OPINION: Patch suggestions?

[StormcloudCreations]

Here's the thread where I take suggestions/tweaks for a possible patch for Trader 2. It may be a little while, since i'm hard at work on my next project. But it probably will happen, assuming response here (or through e-mail; feel free to write me as well) is decent.

Let your voice be heard!

[ April 09, 2003, 16:25: Message edited by: StormcloudCreations ]

[StormcloudCreations]

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[SlapBone]

Well since you ask I think there are 3 things that would be really nice.

1. A ship indicator to show what planet you are on (as previously mentioned).

2. Ability to use the regular bank account to purchase trade goods and ship upgrades without having to pull the money out. ( I know this was a point made by the Gamespot guy but I was feeling the same thing already)

3. Stop orders for stocks (this is my personal pet )

Also, as we discussed in the other thread, I think we would like to see a few snazzy historical graphs (especially on the stock market screen).

[Nick]

1:
How about indicators on the planet screen, like stock quotes and investment funds?

ie: make green clover child care symbol GCCC
and have GCCC +1, and any other changes reflected on a in a box somewhere on the planet screen (upper right hand corner looks good to me). This would save the effort of having to check its screen each turn to keep track of investments

2:
Make tollboth earnings more clear. I don't know if it never pays out or just poorly, but I could not even detect my tollbooth earnings one game when I owned one on every planet. Similarly, when one wins the freebies, winnings should be indicated clearly.

3:
Make loan rates and deposit payouts related. In one of my first games, I was able to take out a 100,000 loan out and then earn a higher percent in interest by depositing it in the savings account. This makes no sense.

4:
Allow partial inventory sales. Sometimes, I would like to sell of part of my inventory of one type of item to replace it with another. As it stands, I must sell all or nothing. This is very unflexible and unrealistic for a market. Perhaps, you could even account for the demand and supply curves by offering slightly different prices for different quantities sold (more units sold, lower price) and purchase prices (which should increase as quantity increases).

5:
The ability to save the current game without exiting (which is sometimes a nice thing to be able to do). And the ability to have more than 1 save slot.

and History graphs would also be very nice

[StormcloudCreations]

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[StormcloudCreations]

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