Ooh. That really is an interesting question that I had not considered yet. It would be appropriate that AR's estate should receive a royalty, but if Peikoff doesn't approve the project, then that shuts it down before it starts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wedne...
describes his bet against the British pound.
What Soros has done consistently is bet against certain currencies. This in itself is not unreasonable. What he has done, however, is put politicians in place to ensure the political outcomes that will make his currency speculation win.

Depending on whose side you are on, he is either viewed as a savior or a destroyer in several eastern European countries and former Soviet "republics".

How would we get the rights to produce this game. I don't think peikoff would approve of this.

That link REALLY hits home their point hard.

That is part of what I was thinking when I made the post. Thanks for putting it into words.

A fantastic idea, Atlas Shrugged - Life Video Game. We seem to have lost a great portion of our youth to video gaming and other nonsense that prevents them from thinking about real life. A video game based on AS might at least direct them back into life as we knew it once upon a time. Remember when it was fun, even though we had to participate in order to eat and stay out of the rain? A video game might actually be absorbed by our youth similar to this video I saw recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHixeIr_... At least it's got to impress some of them.

That would be appropriate if the bosses were producers. The bosses that Maphesdus was talking about would be the looter bosses.

A side interest in this for me is that when I was an undergrad in college, my first two research projects involved Monte Carlo simulations. Basically, you map out a comprehensive set of actions that can be taken in response to any given action, you then assign them probabilities, and then generate a random number. If the random number < the sum of all transition probabilities in response to a given action, then no event happens in that time step. Otherwise, an event happens, and a second random number is generated to determine what reaction occurred. This is a summary of some of the math in what is now called game theory. Back when I was doing these simulations on a VAX computer, I had never even heard of game theory, and I don't think that it had that name way back then.

Interesting possibility, Kova. If we were doing a simulation of Gulch society, we could simulate what would happen if an objectivist turned into a moocher or looter as a consequence to another person's (or several persons' or the action of an appropriately limited (or even unlimited) government).

Maybe instead of having to fight the bosses, you instead have to adequately impress them by performing your skilled tasks that they set up for you in order to "pass the level" and get promoted. ;)

Personally, I would rather see a game which corruption of an ideal is offered as merely an option--not an inevitability.

He has been taking down countries' currencies for decades. He tried to take down the British pound, somewhat unsuccessfully, and he has bankrolled BHO, Soros' puppet, to enact Soros' greatest currency takedown of all. If an anti-Soros were an objectivist on strike (a sort of Ragnar), he could do no more to collapse the American dollar than Soros has done. By my estimation, there are not that many foundational pillars left to destroy before the dollar's collapse.

To take out all of our frustration.

Then you could simulate how to properly position where a physical Atlantis ought to be located, so as to avoid circles like the "Obama" circle.

yeah -- the BHO circle would cost a trillion and
wipe out everything of value which it touched!!! -- j

Wow! Unless this is already patented or public, this could be a million dollar idea for the inventor.

Great book to help with the knowledge part.

Very true to a point, but everything ages and wears out here. Therefore the all circles also get slightly smaller over time. What makes the circles get bigger, against everything that makes them smaller, is what the simulation idea is all about.

If this was a real app their could be 99 cent add on packs that introduce new circles types that could effect the world. Just imagine what an "Obama" circle would do.

I'll have to check that one out.

Most of the MMO's I am familiar with are role playing games that my daughter has played. She has been playing Ravenmarch exclusively for the last several months, and all the games that my daughter has played are of the "free-to-play" games. She'll test out several games, and then stick to the one with the best storyline for several months at a time, before trying out a new batch of several games.

I am completely unfamiliar with the MMO business model. Most of the college students that I know who play RPG's don't want to pay for their gaming.

Personally I was a Nethack enthusiast way back in the 1980s.

Brooks, The Mythical Man Month, 1975, 2nd ed 1995. http://www.amazon.com/The-Mythical-Man-M...