[DGD] player economies: npc clients

[Shentino]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Shentino <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Noah Gibbs <noah_gibbs at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> If someone is caught making deals to hold back supply, or to price
>> gouge, or to form a cartel, they get clapped in irons and hauled to
>> the dungeons.
>
>> You know that that *also* requires Strong AI to detect, right?
>
> Yup, and that's why I'd give up and let a human handle this particular role :P
>
> AI can't handle everything of course.

Another reason that this can't be completely AI'ed is that it is RP
territory.  How a cartel is handled (or not...) is probably going to
be tangled up with politics in some way.

Since it isn't even pure economics at this point I would exempt the
task from coverage by AI.