Let a rumour spread from town to town, later and weaker each time

The player burns a barn in the north, and ten days later a stranger in the south mentions it, slightly wrong. Here is how to work out on which day each town hears of a deed, how much of it is still believed, and where it fades out.

Why this works

News is carried by people, and people take time and get things wrong. Letting a rumour arrive by the quickest road and lose strength with each town it passes through makes the world feel connected, and you can say when and how strongly each place reacts.

When not to use it

Skip it when the deed should be known everywhere at once, such as a king's public proclamation or a great disaster. Then use a single announcement for the whole world rather than a slow spread.

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
• 30 lines of example code with 3 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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Use the Spielerando entry "Let a rumour spread from town to town, later and weaker each time" (read_entry rumours-travelling-between-towns) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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