Posted by Michael on July 30th, 2006, in Development

I made a mistake. Attitude is the way an Actor feels about a Relationship: does he want to improve it or worsen it, positive or negative. There’s an Attitude value for each relationship in the game. Attention Span is a property of an Actor. It declines as an actor continues to interact with the same object, reflecting the Actor’s boredom. There’s only one Attention Span for each Actor.

While Attention Span and Attitude work together to modify Fondness when making decisions about choosing an Opportunity, they cannot be folded into one variable because there’s only one Attention Span for each Actor and many Attitudes (one for each relationship).

Oops. 😳

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