Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy

From: nicholso@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Melvin H. Nicholson YBH)

Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1992 17:58:55 +0000

I'm back (having been gone out of the US for two weeks).

It's funny that this huge discussion about free market economy should
pop up now, since that is exactly what I was working on with Rich before
I left.  Here's a preview of the system as I envision it (the actual
system which gets implemented may be quite a bit different).  There
would be two forms of the buy/sell command.  The simplest would be to
buy/sell a single type of item and would work something like this:

Thus, both buyers and sellers would have a range of prices that they
would accept.  I have shown Rich a Market-side algorythm for deciding
what gets bought by whom, depending on offered prices and trade skill,
and the big hurdle now is developing the non-player portions of the
market.  Of course, this is a *big* undertaking, so don't hold your
breath.  I'll probably start sketching some new ideas this weekend for
Rich's approval, and I doubt there'll be anything ready to START
implementing for at least a month or three.

Oh.  I mention a second form of the <buy.sell> command:

This is for when you want to sell mupltiple items, and buy others...

market <days>
  <buy/sell> <item> <quantity> <min> <max>
  <buy/sell> <item> <quantity> <min> <max>
     :
     :
  <buy/sell> <item> <quantity> <min> <max>
done

The two forms allow both for flexibilty for the merchants who want to
do a lot of different things, and simplicity for the lone wanderer who
just want to buy some leather armour.

Mel

References

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
morrow@romulus.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Wed, 17 Jun 1992 21:52:14 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
rsocia@renaissance.cray.com (Rick Socia)
Wed, 17 Jun 1992 23:43:16 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
James.Cone@comp.vuw.ac.nz (James Cone)
Thu, 18 Jun 1992 03:14:56 +0000

Referenced By

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
morrow@romulus.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Wed, 17 Jun 1992 21:52:14 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
rsocia@renaissance.cray.com (Rick Socia)
Wed, 17 Jun 1992 23:43:16 +0000
Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
James.Cone@comp.vuw.ac.nz (James Cone)
Thu, 18 Jun 1992 03:14:56 +0000