The “Stock” Market

Please note that any values or labels in this game are in no way representative of any real-life item, market or currency, and are purely theoretical and random numerical values generated for the sole purpose to be used for this game

Creation of the base system:

So far, (And it’s been a bit of a struggle), I have begun to lay out the foundations of the “stock” market system for my game, where players can invest in 3 different “risk levels” with differing characteristics to gain (or lose) currency (not yet implemented).

I have spent a bit of time on GoodNotes on my iPad, writing out a plan and description of the features and characteristics of the “stock” market, as well as I have begun coding the “market.py” file that will handle the market functions that can be referenced from “main.py”.

This has not gone very well , and my progress has slowed. Just the basic functions of the market system are beginning to seem very complex, with a lot of csv retrieval based off conditional statements and checks, calculations performed off specific rows, and logic statements that are making my head hurt!

What I have right now:

Pretty much, I have created the functions to initialise the 3 different “risk levels” with random values (using random.uniform for float values for cents), and begun the function that causes market changes (will be executing every 3 seconds or so) by calculating changes based off conditions surrounding the previous few market values for each “risk level”.
Whilst this may seem simple enough, the need to keep searching the csv file for “risk”-specific rows, is causing my brain to begin imploding

I think it is coming along well, but I fear that this will take a decent amount of time to complete just this one function (and then I have to do purchasing and selling ).

So please wish me luck D:

I hope my brain doesn’t decide to spontaneously combust!

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-Ta!