tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post8102526516356958434..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: How Much, And If At AllAlexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-69215525732537078122018-01-24T13:03:29.639-07:002018-01-24T13:03:29.639-07:00Mujadaddy, I don't know what your agenda is or...Mujadaddy, I don't know what your agenda is or why you're busting my chops here. I built the system and it works fine.<br /><br />You are quite welcome to wander off and make your own system.<br /><br />It says plainly in the link to the post above: Sets are categorized according to the "commonality" of the item in the system as a WHOLE, rather than in the system as it pertains to a specific part. So if an item is common on average, it is set one. It may be much more common here than there, like elephants, but if ON THE WHOLE is represents a large number of items, then it is set one.<br /><br />Now, like it, don't like it, I don't care. I only posed the system, as anything I do on the blog, in order to encourage people to rethink their game design. I'm not going to quibble with you about what problems YOU have with a system you didn't build, don't have access to, don't understand, and are NEVER going to run in as a player.<br /><br />For the record, I'm usually willing to discuss this sort of detail, but I really find myself resistant to readers who approach me with what I'm doing wrong as their opening statement. Doesn't exactly get on my good side, before making a request ... which is what asking me to explain myself is. A request.<br />Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-68470770847283469632018-01-24T07:48:11.905-07:002018-01-24T07:48:11.905-07:00'"Set" doesn't mean what you thi...<i>'"Set" doesn't mean what you think it means.'</i><br /><br />I don't know what "Set" means <b>at all</b> in your context.<br /><br />You already have a number which indicates how much of a Reference influences a Market, which governs the Price. <br /><br />This already introduces Rarity into the system, especially when combined with your Workmanship levels.<br /><br />There are many, many ways out of the mathematical corner in which you find yourself. Probably the simplest way is to increase the steepness in your Tier math: instead of dividing by flat 4s, divide the next tier by 16 and the next by 64. (ie, T1>1, T2>.25, T3>.015625, T4>.000244) The numbers are already arbitrary; I would presume that if you could emulate the Sets with your Reference Supply you would, just to avoid having to add another column to the Products themselves.Mujadaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07698839746240695386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-87372248447989980562018-01-23T15:01:53.787-07:002018-01-23T15:01:53.787-07:00Okay.
The available stock might deplete more rapi...Okay.<br /><br />The available stock might deplete more rapidly, but it would also be resupplied steadily as well, so it evens out.<br /><br />Yes, the system is linear. I'm fine with that. Most of the economic texts I read to found the system proposed linear structures; probably wrong with relation to the real world, but this isn't a real world, this is a game world, and can therefore follow the fictions of economists without trouble.<br /><br />Elephants DO eat between 200 and 600 lbs of grass, tree foliage, bark, twigs and other vegetation. However, for the raiser of elephants, all of this foliage is FREE. What is not free is the 15 lbs. of fruit and vegetables per day that you feed the elephant to give it a better health and tone, as these things are not typically part of a wild elephant's diet. Thus, 450 lbs. per month.<br /><br />"Set" doesn't mean what you think it means. I was quite clear.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-9240241712993298482018-01-23T07:53:45.410-07:002018-01-23T07:53:45.410-07:00" 1 Ref / 354.2 days = .0028 refs Adjusted &q..." 1 Ref / 354.2 days = .0028 refs Adjusted " "TOTAL .02 refs Adjusted"<br /><br />Maybe the distance from the source affects the *price* linearly, but would not available stock be depleted more rapidly? <br /><br />(Aside: I think your provender number is off by a factor of 30 or more: <a href="https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/02/02/how-much-food-does-a-thai-elephant-eat-in-a-day/" rel="nofollow">800lbs/DAY</a> rather than 450lbs/Month)<br /><br />Maybe I'm mis-reading the Sets and Tiers post or don't have enough of your hidden thinking, but under 6.25% of a Reference qualifies it as Tier 4. How/why are you jumping 2% of Elephant into Set 1? Because it's common at the source?<br /><br />Happy New Year.Mujadaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07698839746240695386noreply@blogger.com