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CCash is an external ledger for in-game economies, running on a webserver with a RESTful API, exceptionally fast and lightweight written in C++.
While CCash can be used for anything that can interact with its API I think minecraft is a good usecase.
The currency model most Minecraft Servers adopt if any, is resource based, usually diamonds. This model is fraught with issues however:
- The primary issue is minecraft worlds are infinite, leading to hyper inflation as everyone accrues more diamonds.
- Some resources are passively reapable (e.g iron or gold), making the generation of currency a larger focus than that of creating value.
- Locality is required for transactions.
- Theft is possible; ownership is physical possession based.
CCash solves these issues and adds a level of abstraction. The main philosophy of CCash is to have fast core operations which other services build on, CCash can proccess over a thousand requests per second.
The CCash instance can be external to the game server:
Or on localhost:
Running it local to the game server reduces latency for connected services and CCash is very lightweight and so will be a tiny proportion of the server's total computation.
DISCLAIMER: ComputerCraft requires you add 127.0.0.1 to its config section allowed_domains if you're interacting with CCash locally
As CCash is just a means of keeping track of who has what, the economic system you use is entirely up to whomever hosts the instance.
I suggest an admin should manage the instance to lower incentive to manipulate balances.