{"id":159,"date":"2008-05-21T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=159"},"modified":"2008-06-11T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T06:49:15","slug":"more-mmorpg-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/05\/21\/more-mmorpg-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"More MMORPG progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to say right now;\u00a0 gotta get sleep.\u00a0 But I wanted to post about the MMORPG simulation progress from the last few days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve very nearly &#8220;closed the loop&#8221; on the simulation (though not quite yet);\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to finish it tomorrow.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the status:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Users connect and disconnect from the MMORPG on an approximate schedule (this schedule slightly varies from day to day, and based upon what the player is actually doing while connected.\u00a0 Users won&#8217;t disconnect in the middle of combat or if they&#8217;re really close to gaining a level, for instance.<\/li>\n<li>While online, users pick up quests, go hunting, gain levels, maintain a home town, etc.\u00a0 Users also maintain a &#8220;satisfaction&#8221; value and an &#8220;addiction&#8221; value, which describe how happy they are with the game, and how much they&#8217;ll continue to play, even if they&#8217;re unsatisfied.\u00a0 (And no, I&#8217;m not going to reveal how that&#8217;s calculated, yet.\u00a0 ;) )<\/li>\n<li>Each region (the outlined areas in the screenshots in previous posts) is run by a single server.\u00a0 If too many users enter a single server&#8217;s area at one time, that server will crash, dropping all its players offline.\u00a0 Which decreases user satisfaction a lot, as you might expect.\u00a0 Keeping too many users from clustering together on one server is going to be one of the player&#8217;s big challenges in this game.<\/li>\n<li>Each simulated day, the player pays his employees one day worth of wage, and earns one day worth of subscription fee from all subscribers.\u00a0 Additionally, when a new subscriber joins, the player earns the &#8220;box cost&#8221; he&#8217;s specified for the MMORPG.\u00a0 With a $15 subscription fee, it takes 2000 subscribers to match the salary of one employee.\u00a0 Or fewer, if you&#8217;re getting new subscribers.\u00a0 The game plays with an accelerated clock, such that one day passes every two minutes of real time.\u00a0 (I&#8217;m still fiddling with this, though)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last little bit that I need to finish in order to complete the simulation feedback loop is to make users&#8217; satisfaction and addiction to the game create a &#8220;Forum Buzz&#8221; value, and then set the frequency of new subscribers signing up based upon the Forum Buzz (adjusted by the box price).\u00a0 Once I have that, the core simulation code will all be in place and hopefully working reasonably well!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;ll still have to write a bunch of user interface code to let the player tweak with the various variables in the simulation.\u00a0 And I need to write some sort of &#8220;Information&#8221; view that will show information about the objects in the simulation.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s all detail work, once the core simulation is implemented.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to say right now;\u00a0 gotta get sleep.\u00a0 But I wanted to post about the MMORPG simulation progress from the last few days. I&#8217;ve very nearly &#8220;closed the loop&#8221; on the simulation (though not quite yet);\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to finish it tomorrow.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the status: Users connect and disconnect from the MMORPG on an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-2z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}