- Jun 11, 2021
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I think changing daily is a bit too much market swing. Maybe change weekly? Or require repeated over time losses to become a famine?This is what I've coded into the engine so far:
New dynamic food system (WIP - up for discussion!)
The business of buying and selling food now demands more strategy, but can also provide a good yield for those who prepare and invest properly.
- There's a new random roll each day that determines the cost of food rations (3 or 4). This value is then further modified by various events - scourges, famines etc.
- Redhaven Market now has a pool of rations - that dynamically depletes and rebuilds itself. This pool will also be affected by the amount of rations the MC sells to the market.
- Redhaven Market starts to sell of more food rations after hitting 5,000 - causing the number to slowly decrease itself. - Redhaven market has a market cap (7,500). When reaching this cap, you can no longer sell rations to the market. The salesmen will however deplete this volume relatively quickly - down to 5,000.
- The market pool depletes very quickly during famines and somewhat faster during scourges.
- The price for selling and buying food will dynamically increase if the market pool is very low (below 250) or the opposite if it's above 5,000.
Food storage
- The MC can store a maximum of 1,000 rations in his home. If he exceeds this amount, rations start to spoil - (-25 per day).
- The MC can build a food storage silo/room that increases his maximum amount to 7,500. Exceeding this amount will lower rations with -25 per day.
Suggestions? Ideas?
It also sounds like it would be relatively tedious micro unless you can automate it via the girl titles. (we do have a girl responsible for buying food. Make her sell excess, etc).
If you do automate it, it would be rather involved. probably require a table where you can input values that looks something like:
famine | normal | excess | |
autosell to | |||
autobuy to | |||
I would also be weirded out as to why you can do such basic market manipulation yet other merchants don't. And if they are all doing it then why are they selling you food at a discount when they can just hoard the food for the next famine?