Hubdub Quarterly Reset Issues

Since this is unofficial can I ask why people need this redistribution plan. When I signed up the leader had 20 times what I had to start. Does bill gates having billions of dollars makes people who are opening up businesses think I can't do this. No it inspires them to what can be done. I think this redistribution plan is being pushed by those on the bottom of the leaderboards (or not on it at all) and if they spent the same amount of time trying to research news that they are crying about not having any money, they would be well off. For example, the American Idol question about who was going to be voted on yesterday, with 10 minutes of research they could have seen it was going to be a coin flip between kristi and amanda, well looking at the question it was 80% for kristi cook and 8% for amanda. Well placing a 100 bet on amanda would have netted what 1200 bucks. That is what I did, others could have done the same. Crudsy is prime example he is doing excellent job still generating huge % returns and that is harder to do with alot of hubweath (thanks for the term anaverageamerican).
I think as a hubdub community we could simply stand up and say we like the current system.

Once you make changes (along the lines as proposed) to cash amounts (ie the ability to wager), you have made HD into two games, the quarterly game(s) and the all-time game. If you accept wealth-alteration (which I'm okay with personally), then that's what you're accepting - a splitting of the "game" into two. [But the alternative is not so bad - quarterly amounts are zeroed, questions are left as is, net worth and available to bet stays as is, basically the game remains as is, but the quarterly board is "fresh" and you can also view weekly % gain. It's not perfect, but it at least makes sense and works. I wonder if the problem here is that they are implementing quarterly change-over AND wealth-redistribution all at the same time?]

Not just because it's mine, after reading the various ideas put forward, I like my idea best.

To summarize, each quarterly game starts at equal (or pole position near-equal). All questions created in a given quarter belong to that quarter alone. At the end of a quarter all questions not settled are suspended (no bets, no cash-ins) until they are settled (maybe a rule where questions can only be up to a year in advance?). In settling a question from a previous quarter, the pay-out or loss affects the players' totals from that past quarter. A question which is thus suspended at end of quarter can be duplicated (using its current odds but initially with no wagers) for the new quarter.

The results from all quarters are used to determine the all-time totals, but other than this and the respawning of long-term questions to the new quarter each quarter is a completely separate game.

An alternative to suspending questions at quarter-end is to leave the game open, but suspend new questions. You keep your cash and predictions, you can still wager and cash-in, but slowly the questions will run out, and perhaps the game totally finishes after 12 months. HOWEVER, Q1 game has no influence on Q2 game. So April 15th, 2009, you could be finishing off Q3, Q4, Q5 and starting Q6, as well as following the all-time game (which just adds up Q1-Q6 results).

As can be seen, this method leaves the long-term (less than 12 months) questions as is. Their results still add to (or subtract from) all-time worth, and you can still play them (bet more, cash-in) until they're settled.

Although it may look complicated, it actually may be very easy to implement. Questions, cash amounts and open predictions etc are all tagged by the quarter they belong to. The quarterly games exist side by side but independently.

Hi all, just a quickie to say we are following these discussions, just not responding to every post. Your suggestions have given us food for thought, and we'll respond in full shortly.

Thanks for your continued input.

Tom