Tacos!

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

As some of you have noticed, you now have Tacos by your name whenever you post along with a number. Tacos is the beginning of a 10000 Islands monetary system that could be pretty cool. You'll hopefully be able to use your Tacos to buy certain things in the forum in the future. There are also several other options like stock markets and then like that could also be used for our region. The Council of Nine is in discussion right now about what kind of stuff could be in the store.

Below are some ome the ideas the Co9 has come up, but I'd like to hear what you all can come up with as well. So, what kinds of stuff would you like to see in the store?

- ability to buy a better team in Alfonia's sports league (a la Steinbrenner and the NY Yankees)
- a way for political parties to finance their candidates
- Political Party advertising on the RMB
- stock market
- additional stars by the nation name
- use of avatars (i.e. only allow nations that pay with Tacos to use avatars)
- For RPing - Food: Grain, meats, fish. Essential food products for nations in dry spells.
Oil can be sold here.
Steals, metals, essentials for building a great empire.
Military tech
- Ability to post a general forum wide announcement
- have your own message put in the news fader or WFB
- Banks

What else can we come up with?

[Greek People Nation (GPN)]

That is sweet

[Klington]

...or you could just eat them...

[Kindrik]

I'm not really liking the stars and avatars idea but I like general forum wide and news fader ideas. And who would want a team in Alfonia's sports league. You'd be broke after one game and have to fold the team.
Alfonia's response - "How else am I supposed to make money"

[New Dracora]

So does this mean we actually get to trade tacos between ourselves or is it simply a form of ranking system?

(i.e - does the number of tacos go down with every purchase)

[Goldenloser2241]

From what I have understood yes. Which lead to probably the most ambitious part of this I think, a stock market....

[Serconea]

Interesting idea.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

I dont know if this was implied in the list the Co9 came up with, but i'd rather enjoy the ability to 'purchase' advertising space. (eg my bands debut album) I'd allso like to buy influence in the political parties.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

The Tacos would equal money, so you could trade services for money. You could start a 10000 Islands type of business, we could have a stock market, there are lots of ways it could go. To start, we want to have a 10000 ISlands store where people could spend their Tacos (money.)

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

Just an observation. As i post this my 'taco levels' will go up. Will the moderators prevent people from making random comments again and again just to gain Tacos by deleting their posts? Seems the only way to prevent illegal acquisition of tacos.
Anyway, that stock market idea is cool.
'I'll buy twenty thousand shares in your political party, here are some tacos. Now make sure you promote my policy of mandatory 'Sinn Badges'....aah, it'd be hilarious to introduce a corrupt currency system...

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

People are encouraged to post a lot, but if people spam for the sole purpose of gaining Tacos, they will be fined Tacos. But like I said, posting in the forum is encouraged.

[Elgarve]

I like this idea!

[Kindrik]

I can see people now....... Trying to police themselves.
*
#1: That post's spam. You should be fined
#2: No it's not and now your post is spam
#1: So is yours
#2: No it's not. I was telling you something
#1: There it is again!
etc. etc.

[Grub (Lenlyvit)]

I'll make it quite clear that all kinds of posts are acceptable as long as it isn't someone clearing spamming, like posting ";hjkkjglhghj" 10 times or something like that.

[skiphia]

How do we make money (Takos)?? Apart from the sport thing? How would the exchange work and can we incorporate it in the game itself (i.e. - if we have a lot of Takos we increase the economy)?? Maybe we should talk about this with the game developers team.

[Bad Infinitum]

I don't know if the NS mods would like it very much, but you've got a winner with the "K" in Takos. Definitely cool.

[TheSensitiveNewAge]

How much are avitars going to be? I gotta keep Che!

There's a few threads in Taco Island where you can get away with posting anything as bound by courtesy.

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

They wont listen. They arent very flexible, they'd say it was impossible etc, and probably try and eject us from the UN or something. (Past encounters can attest.) Anyway, if you are a member of the government then you will get a wage. The harder you work, the more you earn etc.....a bit like real work. The ticket is to join immigration.

[Assassins and Bandits]

is that the only way posting here to accumulate tacos? if so, then we will need some ideas to do in this forum to keep us posting like UN's proposals or issues for debate or ....

[Boolari]

admin said:

I'll make it quite clear that all kinds of posts are acceptable as long as it isn't someone clearing spamming, like posting ";hjkkjglhghj" 10 times or something like that.

What about 9 times?

[Asgarnieu]

This is one of the best ideas that 10000 Islands has ever come up with!

[Gluuland]

If you had a big debt (such as overdue dishwashing ) we might let you spam 9 times....
(jk)

[TheSensitiveNewAge]

But only after a sound fish-whompin'!

[Gluuland]

Yikes! *runs*

[Kindrik]

sinn said:

If you are a member of the government then you will get a wage. The harder you work, the more you earn etc.....a bit like real work. The ticket is to join immigration.

I like this idea. Sort of like getting paid per half hour. And then we can ask new nations who recruited them and then that person can recieve a bonus of sorts.

[Fleeb]

I love this whole thing--most creative notion since Taco Island was invented in the long and long ago.


But can we pay Boo to dead-sturgeon-whomp somebody else?

[Boolari]

If I receive the tacos directly. At a certain time, a set price, etc... like in Transporter 2!

[Bahamamamma]

115,000 tacos, Grub! Don't ya think you are bogarting the tacos? I think you need to start a charitable foundation to give some of those tacos to. May I suggest the United Charities of Bahamamamma? We provide designer swimsuits and cosmetic surgery to less fortunate ten thousand islanders.

[Parthini]

What about piracy?

GPP

[Sinn Féin's Ireland]

Also, a Cheque book system could work quite easily. If you are paying an entry fee for a competition, by example, you let grub know, and the amount is subtracted from yours, and credited to the recipients account. So simple, yet so genius. It also paves the way for some serious senate elections lobbying. 'Rich' nations can shove tacos on political parties if they represent their beliefs a bit more favourably. Once again...genius i say.
Sinn.