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• • Money supply in game economies (formerly Brokeneconomies) geoffrey@yorku.ca
  • • Money supply in game economies (formerly Brokeneconomies) Matt Mihaly
      On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 geoffrey@yorku.ca wrote:
      
      > Matt wrote:
      
      >> a) If anyone has any ideas on how to make loans in a virtual world
      >> feasible? It has to be extremely difficult to defraud the banks
      >> (or interest rates will skyrocket to the point where there's no
      >> incentive to borrow).
      
      > It may be a naive standpoint, but doesn't the old rule of 'provide
      > the tools, they'll do the rest' apply here? I.e., the players have
      > the money, and they will, and do, extend loans - although I'm sure
      > they operate more as loan sharks than actual banks.
      
      I've never seen anyone in a MUD begin to reasonably simulate the way a
      bank gives loans. I see friends or acquantinces giving other friends
      or acquantinces loans, but I don't see 'banks' springing up where
      total strangers can go and get loans. The problem just boils down to
      the seemingly impossible task (at least in current game designs or
      forseen ones) of assessing player credit risk.
      
      Loan sharks don't fill the same purpose as a bank because a) they
      don't have enough money to loan and b) their interest rates are
      generally too high to be useful to an entrepreneur. Loan sharks appeal
      to either a) fools, or b) really desperate people.
      
      
      > If you mean running a central bank that governs interest rates
      > et. al., wouldn't the most effective means of accounting for all of
      > the difficulties involved be to guide its evolution over a
      > significant period of time, as opposed to implementing it in a
      > single patch? I.e., enact policy as difficulties arise, and as
      > consensual goals emerge.
      
      Well, the fundamental difficulty that I see is largely that of
      establishing credit risk for a given player, in terms of loans. You
      don't have to have loans to manage the money supply, but without a
      method like that, you end up regulating it through how much gold
      quests give out, how much gold monsters give out, etc, and you lose
      the ability for entrepreneurs to fund themselves via loans.
      
      
      >> b) Has anyone implemented systems in their worlds that allow
      >> players to act truly entrepreneurially?
      
      > What do you mean by 'truly'?
      
      > The guilds who sell protection are entrepreneurs.
      
      > The woman who does interior design in UO is an entrepreneur.
      
      > Even the players who used the bow command in UO to roleplay
      > prostitutes are entrepreneurs.
      
      > But, since I know you know all this already, I think I'm missing the
      > point of your question...
      
      As you'll see below, I talk about entrepreneurialism in terms of being
      able to multiply your efforts. There is no scope in current games to
      work your way up from employing 1 person to employing 1000 people,
      which is how most entrepreneurs get rich (generally they either invent
      something they can sell, or they multiply their efforts through taking
      a piece of the labour of others). Yes, a prostitute is an
      entrepreneur. She's not doing much entrepreneuring if she's not
      looking to expand though (and the only way she can do that is by
      becoming a pimp and taking a piece of other whores' action).
      
      
      >> I'm sure someone else can come up with a better list of
      >> requirements for this, but I'd think that it would at least need:
      
      >> 1. Multiply your efforts by employing (almost certainly) NPC
      >> workers.
      
      > Is there a reason it has to be NPCs? Wouldn't the shop keepers that
      > people could position in front of their tents in UO count towards
      > this?
      
      No, doesn't have to be NPCs, except that I would prefer to not make
      players be, say, labourers in a field or a factory. I don't think
      they'd enjoy it.
      
      
      >> 2. A wide range (hopefully open-ended, but I know in my case at
      >> least, that's beyond what I'm going to aim for) of
      >> interdependent businesses that can be formed and grown, or
      >> rather, a wide range of activities that a business may engage
      >> in.
      
      > A key part of entrepreneurialism is the spark of creativity and
      > inventiveness. I think a predetermined selection of possible
      > entrepreneurial ventures would play directly against the very nature
      > of the stated goal.
      
      Unfortunately, I don't see any way to make this an open ended system
      on a sufficiently large scale. I'm sure someone cleverer than me will
      figure it out, but I don't think I, for one, am capable of doing
      it. It seems to me that what this requires, almost by definition, is
      the ability to invent new products (and not just the same product with
      a new look) and to develop increasingly efficient methods of
      production. That's a mighty tall order for any game designer. If
      someone manages it well enough, I certainly will be signing up to
      play.
      
      
      > Again, I think a laissez faire approach (with the proper amount of
      > pushing in the right directions) would work best - let imagination
      > run its course...
      
