And then if anything happens the fund could always gain tokens by selling the equipment of deceased teammates. It's not like many people make last wills in our 'line of work', right?..
We kinda do that already, see Jim's and Tryar's stuff.
Also, I just understood that if this is not the approach team fund leadership takes and actually on the opposite, I am probably willing to try and create a parallel 'Revolutionary Fund' with that aim in mind. At the very least to try and create a separatist 'non-Miyamoto's inconvenient pile of stuff'.
Psh, go for it! Have fun bean counting!
Wait, what? You said Maurice was talking there, and not you, but I'm not sure if I should take that seriously.
"“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit."
-Leviticus 25:35-37-
Aka some people feel it is wrong to earn money by interest on loans (which isn't
exactly laboring or working for it), while others feel it is a rightful payment for the risk involved in lending.
Well, sure, Two've been mentioned already. First one is buying anything that's sold for 50%, and then reselling it to players at something like 75%; still a discount for them, still a gain for the TF.
There's also the renting idea, which gains money at no risk, at least most of the time.
I kinda feel just selling at the price it was bought is more in the spirit of the fund trying to help people out. Income can be generated by other means (from now, each death would increase it a little, if we keep doing it like this). Token loans I could also be amenable to, but we'd have to work out the rules to ensure everything is clear, and I'd kinda like to wait with major changes or new things until the missions have started and the respec is fully wrapped up. I also told this to Aos when he asked me on my opinion on the ARM organisation change (the ranks and such). Equipment loans... eh, sounds a bit too convoluted to me, but we could try it as an extension of the team fund selling (aka buy it for x tokens, or loan it for a mission for y).
Yeah, that can work to keep the TF running, if Radio continues with his minimum-spending policy. It just means that newbies'll continue to be overshadowed by vets, and the rich will continue to have the majority of wealth because they're the competent, well-equipped ones capable of getting wealth in the first place.
Hey, remember I got free hand from pw, with but one law, 'keep it reasonable'. Since that's rather vague, I hope you can see why I'd err on the side of caution.
Besides, I've gotten a look at joker team's wishlist. It is...
quite extensive. Believe me, we'll be needing those tokens yet. And don't you try to play them heartstrings, I was the one who proposed the newbie help thing with the fund to pw
in the first place! This thing only exists since, like, a mission and a half, and I'm trying to find a healthy balance.
Well, Miyamoto is in charge of who can come to Hephaestus, you said it yourself. So all I have to do is to take his permission IC-ly. It is his responsibility to inform you, if he wants to.
Not... really. I'm pretty sure he could push it if he wanted to, but I don't think I ever straight out said Flint was going to Hep, did I? Flint asked permission to leave the Sword, I said he's earned it and that Miya would be willing to write a letter of recommendation of sorts if needed to help his admission.
"Hmm, I see. Well, you've done a good job on he latest mission, as well as when we rescued that cultist FUBAR, so you've probably deserved some time off. If you need someone to do a good word for you to help your chances of being allowed to migrate over, you can always ask.