[MUD-Dev] Game Economies

[Caliban Tiresias Darklock]

On 09:43 PM 6/9/99 -0700, I personally witnessed Matthew Mihaly jumping up
to say:
>
>Actually, this sounds like sort of the opposite of what JC is talking
>about. A good example of what he is talking about is the game of Life (not
>the board game). 

Well... um... I don't really see the difference. 

>Defining what the outcome is going to be is sort of the opposite of this
>sort of thing. 

I'm not defining the outcome, really. I'm defining a small series of
variables which have predictable ranges. These variables in turn depend on
each other in different ways -- which gives you a very complex system with
a huge amount of apparent variation, when you're really just shifting a
couple hundred variables according to very simple formulae. It *looks* like
there are thousands upon thousands of things changing in a very complicated
series of interdependencies, but there are really just a couple hundred of
them changing independently and affecting each other in play. 

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