      If the game systems don't recognize the imagination then you're
      playing a MUSH, and I don't think a competitive economy would work
      very well in an environment where you can essentially claim to be
      doing whatever you want.
      
      
      >> 3. A competitive environment, in which the incentive to do well
      >> is that you will make more money.
      
      > I think MUDs have this already - although I'd substitute 'wealth'
      > for 'money'.
      
      Sort of. For instance, as I understand the system now in UO, any
      incompetent can make money by following a very simple formula of
      gathering X commodities of Y and Z type, creating item A and selling
      it to mobile B. This doesn't require you to do anything well. In a
      competitive economy, that doesn't work, because there is a) limited
      demand and b) the ability to significantly differentiate your products
      in the eyes of the consumer, (generally by advertising, for instance).
      
      In Achaea, NPCs don't buy any player products, but by the same token,
      there is essentially no way to differentiate your product from the
      other guy's. You might produce a better sword this hour than the other
      guy, but the next hour he might produce a better sword. You could go
      out and pick 20 irid moss, but so could somebody else. If you're a
      Serpentlord, you could milk one of your 25-30 venoms into vials for
      weaponusers to apply to their weapons, but one dose of kalmia (or
      whatever venom) from you is exactly the same as one dose of kalmia
      from anyone else. You can't really run your shop(s) better than
      someone else, as the only way to cut costs is not to pay the property
      tax imposed by city governments, in which case your shop will get
      repossessed anyway.
      
      
      >> 4. Game systems supporting the formation and funding of
      >> independent entities (ie a corporate format).
      
      > This functionality would definitely need to be in place - although I
      > know of several MMORPGs in development who are adding this kind of
      > 'strategic' capability into their guild admin interfaces.
      
      They are adding the ability to create independent entities I assume,
      which is nothing new. If they're adding the ability to get a
      corporation funded (which then entails having a reasonably competent
      accounting and reporting system in place), I'm impressed.
      
      
      >> 5. Strong in-game legal systems with codified property,
      >> business, and contract law.
      
      > IMHO, points #4 and #5 are the only critera that would have to be
      > hard coded and 'designed'. #5 especially - as, arguably, only this
      > kind of legal framework can provide would be entrepreneurs with the
      > capacity to trust that their actions, and the fruits of their
      > actions, will be honoured and protected. Thus providing the
      > incentive to out new ideas...
      
      > Actually, I would argue that only points 4 and 5 are necessary to
      > foster entrepreneurialism from the POV of the designers. The rest
      > the players will handle on their own...
      
      I strongly disagree. If there's no game system supporting, say, the
      manufacturing of lemon-tree-warmers, then there is no way for a player
      to start a business making them. The same goes for any business in
      which anything but an intangible player attribute is sold (such as
      prostitution, in which case you just need the ability to describe
      interesting sex with the customer).
      
      Further, if you want to encourage entrepreneurialism, why would you
      not put the tools necessary to support it in the game? Why would you
      make players keep track of investments and take care of accounting
      outside of the game? That doesn't make sense to me.
      
      
      >> And then I think that the following would be nice, though not
      >> strictly necessary:
      
      >> 1. The ability to manage risk. This might be a little too
      >> sophisticated, but I just think it'd be neat if I could own a
      >> series of, say, lemon tree farms, and reduce my exposure to
      >> weather-related risk by buying options on tree-warming-equipment
      >> manufacturers, or sell futures to lock in a price now.
      
      >> 2. Financial markets supporting, at the least, bonds and common
      >> stocks, so that companies can raise money from the general public,
      >> and because it'd be neat to try and make a living as a trader.
      
      > Again, rather than trying to implement the model currently in
      > existence in the rw, I think a more successful approach would be to
      > plant the seeds that lead, over time, to this kind of system
      > emerging from the myriad of individual actions taken by your
      > players.
      
      Well, for the same reason that you don't require your playerbase to
      invent steel, for example, or fire. If your game is only going to be
      around for 5-10 years, then you can't start from scratch and
      reasonably expect your player base to develop all these things in that
      time period.
      
      By way of example, about 2 and a half years ago, a player in Achaea
      tried starting our first corporation. Unfortunately, we had minimal
      code to support it. The game was small enough at that point that
      everybody knew who he was, so he gathered money in a "friends and
      family" sort of way. He then quit the game and everybody lost their
      money. There was no alternative to this, because there was no
      corporate format available that would ensure that the entity outlasts
      its creator.
      
