central govt. so whoever controls the central govt. (capital) will get the transfer fees.

To add some randomness, the line could not be straight all the time but wavy or follow random routes (so if there are 5 equivalent cost routes, it would choose 1 out of those 5 randomly). Everyone up to speed on their combinatorial algorithms knowledge?

Ok, Mickey, just make it a straight line. You could implement it as a banker army grong from point A to B, each country it crosses, it looks up the capital, who owned it at the time, so that when the transaction is done (i.e. the banker reaches his/her destination) it can do the necessary calculations.

Also I think bank transfers should not be instantaneous. They should take time just like in the real world. So depending on the number of intermediary countries, the time it takes to receive the money varies.

If you want to have a special bank city, then we can just add that into the formula. p gets 1%, owner of bank city gets 1%, t gets 1%. The intermediary countries get 2%.

M.

[js3486]

Mickey, I know this is complex, but hear me out:

Alice has a home base in country P with the capital of p.
Bob has a home base in a country T with the capital of t.

Alice wants to send Bob 100 Geos.

Draw a line from Alice's capital (p) to Bob's capital (t). Assume it crosses the intermediary countries of Q R S with their respective capitals of q r s.

so the chain that the money follows is like this: p -> q -> r -> s -> t

p and t would get 1% of the fee each.

The remaining 3% would be divided among the intermediary countries. If there are 10 intermediary countries, then each country would get 3/10 percent of the entire transfer.

So who could get the fees? Whoever owns the capital of the countries.

After all, each country's monetary system is regulated by the central govt. so whoever controls the central govt. (capital) will get the transfer fees.

To add some randomness, the line could not be straight all the time but wavy or follow random routes (so if there are 5 equivalent cost routes, it would choose 1 out of those 5 randomly). Everyone up to speed on their combinatorial algorithms knowledge?

Ok, Mickey, just make it a straight line. You could implement it as a banker army grong from point A to B, each country it crosses, it looks up the capital, who owned it at the time, so that when the transaction is done (i.e. the banker reaches his/her destination).

Also I think bank transfers should not be instantaneous. They should take time just like in the real world. So depending on the number of intermediary countries, the time it takes to receive the money varies.

M.

So if they are not made by 2:00 PM you have to wait till the next buisness day? Bad Idea in reality (I used to consult for banks) they are instantaneous but they tell you they are not to earn interest off your money while the have it in escrow for 10 Buisiness days.

[socrates]

Seriously there's just too much money involved to let just 1 person own the bank city...
let it be a NPC who doesn't attack... just keep raising an army ( say 1% ) of the days transactions... ( no one except mickey knows )
You attack the bonus city and win, you get a percentage equal to your losses in Geos, this will come from what money was collected that day..

[Mickey]

Seriously there's just too much money involved to let just 1 person own the bank city...
We can always make it a lower rate, even a percent of a percent, if need be. Also remember that this would only affect player-to-player transactions - not desposits/withdrawals that you make for yourself.

[Brendo]

Mickey, I know this is complex, but hear me out:

Alice has a home base in country P with the capital of p.
Bob has a home base in a country T with the capital of t.

Alice wants to send Bob 100 Geos.

Draw a line from Alice's capital (p) to Bob's capital (t). Assume it crosses the intermediary countries of Q R S with their respective capitals of q r s.

so the chain that the money follows is like this: p -> q -> r -> s -> t

p and t would get 1% of the fee each.

The remaining 3% would be divided among the intermediary countries. If there are 10 intermediary countries, then each country would get 3/10 percent of the entire transfer.

So who could get the fees? Whoever owns the capital of the countries.

After all, each country's monetary system is regulated by the central govt. so whoever controls the central govt. (capital) will get the transfer fees.

To add some randomness, the line could not be straight all the time but wavy or follow random routes (so if there are 5 equivalent cost routes, it would choose 1 out of those 5 randomly). Everyone up to speed on their combinatorial algorithms knowledge?

Ok, Mickey, just make it a straight line. You could implement it as a banker army grong from point A to B, each country it crosses, it looks up the capital, who owned it at the time, so that when the transaction is done (i.e. the banker reaches his/her destination) it can do the necessary calculations.

