Jean Parisot

Daily Prices 1/17/15 Market Index: $11,054 (14) --- (100.1%) 1) Uranium: $2,373 (-20) --- (99.2%) 2) Steel: $1,424 (12) --- (100.8%) 3) Aluminum: $1,385 (30) --- (102.2%) 4) Gasoline: $1,331 (-109) --- (92.4%) 5) Bauxite: $1,096 (-22) --- (98.%) 6) Coal: $797 (39) --- (105.1%) 7) Iron: $694 (-19) --- (97.3%) 8) Munitions: $693 (66) --- (110.5%) 9) Lead: $647 (6) --- (100.9%) 10) Oil: $504 (35) --- (107.5%) 11) Food: $110 (-4) --- (96.5%) Daily Price Notes For the first time in 3 days the Market Index actually increased today, gaining $14. Munitions had the highest increase in value ($66) and percentage (110.5%). Gasoline had the biggest drop in price (-$109) and percentage as well (92.4%). Food is on a 5 day price skid. ​ 2015 Average Prices as of 1/17/15 Market Index: $10,374 (580) --- (105.9%) 1) Uranium: $2,239 (115) --- (105.4%) 2) Aluminum: $1,320 (57) --- (104.5%) 3) Steel: $1,306 (91) --- (107.5%) 4) Gasoline: $1,217 (164) --- (115.6%) 5) Bauxite: $1,088 (17) --- (101.6%) 6) Coal: $789 (-15) --- (98.1%) 7) Iron: $689 (30) --- (104.6%) 8) Munitions: $597 (35) --- (106.2%) 9) Lead: $517 (64) --- (114.1%) 10) Oil: $492 (22) --- (104.7%) 11) Food: $119 (0) --- (100.%) Average Notes Today's averages have been compared to those recorded on 1/10/15. I intend to record and write these stats once a week. Despite the losses of the past four days, this week's prices were still able to bring every resource an increase in value except for coal. Despite the skid today, Gasoline gained the highest in average value ($164) as well as the highest percent increase (115.6%) Nearly every resource is currently valued above the average so far in 2015. Steel took the 3rd spot from Gasoline and Lead took the 9th spot from Oil this week.

Daily Prices: 1/16/15 Market Index: $11,040 (-151) --- (98.7%) 1) Uranium: $2,393 (-24) --- (99.%) 2) Gasoline: $1,440 (-47) --- (96.8%) 3) Steel: $1,412 (-5) --- (99.6%) 4) Aluminum: $1,355 (-39) --- (97.2%) 5) Bauxite: $1,118 (-10) --- (99.1%) 6) Coal: $758 (-7) --- (99.1%) 7) Iron: $713 (-6) --- (99.2%) 8) Lead: $641 (9) --- (101.4%) 9) Munitions: $627 (-5) --- (99.2%) 10) Oil: $469 (-16) --- (96.7%) 11) Food: $114 (-1) --- (99.1%) Notes: The Market Index continued its fall however only by about half of what it dropped the previous day. The only resource to increase in value was lead which is on a 6 day moderate but steady growth streak. Gasoline took the hardest hit today, losing $47 and Oil dropped by the highest percentage, 96.7%. All raw resources save Lead had minor price drops while manufactured resources continued to drop at a slightly faster rate.

Daily Prices: 1/15/15 Market Index: $11,191(-360) --- (96.9%) 1) Uranium: $2,417 (-51) --- (97.9%) 2) Gasoline: $1,487 (-145) --- (91.1%) 3) Steel: $1,417 (-40) --- (97.3%) 4) Aluminum: $1,394 (-67) --- (95.4%) 5) Bauxite: $1,128 (5) --- (100.4%) 6) Coal: $765 (-2) --- (99.7%) 7) Iron: $719 (-29) --- (96.1%) 8) Lead: $632 (8) --- (101.3%) 9) Munitions: $632 (11) --- (101.8%) 10) Oil: $485 (-48) --- (91.%) 11) Food: $115 (-2) --- (98.3%) Notes: The Market Index fell again today, this time for a slightly less -$360. Gasoline took the lowest plunge today, dropping $145, while Oil barely nudged Gasoline out for the lowest percentage drop, posting a 91.0%. Steel once again took back the #3 spot from Aluminum. Lead remains more expensive than munitions. Bad time to be a Munitions producer! Lead has been increasing in price for 5 consecutive days! Despite recent drops the overall Market Index remains higher than pre-1/10/15 levels and also higher than in the market drop in the aftermath of the December hostilities so this may only be a temporary drop or perhaps the market stabilizing in the wake of a the quick price increases we saw earlier in the week.