      
      > I realize you're a critic of modeling too heavily upon the real
      > world, but I think tracing the history of existing financial
      > structures, and setting the process in motion from the beginning
      > would be the most effective way of ensuring that whatever financial
      > emerged met the needs of your world. This method would also help
      > significantly with the inevitable bugs that would occur, as you'd be
      > able to discover them slowly over time - working towards their
      > resolution could even become part of the gaming experience.
      
      The economies in current games do not even come close to resembling
      the sort of economy we're discussing here. Current ones are extremely
      primitive, and I just don't think it's realistic to think that in the
      5-10 years of a game's lifespan, the playerbase will evolve to such an
      incredibly high degree in such an incredibly short amount of time.
      
      --matt
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                          • TECH: Distributed Muds Bruce
                    • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
                    • • TECH: Distributed Muds Chris Gray
                      • • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
                        • • TECH: Distributed Muds Chris Gray
                          • • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
                            • TECH: Distributed Muds Kwon Ekstrom
                            • • TECH: Distributed Muds Chris Gray
                              • TECH: Distributed Muds Bruce
                              • • TECH: Distributed Muds Chris Gray
                                • • TECH: Distributed Muds Bruce
                                • TECH: Distributed Muds Kwon Ekstrom
                                • • TECH: Distributed Muds Bruce
                                • TECH: Distributed Muds Neil Brown
              • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
              • • TECH: Distributed Muds Caliban Tiresias Darklock
                • • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
                  • • TECH: Distributed Muds Bruce
                    • TECH: Distributed Muds Caliban Tiresias Darklock
                  • TECH: Distributed Muds Derek Snider
                  • • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
                    • • TECH: Distributed Muds shren
                      • • TECH: Distributed Muds John Buehler
                • TECH: Distributed Muds Steven Fleischaker
                • • TECH: Distributed Muds Jon Lambert
                  • • TECH: Distributed Muds Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
                    • • TECH: Distributed Muds Chris Gray
                      • • TECH: Distributed Muds Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
                  • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
                  • TECH: Distributed Muds Caliban Tiresias Darklock
                • TECH: Distributed Muds Christopher Kohnert
                • • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
                • TECH: Distributed Muds Chris Gray
                • • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
                  • • TECH: Distributed Muds Chris Gray
                • TECH: Distributed Muds Kwon Ekstrom
      • TECH: Distributed Muds Bruce
      • • TECH: Distributed Muds Vincent Archer
        • • TECH: Distributed Muds Brad Roberts
          • • TECH: Distributed Muds Vincent Archer
• [DESIGN] Economic & Currency Solutions Phillip Lenhardt
• Curtailing the 'Super-Rich' Effect Bob McFakename
• • Curtailing the 'Super-Rich' Effect Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
  • • Curtailing the 'Super-Rich' Effect Jim S
• TECH: Flash Crowds and overflow control Gavin Doughtie
• • TECH: Flash Crowds and overflow control Marc Bowden
  • • TECH: Flash Crowds and overflow control Vincent Archer
    • • TECH: Flash Crowds and overflow control Koster, Raph
      • • TECH: Flash Crowds and overflow control J C Lawrence
        • • TECH: Flash Crowds and overflow control Marc Bowden
  • TECH: Flash Crowds and overflow control Justin Rogers
• BUSINESS: I need Online Gaming Revenue Projections. F. Randall Farmer
• [DESIGN] Economic & Currency Solutions Vincent Archer
• • [DESIGN] Economic & Currency Solutions Timothy Dang
  • [DESIGN] Economic & Currency Solutions Taylor Daynes
  • • [DESIGN] Economic & Currency Solutions Vincent Archer
• ADMIN: Moving... J C Lawrence
• UO and eBay figures Koster, Raph
• MUD for sale Chris Gray
• • MUD for sale Caliban Tiresias Darklock
  • MUD for sale Dave Rickey
  • • MUD for sale Bruce
    • • MUD for sale Chris Gray
      • MUD for sale Kevin Littlejohn
• ADMIN: The move and current status J C Lawrence
• Virtual Suicide (Was: Money supply in game economies) Martin Burke
• TECH: Java ARMI Bobby Martin
• TECH: AmigaMud DB questions Bruce
• • TECH: AmigaMud DB questions Chris Gray
  • • TECH: AmigaMud DB questions Bruce
    • • TECH: AmigaMud DB questions Chris Gray
      • TECH: AmigaMud DB questions Jon Lambert
• Kuro5hin: What can games teach us about human-computer interaction? J C Lawrence
• Review of Galactic Emperor: Succession in LumTheMad's Forums Christopher Allen
• • Review of Galactic Emperor: Succession in LumTheMad's Forums Ling Lo
  • • Review of Galactic Emperor: Succession in LumTheMad's Forums J C Lawrence
