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<LI><em>To</em>: "'<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>'" <<A HREF="mailto:mud-dev#kanga,nu">mud-dev#kanga,nu</A>></LI>
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<LI><em>From</em>: "Koster, Raph" <<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:21:34 -0500</LI>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans-Henrik Staerfeldt [<A HREF="mailto:hhs#cbs,dtu.dk">mailto:hhs#cbs,dtu.dk</A>]
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 8:32 AM
> To: 'mud-dev#kanga,nu'
> Subject: RE: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies
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> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Koster, Raph wrote:
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> > > like it might be able to be correlated to a progressive
> income tax.
> >
> > We did something like that on UO for a while--the total
> quantity of gold in
> > the system was tied to the total size of the playerbase,
> and goods/gold on
> > monsters (or issued by shops) was tied to how much remained
> in the "bank"
> > (eg, not in play, either on monsters or in players' hands).
> >
> > The system broke because players hoarded *everything*. Soon
> no monsters were
> > worth killing because they had no loot whatsoever, and
> every shop was out of
> > stock and out of cash.
> >
>
> Did you make 'the game' passive in this balance, or did 'the game' try
> harder to get at the resources if the players hoarded them?
> If hoarding
> caused repeated attacks on players/settlements, soon hoarded resources
> would be brought 'back into the economic loop'.
That was the idea, only it didn't manifest for numerous reasons, chief among
them being the fact that players found/demanded secure storage where things
could not be gotten at by the game by any means, including even normal
time-based decay.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00821" HREF="msg00821.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Laurel Fan <a href="mailto:lf25+@andrew.cmu.edu">lf25+@andrew.cmu.edu</a>, Tue 15 Jun 1999, 18:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00825" HREF="msg00825.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Albert <a href="mailto:thecheezeman#earthlink,net">thecheezeman#earthlink,net</a>, Wed 16 Jun 1999, 04:32 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00702" HREF="msg00702.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00829" HREF="msg00829.html">[MUD-Dev] Different approaches?</A></strong>,
Dani Dumitrescu <a href="mailto:recuperating#home,com">recuperating#home,com</a>, Thu 17 Jun 1999, 15:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00704" HREF="msg00704.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 17:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00718" HREF="msg00718.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Greg Munt <a href="mailto:greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk">greg#uni-corn,demon.co.uk</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 22:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00736" HREF="msg00736.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 02:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00747" HREF="msg00747.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Economies</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 06:47 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00761" HREF="msg00761.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Game Economies</A></strong>,
Shawn Halpenny <a href="mailto:malachai#iname,com">malachai#iname,com</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 18:12 GMT
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