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Rising of Blocktropolis --- Economy simulator.
Colten:
You should host this more I never see it up :o
Sheath:
--- Quote from: Mr. Wallet on July 19, 2011, 03:58:45 PM ---TBB was always pretty awful about prices. I actually had stuff in place to measure average prices over the life of the game, and even in the early game when that reflected only current prices, TBB was way off.
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TBB's statistics were based off stores that were stocked, and then an average was calculated. There were many places that weren't operated and were just taking up space, which were ignored. A system monitoring RoB would have collected information from everywhere, even stores that hadn't retailed for weeks, where TBB only counted a number of stores that were functional.
Because of this, the prices were very accurate in reflecting the bulk of stores in the central area.
DontCare4Free:
--- Quote from: Sheath on July 21, 2011, 07:44:01 PM ---TBB's statistics were based off stores that were stocked, and then an average was calculated. There were many places that weren't operated and were just taking up space, which were ignored. A system monitoring RoB would have collected information from everywhere, even stores that hadn't retailed for weeks, where TBB only counted a number of stores that were functional.
Because of this, the prices were very accurate in reflecting the bulk of stores in the central area.
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I can't speak for wallet, but I do know how Dren's graphs work.
There is a completely automated system logging the unit average price (not the store average) of open stores every three minutes. The visual graph then downloads the log and imports it into BigTables when someone visits a special URL. This behavior will probably be improved later on.
Sheath:
I think the graph is pretty impressive already, I was just stating that the only difference between TBB's hand made graph as opposed to Wallets statistics monitoring was that he couldn't filter out stores that weren't selling, and were effectively useless for the statistics.
Colten:
TBB sucks