Also I think bank transfers should not be instantaneous. They should take time just like in the real world. So depending on the number of intermediary countries, the time it takes to receive the money varies.

If you want to have a special bank city, then we can just add that into the formula. p gets 1%, owner of bank city gets 1%, t gets 1%. The intermediary countries get 2%.

M.

You sound like rasqual...

Take that as a compliment :D

[araT]

You sound like rasqual...
:lol:

Is that a bad thing?

Personally I enjoy reading posts in proper english ;)

T.

[Nico]

Sorry i am late..... :lol: probhably the decision has already been made....


BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT PANAMA CITY IS THE CITY WITH THE MOST BANKS IN THE WORLD????

Besides that I am for South America or Australia, too.

[TheMightySquigglies]

Sorry i am late..... :lol: probhably the decision has already been made....


BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT PANAMA CITY IS THE CITY WITH THE MOST BANKS IN THE WORLD????

Besides that I am for South America or Australia, too.

Yeah but Geneva is the banking capital of the world :)

[maxxxheimer]

I would also vote for Swizerland.
It is the baking capital of the world and it's very central in Europe.

[His Lord Uberdude]

I vote for Switzerland, only because I know that the phrase,"Swiss bank account" is famous.

[Roger Andrew]

Thanks to Internet et al, Banking Transactions are instantaneous and transfer directly between parties
Internet - Geneva
Banking Geneva
Most expensive place to eat steak - Geneva

THat's 3 votes for the Bank in Geneva!!

[MkhitarSparapet]

Thanks to Internet et al, Banking Transactions are instantaneous and transfer directly between parties
Internet - Geneva
Banking Geneva
Most expensive place to eat steak - Geneva

THat's 3 votes for the Bank in Geneva!!


Yes, transferring is instantaneous, but settlement isn't. At the end of the day, if the accounts between 2 banks are very much off balance, they have to settle it some way, assuming there is no centralized clearinghouse.

Furthermore, in many cases transferring is still not done directly between 2 parties. IF you're familiar with the banking world, then you know there is this thing called SWIFT which supports direct transfer between members or through intermediary banks depending on circumstances.

[Timmetie]

Yes, transferring is instantaneous, but settlement isn't. At the end of the day, if the accounts between 2 banks are very much off balance, they have to settle it some way, assuming there is no centralized clearinghouse.

Furthermore, in many cases transferring is still not done directly between 2 parties. IF you're familiar with the banking world, then you know there is this thing called SWIFT which supports direct transfer between members or through intermediary banks depending on circumstances.

yes! meaning the banking centre should be in new york!

right?

[MkhitarSparapet]

yes! meaning the banking centre should be in new york!

right?

I guess. ;)


On another note, I'd suggest that there be a slight delay in bank transfers. Perhaps 3 minutes. That would add a lot of flavor to the game.

In the case of intermediary banks, it could be 3 minutes for each bank.

[creeper]

maybe switzerland or new york are not the center of the world.

I mean, there are lots of places around the world that are known because of their banks and are not big, like Channel Islands, Uruguay, Andorra, Bahamas...

what if each alliance could choose a city for it´s HQ and put the alliance bank in that city?

- if the alliance loose their HQ city, they would loose all their savings, or even explode and have to start a new alliance all over again.

- alliance´s HQ would be a great place to attack! :menacing:

- this would bring more local importance for alliances around the world.

- players without alliance could use any alliance bank (and pay taxes) or not have an account at all.

- taxes from players outside the alliance would be distributed between the alliance players.

- alliance banks could have records of transfers between players.

- interest rates would depend on alliance gross value.


that´s it

[tukamotton]

what if each alliance could choose a city for it´s HQ and put the alliance bank in that city?

- if the alliance loose their HQ city, they would loose all their savings, or even explode and have to start a new alliance all over again.

- alliance´s HQ would be a great place to attack! :menacing:

- this would bring more local importance for alliances around the world.

- players without alliance could use any alliance bank (and pay taxes) or not have an account at all.

- taxes from players outside the alliance would be distributed between the alliance players.

- alliance banks could have records of transfers between players.

- interest rates would depend on alliance gross value.


that´s it

I like it :menacing:

[blitzkrieg]

I actually like the idea of alliance HQ aswell

I think it should be a constructable location at any point on the map rather than being in a city. All members should also be able to assign armies or troops to it. What if the holder of the alliance HQ city is offline when an attack is under way??

