The In-game Economics of Ultima Online ...

**Queen Mum** · 26th June 2006, 02:27 PM

Seven years later and this perspective of the UO Economy still applies in many ways ...

The In-game Economics of Ultima Online - Zachary Booth Simpson, Origin Research Fellow - 7 Apr 1999
Originally presented at Computer Game Developer's Conference, San Jose, CA; Mar 2000

Quote:

In many ways, the in-game economy is similar to a real world economy – goods and services are traded to mutual advantage and are mediated in currency or barter. In other ways, the economy is very alien; for example, some commodity prices are determined by a robotic simulation of business profit motivation. These quirky rules will be described in Chapters 3 to ensure that the reader appreciates the entire economic environment of the game.

The economy is highly planned by the game designers; this includes everything from the possible items which can be manufactuered to the rules which govern supply and demand. However, the economy did not behave as expected in many ways. It is these failures and the resulting redesigns which are most interesting and which we will examine in detail in Chapter 5.

Click here to see the rest of this very insightful research paper ...

**Maddux** · 26th June 2006, 03:12 PM

Can you recheck the link to the rest of the article?

**Queen Mum** · 26th June 2006, 03:44 PM

TY for letting me know ... it had " " in it with a silly double http ...

thats why they don't let Mum mess with the UOForums mechanics

**Maddux** · 26th June 2006, 04:35 PM

thanks Queen Mum, I figure your attention was diverted by all the baking cookies you do.

Bo · 27th June 2006, 08:49 AM

WOW! that guy had ALOT of time on his hands. Very good write up though. Very indepth and gives a good insight into whats wrong with our economy!

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