Is Wolf game for small holders or whales? What about both?

Today I read again the first version of the website, and shepherd really focuses on the mathematical, game theory model of the game, You can guess that shep has been researching the subject of deflationary models, and game theory (btw you can read Game Theory and the Social Contract: Just playing to get great insights on the dynamics at play)

We are going to imagine a “layered” ecosystem. What I mean is that we will have different ranges of prices, for small holders and whale.

1. One of the “layers” can first be a way to invest any amount of money. for example a betting system in wool. This one will have CONSTANT YIELD (for example its a bit of a lottery and the total price pool will include the bet and a cash price extra, this way you get revenue for playing, on average). A bit like Z-run you could bet on games like the alpha game for example

2. Then there is a variety of more or less pricey games
(I’ll simplify in 4 ranges of price for the demonstration but we can imagine many more)

• Level 1 : you play with a Gen2+ sheep in a cave game like dungeon, the sheep cost 0.1 ETH
• Level 2 : you play as a gen 0 sheep a cave game like dungeon, the sheep cost 1 ETH
• Level 3 : you play as a A5 wolf hunting for sheep in a short mini game, the wolf cost 5 ETH
• Level 4 : you play with a land, a farmer, and buildings, you have to manage by opening and closing activities on your land (for example it is summer and you open the crops) people play on your land and you tax them. The land farmer etc cost 10ETH

What we want is a DIFFERENT YIELD between the levels, meaning the level 1 might reward you with 10% of the cost of your sheep interest monthly on average, while the wolf will usually bring you 15% of the cost of the wolf monthly.

We can then imagine the curve of the yield per investment, I like the idea of a logarithmic curve, meaning the yield level will increase a lot at first and then slow down its growth.

That could do something like this

• WOOL Yield : 12 % stable, simple (no range of investment)
• Gen 2+ sheep yield 10% (investing 0.1 ETH)
• Gen 0 sheep yield 15 % (investing 1 ETH)
• A5 wolf yield 18% (investing 5 ETH)
• Farm yield 20% (investing 10 ETH)

With this model whales are rewarded more because they risk more, you will also notice that they have to do less in daily actions.

Small players will still make a yield, and try to reinvest their interests into buying better animals with higher yields, extremely healthy for the game.

Both small and big players find what they want with this model, you don’t need to sacrifice your whales to get the ocean of fish. I know Shep knows that. We are go.