Playing Stocks in Freelancer

[Challenge.Hunter]

Can someone please tell me how does this work?

You get this 'mini-game' once You unlock the Treasure Room/Safe in your hideout.

I am guessin it's a way to get extra cash. But... what are the rules?

[n00bdragon]

It's completely random. It's just gambling.

[supersand]

Originally posted by n00bdragon:

It's completely random. It's just gambling.

I'm pretty sure it is not random and is based on trying to time it so that it hits a specific tally mark when 47 finishes the animation (The red one or immediately after it).

I think the idea is 'buy low sell high' and so having 47 buy it low makes you merces and having him buy it high loses merces. The animation changes to high sell prices after making merces and crashes into high buy prices after losing merces.

Either way it needs more testing to verify if it truly is random or is deterministic.

[null]

Originally posted by supersand:

Originally posted by n00bdragon:

It's completely random. It's just gambling.

I'm pretty sure it is not random and is based on trying to time it so that it hits a specific tally mark when 47 finishes the animation (The red one or immediately after it).

I think the idea is 'buy low sell high' and so having 47 buy it low makes you merces and having him buy it high loses merces. The animation changes to high sell prices after making merces and crashes into high buy prices after losing merces.

Either way it needs more testing to verify if it truly is random or is deterministic.

it is random