Corrowland - Revision history

Adamcolton at 15:02, 23 August 2018

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Adamcolton: /* Economy */

2013-11-11T15:27:33Z

Economy

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	Land reverts back to open if the owner does nothing with it for a period of time (something like 2 months). Simply stepping foot on the property or having a player you've granted access step on the property is enough.		Land reverts back to open if the owner does nothing with it for a period of time (something like 2 months). Simply stepping foot on the property or having a player you've granted access step on the property is enough.

			==== Government ====
			Similar to real estate, a flag is planted to claim an area. A few differences though. Land belongs to individuals, governments have several ownership models. When the flag is planted, the initial government type has to be declared, but the government can change (and by changing to anarchy, the government is dissolved). Governments can be Monarchies, Tribal (ruled by a faction), Feudal (democracy where strength of vote is based on land ownership), Democratic (each landowner gets one vote, regardless of land) and Feudal/Democratic Representative.

			The flag will have to stay in place for a much longer period of time (probably a week).

	=== Contracts ===		=== Contracts ===

Adamcolton: /* Quality Tiers */

2013-11-11T15:12:32Z

Quality Tiers

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	# Legendary		# Legendary

	Roughly speaking, the power increases linearly, but the effort to produce them increases geometrically.		Roughly speaking, the power increases linearly, but the effort to produce them increases geometrically. The benefits of each level will also follow normal distribution that overlaps the level above and below. So, for a given attribute, the average of each level will be evenly distributed linearly. But for a given level, something like 25% will be stronger than the next level up and 25% will be weaker than one level down. But increase of two levels is guaranteed to improve all qualities.

	=== Wear and Fatigue ===		=== Wear and Fatigue ===

Adamcolton: /* Factions */

2013-11-11T15:07:34Z

Factions

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	Players and some possessions will track reputation and history. Valued possessions (tools and weapons of a high enough quality) will track their history. Created, owned, sold, stolen and given. Players will track certain elements of their history (kills, high quality crafted items, trades) and this will be summarized into a reputation.		Players and some possessions will track reputation and history. Valued possessions (tools and weapons of a high enough quality) will track their history. Created, owned, sold, stolen and given. Players will track certain elements of their history (kills, high quality crafted items, trades) and this will be summarized into a reputation.

	===Factions===		=== Factions ===
	Initially I was against factions, but if I make it so that you cannot attack anyone in an allied faction, then some zones become safe by default.		Initially I was against factions, but if I make it so that you cannot attack anyone in an allied faction, then some zones become safe by default.

			It would be interesting to allow factions to set alliances (friendly, neutral, enemy). That way there would be a complex shifting landscape of alliances. Along with the governments, that could produce some very interesting effects.

	==Goals==		==Goals==

Adamcolton at 15:01, 11 November 2013

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	~~==Development==~~
	~~===In Progress===~~
	Nothing right now, I'm going to make Space-chess as a learning project in Go first. If, after completing that, I feel I'm ready to start on this I will set an in progress list. I may choose to create an intermediate project for more practice, but I hope that is not necessary.

	== A Model of Expertise ==		== A Model of Expertise ==
	One of the things I want is to encourage expertise without enforcing it. By enforcing I'm referring to the games that limit your character to a specific skill set. I want players to have one or two skill sets by choice, not constraint. The real world effect that I want to mimic is economies of scale.		One of the things I want is to encourage expertise without enforcing it. By enforcing I'm referring to the games that limit your character to a specific skill set. I want players to have one or two skill sets by choice, not constraint. The real world effect that I want to mimic is economies of scale.

Adamcolton at 15:00, 11 November 2013

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 * Traveling sales man
 * Havana
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Adamcolton: /* Tools */

2013-07-29T03:04:04Z

Tools

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	Roughly speaking, the power increases linearly, but the effort to produce them increases geometrically.		Roughly speaking, the power increases linearly, but the effort to produce them increases geometrically.

			=== Wear and Fatigue ===
			Tools will have two dimension of drain. The first is wear - this is akin to the dulling of a blade. It is cheap to sharpen a worn tool. Fatigue is damage to the tool over time and is more expensive to repair. The two are also related in that a sharp tool takes no fatigue while it's in the top 5% after being sharpened, then as wear increases, the rate of fatigue increases proportional to the square of wear. Fatigue is fuzzy, any tool below 50% fatigue can break, but the chance is slim. As fatigue approaches 100%, the probability of the tool breaking approaches 100%.

