[crossfire] New plugin: citylife - help needed

[Lalo Martins]

Also spracht Juha Jäykkä (Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:29:38 +0200):
> This is more difficult. Perhaps the npcs themselves could help with
> this? Perhaps the npcs could be made to go to the shops as well? They
> might not need to buy anything, just enter and exit. Also, their
> influence in determining whether a shop lives or dies could be made
> orders of magnitude lower than players' influence.
> 
> What I have in mind, is that if no player visits a shop in Scorn, the
> npcs can keep the shops alive, but as soon as players start visiting the
> shops, their "vote" counts so much more that if players do not go to
> shop A at all, the npcs' influence can't keep that alive. Some kind of
> differential metric between the shops, not an absolute one. An npc
> entering the shop is worth one "life point" for the shop, while a player
> is worth a 100. Then, whenever the lowest scoring shop is, say, 1000
> points below the next lowest scoring, it dies. Also, this means that
> whenever the highest scoring shop is that 1000 above the next, it should
> expand its business...

Alternatively.

Since the players are heroes, they could be opinion-makers and trend-
setters.  If they are seen favouring one shop, the NPCs will start 
preferring that one as well.  If they avoid one, its popularity with the 
general populace will drop very fast...

best,
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