Before I discuss anything, the plug-in has to be open source. Try github for one.

 

There's a github link on the plugin page.

 

So, does andrew make the stocks or does the ECC player base make them?

 

I read into it a bit, but it says that it changes randomly. I'd rather have a stock market that changes because I haven't sold any town plots in a week, not because Walmart sales went down 5% over the weekend.

 

But I don't want a random stock market :p

 

It's not a real stock market when it's random, it's just gambling.

 

Then we can't call it a stock market :p

 

Unless there is a way to tie a stock market into the already existing economic structure, I really don't see the point.

 

That's basically the only reason.

There are a few others, like lag, and time taken up that could be used elsewhere. But literally, it is not a stock market if it's random. That's not called a stock market.

If there were a way to have a real stock market, I'd be all for it. But this so called "stock market" is just a joke and isn't even realistic.

 

A stock market is not gambling, a stock market is not random. But this plugin's "stock market" is completely random, that's literally like playing the lottery, only the money gets taken from the server instead of from other players.

 

The fact of the matter is that there is no real reason for the stock prices to change, so there is no incentive to run a portfolio in any intelligent manner. If the plugin had a method to directly tie it into certain server specific features that allows for calculating risk, then by all means; but I feel as though the plugin was written by someone who has no idea how a stock market actually works.