Emergent Economies for RPGs

This is a work in progress implementation of "Emergent Economies for Role Playing Games".

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Important Entities

1. Agent

• Central in the simulation
• It is the person who buy, sell and produce...

2. Commodity

• Store data of one commodity.
• It can not be changed.
• This unique data by commodity is used globally as reference by the other classes.

3. Commodities

• Store data of all commodities. It's like a SQL Table "Commodities".
• It ensures that commodities won't be duplicated, will have unique ids and will be accessible by the other classes.

4. InventoryItem

• Stores data of one item in the inventory. It points to (reference) one unique Commodity.
• Since each Agent have your own collection of inventory itens, two instances of InventoryItem can point to the same Commodity, but they will be part of different instances of Inventory (different instances of Agent).

5. Inventory

• The collection of commodities of each Agent. Each Agent has your own Inventory.
• For instance, it gives the Agent access to inventory item levels (amount).

6. Role

• It is the profession.
• Each Agent has one Role.
• Each Role has unique production rules, that requires some combination of materials to create new ones.

7. RoleProductionRules

• This class reads the production rules for each Role from json files at the start up.
• Each Role has it own production rules.
• It stores ProductionRules

8. ProductionRule

• Stores recipes of production
• For each output amount, it shows how much of each resource is needed.

9. Clearing House

• It is the interface to the trade process
• Stores the books
• Receive offers from Agents
• Resolves the offers (run the trade process)

10. Book

• Stores a list of Offer instances of one specific type (bid or ask) for one commodity
• Deals with Offer class directly

11. Offer

• Store a specific offer of one Agent, one commodity, one type (bid or ask)
• Manage the amount, price of that offer and if the offer still open or not