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[my MO2 overwrite folder]\bin\x64\plugins\cyber_engine_tweaks\mods\stocks\data\persistent,
like 1733208610.lua, 1733210022.lua, etc.
Is this expected behavior or is MO2 confusing the mod and forcing it to create these files?
You can drag and drop the files in Overwrite directly from the Overwrite conflict warning resolution page to the corresponding mod in the modlist if you know what mod it belongs to, and in most cases that will clear the warning, at least until another mod generates another file. Eventually, once you get your modlist sorted, stable, and settings how you want them, mods will not need to generate new files and the Overwrite folder will stay clear. Alternatively, you can just ignore the warning message, leave everything in Overwrite, and 99.9% of the time everything will work out fine.
It's important to note that any character appearance presets and other files of that nature will get put in Overwrite. Obviously you don't want to lose those, so it's important to know what MO2 is doing with them.
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I don't know if the mod will require to be updated, but core frameworks (CET) will
In the past, the first CET updates for a new patch have been prone to be not stable and missing important features used by mods, thus I recommend waiting until all core frameworks have been fully updated.
love checking my portfolio every night and morning after heading to my hideout after a long day of missions haha
Cool mod!
EDIT: Oh yeah, almost certainly something was broken. I think most of the stock volatility (and thus profit potential) was from the entire market reinitializing quite often. Just checked out the console (for a different mod) and I'm getting repeated bursts of 'StockMarket OverflowReset'. I went through a few of the market persistence .lua files, and the only number that stood out as strange in them was an infinitesimal for Tsunami's "spent", something like -9e-9, along with one having a tsunamiAction of -3e-18.
Edit 2: I got bored and remembered CET mods are uncompiled lua scripts, so I decided to dig in and find the issue. getStockDelta() is returning ridiculous values for some stocks due to stockInvest (varying, I've seen over 2000) and moneySpent (around 1500 at all times). This makes the stocks go way over their maximum, causes an overflow, and resets the market.
Additionally, moneySpent seems to push the stocks affected by it up in value constantly, and the trigger doesn't decay. I played with the stock market for... a while... and have spent ludicrous amounts of money - hence a 1500 moneySpent trigger. By now these stocks overflow whenever they try to update. I decided to remove the effects of the triggers.
In modules/logic/triggerManager.lua, I changed
for _, trigger in pairs(stock.triggers) do
todelta = delta + self.triggers[trigger.name].exportData.value * trigger.amount
end
for _, trigger in pairs(stock.triggers) do
local triggerValue = self.triggers[trigger.name].exportData.value * trigger.amount
if trigger.name == "moneySpent" or trigger.name == "stockInvest" then
triggerValue = 0
end
delta = delta + triggerValue
end
Since applying this change, I have not had a single market reset in multiple hours.
The market design includes minimum and maximum values any given stock can be worth. If a stock is out of this range after it updates, the entire stock market is reset. Resetting the market randomizes the values of all stocks (within a certain range for each). I keep the stocks I have in my portfolio when the market resets. If resets happen frequently, this totally breaks the concept of a stock market that you either have to manipulate or wait a long time for returns, and basically turns it into a free slot machine. Just buy when it randomly plummets in price and then wait for RNG to give you a good number. It meant that I could make money WAY faster than intended, sometimes up to 20% growth within literally a minute.
One of the reasons the stocks go up or down is because, on each update of the market, various 'triggers' influence the stock value. These triggers are how things like the state of various quests, police/civilian massacres and player weapon usage effect the stock market. The triggers are directly added to the stock's value in each update. Most of the triggers are scaled right and have pretty small values, so their effect is minor compared to the random movements of the stock - usually just enough to influence the general trend slightly. Unfortunately, there are two triggers that don't seem to quite work right: 'moneySpent' and 'stockInvest'.
I believe moneySpent is literally based on the sum total of all money you have spent on a character. Maybe 1/10,000 or 1/100,000 of the total you've spent? A cubic root? Not sure. The problem is that I didn't see any type of decay. I have a character with 45h of playtime and the moneySpent has reached 1500, while most of the stocks have a max of a few hundred. Whenever the market tried to update a stock that uses this trigger, the stock would go way over it's maximum and cause a market reset. Even at far lower values, this would cause infrequent resets because the stocks always went up.
I'm not sure what stockInvest is based on. I assume based on the name that how much you invest in the stock and how much it's worth have something to do with it, althought it might just be the sheer quantity of stock units bought/sold. I've purchased about 5 million worth of a stock and the next update had a 2000 stockInvest trigger added, which caused a market reset, and it was 0 the rest of the time as long as I bothered to check out. (Also, I feel like the stock price of any megacorporation worth the title shouldn't even twitch at 100 million of private equity investing or divesting.)
I was a few hours into debugging and didn't want to dig even deeper to figure out how these values were set, so I made a quick and simple fix. When the list of triggers is being processed, instead of just adding each trigger blindly, check if the name of the trigger is moneySpent or stockInvest; if it is one of them, add 0 instead of the actual value. This removes the effects of only these two triggers, leaving the stock market otherwise unchanged - still easily manipulatable via massacres and weapon usage, still totally OP in terms of profit potential, just not literally broken.