Alternative uses for Loonies

White the overall system of shares and ownership needs a bit of a rework, I have been thinking a lot about the structure of the economy of Hockay.

As it currently stands, the only real uses currently for Loonies are Share Ownerships and Betting.

There’s a limited amount of increasingly unaffordable shares and betting is of little risk. Either you hit it big, or get subsidies to bet again big tomorrow.

I’m unsure if loonies are a finite resource at this point, but if so, there’s no real mechanisms of taking loonies out of the economy or redistributing wealth except taxation.

In a real world economy you have mechanisms of wealth transfer beyond taxation such as paying for goods and services. (Granted there are still massive real world economic issues of inequality that need to be rectified in some way and trickle down is viewed as a joke by almost all serious economists)

In lieu of that ability within the confines of hockay, I wanted to float the idea of finding ways for people with excess money to spend that money in ways that don’t fundamentally create inherent unfairness.

For example it would be neat to develop some sort of marketplace in which you could buy facility improvements for your team of choice. These might need to have their usefulness tapered down until the wealth distribution is more equitable or there are more fans that can work together to exert similar levels of influence.

So for example team a could contribute between its fans to buy a nicer weight room for their team which might boost strength stats slightly for a season. perhaps the item could cost less depending on how many people contribute to avoid one person buying massive amounts of improvements for their teams. also it would need to be something that doesn’t fundamentally alter the matchups of the teams and lead to massive upsets.

Additionally i think rewards for donating loonies to new player funds or establishing charities in the imaginary confines of Hockay such as having end of season awards named after you could contribute to a greater desire to use loonies favorably in ways other than consolidation of power.

I’m up for any sorts of ideas to help with the problems of wealth distributon and further uses of loonies in order to help stimulate the economy and drive greater engagement and meaningfulness for everyone and not just the top most invested players.

I do think it will be hard as well considering the amount of teams with one or no fans and some teams that have 40+. Which is another inequality in the game currently. most of these issues are going to be exacerbated by a smaller amount of fans for their sport overall and should be lessened as the sport grows.

Perhaps we have a pool of loonies we can take from each bet that contributes to a raffle at the end of season that your chances are based on the place in which your team finished?
or maybe that is distributed between the fans of the top three teams’ fans like a prize pool

just gonna document more ideas as they pop up.