This could actually just soften alliances though unless there is an incentive (higher interest rate) for having a larger alliance. I'm going out to dinner now and will think of this over my bowl of pasta. It beats conversation with the missus at any rate... :lol:

[blitzkrieg]

Another possible application to make a "central" bank work would be expanding on one of MkhitarSparapet's points

On another note, I'd suggest that there be a slight delay in bank transfers. Perhaps 3 minutes. That would add a lot of flavor to the game.

Maybe if a transfer would take 1 hour to "process" by the central bank (which we all know is bank talk for I earn interest while money is in limbo). During the 1 hour, the owner of the bank earns all interest accrued by this transferring amount and then it gets depositted into the receipients account in full. No fee to either party, but bank earns interest on this while processing.

e.g.
X = Depositor
Y = Depositee
Z = Bank Owner

X deposits 1000 to Y. Money becomes depositted into bank funds (Obviously not useable by Z) and interest starts getting accrued at 3.75% per day compounding every 5 minutes.

****Maths is Fun****

Therefore after 1 hour (allowing for compounding interest)_____ Interest earned=amount depositted * (0.0375/number of compunding moments in a day[in this case 288 5 minute increments per day]+1) to the power of number of compounding moments in this situation [12 5 minute increments in 1 hour]
____ or _____
INT=AMT(0.0375/288+1)^12
_____even easier_____
INT=AMT*1.001564(rounded)

****End Maths****

And in this case 1.56 geos gets earned by bank and depositted into Z's account and original 1000 into Y's account.

Sure the figure to Z isn't huge, but that should assuage rasqual's "reality" complex ;)

And of course the more transfers happen per day the bigger overall that Z receives and for more money transferred in this instance the figure obviously also increases.

It's realistic because;

1. We all know banks do this and we all know it's a con,

2. There isn't an issue of money being created from thin air to pay bank or a "fee" going to a sworn enemy.

3. It's business, baby, but the "bonus" may end up being a bit low...

Maybe change it 2 hours and change the power figure to 24 or give the "Bank" a better interest rate to increase overall figure.


Blitzkriegmj

*edit increase overall figure ideas and a typo or 2*
*alliance HQ idea needs a new thread*

[Lukepuuk]

Swiss accounts are soooo 1984 :rolleyes:
It was famous because you could create secret bank accounts(not anymore).
The problem with Switserland could be that it is too close to Riyadh.
I vote for choosing a place that hasn't got that much yet.

[War_Peace]

When is this going to happen? An estimate time?

[His Lord Uberdude]

When is this going to happen? An estimate time?
War_Peace is getting ready for a heckuva battle....

[anthonywitt]

Give the bank to the aussies.

[Stalker]

What about more than one bank? (And thus more than a one "bank-city")
Perhaps two (or more banks) with different interest rates.
One could have a very high interest rate, but you would be only allowed to withdraw every 24h or something like this...

[His Lord Uberdude]

What about more than one bank? (And thus more than a one "bank-city")
Perhaps two (or more banks) with different interest rates.
One could have a very high interest rate, but you would be only allowed to withdraw every 24h or something like this...
Mmm, now there's an interesting thought...multiple banks, maybe for certain value groups? Or maybe continental banks? With penalties for sending money overseas....

[cowtreky]

i'm with reklats in voting for New york ;-).

no seriously, but mickey, how would this work, say i transfer 100 geo's to Luke, does luke get 95 and the bonus city 5? or luke a 100 and the bonus city 5.

Since you own New York.

I'm for the swiss at 1%

[Entropy]

Swiss accounts are soooo 1984 :rolleyes:
It was famous because you could create secret bank accounts(not anymore).
The problem with Switserland could be that it is too close to Riyadh.
I vote for choosing a place that hasn't got that much yet.

Hey, arent people running off with their money to the tax havens in the carribean offshore accounts nowadays? :lol:

[Entropy]

Just thought of Nigeria too

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/
Remember all the Nigerian 419 scams you received in your email? They sure have lots of money lying in their banks unclaimed over there. :cool:

[Lukepuuk]

Just thought of Nigeria too

http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/
Remember all the Nigerian 419 scams you received in your email? They sure have lots of money lying in their banks unclaimed over there. :cool:

Tried to sell a gsm here a month ago...almost impossible because of all the Nigerian scams you receive in your emailbox...I'd vote for a second bank, a scambank, in Ile-Ife, Nigeria ;)

[blitzkrieg]

Mickey? What's the buzz?

