Lua [TFS 1.4] Variable Pricing

[Karmia]

Hi,

there must be a way to price items, sold by NPCs, based on the levels of "supply and demand".

Lets say the NPC has "X" amount of SD runes in his daily stock

• if the number gets to "Y" the price will be raised for "Z"% (can be raised several times)
• no stock left means, he can not sell that item to the players until the next day

I know that players may try to take advantage of this and manipulate the pricing to sell for even higher prices, but they could be burned as well.


What am I trying to achieve?

• Trade among players
• Take money out of circulation
• rune making

 

[ond]

There is a way for sure, but what exactly will define the amount of items/runes an NPC has? Will it account for every item NPCs might be selling or what's up

 

[Karmia]

Purely from estimates. For each item different estimates.

Edited main post

 

[Evalor]

send me pm and we could discuss

 

[ond]

You could set a value of max stock as a parameter in the shopModule-whatchamacallit next to each item id or w/e but then you need some function(s) to control that value you want to communicate to the NPCs. This is probably possible through Lua alone

 

[Papa Bear]

This would be similar to runescapes economy, and would be a likely viable solution for low rate servers which do not allow MCs.