Esoteric Update #242 - Passive Income

Yeah, it's a late update. I had some health/people issues yesterday, and I just couldn't bring myself to sit down and do this.

Anyway, have some lore:

Lore: Manhede

Now for the update. The core of which is that I've finished up the stocks system. And there's a bit to it. So last week, I said that I have a model for it. I did end up using an iteration on that system but opted to do a few things with it, like cleaning up and parameterising the system. Then I ran millions of years of stock market simulations just to check if it behaved how we wanted it to, opted to change some of the base assumptions I had about the parameters, etc., etc.

So anyway, it's in the game now:

It's also on the bank page as a decoration:

And yeah, those candlestick charts are dynamically generated. Well, they aren't actual candlestick charts; they're just line charts pretending to be something more, but the model doesn't have enough fine granularity to do actual candlesticks. Nor do I really think it needs this. (Also, still thinking about how the bank website looks, I threw it together on the quick in terms of the visuals.)

I also did a load of cleanup on the code and implemented some more text to be used by the vending machines. I still have a bit more organising to go through. We rushed some things, and I should go back and tidy up all of it before going forward.

Regardless, I am also working on some new modular writing, and it's a bit more on the difficult side, but I need to make sure it's future-proof. The current writing for the park absolutely isn't, and I don't want to build something I have to reconstruct at some other time again.

Things are beginning to clear up at work, at the very least, so productivity should rise soon.