[dataking]

:brick: Weird

Where to put the bank?

I did a recherche on the net on some financial places.
Frankfurt/Germany: No good place, because approx 50 people are allowed to look into your account.
New York/USA: The anti-terror-laws allow too much people to look into your account. (You could send money to Al-Qaeda).
Geneva/Switzerland; Vienna/Austria; Luxemburg/Luxemburg: These three cities have one in common: They don't tell anybody what your money does.
Washington DC/USA: There's the real World Bank situated.
Vienna/Austria: Austrian banks are very successful in Eastern Europe.
Sydney/Australia: The "Aussies" have a much stronger economy than one may assume at first view. They have more than just sheep and cattle.

I have an idea of giving a benefit to the owner of the city of the World Bank.

In Austria you pay 25 % income tax on revenues on money. This will reduce the effectual interest rate of 2,8125 %.

The bill at the end of each day would be as follows:
Standing: 1000 Geos * 3.75% = 37.5 Geos
Tax: 37.5 Geos * 25%= 9.375 Geos
Earnings: 37.5 Geos - 9.375 Geos = 28,125 Geos

The idea of the transaction is not so good, because it's not the philosophy of the other resources (tax on the 'growing').
The holder of the National Bank city has in fact no right on such a tax on transaction because it doesn't any render in the transfer itself.
Atlanta, Riyadh and Cape Town provide the ground for the cotton/oil or jewels.

Enjoy a Wiener Schnitzl on this. ;) :shifty:

[His Lord Uberdude]

:brick: Weird

Where to put the bank?

I did a recherche on the net on some financial places.
Frankfurt/Germany: No good place, because approx 50 people are allowed to look into your account.
New York/USA: The anti-terror-laws allow too much people to look into your account. (You could send money to Al-Qaeda).
Geneva/Switzerland; Vienna/Austria; Luxemburg/Luxemburg: These three cities have one in common: They don't tell anybody what your money does.
Washington DC/USA: There's the real World Bank situated.
Vienna/Austria: Austrian banks are very successful in Eastern Europe.
Sydney/Australia: The "Aussies" have a much stronger economy than one may assume at first view. They have more than just sheep and cattle.

I have an idea of giving a benefit to the owner of the city of the World Bank.

In Austria you pay 25 % income tax on revenues on money. This will reduce the effectual interest rate of 2,8125 %.

The bill at the end of each day would be as follows:
Standing: 1000 Geos * 3.75% = 37.5 Geos
Tax: 37.5 Geos * 25%= 9.375 Geos
Earnings: 37.5 Geos - 9.375 Geos = 28,125 Geos

The idea of the transaction is not so good, because it's not the philosophy of the other resources (tax on the 'growing').
The holder of the National Bank city has in fact no right on such a tax on transaction because it doesn't any render in the transfer itself.
Atlanta, Riyadh and Cape Town provide the ground for the cotton/oil or jewels.

Enjoy a Wiener Schnitzl on this. ;) :shifty:

Please tell me that was a typo.

[dataking]

Yes it's one.

In German we use a comma instead of a point et vice versa.

Logically it should be 2.8125 % instead of 2,8125 %. Sorry.

PS: 2,8125 as an english number doesn't work. The numbers are normally written like "#,###,###.##" (each 1000 block is just 3 digits long).

[jduddy]

I'm thinking we need to establish a location for the bank, for the purpose of giving the owner of that city a cut of the transactions.

The owner of the city would get a small percent (maybe just 1%) of all player-to-player transactions. Any transactions to/from your own account wouldn't be affected.

Thoughts on the idea? Which city?

The city must be NYC: the true financial hub of the world.



Regarding the transaction fees, I suggest immediately placing a 5% transaction fee on ALL player-to-player transactions. Of that 5%, a narrow range of 0.5%- 1% should be allotted to the bonus value of NYC. This range could be adjusted to be on par with the other resource cities.