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Topic: Current state of merchant agents? |  |
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Mark_Everson
Clash of Civilizations
Project Lead
Canton, MI, USA
b.02-15-99
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posted April 20, 2000 21:19
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TK:I see what you're saying, but at least as I'd envisioned it the player wouldn't know anything about individual merchants/corporations anyway... Only when they got to the point of being represented by a character would they be more noticeable than overall trade. However, what you suggest would be easy to do if it turns out there is some real advantage to it... Stuff2: A merchant/Corp. can certainly have more than one route. What you suggest seems kind of artificial in that a second good from a source city may well be more in need elsewhere. And so why should it go to a particular city, as opposed to the merchant who bids highest for it regardless of the city of origin of the merchant? I don't understand what you mean about ' terrain improvements ' as trade routes either... I think merchants will really work best if each merchant may have several routes, and each route stands on its own. Rodrigo: I wrote shimmin several months ago, and he was too busy to do anything further. I assume that's still the case... Merchants won't be implemented until at least demo 6 anyway, so we can keep discussing things at our leisure for the moment. |
shimmin
Chieftain
Illinois, USA
Sep 1999
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posted April 26, 2000 14:00
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Mark's right about my busy-ness. Actually, I just completed a senior design project yesterday, and look forward to having time to contribute again starting next week or so.Which threads would be most fruitful for me to read to catch up on the last six months of development? --RS |
Mark_Everson
Clash of Civilizations
Project Lead
Canton, MI, USA
b.02-15-99
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posted April 27, 2000 17:41
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Hi shimmin:Good to have you back! Actually, I don't think anything much that was done previously has been invalidated. So other than this thread, the best place to look is the main economics thread. Other than that we have been working on the demo 5 specifications for several areas... but since we weren't thinking we would get to merchants in demo 5 there isn't much there you need to be aware of I think. The demo 5 econ thread probably would be a good thing for you to look over anyway, but as I said I don't think it will be essential. | |
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