Daily Prices: 1/14/15 Market Index: $11,551(-429) --- (96.4%) 1) Uranium: $2,468 (-20) --- (99.2%) 2) Gasoline: $1,632 (-165) --- (90.8%) 3) Aluminum: $1,461 (-54) --- (96.4%) 4) Steel: $1,457 (-87) --- (94.4%) 5) Bauxite: $1,123 (5) --- (100.4%) 6) Coal: $767 (-9) --- (98.8%) 7) Iron: $748 (-7) --- (99.1%) 8) Lead: $624 (4) --- (100.6%) 9) Munitions: $621 (-51) --- (92.4%) 10) Oil: $533 (-30) --- (94.7%) 11) Food: $117 (-15) --- (88.6%) Notes: The market had a rough day on the 14th thanks to all but 2 resources dropping in price. Bauxite had the highest price gain with $5 and Lead had the highest percentage gain with 100.6% Gasoline had the largest drop in price (-165) and Food dropped by the highest percentage (88.6%) Minor drops in most raw resources and fairly large drops in manufactured resources caused drop in market Index Value today. We may be seeing some fallout from the relative quick jump in prices in manufactured goods from the last week or so. Lead overtook its product Munitions for the 8th spot. Aluminum and Steel also swapped positions and are now 3rd and 4th respectively

Thanks for the input guys! I could potentially do that, although it would be tricky to figure out exactly what it costs to produce each resource. On the base level calculating how what you need for improvement upkeep isn't bad for the actual resource-producing improvement. However taking it further would be difficult, figuring out what it costs to power that improvement as well as keeping that power plant operating and/or buying raw resources in order to produce manufactured ones. In the mean time, one of the things I was planning on implementing in the short term is a basic daily difference in price between raw resources and their corresponding manufactured resource which will then be tracked day-to-day. I know that's a pretty simply, but being able to track it might lead to interesting results. Also: don't have enough time to update this tonight so there will be two tomorrow , and thanks again for the input.

Daily Prices 1/13/15 Market Index: $11,980 (630) --- (105.6%) 1) Uranium: $2,488 (84) --- (103.5%) 2) Gasoline: $1,797 (337) --- (123.1%) 3) Steel: $1,544 (19) --- (101.2%) 4) Aluminum: $1,515 (133) --- (109.6%) 5) Bauxite $1,118 (0) --- (100.0%) 6) Coal: $776 (22) --- (102.9%) 7) Iron: $755 (7) --- (100.9%) 8) Munitions $672 (-17) --- (97.5%) 9) Lead: $620 (53) --- (109.3%) 10) Oil $563 (0) --- (100.0%) 11) Food $132 (-8) --- (94.3%) Notes The Market Index posted another strong day today, gaining $630. Gasoline posts the strongest total gain today ($337) and overtakes Steel for the #2 spot. Gasoline also had the highest percentage increase with 123.1%. Munitions posted the largest drop (-$17) despite other war/manufactured goods posting strong prices. Raw resources seem to be remaining at relatively high levels and manufactured goods have returned to a point where they may be stable in the future, however since the rise occurred very quickly they may also be prone to sudden drops in price.

Daily Prices 1/12/15 Market Index: $11,350 (899) --- (108.6%) 1) Uranium: $2,404 (115) --- (105.0%) 2) Steel: $1,525 (251) --- (119.7%) 3) Gasoline: $1,460 (268) --- (122.5%) 4) Aluminum: $1,382 (63) --- (104.8%) 5) Bauxite: $1,118 (23) --- (102.1%) 6) Coal: $754 (-9) --- (98.8%) 7) Iron: $748 (3) --- (100.4%) 8) Munitions: $689 (96) --- (116.2%) 9) Lead: $567 (41) --- (107.8%) 10) Oil: $563 (18) --- (103.3%) 11) Food: $140 (30) --- (127.3%) Notes Lead overtakes Oil for the #9 spot. Steel and Gasoline each jump one spot to #2 and #3 respectively while Aluminum loses two spots. Market index has a great day and increases by nearly $900, mostly in manufactured goods. Steel has the highest increase in value today with $268 and Food has the highest percent increase with 127.3% The increase in manufactured goods could be partly a result of an actual recovery but also likely have to do with a few conflicts or perhaps increased wartime preparations. Guild Master's Notes: I just wanted a quick aside to say thank you all for the support thus far. I am doing a bit of travelling IRL until Saturday and as a result I may miss a day here or there. If I do miss a few days I will post them when I get back. Also: if anyone has any tips as to getting data from an excel table into a nice text file to which I can copypasta it here I would greatly appreciate it, because doing this by hand is lame and I'm a VBA noob . Anyway thanks folks!

Have fun!

