affiliation economics

[epurdyf]

Need to develop some new mathematics to describe the interaction of multiple economies in the same game. This will cause all sorts of magical things to happen automatically through the freely chosen interaction of the players, rather than imposed top-down through system rules. (Not that the proposed system rules are bad in any way, just, if you can take advantage of free will, that's always a good thing.)

[bvssvni]

One way to approach this could be to identify a basic model of what it means for two economies to interact.

[epurdyf]

Two economies interact whenever they share one or more participants and those participants must choose which economy to try to maximize their utils in.

[epurdyf]

I.e., whenever a choice between two or more options conveys rewards or penalties in two or more value systems.

[bvssvni]

That's a good definition. I think there should be a way to determine whether a participant is participating in two economies if the others are only participating in one?

[epurdyf]

Everyone participates in multiple economies. The trick is to identify which economies the person knows they are participating in. Basically, don't trust billionaires, and bob's your uncle. You can trust Bill Gates though, he's a good egg.