Tell a returning player what the townsfolk did while they were away

In a world that keeps going, the baker has had a week of news, and two friends coming back on different days must hear the same history. Here is how to make the past the same for everyone, without storing a thing, and how many events to tell.

Why this works

A shared past must be the same for everyone who asks. If events come from the world itself, using only a fixed seed, a character and a stretch of time, then no one needs a record to be kept, and two visitors can compare notes without finding a contradiction.

When not to use it

Skip it when the events change the world, such as a death, a sale or a rescue, or when players act on the same people while others are away. Those facts must be real records, not told stories.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 4 common mistakes and the fix
• A diagram of every state
• 34 lines of example code with 4 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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Use the Spielerando entry "Tell a returning player what the townsfolk did while they were away" (read_entry online-what-happened-while-you-were-away) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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