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<LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 20:49:40 -0700</LI>
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On 08:13 PM 6/9/99 -0700, I personally witnessed J C Lawrence jumping up to
say:
>
>XScreenSaver has a module called "attraction". Run it. The
>mechanics are extremely simple and quite obvious to the eye. Now
>consider that eacy ball is in fact a system value or state in your
>game and that your screen is a two-dimenional graph (with
>appropriately valued axis for each ball). All of a sudden, with
>very simple mechanics you have rather interesting behaviours for
>little expense.
Based purely on this description, this is just the sort of thing I'm
looking at with UU. The existing economy is excessively simple, excessively
predictable, *if* you pay close attention to it. A little observation will
teach you what everything "should" cost in the game and whether 18 credits
a ton for water is a high price or a low one. But it's a really effective
*illusion* of a complex economy; it just fudges the idea of supply and
demand to make it appear that things are complicated when in fact there's
just a random fluctuation on a set of very simple calculations. A bunch of
theoretical calculations are lumped together into a final answer, which is
rapidly calculated based on available variables, and then I just go "umm,
well, okay, it's not always going to be PERFECT, so let's give it... say, a
ten percent skew in one direction or the other". I like the elegance of
this approach. I'm trying to extend it to other things... yeah, I know, the
magic is sort of gone now, isn't it? ;)
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00696" HREF="msg00696.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Jo Dillon <a href="mailto:emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk">emily#thelonious,new.ox.ac.uk</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 15:27 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00831" HREF="msg00831.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Timothy O'Neill Dang <a href="mailto:timothy#nmia,com">timothy#nmia,com</a>, Thu 17 Jun 1999, 15:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00854" HREF="msg00854.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Marian Griffith <a href="mailto:gryphon#iaehv,nl">gryphon#iaehv,nl</a>, Fri 18 Jun 1999, 20:42 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00662" HREF="msg00662.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00669" HREF="msg00669.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 03:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00681" HREF="msg00681.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 06:14 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00684" HREF="msg00684.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 07:09 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00732" HREF="msg00732.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00754" HREF="msg00754.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
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