Do you like playing in clans?

That's because economy = broken.

The ARM economy doesn't need to be fixed, per se, because it's not an issue if the clans had massive credit with the blessing by the staff. It's only broken when the clans (most powerful whatever in the known) are weaker than indies because of restrictions on the clans that don't exist for indies. The issue arises when gameplay advantages and RP disadvantages do not align properly, just like being a dick to a magicker is RP advantageous (kind of) but gameplay retarded to do.

For the GMH’s anyway:

Have the the PC portion of the clan tied to the coded store. The store(s) doesn’t have unlimited anything any more. Everything in a clan should be craftable. Allow the store to continue to do the sell to a virtual customer thing as well. The store(s) only has what the PC portion of the clan puts in it. The price it will pay for outside crafted goods also will go much lower. ake Kurac have to get spice from their spice buyer too. If no one is in Red Storm then they will have to go hire grebbers.

The sales, real and virtual, from the store go to the PC clan’s budget. The House takes its cut. Every time you use the cook for free food or the water tun is refilled, it withdraws from the budget. The PC’s pay also comes out of the budget. The extra is at the discretion of the leader(s). He is corrupt and gives no bonuses? Then his people will leave.

If motivated it, I estimate a few weeks.

Yes. I've always thought that the biggest mistake the GMH staff did was never giving us quotas of materials we had to bring in.

Fast fact: In Salarr, I KNEW we could get anything that we requested to be loaded into the game. When Olgaris took over, that list simply became shorter and more retarded, but we could still ask for anything on that list, and it'd be loaded into the warehouse...albeit, it might take a RL month. But we didn't really have to DO anything special to ensure it.

As Nadhir, I kept this knowledge from the players (although, obviously, the merchants and vets knew OOCly, but played along) and gave people missions to go forage up the materials necessary. What was I going to do with the tembo hides and other miscellaneous shit brought back? Not much. Sometimes I secretly junked it and pretended an imm took it. Because let's face it, the fiction of staff awareness is often needed to keep some people interested.

But it kept people coming back for more. And it was fun, despite the benevolent neglect. Salarr got so huge, that we were forbidden from recruiting anyone else. They tried to break us up and send some people south, but they came back north. I've bitched about the whole Miloka/NPC guard killing debacle ad nauseum, but that didn't even make its way meaningfully onto my account notes. Its main effect was just Nyr/Adhira bitching at me. And they really went off on me in private, but the account note itself was inconsequentially mild (so and so killed NPCs without alerting staff. I'd be more ashamed if I DIDN'T have that account note after playing ten years).

No, the most vituperative account note, was one by Olgaris saying I should never be in charge of another clan, because I was a horrible prick and a bad person. Not because of anything I said to him OOCly, but because Nadhir ICly laughed off the kuraci camo ban. I told Olgaris in an email Nadhir would accept any IC chastisement from superiors. And then the issue was dropped. Yes. That made me a horrible clan leader, worthy of getting my Mul Byn sergeant app retroactively denied after already being approved. He didn't even give any context about the incident. I didn't learn why until years later.

Fuck Olgaris, all these years later. The motherfucker should've sacked up and approached me with an NPC captain or such. I still would've laughed at him, but he could've handled it ICly. And this is why all account notes should be accessible by the player at any time. Not cleaned up, and carefully edited, because I didn't see Olgaris' comment on me until I accidentally got sent my unedited account notes. (They rejected a special app and forgot to remove Olgaris' cut and paste of my account note).

For the most part I don't join clans when the leaders are pretentious and condescending, (unless they are fun which is very rare)

I could do it in a month without issue with casual time. Most of the code already exists. It would be a matter of a few scripts to remote deposit and withdraw from the bank account mainly.