Discovery Stock Market

[Leo]

A thought.

A previous mod I was apart of had an awesome system for buying stocks. This relied on a fluxuating economy however, the prices changed every week at random with a server updater. Much like the one we currently have as DSUpdate. You can choose from a wide assortment of stocks, each week the stock changes at random in different values, making the said item purchased (stock in form of cargo from planets) at a certain time, worth less than it might be at a later time.

Example:

Day 1: Leo buys 600 shares of DSE for 100 credits a share, equaling 60,000 credits.

Day 2: Leo does not purchase anything, because DSE stock dropped from 100 credits a share, to 20 credits a share.

Day 3: Leo sells 30 stock in DSE as the value of DSE stock goes from 20 credits a share to 2000, giving him back his 60,000 credits, and still owning 30 stock.

Day 4: DSE stock worth falls to a record 5 credits a share. Leo continues to hold on to his stock, hoping the stocks will climb once again.

This would all have to be run via the updater and have some system setup to randomly generate a new price for the stocks. It worked well on the server I played at before, but the updater was very buggy, and hardly ever worked right, so stocks were a pain with that mod, but the update here works flawlessly.

Thoughts?

~Leo

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