Quote: Original post by Stompy9999
I was thinking of a Turn based strategy game, where the emotions of your soldiers effect how well they fight.

For instance, when you've lost alot of units, your soldiers will become depressed at losing comrades. Certain rookie soldiers will find a nearby town, get greedy, and pillage it rather than fighting the enemy. The game will have a focus on disciplining your soldiers, so they give in less to their emotions on the battlefield.

Also, you can get status reports from your soldiers, where they will either praise the player for commanding well, or insult the player for playing poorly.

Will all of this be fine for the emotion elemnt?

Quote: Original post by milesz
What about something like the diplomacy feature of Civilization IV?

My idea is to give NPC's some regular characteristics that do not change (like the person's greed), as well as an attitude towards the player that is changing according to the actions of the player or other events (we could call these emotions).

Would this qualify as the concept of emotions?

Quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster

Quote: Original post by milesz
What about something like the diplomacy feature of Civilization IV?

My idea is to give NPC's some regular characteristics that do not change (like the person's greed), as well as an attitude towards the player that is changing according to the actions of the player or other events (we could call these emotions).

Would this qualify as the concept of emotions?

Anybody? Please?

Quote: Original post by milesz
What about something like the diplomacy feature of Civilization IV?

My idea is to give NPC's some regular characteristics that do not change (like the person's greed), as well as an attitude towards the player that is changing according to the actions of the player or other events (we could call these emotions).

Would this qualify as the concept of emotions?

Quote: Original post by TechnoGoth
So, does that mean that relationship building and social interaction doesn't count as emotion? If one of the main parts of the game is dealing with 5 npcs and building relationships with them does that count as emotion. Depending on how you interact with the, and what you've done in the past to them and others will determine how they feel about you and thus what options are available to you when you interact with them.

Quote: Original post by Srekel
If so, what does the "...set in a world fueled by greed" statement mean?

• A competition where the player is competing for national pride.
  
• An old classic gameplay objective: the player is trying to restore happiness to their village/country/continent, or trying to banish fear.