Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy (REALLY)

From: gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 16:30:31 +0000

In article <1992Jun23.155138.19293@aero.org> srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner) writes:

> In addition to prices pegging
>either high or low, I'd like to see merchants go out of business if
>they don't get enough business, and a mechanism for merchants to
>"spring up" if there's a demand that's not being fulfilled.

I didn't mention such because it's the kind of thing that should be
implemented by hand. It would take more time to program that sort of
thing, I think, than to just do it.

>Personally, I prefer a model in which merchants are explicitly
>modelled with independent units.

That's much, much more trouble for Rich to do, probably. In addition,
once you can rob an NPC merchant, you need more sophisticated means for
players and NPC's to defend people from being robbed. If it's only
player verses player you can get away with a simpler system.

If you really want to trash a market, ask for a LOOT <region> command
in which you attack everyone in an area, including some force of NPC's
representing the local population, and if you win you get to steal all
sorts of stuff. It would basically mostly destroy the local economy,
though. The slash-and-burn school of capitalism, you know.

References

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
nicholso@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Melvin H. Nicholson YBH)
Fri, 19 Jun 1992 17:58:55 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy (REALLY)
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 23 Jun 1992 05:41:45 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy (REALLY)
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Tue, 23 Jun 1992 15:51:38 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
nicholso@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Melvin H. Nicholson YBH)
Fri, 19 Jun 1992 17:58:55 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy (REALLY)
gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 23 Jun 1992 05:41:45 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy (REALLY)
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Tue, 23 Jun 1992 15:51:38 +0000