How Do I Avoid Inflation, Bankrupcy, Prison and Sundry Other Pitfalls?
The steps described in The SOX Server Management (a.k.a. the Server) allow you to write money where before there was none, which puts unparalleled power into your hands. Now, experience over the ages has shown that anyone who has the power to write money generally does. And that they write a lot of it. So, how do we avoid this? Well, just like any despot with the keys to the mint, no-one can stop you inflating your own currency into Reichsmark territory. The only way to stop this is to take the keys away from you. To do this, we need a few more people at the party, who are (continuing with the Club scenario): • The Board. Is who is ultimately responsible. • The Mint. Looks after capitalisation. The stuffed shirt brigade with a reputation to protect. • The Operator. Runs the Servers. The Geeks with square eyes. • The Manager. Handles value transfer between worlds. The cash gopher. We’ll also refer to the Users, who are of course members of the Club. That gives five Parties, using the in
