assorted bugs

a few varied bugs I've encountered:

1- I lose people's calling cards -- they just seem to go away at times -- can't trace to anything I'm doing

2- I lose the rating I've given people. People I absolutely know I've rated. They go back to Not Rated.

3- According to Jenn, we should get 1 reputation point for each positive rating. Sometimes people rate me and my rating doesn't change. 2 people rated me tonight who hadn't before and neither registered. (Could this somehow be related to #2?)

4- What I typed in my profile used to go away when I logged out. Now it goes away right away.

5- My reputation rating is 51 but my estimated rating bonus for next week is zero.

Thanks -
Kerstin

Sorry, all of these problems can be attributed to some difficulties we were having with one of the servers on Sunday night. It should be fixed now. Please post again and let us know if these bugs have disappeared, or if they are still happening. Thanks.

All of the above were happening before Sunday, I just didn't post because I thought they were happening to everybody. I'll let you know if they recur.

The last one isn't fixed -- my expenses for next week are estimated $101, my stipend estimate $101, and my rating estimate zero, which means I ain't getting nothing.

I watch so many other people building, and I can't, and I've been waiting weeks. I am so dying to build and texture something I could scream.

Could someone puhlease take a look at what's happening with my income and bonus?

Thanks
Kerstin

OK, I think I know whats up - but someone official should correct me if I'm wrong.

Last week they made adjustments to how the stipend and ratings are calculated. What the system now tries to do is make sure you have $3500. If you have less, you will get the max stipend, and the max your ratings bonus can be, up to $3,500. If you have more, the system will try to match your taxes. In your case, you only have $101 in taxes, so you don't even need your entire stipend. In my case, I have almost $6,000 in taxes, so I get the entire stipend, and then my ratigns bonus tries to match the taxes. I have a high ratings bonus, so I can cover essentially all of my taxes. Kerstin, I know you have ratings as high, or higher than I do, so if you had more taxable expense, it would be covered by your reputaion bonus. Lower ratings mean that your bonus won't cover as much of your taxes.

What this means is you will never make a profit from your stipend and reputation bonus. At the same time, your Slotto will be pure profit, as the land and objects it uses are covered.

This system is working like this to solve our previous problem - folks who were not signing on and using the software making all the money. Now, no user will get paid more than what they have in taxes - so if you don't sign in - you don't take extra money. Of course, if you behave like a user who doesn't sign in - and don't spend any money, the system will treat you as such.

In conclusion, The way the economy currently works is to encourage a consumer economy. They want you spend money - buy land, build, buy other user made artifacts - all without having to worry about producing enough to support your upkeep fees. Of course, you are limited by the amount of capital you have, but $3500 is enough to make a small house if your land costs aren't to bad. It should be enough to set up a Slotto station in every server. And for every Slotto Station (costing $10), only 5 tickets need to be bought EVER in order pay the cost of it as long as you maintian your reputation, the land under it will cost $48 - 24 tickets before you recover expenses. So with a Slotto on every server, you will spend $1160 initially. There will be $380 in taxes / week - but those will be covered by your stipend and bonus. so if you sell over 580 tickets in the lifetime of all your 20 Slotto booths, your will be making pure profit per ticket. It might be less, if that initial $1160 puts you under $3500

BBC

BBC

bbc, thank you so much for taking the time to explain all this. Now I see how it works. I've been trying so hard not to spend and to save up so I can build, but now I see I'm going about it the wrong way. I'm going to make the appropriate adjustments, and I'll let ya know how it goes.

Again, thank you so much

Hugs -
Kerstin