Rules

success criteria: credibility within the game

achieved by success in:

• social status - fame & infamy
• awareness of the network - traces
• social knowledge - amount of gossip

Actions:

1. generate gossip
2. pass on gossip
3. rate gossip
4. buy traces of the network
5. buy gossip from the system or player
6. buy secrets - identity, profile
7. send a message

Resources

accrue social currency:

1. generate and pass on gossip - circulate
2. rating of gossip

spending:

1. buy traces
2. buy gossip
3. buy secrets

Costs and Point System

Costs:

• variable costs apply to each item at the time of purchase

how do you get social currency?

• one point for passing on gossip to someone new.
• credibility points negotiate points

how do you score credibility?

1. each player rates your gossip as either +1, 0, -1
2. originating gossip - 2X total rating
3. all the players on the gossip trace get a credibility rating