Daily Prices 1/11/15 Market Index: $10,451 (359) --- (103.6%) 1) Uranium $2,289 (38) --- (101.7%) 2) Aluminum $1,319 (25) --- (101.9%) 3) Steel $1,274 (27) --- (102.2%) 4) Gasoline $1.192 (75) --- (106.7%) 5) Bauxite $1,095 (19) --- (101.8%) 6) Coal $763 (7) --- (100.9%) 7) Iron $745 (52) --- (107.5%) 8) Munitions $593 (10) --- (101.7%) 9) Oil $545 (35) --- (106.9%) 10) Lead $526 (74) --- (116.4%) 11) Food $110 (-3) --- (97.4%) Notes Market Index rose by a whopping $359 continuing the trend of growth thus far in 2015 Every resource on the market had prices increase except for that of Food which posted a minor loss. Gasoline posted the highest increase ($75) while lead had the highest percentage increase (116.4%) No resources traded places today. The market seems to be on a slow but hopefully steady recovery after the last major war. Raw goods remain relatively high and manufactured goods seem to be slowly climbing. It remains to be when the recovery will level out and at what prices things will begin to settle on, if they settle.

So there was a thread that I (and I'm sure others) particularly enjoy a month or two back that has since gone active called Market Trends. I attempted to message Athanasios regarding the continuation of that thread but received no response and I believe him and his nation have sadly gone inactive. As such I believe the legacy of the idea behind that thread should continue and hope to put forth a similarly designed one here, and now that we have entered a new year I thought this an opportune time to start. I intend to update this thread daily on the prices of market goods (though this may change to every other day or some other interval) and perhaps have a weekly or bi-weekly detailed sum up. I have put some thought into this and have a few ideas I plan to implement in the future but I am very open to suggestions or thoughts so feel free to share if you have any ideas to make this better, or really anything. Anyway hopefully some of you can find this helpful . Daily Prices 1/10/15 Market Index: $10,092 (0) - (100%) 1) Uranium $2,251 (0) - (100%) 2) Aluminum $1,294 (0) - (100%) 3) Steel $1,247 (0) - (100%) 4) Gasoline $1,117 (0) - (100%) 5) Bauxite $1,076 (0) - (100%) 6) Coal $756 (0) - (100%) 7) Iron $693 (0) - (100%) 8) Munitions $583 (0) - (100%) 9) Oil $510 (0) - (100%) 10) Lead $452 (0) - (100%) 11) Food $113 (0) - (100%) Average Prices for 2015 Market Index: $9,774 (0) - (100%) 1) Uranium $2,124 (0) - (100%) 2) Aluminum $1,263 (0) - (100%) 3) Steel $1,215 (0) - (100%) 4) Bauxite $1,071 (0) - (100%) 5) Gasoline $1,035 (0) - (100%) 6) Coal $804 (0) - (100%) 7) Iron $659 (0) - (100%) 8) Munitions $562 (0) - (100%) 9) Oil $470 (0) - (100%) 10) Lead $453 (0) - (100%) 11) Food $119 (0) - (100%) Notes All resources on the market are currently exceeding the 2015 average except for Food, Lead and Coal. Market Index was 9,239 on January 1st, and has jumped over $800 since. There are three raw resources currently priced higher than the manufactured resource Munitions.

One of those super rare births! Must be something like 1 in 1500. My Uncle was missed it by a day. Yeah I found it on the interbutts and I have no idea where it's from....

Awesome! Clearly some work put into this, very much worth the read.

The date in-game for the current turn is February 29th, 1988. As such I wanted to mark this once in 4 year event by wishing everyone a happy leap-day and may you all celebrate it in whatever way they do things in your respective nations. That is all, you may return to your regularly scheduled programming.

The only effect I can see will be making people factor in nukes to diplomacy and war, which i think would be very interesting. Although few nations will be able to afford nukes anytime soon it could end up being pretty important in how alliances go to and prepare to go to war (probably more so a year or two down the line as Ren said). Any war that has the potential to go nuclear ends up being the concern of everyone on Orbis and nations will be hit where it hurts (in their wallet) if they are unprepared or are unable to negotiate. I'm not sure if I like this or not as it could be a pretty big shift in the way the game is played, however I certainly think it would be interesting to see the effects if something like that was implemented.

May you all dwell in Elysian splendor. Mostly because I love that phrase.

I had a trade report disappear on me yesterday, but it was right around the time of the notification change so it probably had something to do with that.

Good luck Reagan!

Lookin' good Brotherhood!

Happy holidays to us! Thanks Sheepy! Lookin' good so far and much faster.

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This would be pretty neat

You damn Yuktobanians ain't so bad after all and thus I must give you a 8/10 (mostly because I love the ace combat series)

Sign me up!

What's cool about the idea is that there is really no guaranteed growth, the size of economies and production will all be driven by the nation in the game and their needs making for an interesting ride for shareholders. Plus it'll force people to start playing this game more like and economy sim instead of a nation sim. Having said that I think the idea needs to be fleshed out a bit more, the stock type of thing shares many parallels with resource production already in game, but it could be pretty cool

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