Hereby is proposed an incentive system which cuts to the chase and goes straight to the final result of any user / creator incentivation, the distribution of MANA.
It is designed to prevent the direct resale of this MANA on the markets, and to ensure its ultimate dissemination into the DCL ecosystem:
MANA Coupons !
These coupons should only be redeemable at specific stations within a DCL scene, e.g. those where one can purchase extra daily actions for a scene’s game.
This would in the end provide funding for scene creation itself.
The SDK currently provides functionality to accept payment in MANA from within DCL directly (c.f. mana.send(...)).
It should be a simple matter to extend this functionality to also accept these proposed MANA coupons as well, and have this tied into a way for the corresponding DAO funds to be directly delivered to the creator(s) of the scene.
This furthermore opens the possibility of having DCL Gift Cards garnishing check-out lanes at supermarkets.
From what I understand, there is an incentive proposal, he is asking about giving those incentives as a new token which would be equel to 1 MANA but not saleable, only usable in game scenes, and then the creator of that scene can come to the DAO to convert that token back to MANA.
(Which the creator is going to sell, so we are back to the start point)
The main principle that is sought to be leveraged here is that a creator, being actively involved in DCL, is actually somewhat likely to keep the MANA, much more than one who would just receive it as airdrop.
But one of the main points is that even if the creator sells the MANA, the DAO will in essence end up having funded the scene creation itself. I edited the description to add that.
This is IMO what needs to be done to revert the Ghost-Town Plague… Encourage the creation of enticing scene experiences ! (which includes fixing the SDK by the way)
And really also inspire the creation of game dynamics that will make the users want to spend MANA in order to have even more of the experience…