Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy

From: sjc@cs.purdue.EDU (Steve Chapin)

Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 20:38:00 +0000

}} In article <1992Jun17.133157.25817@walter.cray.com> rsocia@renaissance.cray.com (Rick Socia) writes:
}}
}} Proposal - What do you think of having markets being treated like structures,
}} having an owner.  That owner would be responsible for setting prices.

Hmm.  I'm not sure I like this, because it will allow for price
fixing, and could make it nearly impossible for new players to do
anything.  I'm not positive on population, but I would guess that the
total number of figures in all the units in all the factions in oly is
< 1% of the total population of the world.  Thus, most of the market
forces should be outside the (direct/complete) control of players.

Our current model (on the now legendary Todo list) has a market system
that players can influence slightly with large sales/purchases.
Prices might change, but will move slowly to follow supply/demand
curves.  We're trying to be very careful to avoid allowing a small
cabal of players to control the whole olympian economy.

}} Rick Socia
}} CRAY Research, Inc.

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References

Olympia - Free Market Economy
rsocia@renaissance.cray.com (Rick Socia)
Wed, 17 Jun 1992 13:31:57 +0000

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Olympia - Free Market Economy
rsocia@renaissance.cray.com (Rick Socia)
Wed, 17 Jun 1992 13:31:57 +0000