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New Stock Market Feature |
| You can now buy stocks and watch them go up and down daily and then sell them if you want. It's pretty straight-forward, go see for yourself. | |||
| This is second last change I expected you to make. The last one was the '"Land,"barricades, etc.' No offense or anything, but for someone as smart as you, you sure find the most unexpected changes to make. That soldier change with no warning is another example. ---- Aleksandr(Sasha) Ovcharenko | |||
| On the other hand, it's one of the ways the weaker players can save up to buy some soldiers without losing much, if any, money. ---- Aleksandr(Sasha) Ovcharenko | |||
| I bought one of each lets see how they do. ---- "We try to discuss the problem, but when all else fails we go in by force." - UN tour guide | |||
| Lucky you. RPGod robbed me of all soldiers needed to get enough money for both stocks. But I should have enough tomorrow... Unless the price goes up. ;) ---- Aleksandr(Sasha) Ovcharenko | |||
| This change is at least a positive attempt at trying to generate more funds in the game. You probably need to put in at least ten different stocks to make it a bit more reasonable, but I think it is a reasonable attemp top stimulate the game economy a bit more. | |||
| I really like it. I made a 100,000 profit. I bought 20 Napkin stocks and they rose. ---- "We try to discuss the problem, but when all else fails we go in by force." - UN tour guide | |||
| question??? How often are the stocks updating? Seems to be only once per day.. would be a lot more realistic, and probably better, if you had them updating each 30 minutes. It should also be extremely easy to code. | |||
| Stock prices go up/down at midnight. ---- "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." - David Dinkins | |||
| IT IS elegant, and the higher speed of change is necessary to reflect a game's pace. So does activity in a stock affect it's price (ie do supply and demand rules apply)? I assume that if we buy a lot of a particular stock, then the price will eventually rise because in reality, stocks have a finite number of units to sell.... | |||
| I would consider supply and demand rules and a quicker response as well for a simple reason: To reward early buyers and to punish those of us who can buy a lot of a stock. Stock purchases need to have a maximum per day limit, and it needs to be reactive as well. If the stock price responds to excessive purchases, and Tony buys 20 napkin stocks, nothing much happens. But when I begin buying 200 stocks and that is the maximum possible, the market should respond. Long before I finish my purchases, the market price should have climbed, making my stock purchase higher than Tony's was, and making him a profit as a result. This is how the real market reacts, and it would force the big guys to be more circumspect. | |||
| I must admit that I don't know too much about the real stock market, so this would be hard for me to do. I'll try, though. ---- "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." - David Dinkins | |||
| I concur with the change. Otherwise, the stock market, at least to some, becomes a days storage of money with no 25% loss --Avian, Massive Attack | |||
| Yes. Supply and demand is what I came here to suggest. The new price is (The old price)*(100+(amount of buys today)-(amount of buys yesterday)/100. That's what "Supply-and-demand" is. You might also show statistics on each one-- the price yesterday, buys yesterday, and buys today. ---- Aleksandr(Sasha) Ovcharenko | |||
| Nice Idea Sasha. I like it. Perhaps however, you could let it show how much it changed each day, make it so you can buy multiple ones at once. Just a thought. ---- Thomas S. Wootton High School Class of 2006 | |||
| Massive Attack makes a very good point. Unless the stock fluctuates more regularly, then it becomes a safe place to store your money without losing 25%. Surely it would be a simple thing to link the stock price change with the regular half hourly update instead of the midnight update. | |||
| This feature definitely requires the ability to buy or sell multiple numbers of stocks. Especially for those with lots of galos, hitting the buy button 100 times would be a total pain... just sold 6 shares, and that was annoying enough. | |||
| sry sasha, its just with the difficulties of getting soldiers now, i'm having lots of trouble wit it. ---- Thomas S. Wootton High School Class of 2006 | |||
| Wow! The stock market is GREAT!!! I profited about 1,000,000 galos through it last night. Used it to buy the last speed upgrade... Used the rest that I invested to buy some weapons; attacked around, invested the profits back into stock market... Nice little cycle... ---- Aleksandr(Sasha) Ovcharenko | |||
| 1 million? whered you get the money to put into the stock market. ---- Thomas S. Wootton High School Class of 2006 | |||
| Mostly attacked around. That gave me 89% of the stock. As for the rest of it, I just sold some weapons. All of my attack weapons that is. ---- Aleksandr(Sasha) Ovcharenko | |||
| Well the one stock raised 25% so that was where I got a lot of money from too. I find it a great add on. ---- "We try to discuss the problem, but when all else fails we go in by force." - UN tour guide | |||
| Definitely should have a <5> and a <10> and maybe a <25> buy button .... ---- telnet://twmud.com:2000 | |||
| The Stock Market was a brilliant idea! I, too have made a lot of money from it, and it's a great place to put money too! | |||
| No! I just lost 500,000 in stocks! Oh, well... Tomorrow will probably be a better day. And even if it's not, I got 1,000,000 and lost 500,000. It's not that big of a deal. ---- Aleksandr(Sasha) Ovcharenko | |||
| Please may I have a buy/sell 100 button? ---- telnet://twmud.com:2000 | |||
| Make a 50% deductable on stocks that you buy and sell in the same day. This will keep people from using it as a bank. ---- "In the end, We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Dr. Martin Luther King | |||