CS345: Results from Design Day: 13Jan99

The first design decisions concerned the economic roles of the eventual game players and the software agents that would "animate" the economic simulation. In all, there were 8 merchant types defined as children of $g.merchant (these are the roles that game players would take, see table below), and 43 consumer groups as children of $g.cg, which are the infrastructure agents that do the weekly "shopping". Note the merchants are a subset of the consumer groups; for example, there is the Blacksmith merchant type, and there are also consumer agents representing both Blacksmith with kids (#605) and Blacksmith no kids (#596)

Player Roles from Merchant Class

Kids No Kids

Blacksmith * *

Cartwright * *

Wheelwright * *

Dry Goods * *

Tailor * *

Wood Lot Operators * *

Stable * *

Leather Maker * *

Cluster Groups of Consumers

Kids No Kids Single
Carpenter/Builder * *

Teacher *
*

Farm Owners * *

Farm Laborers * *

Ranch Owners * *

Cowboys

*

Riverboat/Rail Wrks.

*

Riverboat/Rail Suprv.

*

Soldiers- enlisted

*

Soldiers- officer

*

Lumbermen

*

Settlers/Transient *

Teamsters
*

Miners

*

White Collar *

Saloon Owner

*

Saloon Employee

*

Government Workers * *

Youth (12-16)

*

Homemakers *

Wealthy *

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