Hiya Grace and all,

Yep... I finally made it from the now defunct Real Arcade Virtual Villagers message board.

I'm 67 and retired from doing some engineering work for the Naval Research Lab. I live in Southern Maryland, very near the Potomac River.

VV has become something of an obession for me cuz it is so darned CUTE!!!!

My inquisitive nature causes me to analyze things about the game... how much does a villager eat under certain circumstances, for example... or how long it takes them to die if they are denied food.... or how long is a villager year? How does this vary with game speed? Are the villagers as productive in 1/2 speed as in 2X speed?

The "need" to analyze this game seems as endless as the options, even tho some events are truly randomlike. (The systems engineer in me realizes that there is nothing truly random in computers... merely appearing to be random. *chuckle*)

The way I "handle" a village depends on what answers I am seeking.... sometimes putting all to one task, sometimes letting them go their merry way.

Jer

I drank WHAT!? - Socrates