9 voices · 2026-07-12 21:08 WEDT · · nothing here is canon until you say so
Volume discounts on a reusable credit are incoherent. A credit is returned after use — it never burns. So someone who buys 100 discounted credits once has bought a permanent seat and never pays again. Even the optimist voice didn't defend it.
Their answer, with no dissent: credits belong to the PLAN, not to the person. Leased capacity, not owned slots.
Say it plainly in the copy and nobody ever feels cheated. Once credits lease with the plan, every other problem below gets easier — the discount curve becomes safe, and hoarding stops being profitable. This is the one decision I need from you.
Three voices found it independently. Your rule says: want a 5-credit Mush event? Do Mush service. But credits can be bought with money. So:
The free-rider rule binds the poor and not the rich — the exact opposite of what you meant.
⭐ The fix (my recommendation; several voices reached it separately) — and it makes your rule STRONGER, not weaker:
| Currency | What it can buy |
|---|---|
| 💶 Money | general credits — capacity, realm activation, companion depth |
| 🤝 Service | DOMAIN credits — and ONLY service can mint these |
A Mush credit cannot be bought. At any price. If you want into that community's deeper gatherings, you served that community — full stop, no matter who you are. That's the rule you actually meant, and it lands on everyone equally. Money buys you room; only service buys you standing.
Six of eight called the φ ladder "cute nonsense" — pack sizes of 13 and 65 obscure value rather than reveal it. "People buy in round tens." So: round numbers, no numerology on the pricing page.
But here's the nice part — your instinct on the floor was right. You said "$0.62 per credit" off the cuff; the council independently converged on a floor of $0.50–$0.62. Same number, arrived at from economics instead of aesthetics. Keep the floor, drop the fetish.
| Credits | Price | Per credit |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | $5 | $1.00 — the plan |
| 10 | $9 | $0.90 |
| 15 | $12 | $0.80 — your anchor, hit exactly |
| 25 | $18 | $0.72 |
| 50 | $32 | $0.64 |
| 100 | $60 | $0.60 — THE FLOOR. Never below. |
Your goal was "easy to use 100 credits a month" — at $60 that's a serious practitioner's monthly, and it never gets cheaper than 60¢. Your $20-for-25 guess came out slightly generous; the council put it at $18.
Mortar decays in a month. Mortar comes only from witnessing. Humans only. So people will hit desperate mortar deficits with a clock running — and:
Good news: your own guardrails already blunt this. Nobody may request to witness you, reviewers are assigned, not chosen, and the leniency dock you ruled an hour ago makes rubber-stamping worthless. You built the antibody before the council named the disease. Remaining gap: never let two people witness each other — block reciprocal pairs outright. I will brief that as law unless you object.
"Requiring domain credits to RUN the events that matter turns volunteering into a second job measured in tracked mortar." — deGrok. Rule: stewards and support teams EARN mortar and coins. They are never charged credits to steward. Serving must never cost.
We now have tiles · coins · tokens · tesserae · mortar · joy-credits · plan-credits · practice-credits · domain-credits. "If users find this model convoluted, it will alienate rather than attract." The economy is beautiful, and it is nine nouns deep. I would like to do a pass whose only job is to make it explainable in four sentences to someone who just wants to go to a jam. Say the word and I will take it.
1. Leased or owned? (council: unanimous leased — credits belong to the plan.)
Everything else waits on this.
2. Can money buy a DOMAIN credit — yes or no? (my strong rec: no, never.)
3. The curve above — yes, or move a number.
4. Block reciprocal witnessing pairs? (rec: yes, as law.)
Raw: council_runs/council_2026-07-12_210800_261349_25928.md. Pricing remains
frozen — no session is building a pricing surface. — Designee