Re: Olympia Economics & Strategic Warfare

From: tchilds@metz.une.oz.au (TERANCE CHILDS)

Date: Fri, 22 May 1992 04:02:20 +0000

In article <1992May20.185532.17800@tridom.com>, jrives@tridom.uucp (Joel Rives) writes:
> The amount of gold in any given area should be:
>       = amount brought into the area by players

The maintainance money used by a unit should be pumped into
   the local economy. For example a 1000 man army travelling through
   a region will cause an economic boom for that region. This is assuming
   that the army needs food etc etc.

>       + amount representing the pool of gold controlled by the market
>       + amount in the pockets of the general populace
      The amount going into the region (or being created in the region)
  should slowly(?) go into the market pool and into the pockets of the
  locals. There should also be a negative term in the above equation
  to represent money going out of the region via trade etc etc. This would
  allow regions to enjoy booms times but also recessions.

> Units of farmers (or part of the general populace) can work on the land
> to increase it's productivity and harvest the crops. Some excess can
> be stored. The crops, farmers and stored food become potential assets
> as well as potential targets for raids or attacks by the enemy. The landowner
> becomes the protectorate of the lands (as was the case during the Middle Ages)
> and a Feudalistic society is born!
>
      If we assume that PC's are in charge of a region then it should be up to
  the player to spend money on projects eg mining, food production, ship-
  building, logging, etc etc. This means that a player that does nothing
  except roam the country side in search of adventure, will cause the region
  to go down the tub along with his tax income.

Using these kinds of variables will make the game much more political
  oriented, but still allowing players to explore the world if they wish to
  do so. It could also be said that after a while, the top twenty players
  would control the world and it would be very hard for newbies (such as
  myself) to stake out a piece of the world. I don't know the answer to this
  problem. Perhaps a solution would be to declare a PC the winner after a
  while and then restart the game. Another would be to introduce random
  "events" to shake the foundations of the kings and queens. These would
  include earthquakes, meteor strikes, large NPC armies, assasination
  of PC's by NPC's, etc etc. However this would obviously not be fair
  to the PC's affected.

Terry Childs
 tchilds@metz.une.edu.au
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> Joel M. Rives                           INTERNET: jrives@eng.tridom.com

References

Olympia Economics & Strategic Warfare
jrives@tridom.uucp (Joel Rives)
Wed, 20 May 1992 18:55:32 +0000

Referenced By

Olympia Economics & Strategic Warfare
jrives@tridom.uucp (Joel Rives)
Wed, 20 May 1992 18:55:32 +0000