Add player attributes

[matthew-parlette]

So let's figure out what attributes a player should have:

Definite

• happiness
• money
• hunger
• knowledge

Maybe

• health
• job satisfaction
• fatness (maybe covered under health)
• fitness (maybe covered under health)

[cparlette]

This is just an idea, but what about having Major Attributes, each made up of Minor Attributes. That way, items/jobs/entertainment can affect the minor attributes, but the current score and score goal are based on major attributes. One breakdown could be:

Major Attributes

1. Happiness
   • Job
   • Living conditions
   • Luxury items
   • Recreational time
2. Health
   • Fatness
   • Fitness
   • Hunger
   • Hours worked recently (too high or too low could be bad)
3. Money
   • Saved money
   • Current hourly wage
   • Retirement savings?
   • Thriftiness/ Deals found?
4. Knowledge
   • Education level
   • Length of time at one job (maybe too much without working a lot is bad?)
   • Cultural balance
   • Study/work at home?

Or maybe it's not as clear cut as that, maybe we have the major attributes, and things you do always affect multiple things either positively or negatively. Maybe a hard mode of the game is that it doesn't tell you what got affected when you do something.

Anyway, just some ideas. Maybe this is all too complex to start out with.

[matthew-parlette]

Oh I really like that idea, but reading your last paragraph, I agree it may be too complicated for 1.0. I definitely think we should do that in a future version (maybe make that its own issue for later?). For now (and for simplicity), maybe we use the four major attributes, and items affect those attributes directly.

For example, maybe we don't have the idea of a bad effect yet (like fatness), instead if you eat, your health goes up (some items go up more than others). Then in the future we can implement things to make it go down if you eat too much, or eat crap. What do you think of that for 1.0? It would make it much easier to populate the item list in the map json.