Credit Report

[chazumaru]

@mack41

If everyone hits X amount of credits (say 6 or 8 when they’d earn an episode spend) an improv zone is triggered with instant effect.

The Tekken 8 team should hire you to fix their game’s balance.

[allcityslopshop]

honestly, I don’t know that there’s any potential purpose for the credits that’ll amuse me more than the panelists’ week-to-week indifference about them

[billy]

Jaffe curates a small selection of physical items in a real-world item shop.

[rejj]

The number of credits a panellist currently has gets directly related to the volume of the Horrible Buzzer that is now piped in to their headphones during the live recording

[VNMND]

For my bad idea to work, Jaffe would need to trigger Credit Inflation, perhaps by rolling a die and awarding the resulting number of credits at the end of each episode to the winner. Then Jaffe would cast Final Fantasy Tactics Calculator-esque spells like Level (x) Credit Swap, in which banked credits that are multiples of (x) are swapped between contestants. But if that week’s calculation affects all 3 panelists’ credit banks: Improv Zone

[Toph]

I like the idea of credit scores resetting at some point. It makes them less precious and may incentivize their use more often. To go along with resetting scores maybe at the reset instead of starting at zero they start with maybe 3 credits to ease the burden of building up credits over time while still having the option to use some of the smaller redemptions for things they would like to speak more on or introduce.

Also has there been any discussion about panelists combining their credit scores to reach certain goals? Like if the panelists wanted to team up to create a joint episode or rename the Question Hole as a group effort.

Also to go along with making the panel play a game, perhaps an option to make the panel play a game together?

[Magnanimous]

Puppy Cam - for the low low price of 1 credit, someone can force everyone to bring their pets on the video call (unless it’s too inconvenient for the animal).

Useful if there’s a real bummer of a question and you need a better vibe.

[FishHead]

@Kiki

In general it’s probably better to have the rules be as simple as possible, otherwise it’s gonna be impossible to keep track of.

@tombo

I personally think the rules should be really complicated so that any discussion of the credit system sounds like a JRPG upgrade tree. I think that would be nice.

I agree with both of you

[Tom]

If the total credit count gets too high then @Jaffe creates a topic and whatever post has the highest like count, that’s either a question in the show (20 credits) or the subject of the entire episode (30 credits).

[Sun_Crypt]

If a panelist has over 10 credits they must provide the annoying buzzer each week

[marcidy]

The below are ideas. Not necessarily GOOD ideas.

Credits could expire

Implement UBI. You are always getting credits but they expire.

Add modifiers

• increase spending once someone else spends
• stacking
• moving the stacked effects to someone else (Reversal of Fortune, etc)

Uno-like mechanics with reversals, skips, temporary penalties against other players.

• You currently skip questions which is good
• Skipping PEOPLE is funnier (also meaner so maybe not)
• Spend a credit to answer anyways

Turn this thing into a deck-builder.

• Buy abilities you hold in a hand instead of having the full menu available all the time.
• Earn credits in a “round” of play (let’s say 4 shows)
• Have a spend phase where you buy abilities for your deck/hand
• Max deck/hand is 5 abilities, whatever, to force play or at least a discard.

You could make a monthly / quarterly / wheneverly event where credits are exchanged and it resets the table.

• e.g. a longer-term RPG-ish / dungeon crawling / whatever campaign and you spend credits to get ready for the next encounter. Don’t take this too literally, just vibes.

Adjacently, and I’m sure you all pay attention to this, if this gets too gamified you will lose the good discussion. Partitioning off the gamification into specific segments would keep the variety and novelty and also let the conversation flourish.

[palo]

you could spend a number of credits to add a credit rule

[esper]

i like this because it would save me work

[SteveWithaB]

Have user-submitted buzzers dried up?

[Chekhonte]

I think the credit system might not work because everyone in the show are overworked professionals and a lot of the things that one can spend credits on involves work or time consumption. Like I don’t think anyone in the show is going to make somebody play a game unless they are confident that they’ll enjoy it or be delighted by hating it. Finding a way to incentivize spending credits seems like a way to go but I don’t know the people on the show well enough to say what kind of prizes would result in this outcome.

[Kiki]

I think the most solid solution is for Jaffe to threaten shenanigans that the panelists need to spend credits to shoot down, then.

[mack41]

Could pool the guest credits for any guest to use as desired

[esper]

not really, I just have to remember to go to the inbox and pick one and also remind Jaffe to read out the name of the person who made them.

[Toph]

I do like the idea of guests having complementary credits they could spend or distribute in a wild card sort of fashion.

[LeFish]

Once a month there should be a Mario Party-esque Chance Time game. Jaffe “rolls the dice” as it were to determine who is at risk of losing their credits, who the recipient of said credits are, and how many credits are at stake (e.g. one, two, all of them). People’s credits can be given to, but not taken from, Jaffe and he can use them to nominate a game for people to play once he’s accumulated enough from other panellists.