Although honey production is important in the region, the colony strength was deficient and inadequate during both monitoring. The most important factors affecting the productivity of the studied honeybee colonies were nuclei preparation, the number of combs in the brood chamber, change of bee queen, disinfection of beekeeping material, among other less significant ones. The results show correlations among many of the management practices, health condition and yield. The information was collected during two monitoring in 53 apiaries in the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. Different aspects related to management practices, productivity, clinical observations related to diseases, presence of sanitary gaps in the apiaries, colony strength, weather and infestation rates by Varroa sp. This study aims to identify the stressors that lead to the loss of honeybee health and its consequences on the colony’s productivity. The health and nutritional condition of honeybee colonies ( Apis mellifera L.) depends for an important part on management practices, and it is influenced by multiple factors. Only a certain profession has access to the coin crafting and this is controlled in order to manage inflation.Managed honeybees play an important role as pollinators. It must be mined, smelted, pressed into plates and minted into usable currency in order to be of any use. The in-game currency is not printed out of thin air. Our goal is to create player driven economy, supply & demand between participating lands and player interaction in a grander scale where you are rewarded for participating. Our main objective with SL Colonies is to build an RPG game which fixes the problem of broken trade and economy. Players in the system will visit other regions and known artisans in order to obtain the resources they need to craft and progress. This encourages trade to be done within lands at marketplace hubs and vendors using the internal game currency. Instead, we added features such as marketplace HUBS and vendors which use in-game currency including buy and sell orders – much like an exchange.
One of our methods of really fixing the problem of supply & demand and focusing on player driven economy is putting measures in place to prevent the selling of items crafted and gathered within the system to be sold for L$ on the SL marketplace or through the use of vendors. This included looking at games outside of Second Life, in particular Survival games such as ARK: Survival, Rust, but also how player economy works in games, such as Eve Online – how do certain games tackle certain areas to really make them unique. Well, from all of these systems I put together their pro’s and con’s and thought to myself what would I want within my own lands to make the perfect system that not only integrates everything I want, but encourages interaction and roleplay between the residents in my own communities. Even played around with Life2, Unity and combat systems like GM, GCS, zCS, DCS. I have enjoyed Second Life systems such as DG, G&S & DFS for many years. SL Colonies was conceived from various ideas over years of research and testing of many games and systems from within Second Life and outside. You can really rule your own empire or lead your own life! Why another farming system? Whether you are a world builder making a new RPG, or you are a small land owner wanting to build a small farm or just enjoy cooking in your own home, or perhaps you have no land but would like to play and be a part of something greater – the limit is your imagination.
Perhaps you enjoy trade and being a merchant – buying low, selling high? Obtaining milk and wheat to bake high energy foods, or simply to visit a baker or brewer to stock up in much needed food and drink in order to even survive. Whether it be obtaining tools from a carpenter or smith to harvest your farm fields. SL Colonies defers greatly from other systems within Second Life in that its focus is to encourage all players within the system to get out there and visit other lands in order to progress in their chosen profession.Įvery profession requires to interact with another in order to survive and to be successful. SL Colonies is an RPG game (currently in Beta Development) within Second Life which focuses on Survival, Farming, Breeding, Crafting and Trading.