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			== Economics in games ==

			I've always had an interest in games that have a realistic feel to them. A game's economic system is just one part of that experience. A great economic system can make games more interactive. I want to create immersive environments for players where players can make a difference.

			I ran across an article titled [http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20130603/193491/BazaarBot_An_OpenSource_Economics_Engine.php BazaarBot an Open Source Economics Engine] with a link to a [http://larc.unt.edu/ LARC] technical report entitled [http://larc.unt.edu/techreports/LARC-2010-03.pdf Emergent Economies for Role Playing Games] (EE4RPGs) that basically outlines a basic free-market system. I found the EE4RPGs paper interesting and decided to write a pure Java implementation with EE4RPGs as a guide.

			=== My game economic engine (EE) ===

			'''My initial design thoughts'''
			* Use EE4RPG as a basic guide
			* Write a pure Java implementation
			* Very low computational footprint
			* Multi-threaded or "thread safe"
			* Agents can be separated by time/distance
			* Agents within a market have access to instant communications
			* Support 1+n markets
			* I'd like to support two types of agent life cycle, one is perpetual (never dying) and one is dynamic (agents can be created/eliminated)

			After stand alone testing of the EE I would like to do more extensive testing. Maybe I will drop EE into a large chunk of space then I'll design a system of handling transportation of goods/services (commodities) in space. Initially I thought of using a Earthly-based simulation but why limit myself to one galactic object known as Earth? So a "space hauling simulation" sounds like a good test bed.

			'''My initial design thoughts on the space hauling simulation'''
			* Write pure Java implementation
			* dedicated server option
			* 1+n client/player support
			* Create a freight market (basically a bulletin board showing all open commodities to be shipped, accepted on contract basis)
			** open commodity shows
			*** buyer basic information (at least name, maybe some other data like political/economic affiliations)
			*** buyer location of commodity drop-off basic information (at least address, maybe security level of destination or other tidbits)
			*** buyer contract offer (transportation price)
			*** distance between pick-up and drop-off (shortest route, maybe option for shortest/safest)
			*** seller location of commodity pick-up basic information (at least address, maybe other tidbits)
			*** any other detail that facilitate the acceptance of hauling contracts
			* Create freight haulers (freight space ships)
			* Create freight companies (collection of many freight haulers)
			* Create pilots
			** pilots are human / alien
			** pilots age, have personalities, change over time, morale, lifestyles, eating habits, and many other factors
			* Create a pilot market (basically a bulletin board showing all pilots for hire)
			* Easy option to enable logging to disk of game data for export
			** support export data to text in HTML or SQL.
			** support export of a player pilot
			** support export of a player freight hauler
			** support export of a player freight company
			* random space events
			* add immersive relationship model
			* add space positioning system for system addressing
			* create randomly generated galaxies (seed based to share those cool galaxies) full of space objects
			* add ship to ship combat
			* add customization of ships
			* add leader boards (different metrics)
			* add retirement options (game ends voluntarily by player or retirement age addressed)
			* add RPG elements (pilots grow and age)

			That's my initial thoughts, with family and other priorities let me see how far I can get on spare time here and there.

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