[MUD-Dev] Game Economies

[J C Lawrence]

On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 17:07:52 -0600 
Neill Dang <Timothy> wrote:

> NPC shopkeepers should not be thought of as a participants in the
> game's economy unless you're willing to invest heavily in AI
> development. 

I'm not sure I agree.  The typical simplistic view of NPC merchents
is to ignore supply chain mechanics and prediction.  I don't really
see why -- its not *that* hard a problem to solve with a decent
message passing based protocol for NPC interactions (requests,
orders, fulfilments, status updates, etc).

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