Chapter 2

"Argent, I would like to ask some questions about how will be my performance monitored and rewarded?"

"We have extensive coverage of the territory you will be in by cameras and microphones. All aspects of your life will be observed and evaluated. Then we will analyze your performance and will reward you as we see fit."

"It's a bit too subjective to me. If it were a human's job sooner or later he would become bored with it and could ignore my achievements or start to manipulate the system for his entertainment."

"Hmmm. You are right it's possible something like that could happen if only one person would watch over you. That's why we use groups to conduct experiments."

"Why don't we use an AI to judge the game? If we give it clear parameters to operate with, it shouldn't have any problems. And I don't think it's emotions would interfere with it's objectiveness."

"You are right, it's the perfect solution. But we will have to make the reward system more logical so there can't be any tampering with it."

"How about we use some kind of credits as a basis for everything."

"Could you elaborate?"

"In the beginning I start with X credits. I can buy bodily improvements, knowledge, skills and equipment with it. Then when I'm on the ground and I do something interesting I get rewarded with credits. Anytime I need something I can just buy it with my credits or wait till I earned enough. Rewards and prices should reflect how hard it is to do our get something for me. For example: I get more credits for hunting a deer with a spear than with a gun, a ladder can cost 100 credits when I'm in a hole with no way out and 0.01 credits if I have a ladder factory."