Fix the economy - Githubissues

rekterakathom commented 8 months ago

"I wonder what this town of a 104 people is doing with these 5256 altimeter watches I've sold them"

Current issues:

Trivially easy infinite money method (selling things between two towns infinitely)
Trivially easy to achieve infinite support (above method will give basically infinite support)
Economy gameplay is not engaging

Proposed solution(s):

Solution 1

Each town tracks how many of each general store item it has, with 100 being the desired amount
Item quantities can be in a range from 0 to 150, quantity going over 100 will be discounted (surplus)
Stability will be used as a % to determine the likelihood of item quantity going up. So 40 stability town will have a 40% chance to receive an item. If item quantity doesn't go up then it goes down. So the 40 stability town will have a 60% chance of losing an item.
Every minute all items in a town will be rolled to see if they go up or down in quantity
This has the effect of low stability towns losing supplies over time and high stability towns receiving them
Prices depend on stock

Pros:

Relatively easy to implement
Immersive (basically a very simplified simulation)

Cons:

Slows down gameplay, there will be times when you practically can't do anything economy

GarfeildThaCat commented 7 months ago

Proposal: Business Overhaul.

Early Game or T1 Businesses are hands on businesses (Mining, Farming, Lumbering and Hell Fishing cause everyone for some reason loves Fishing) ( Altis Life or FiveM RP servers)
Upgrade System Leads to Automation (Hire Citizens and Bring them to the Business) to increase workforce. Upgrade to Auto Deliver to Next Tier or Factory (Could have missions related to Stealing Supplies (GTAO) Saving Ambushed or Seized Vehicle) (This could be use a way for players to get more weapons and supplies)
Towns with high stability will require High End Items while low stability will want food and basic resources.
Mean that loot on dead bodies will either need to become not sellable or it stays at a fix price. (some of above solutions could fix this) Above Solution could fix some of these issues.

rekterakathom commented 7 months ago

Proposal: Business Overhaul.

* Early Game or T1 Businesses are hands on businesses  (Mining, Farming, Lumbering and Hell Fishing cause everyone for some reason loves Fishing) ( Altis Life or FiveM RP servers)

* Upgrade System Leads to Automation (Hire Citizens and Bring them to the Business) to increase workforce. Upgrade to Auto Deliver to Next Tier or Factory (Could have missions related to Stealing Supplies (GTAO) Saving Ambushed or Seized Vehicle) (This could be use a way for players to get more weapons and supplies)

* Towns with high stability will require High End Items while low stability will want food and basic resources.

* Mean that loot on dead bodies will either need to become not sellable or it stays at a fix price. (some of above solutions could fix this)
  Above Solution could fix some of these issues.

I've thought about this for a bit, and it's not a bad idea. Maybe the current drugs like marijuana and cocaine could be implemented like this. You start off producing them manually, like in Altis Life for example. Eventually you could automate this process to generate passive income.

Maybe I'll look into this more after I've initially fixed the economy system, because it is currently so exploitable that I don't see any reason to add cool new features like this until the economy is even remotely balanced.

GarfeildThaCat commented 7 months ago

Proposal: Business Overhaul.
* Early Game or T1 Businesses are hands on businesses  (Mining, Farming, Lumbering and Hell Fishing cause everyone for some reason loves Fishing) ( Altis Life or FiveM RP servers)

* Upgrade System Leads to Automation (Hire Citizens and Bring them to the Business) to increase workforce. Upgrade to Auto Deliver to Next Tier or Factory (Could have missions related to Stealing Supplies (GTAO) Saving Ambushed or Seized Vehicle) (This could be use a way for players to get more weapons and supplies)

* Towns with high stability will require High End Items while low stability will want food and basic resources.

* Mean that loot on dead bodies will either need to become not sellable or it stays at a fix price. (some of above solutions could fix this)
  Above Solution could fix some of these issues.
I've thought about this for a bit, and it's not a bad idea. Maybe the current drugs like marijuana and cocaine could be implemented like this. You start off producing them manually, like in Altis Life for example. Eventually you could automate this process to generate passive income.

Maybe I'll look into this more after I've initially fixed the economy system, because it is currently so exploitable that I don't see any reason to add cool new features like this until the economy is even remotely balanced.

I have very little modding skills but I am more then open to help. I have a small crew that loves overthrow and we are just trying to have something better to do.

GarfeildThaCat commented 7 months ago

I had some ideas to balancing the economy. If you need help with planning or test please feel free to add me on discord garfaild

rekterakathom / Overthrow

Fix the economy #109

Solution 1