Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy

From: srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)

Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1992 23:16:36 +0000

I think the "right" thing to do is implement a mechanism for
selling/buying, something like "OFFER longsword 100 5", which would
offer to sell up to 5 longswords for 100 each.  Similarly, you'd have
"PAYING longsword 80 5" to indicate that you're buying up to 5
longswords from anyone for 80 each.  On the buyer's side, you'd add
something to BUY to indicate who you are buying from, and the game
would handle exchanging of money.

Once this was implemented, "markets" could be done away with completely.
Instead, NPC units would take their place, and PC units could also act
as merchants.

Naturally, these merchants would want protection, so they'd hire guard
units, probably stack together in "merchant cooperatives", and voila!
you'd have markets back.  You could also have fun things like
treachery (bribing the market guards), stealing from the merchants,
travelling markets, and so on.  You'd also have the desired effect of
a limited supply of goods, although you *might* want to give some of
the NPC merchants "magical" supplies of certain things.

-- Scott T.

References

Re: Olympia - Free Market Economy
morrow@romulus.rutgers.edu (John Morrow)
Wed, 17 Jun 1992 21:52:14 +0000
Olympia - Free Market Economy
rsocia@renaissance.cray.com (Rick Socia)
Wed, 17 Jun 1992 13:31:57 +0000