October 2016 - last edited July 2018 by crinrict
I noticed that when you invest in stocks, particularly 5000 simoleons, you might receive back only 1500 simoleons (loss of 3500), yet the pop up says that you made a good investment or something along that line (as you can see that is definitely NOT a good investment as you lost lots of money). Same thing happens when you invest 2000 simoleons, on a smaller scale though.
That made me curious, so i had a look at the code and found the source of the problem. There are 5 possible outcomes for each type of investment:
1. "Lose Big"
2. "Lose a bit"
3. "Stay even"
4. "Win a bit"
5. "Win big"
lets say you invest 1000 simoleons, here are the possible results:
Lose big= receive anywhere between 1-100 simoleons.
Lose a bit= 101-400
Stay even= 900-1100
Win a bit= 1000-2000 *********************
Win big= 1500-2500
if you invest 2000 simoleons:
Lose big= receive anywhere between 1-200 simoleons.
Lose a bit= 201-800
Stay even= 1800-2200
Win a bit= 1000-2000 ********************
Win big= 3000-5000
if you invest 5000 simoleons:
Lose big= receive anywhere between 1-500 simoleons.
Lose a bit= 501-2000
Stay even= 4500-5500
Win a bit= 1000-2000 *************************
Win big= 7500-12500
As you can clearly see, "winning a bit" when investing 2000 or 5000 simoleons, does not correspond to the amount of simoleons that you should receive back. Instead of winning, you actually lose money and that's quite a bit when choose to invest 5000. I can't see any logic behind those values so i believe the devs most probably forgot to adjust them.
If you invest 1000 simoleons and "win a bit" you receive anywhere between x1 - x2 the amount you invested. I believe the correct values you should receive when "winning a bit" would be 2000-4000 and 5000-10000 when investing 2000 and 5000 simoleons respectively.
I understand that this is not something game-breaking or critical, but it really breaks the immersion for me since it's about my favorite career and it's just a very simple change of code, it would probably take less than a minute to fix it.
Thank you.
This was placed in another forum by CRHEX, but I would love to see it fixed.
Thank you for fixing this
Debi Braswell
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July 2018
Yes, it seems to be working correctly now
October 2016
Added
Good Luck
Crin
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Was this ever fixed? My bf is a game dev and I know this is SO easy to fix.