In this week’s devlog Michi introduces the inflation index command INFL.
You can find the full issue of the development log here.
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Thanks for the update @molp I would really like to hear more about you plan to incorporate any “inflation” data into the mm bids. It was mentioned on discord that you will focus initially on the MMs which have both ask and sell. So practially those basic mats like PIO consumables, B-Fabs and fuels.
The high tier MMs are functionally very different to the basic materials and should be treated quite differently IMO.
Whilst having the basic MMs scale with the general inflation could work well enough it is my opinion that the high tier MMs should stay under the discretion of the devs.
Nice!
The command is available on the test server, but there is little data right now to view.
Are you planning to backfill it, or is it also going to start from scratch on the main server?
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Sounds quite similar to what’s been built here, not sure if you’ve seen it. Might have some useful ideas as well:
Would recommend an additional basket “Most traded commodities”. Where it’s 50 or 100 of the most traded items in the game. Ranked by volume traded in $. I’m on the fence about if they should be weighted, where the trading volume affects how much weight is assigned to that item.
Also on the fence about whether the ranking should be determined by cx trade, or total universe production. I would honestly expect both to be pretty similar.
Would also like to see a currency setting “all” which combines all currencies into one index.
Also, a final point on pricing. The community has derived PPAVG and other weighted average price indexes, which help smooth out the large spreads in the game to provide more stable numbers. I’d suggest using SMA(9) as your price inputs, rather than the last_price or the best bid\ask.
Also, thank you for working on the current development path for the last few months. Appreciate taking input from the community and addressing some of these long-existing pain points.
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Yes, I agree.
I don’t think we will back fill it, but I intend to let the server part run for a while before releasing the UI part, so we’ll at least have a few days worth of data.
I’ll check if I can easily do that.
Yes, we are using a SMA(10) on the price data.
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