• [BIZ] New EQ Expansion Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
• Twisted Python J C Lawrence
• [TECH] Distributed MUD Kwon Ekstrom
• • [TECH] Distributed MUD Jeremy Noetzelman
  • • [TECH] Distributed MUD Kwon Ekstrom
  • [TECH] Distributed MUD J C Lawrence
• EQ: what makes a zone interesting? Frank Crowell
• • EQ: what makes a zone interesting? J C Lawrence
  • EQ: what makes a zone interesting? shren
  • • EQ: what makes a zone interesting? J C Lawrence
    • EQ: what makes a zone interesting? Elia Morling
• Imaginary Realities - April 2001 David Bennett
• [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent bruce@puremagic.com
• • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Jessica Mulligan
  • • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Bruce
    • • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Frank Crowell
    • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Kwon Ekstrom
    • • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent John Robert Arras
    • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Jon Lambert
    • • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent John Buehler
  • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Frank Crowell
  • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Travis Nixon
  • • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Marian Griffith
  • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent John Buehler
  • • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Dave Rickey
  • [BIZ][TECH] worlds.com gets patent Derek Licciardi
• called shots Josh Rollyson
• • called shots Matt Mihaly
  • called shots Mordengaard
  • called shots Ling Lo
  • called shots shren
  • • called shots John Buehler
    • called shots Kwon Ekstrom
    • • called shots Travis Casey
  • called shots Travis Casey
• TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
• • TECH: Distributed Muds Brad Roberts
  • • TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
• TECH: Distributed Muds Dominic J. Eidson
• TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Bruce
• • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Derek Snider
  • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Bruce
    • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Derek Snider
      • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Alex
        • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) shren
          • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
          • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Derek Snider
  • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) John Buehler
    • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
      • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) John Buehler
    • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Kwon Ekstrom
    • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Derek Licciardi
    • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
      • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) John Buehler
        • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Ola Fosheim Grøstad
          • • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) John Buehler
        • TECH: reliablity (was: Distributed Muds) Kwon Ekstrom
• TECH: prefetching/madvise (was: Distributed Muds) Bruce
• • TECH: prefetching/madvise (was: Distributed Muds) Matthew D. Fuller
• TECH: Distributed Muds J C Lawrence
• • TECH: Distributed Muds Scion Altera
• Re:called shots Eric Lamy
• Where are we now? Greg Munt
• • Where are we now? Ronan Farrell
  • • Where are we now? Matt Mihaly
    • Where are we now? Greg Munt
    • • Where are we now? Ronan Farrell
      • • Where are we now? Adam Martin
        • • Where are we now? Bryce Harrington
        • Where are we now? Deidril
        • • Where are we now? Bryce Harrington
        • Where are we now? Elia Morling
      • Where are we now? Matt Mihaly
      • • Where are we now? McManus, Susan
  • Where are we now? Matt Mihaly
  • Where are we now? Kwon Ekstrom
  • • Where are we now? Brian Hook
    • • Where are we now? Kwon Ekstrom
      • • Where are we now? Michael Tresca
        • • Where are we now? S. Patrick Gallaty
          • • Where are we now? Greg Munt
            • • Where are we now? S. Patrick Gallaty
      • Where are we now? Matt Mihaly
  • Where are we now? Koster, Raph
  • • Where are we now? Greg Munt
    • • Where are we now? Matt Mihaly
      • • Where are we now? Greg Munt
        • • Where are we now? Matt Mihaly
  • Where are we now? Bruce
  • • Where are we now? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
    • • Where are we now? Koster, Raph
      • • Where are we now? Richard A. Bartle
        • Where are we now? Ola Fosheim Grøstad
  • Where are we now? Bruce
  • • Where are we now? Greg Munt
    • • Where are we now? Koster, Raph
      • • Where are we now? rayzam
  • Where are we now? Madman Across the Water
  • • Where are we now? Bryce Harrington
    • • Where are we now? Madman Across the Water
      • • Where are we now? Freeman, Jeff
• TECH: DBM vs BDB speeds (was: AmigaMud DB questions) Bruce
• • TECH: DBM vs BDB speeds (was: AmigaMud DB questions) Jon Lambert
  • • TECH: DBM vs BDB speeds (was: AmigaMud DB questions) Bruce
• fault tolerance and character files Steven Fleischaker
• • fault tolerance and character files Kwon Ekstrom
  • • fault tolerance and character files Bruce
    • • fault tolerance and character files Kwon Ekstrom
    • fault tolerance and character files Vincent Archer