Re: Olympia Lore Sheets for PCs

From: hauck@cs.washington.edu (Scott Hauck)

Date: Thu, 14 May 1992 18:38:42 +0000

I like this idea, but I agree with SRT - anything based solely on what players
say about themselves and others will not be used, because the Times and
e-mail are so much more effective at this.

However, one could imagine the lore sheets being created by the olympia system
itself, either wholly or in parts.  So, the level #0 lore sheet might have
a very brief description of the unit as generated by the unit owner.
Higher levels would then be information the olympia system provides. For
example:

Level #0: "Joe Shmortz, heir to the Throne of Antioch, and a complete loon."
Level #1: Battles fought in longer than 3 months ago
          People killed by this unit
Level #2: Battles fought in longer than 1 month ago
	  Skills it has studied (but not levels)
Level #3: Guild membership
	  Skill levels as of 3 months ago
Level #4: Skill levels
	  Equipment owned for more than 3 months
Level #5: Current equipment
	  Estimated possession value and gold
Level #6: Characters persuaded/terrorized over 3 months ago
	  idle command
Level #7: Characters persuaded/terrorized
	  Faction number
Level #8: List of faction members
	  Previous faction numbers (if switched loyalties)
Level #9: List of all other units HOSTILE or FRIENDLY specifically to this unit
Level #10: List of all other units non-NEUTRAL specifically to this unit or
	   faction

Obviously these need to be tuned, since I just plucked them out of the air.
Also, characters with STEALTH will be harder to research, so if a level
#2 stealth character has it's level #10 lore sheet requested, only the level
#8 sheet would be returned.

One other flaw with this is that it conflicts with (I assume) one of the
uses of OBSERVATION.  So, if it was included, it would have to be weaker than
OBSERVATION, since it can be done from afar, where OBSERVATION I assume would
require an agent to be at the same location.

Scott Hauck
haucK@cs.washington.edu

References

Olympia Lore Sheets for PCs
M22367@mwvm.mitre.org
Thu, 14 May 1992 14:55:27 +0000
Re: Olympia Lore Sheets for PCs
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Thu, 14 May 1992 17:17:30 +0000
Re: Olympia Lore Sheets for PCs
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Thu, 14 May 1992 17:35:01 +0000

Referenced By

Olympia Lore Sheets for PCs
M22367@mwvm.mitre.org
Thu, 14 May 1992 14:55:27 +0000
Re: Olympia Lore Sheets for PCs
cedman@714-725-3177.nts.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
Thu, 14 May 1992 17:17:30 +0000
Re: Olympia Lore Sheets for PCs
srt@aero.org (Scott "TCB" Turner)
Thu, 14 May 1992 17:35:01 +0000