Carbon Footprint

Carbon Footprint (CFP)

A persona's carbon footprint (CFP) is a measure of how environmentally good or bad a person is. Every object in the game has a base CFP which is a result of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emitted in the production of that product. An object purchased from the TirNua store will have a much higher CFP than an object created with recycled materials via the 3D Printer. Recycling an object will result in commodities that have only a portion of the CFP from the original object.

As well as a base CFP, many objects also have an accumulated CFP. This is a measure of the GHG's emitted or absorbed through the use of this object. For example, whenever you burn something in a boiler, the boiler's accumulated CFP will go up. Oil will put much more GHG's into the atmosphere than bio-fuel. Growing plants will absorb GHG's from the atmosphere resulting in their accumulated CFP values going down.

A persona's CFP score is the sum of the base CFP and the accumulated CFP of all of the objects they own as well as any personal CFP that they have accumulated from objects that they have gotten rid of. The base CFP of an object stays with an object but the accumulated CFP stays with the persona. A Persona's CFP score is the sum of the Base CFP and the Accumulated CFP of all the objects that they own as well as any personal CFP they have accumulated from objects they have gotten rid of. The Base CFP of an object stays with an object but the Accumulated CFP stays with the Persona.