Also, since the topic of youtubing was mentioned. I'd like to add that indeed there has been a fall in popularity of the game on youtube.
There used to be a funded Newspaper Team youtube account by Zed but he is no longer there to help with the productions.
I'm not sure if the Newspapaer Team is continuing with the enterprise, but they should. They could also outsource the tasks of producing videos to players by hiring them into the Team, hopefully they have already done so. If not, it's time to start. I feel that if the outsourcing or hiring of youtubers as part of the news team, the payouts should be higher than 15k gralats.
If anything, I suggest that we raise the payouts of news team members/production crew of the news team youtube to 50k gralats per month to incentivise regular content creation. Alternatively, they could also encourage players to submit their own content with rules in place of course, my increasing the payouts to 10k gralats per video, instead of the usual 1 ec that may not have encouraged the players to contribute.
Another issue that may not have been highlighted is that scams were prevalent and many admins could not do anything about it. I'd suggest that we make scamming illegal, and impose a duty tax on goods with a base price value of more than 100k gralats to discourage exchange of such goods so as to minimise scams. If say a brella costs 1.2 million gralats, a tax of 0.25 percent of the value can be levied on the buyer, so the buyer has to pay whatever the price that is being sold to him at, and the tax of 3k gralats at the trade tables, as well as the 21 gralat trading fee.
Scammers who have been discovered should be permanently barred from trading and they should be fined 10k gralats, or if they do not have them, 10k gralats worth of their assets will be taken away, say maybe , 1 ak47 gun, trochus and sandollars worth up to 10k gralats. We need to take a strict stance on this matter as well if we want to gain thee trust of the trading community.
Additionally, there has been some feedback to me by friends who play the game, saying that they are repeatedly killed by pkers, making the play difficult for them and discouraging them from playing. I suggest we tax those who kill new players with less than 50 hours, at 50 gralats for every kill they make. If they repeatedly kill the same newbie, the tax multiplies accordingly.
say, if a pker repeatedly kills a newbie 10 times, he will be taxed 50+100+150+200+250+300+350+400+450+500= 2750 gralats. Hoepfully it will help newbies better integrate into the environment.
