{"id":96,"date":"2020-08-31T07:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2020-08-31T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:55:47","slug":"mean-stress-and-net-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/96\/mean-stress-and-net-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mean Stress and Net Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been struggling with creating a deck of Village Life cards to draw for each villager at the end of the year. I had lots of ideas for what to do, but I hadn&#8217;t yet committed to anything. This morning I remembered that anything testable, no matter how poorly implemented, is superior to lots of unexpressed ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew that I needed the Village Life cards, on average, to cause 2 stress and cost 1 coin. That should allow them to replace the food cost and health rolls I used previously without changing the system economy very much. So in my spreadsheet of card ideas, I added columns for stress, coins, support, corruption, and inactivity. These aren&#8217;t the values that will actually appear on the cards, they&#8217;re estimated values based on the card effects, which I can use to balance the entire population of cards. For example, if a card causes 3 stress to villager and their neighbor, the value in the stress column is 6, because that&#8217;s the adjustment for the village as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-2-1024x548.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-2-1024x548.png 1024w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-2-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-2-768x411.png 768w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-2-1536x822.png 1536w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-2-1200x642.png 1200w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Untitled-2.png 1625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The average at the bottom of the stress column is the Mean Stress change per card draw. But support and corruption also affect the stress in the village, so I also added a Net Stress equal to the Mean Stress, minus 3 times the average in the support column, plus 3 times the average in the corruption column. The current result is +3.05 net stress to the village per Village Life card draw. That&#8217;s higher than I thought I wanted, but I&#8217;d rather have too much stress in the system than not enough. More importantly, I can look at that net value when I modify the cards to get an idea of how it will affect the entire game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately, when I import the card sheet into Component.Studio, I think it will also try to import the rows for those mean and net values, which will screw up populating the card templates. Maybe there&#8217;s a solution for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been struggling with creating a deck of Village Life cards to draw for each villager at the end of the year. I had lots of ideas for what to do, but I hadn&#8217;t yet committed to anything. This morning I remembered that anything testable, no matter how poorly implemented, is superior to lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-villanostra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}