Good morning! Early bird catches the worm, and unlike his controller, Martti does not mind bad weather so much. A new post has come to the Game Thread, worth reading by everyone! So much new is coming, and is here already! For the part that the new things concern Martti, they will be introduced here of course.
The day is started with checking all active orders - or - because this functionality is not available in the GUI, canceling them and building anew: CANCELALL ALLXXX. The parameter "allxxx" is like "*.*" in the DOS era and should be used with caution especially with CONSUME and the like, which may or may not be online.
Any resource to check the thing from (eg. the game Wiki), might be outdated, because the development style just does not care about documentation so much, and the players who would write guides are still so few (and obviously not as equipped to be comprehensive as the dev and designer). Well I am writing this blog at least, and after nearly a month, it is still almost completely current in what it is dealing with.
To prolong the life of the blog, I have the plan to revise the early days with a different colored comments, as the editors also comment other important text such as the Bible and Sun Tzu's Art of War. In those times, it would take centuries or millennia to completely revise the comments. In Martti's era, he will live to see 3 sets of comments in 50 years, even if the game time is 50 times faster than the time where the other works mentioned were written...
Updating the market bids (mainly, and not much asks, because nearly all Martti's possessions have sold out, which of course is the modus operandi if business capital is limited) took some time. Martti's strategy is to seek things which are in both demand and supply, and have a high spread, and can thus flip quickly, producing a nice percentage gain. Until now, the acceptable profit for one trade has been as low as 0.01 mil, but as the working capital grows, larger trades are sought to yield profits in the high 6-figure to millions range (as both pigs and suits have already done).
Bids have been placed in food, small drinks, some wines, many spirits (they are not often sold to the bid so need more hooks to get one fish..), Ming China (cheaper items), suits and NPC. What was left outside of the scope is silver and tokens (too erratic for now), horses (too expensive and cost to maintain), gold (too expensive), and lots (too expensive). These will become tradable as the capital grows, which it has been doing by leaps and bounds so far:
Success Tracker
Age: 19
Level: 4/14
Wealth: 36/1000
A closing note is that the system allows unlimited total number of bids as long as each individual bid is below the amount of current balance. The intended function is that if a marketwide dump occurs, erasing the balance, all remaining bids would be cancelled when the first uncovered bid is hit. This, however, does not currently work, and may cause overdraft (negative m balance). The bailiff may collect the overdrafts without advance warning nor the character's permission, and charge 5 mil for her services. Since Martti plays daily, the risk of bailiff coming is so small that it is accepted. Overdraft may also incur penalty interest based on the amount.
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