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Dealing with agency and retcon (in semi sandbox)
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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9066964" data-attributes="member: 6879661"><p>I’m interested in how far ahead the consequences should be made available to players to make the game other than minimal-agency.</p><p></p><p>If I visit the village shop now and spend all my cash now on a new sword etc does it mean the game has minimal agency if I don’t know that the shop in the next village has something I want more which I can no longer afford.</p><p></p><p>It’s interesting that the word ‘stakes’ is used to mean the potential cost and potential opportunity of any given choice. In poker you have incomplete information about the hand your playing now so you have to make predictions and estimations. It’s a pretty fun game and the most common use of the word stakes. I think it’s also generally understood that good poker players have agency. Do you feel poker is minimal agency on the basis that the multitude of information players use to make bets is incomplete? You also have no idea when playing what might happen the following round as a result of your actions this round. Even if you could see everyone else’s cards now, would not knowing the impact on the next round also make the game minimal agency.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 9066964, member: 6879661"] I’m interested in how far ahead the consequences should be made available to players to make the game other than minimal-agency. If I visit the village shop now and spend all my cash now on a new sword etc does it mean the game has minimal agency if I don’t know that the shop in the next village has something I want more which I can no longer afford. It’s interesting that the word ‘stakes’ is used to mean the potential cost and potential opportunity of any given choice. In poker you have incomplete information about the hand your playing now so you have to make predictions and estimations. It’s a pretty fun game and the most common use of the word stakes. I think it’s also generally understood that good poker players have agency. Do you feel poker is minimal agency on the basis that the multitude of information players use to make bets is incomplete? You also have no idea when playing what might happen the following round as a result of your actions this round. Even if you could see everyone else’s cards now, would not knowing the impact on the next round also make the game minimal agency. [/QUOTE]
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