Added stock market!

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:48 pm

The system is simple and straightfoward, check it out in the cybervillage and if you have any suggestions or questions post it here, check out the help file as well.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 9:16 am

So, how does the system work?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:17 pm

Check the help file

http://www.iceteks.com/forums/cybervillage...php?topic=stock

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:29 pm

It all makes sense now!

I hope the market pays off, I've invested in it big time

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:53 pm

The next stock update should happen soon. I might set it so it changes more often though. Right now it changes once per 20 hours or so (just pitched an aproximate number in seconds.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:39 am

w007! 349 -> 800! I'm Rich!
I now have a maxed out defense

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:41 pm

well I tripled my investment... I should've bought more

Well I'll just have to wait until it goes down again and then blow all my free cash on stocks

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:48 pm

Looks like were on a depression, they went down big time.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 4:12 pm

Buy! Buy! Buy!

hmmm I think I might've went overboard on that stock purchase

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:13 pm

Notice the enron logo blended in the igloo for the stock market section.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:15 pm

So does that mean that I can artificially increase the stock price through creative accounting?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:31 pm

Not quite, but I happen to be the CEO so......

Nah for now this is the algorthm that is used for each update, it's very cheap but does the trick LOL:

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1: $stockprice = (rand(0,1000)+$stockprice)/1.6;
2: if(rand(0,4)=="3")$stockprice = $stockprice /rand(1,5);
3: $stockprice = round($stockprice);
[code]

$stockprice is the value loaded from the file at startup (the current price)

This algorthm is only run if a certain time interval has passed by, at that time, it rewrites it to file and it's the new price, otherwise it just skips the processing and sticks with the same price.

line 2 is to make a mini depression once in a while because without that the stock price slowly gos up more then it goes down.  Line 3 is only to make sure it stays out of the decimals.   

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