I do not think it is cool to explain my policy in anyone else's candidate post but I thoroughly enjoyed your word selection so let me make an exception.
The investment part of this investment game is @gerber doing some smart stuff with all the money that was raised for dCity cards over the two years. Those assets back the SIM currency. You are fully entitled to expect 10 SIM a day (=3650 SIM a year) off your average card you minted for 800 SIM. It is 450% APR but you are a modest guy that has always settled for 300%. The only issue is that the actual investment is not making 450% - more like 45%. So you either Ponzify in enough dumb people or accept SIM value going down three-fold.
With the populists like you or Mary discarding all the taxes, the income tax of 80% keeps the print off an average down to 730 SIM a year for a measly 90% APR (someone must have been lazy not to keep pace with that). Not enough to turn dCity into Zimbabwe, good enough to harm the currency holders.
At the end it all comes down to SIM holders' votes. If I had a grand total of 35k SIM Power combined between my accounts (my apologies if I missed any alts of yours I do not know), I would be trying to sink the token (in order to be able to rebuy cheap) way harder than you do. I have more than that so even though I think throwing an irresponsible party every now and then is fun, I decided to step in when I felt this lunacy had lasted too long.
I am glad you made an exception and quite pleased to hear my word selection is appreciated by you. The feeling is mutual and i must admit that your particular style and sarcasm has grown on me in my absence from active play.
As you may have gathered from some of my latest remarks,i left Dcity because i was dissapointed in the lack of developments on the investment part of the game and missed opportunities. Also i was frustrated that any input given seemed to fall on barren ground.
With the shifted focus on holding rewards my enthousiasm slowly recovered, as i think that's the economic model that fits the bill perfectly for sustainable growth of the game, as long as it is backed by actual investments with an actual yield. And when i finally realised that the APR in Hive was invertedly proportional to the price of sim (higher apr with lower sim price) i realised that ia better sim/hive peg had emerged. Dcity might not be a dead horse, but rather a crippled pony, in need of a vet and some decent fattening up.
For the first time in a long while i started buying cards again instead of just sellng them off. The investment side of the game is still vague and non-transparent, but there is enough to sustain a balanced peg (not so much on your tax levels) and opportunities a plenty to fatten up the pot. But those will likely remain missed opportunities as i see little happening on idea or investment level.
Maybe i have gone a bit off track wth this comment, starts to look like a post.
My replies are not limited to a format. Still plenty points raised were addressed, if you read between the lines a bit. But i might draft a bulletpoint, direct response to address each pont raised with the attention befitting to non horse manure remarks in a format more to your liking.