Trade Route Generator (Trying to make a merchant game)

[McZealot]

So to test my Javascript knowledge I decided to try making a Trade Route Generator in JSFiddle. It took around 2 hours to make but I feel like it turned out really well. Refresh the page and it will be totally different:

http://jsfiddle.net/qg45n5bc/49/embedded/result/


If you are curious:

Miles long: Random (15-800)
Travel speed: Random (1-4)
Days long: Miles long divided by travel speed rounded down
Rations needed: Days long * 2.5 rounded down
Cargo Value: Random (1-4)
Payoff: Miles long * Cargo Value + 1-200 + %5 per 100 miles
Coins Per Mile: Payoff divided by Miles long

UPDATE:

I've begun expanding this into a survive-until-bankrupt game. It gives you a choice of trade routes and you can only go on the ones that you have enough rations for. You are only able to buy a certain number of rations per turn. I'm also making it so that the longer the trade route is, the more of a coin bonus it gets.

This means longer = better (sound familiar?) but you have to save up on rations to travel it.

[Ad Bot]

[AutoBahn]

Days long: Days long divided by travel speed rounded down

EH?!

[WaterOre]

[Headcrab Zombie]

>Path Path

[Katla]

You should make each ration cost something, and subtract the total price of them from the payoff.

[YayFun]

Trade Route Generator by Zealot

Path: The Bandit-filled Path
From: South Korea To: Rus Empire
Length: 66 Miles
Travel Speed: Normal (35 miles per day)
Days Long: 1
Rations needed: 2
Cargo Value: Valuable
Payoff: 219 Coins
This comes to a total of: 3.32 Coins per Mile

[Compy]

kinda hoping it was a solution to the traveling salesman problem cuz that stuff is cool

[blockguy™]

Trade Route Generator by Zealot

Path: The Mountain Path
From: America To: The Incan Empire
Length: 421 Miles
Travel Speed: Very Slow (15 miles per day)
Days Long: 28
Rations needed: 70
Cargo Value: Valuable
Payoff: 1267 Coins
This comes to a total of: 3.01 Coins per Mile

[McZealot]

Increased the possible miles from 500 to 800. I fixed some of the names too.

My original plan was to make a game where you pick trade routes trying to make the most money. Maybe I'll update this later, but I spent way too long working on this for now.

[Ipquarx]

kinda hoping it was a solution to the traveling salesman problem cuz that stuff is cool

but it's proven that traveling salesman is NP complete

[releasetheblocks2]

totally rich

Path: The Golden Path
From: China To: The Incan Empire
Length: 112 Miles
Travel Speed: Fast (45 miles per day)
Days Long: 2
Rations needed: 5
Cargo Value: Cheap
Payoff: 285 Coins
This comes to a total of: 2.54 Coins per Mile

[Compy]

but it's proven that traveling salesman is NP complete

ya and

[WaterOre]

the routes should really affect the payoff
like, taking goods through the bandit path or snow path would be more dangerous and therefore be more costly to transport

[Halinic]

Trade Route Generator by Zealot

Path: The Silky Path
From: Italy To: Mordor
Length: 533 Miles
Travel Speed: Fast (45 miles per day)
Days Long: 11
Rations needed: 27
Cargo Value: Valuable
Payoff: 1643 Coins
This comes to a total of: 3.08 Coins per Mile

[otto-san]

"Path: The Snowy Path
From: South Africa To: The Incan Empire"

i'm sceptical about that naming job