Public Economy Data Dumps - Roadmap

Much like in real life, the in-game economy is something lots of people have opinions on but few people understand.

I'd like to start releasing daily dumps which will allow users (and myself) to get a better picture of how the economy functions. These dumps would consist of two parts:

• A table of ships loaded on that day (identified by hex code and maybe including the name and color) and the contents of their cargo at the end of that day.
• A log of all item boxes picked up on that day, which includes the ship hex code, item, and the source (ship hex, bot type, world tile, etc.)

This would somewhat obsolete the scanner items, but I'm at the point where I think there are more benefits to sharing this data:

• First and foremost, we'll have an idea of how item stocks change over time, and the relative rarity of items.
• This data might allow you to infer drop rates without me needing to make that specific information public.
• It's another tool to help catch bad actors -- I already use similar logs to track where stolen items go, and giving the community this data takes some burden off of me.
• Those of you who liked the old wealth scoreboard can design your own, which will probably work better, without me having to assign arbitrary point values to items.
• Something for programmers in the community to play with, that isn't trying to reverse engineer the game code.

cool

nice.

I like this idea

This is a great idea, Cogg!

By the way, can we post suggestions in the comments or no?

This might be a nice idea to implement into the game. :>

cogg nice idea

This is nice

I would like to know what spam or low-quality posts are so I don't try to be funny and accidently get banned.

noice

Maybe just try to keep the comments "professional"?

Its something i could build analytics from, i would also try to implement some things into Swiss Army, like leaderboard based on pickups or specific pickups. And for everyone who sees this, ill look if i can make the data persistent so you can download the entire dataset later if you missed a day (if cogg makes it a daily dump and not an archive thing where we can look at past days). I might make some sort of API where you can fetch specific things instead of the raw data. It involves quite a lot of coding from my side, but im willing to put that effort into it. If any of you have any questions or ideas what i could also include into the improved API dm me on Discord, my discord is "Gravity Assist#0852".

And to cogg: Nice idea, ill look forward to work with it.

pro

I like this because it could identify potential griefers although this was probably not your main intent

This will help determine a more general legitimate price by knowing output input and supply

I think scoreboards encourage players to keep playing so I'm glad to see something of the sort I can potentially implement.

Sincerely, PP (Peepers)

I think this is gonna be a good idea and it will be funny to see people get greifed. Hope it dont happen to me tho.

cool

V/r I dont think this idea will do much to catch griefers or scammers. People are very capable of making alts.

This will be great and give "grinders" or people in the game something to work for. I wonder if there is a possibility of net worth calculation for the player. Instead of a ship point program what if it was based off of the account?

this sucks!!

this is good idea

while you do that you should also add a market

that would be a useful thing, I hope you will add it

nice cogg

Please add it cogg, It would be nice

Nice Update Public Economy Can Put Coins And The Manchine Cost To The Game Its Too Avanched And With B Can Open A Shop Of The Coins And This Where The wrernches And To The Coins To Collect Need Go To Sparrow And The Bots Red Give This Coins And Its Too Avanched And The Health Of Bots Red Its 1200 Hp To The Game Its Nice

Sounds similar to my idea lmao the one that had the wrong colored emoji

This is great! This may stop griefing!

COGG MORE SPACE TO THE TEST SERVER

COGG MORE SPACE TO THE TEST SERVER

Nice idea cogg!

Yes this a nice idea cogg.

Just make it so that the average joe can see it and understand. Like statistics: How much metal/exp/flux has been added, ammo created/used, and which ships actually hurt the most.

epic :)

Great idea, I think you should also put in a market for player.

i hope it helpful

Best update ever! You can now (and I have already added code to a discord bot to do so) get data on any ship you wish. Along with what is created in the zones. This is out weighs lockdown in the Locked & Stocked update!

this is good i like it

hi

you should also add a more secure way to trade, so scamming isnt as possible.

Great idea! And now there are stonks

We need to have a data dump on The SLATE ship.

So, We can make a copy of that ship, and make it better.

@cogg i dont know if that works. but can you add a customizeable item type thing to test drednot? like you can insert a pixel art image, set a discription, and have all the item functions (from the base game) so you can make custom items like different guns from the hand cannon function. and different items to craft with (in survival ships)