Re: Olympia Teaching

From: Bill.Viggers@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Bill Viggers)

Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:45:55 +0000

In article <1992Jul23.003958.25887@julian.uwo.ca>, jwoolsey@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey) writes:
|> Now that the guilds are gone how about we change teaching. First let's surcharge
|> the % bonus that the teacher gives to all students. This means that if the
|> teacher, and the student are the same faction they transfer money to the teaching
|> unit. This is the same as it works currently, but if the teacher, and the
|> student are of different factions the teacher makes money. The student pays the
|> teacher. Now we get complicated. You can teach with no arguements (or teach 0)
|> This makes you teach anyone who is studying something you can teach them. For
|> example if you have a spell caster who uses his magic research, and you can
|> teach a spell he doesn't know you will teach him a spell. He pays you, and life
|> goes on. This allows people in towers to teach, and make money at it
|> automatically rather then relying on the pay command.
|>

I suggested a similar change to Rich earlier, basicaly modify teach
	to take an argument <extra cost> which is the extra cost per day
	you pay.

To prevent abuse, study has an extra argument that is the max_price
	you are willing to pay for tuition.  If there are two teachers in
	the stack, and both can help you, you pick the best one you can afford.
	If they give the same bonus, then you pick the cheapest one.

There should probably be a maximum number of people you can tutor at
	once (say teaching skill ^ 2?)

Bill.

References

Olympia Teaching
jwoolsey@gfx.engga.uwo.ca (John J. Woolsey)
Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:39:58 +0000