	==Magic==		==Magic==

Adamcolton: /* Magic */

2013-07-24T15:23:39Z

Magic

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	==Magic==		==Magic==
			* Runes - inscribing patterns of runes on items give it properties.
	~~===Energy===~~
	Magic is rare. It's not exactly powerful - a basic 'fireball' spell would be roughly as powerful as an arrow or bolt, but would "cost" dozens of times more. The advantage of magic is the ability to infinitely compound it.

	To charge a wand requires that you 'spend' a crystal - diamond, topaz, ruby. These crystals can hold energy (at different conversion and loss rates). The basic process would be to build a charging stand, place a crystal in it along with an energy source (coal, sunlight) and let the crystal absorb the energy. The crystal will charge until it's absorption rate is equal to it's loss rate. When the crystal is removed from the charging stand, it starts losing energy. When the crystal is imbued into the wand the crystal is destroyed and the wand holds the energy (at no loss).

	Extensions on this may be the ability to transfer energy from several crystals into one, yielding a much higher conversion (but the curve would peak quickly then drop slowly, unlike normal charging that would peak and plane). Or you may focus light using reflectors and lenses. There could be temporary modifiers to the change rate (gains as well as loss, this allows a crystal to be charged then 'frozen' temporarily allowing players to reasonably work with a powerful crystal before it loses most of it's energy).

	A highly complex operation may use many reflectors to focus light onto several crystals, which are then all frozen and transferred to a central location and all their energy is transferred to a single crystal. This would allow one crystal to be hundreds of times more powerful than a normally charged one.

	~~===Jeweled===~~
	~~Crafted items can be jeweled for additional bonuses (like DF). So a hammer might feel lighter, a decanter increase water purity, a sword increase damage against NPC enemies.~~

	~~=== Types ===~~
	~~This is a seperate line of thought from the rest of this section.~~
	* Runes - ~~enscribing~~ patterns of runes on ~~itmes~~ give it properties.
	* Alchemy - combining item into magic components (metals, potions)		* Alchemy - combining item into magic components (metals, potions)
	* Enchanting - ~~Embues~~ items with special properties		* Enchanting - Imbues items with special properties
	* Sourcing/Sorcery - Requires a source, but allows the transfer of energy (fireballs, lightning, ice)		* Sourcing/Sorcery - Requires a source, but allows the transfer of energy (fireballs, lightning, ice)
	* ~~Archane~~ - Very rare magical items can be activated, very powerful. When multiple ~~archane~~ sources are brought together, their powers change, but beyond a certain level of power, they tend to backfire		* Arcane - Very rare magical items can be activated, very powerful. When multiple arcane sources are brought together, their powers change, but beyond a certain level of power, they tend to backfire
	* Spells - very low level magic. Reading a script (which takes time) gives a buff.		* Spells - very low level magic. Reading a script (which takes time) gives a buff.

Adamcolton: /* Counter AI Systems */

2013-07-24T15:21:46Z

Counter AI Systems

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	Further - though this is unrelated to AI - I want these system balanced between different types of human thinking. Some are going to be Baysian style strategic problems (like poker), others will be like the Bean Game (I'm terrible at it, so I don't know what to call that). The only thing there's not is luck.

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Adamcolton: /* 5/9/2013 Notes */

2013-07-24T15:21:29Z

5/9/2013 Notes

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	Further - though this is unrelated to AI - I want these system balanced between different types of human thinking. Some are going to be Baysian style strategic problems (like poker), others will be like the Bean Game (I'm terrible at it, so I don't know what to call that). The only thing there's not is luck.		Further - though this is unrelated to AI - I want these system balanced between different types of human thinking. Some are going to be Baysian style strategic problems (like poker), others will be like the Bean Game (I'm terrible at it, so I don't know what to call that). The only thing there's not is luck.

	~~== 5/9/2013 Notes ==~~
	Thinking more about player interaction. Rather than a complex system of contracts, I think the same thing could be accomplished with three easier pieces. Exchange, contracts and reputation. Exchanges are simple, I give you x, you give me y, end of story. Contracts are also simple - a written agreement between two players. There is no scripted component. Contracts are either open or closed. Any open contract gives each player the opportunity to submit a review up until a set date. The reviews only become public either when both players have entered their review or the date is passed. Reputation is also simple, each party in a contract give a satisfaction rating to the other; positive, negative or neutral along with a comment. If the date expires, the contract is automatically given a neutral rating.

	While this system pushes a lot of the complexity onto the players, it should be able to achieve anything a more complex system could, just with a lower accuracy. But it gets more flexibility for less coding cost.

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