RS5.2 Summer Update - Release topic

[Marcel]

The fixed version of RS5Drug was uploaded and applied on the main server. The fix was tested successfully and is now live for everyone.

Members of every criminal family with at least rankpower 70 will be able to sell to the drug market.

[Dennis.]

Splendid.

EDIT: What about storing weapons?

[Fuzzy]

EDIT: What about storing weapons?

Hopefully soon.

[Dennis.]

Got a few questions about newest drug system:

• How do the prices of cartels change?
• Why did I sell 500g meth for 16K when the price was 63/g?
• Prices sometimes go down to 14/g, is that how it was scripted, or...?
• Sometimes it says that cartel can buy 173g only but you are allowed to sell 500g minimum.This blocks all the market's traffic. Why?

[Mr. Goobii]

• How do the prices of cartels change?

"The cartels will offer you a price based on the supply and demand of the global market. Another crime family unloading a lot of drugs? That will cause the price to fall sharply. That means the cartel will first need to sell off their supply before they will buy more or at a higher price."

[Julio.]

Does the price of the drug drop based on a single transaction, ie:

I walk in with 100g meth, price at $50/g, sell it all for $5000, and after the transaction it drops to $40/g

OR

I walk in with 100g meth, price at $50/g, the system notes each g as an individual sale, and as a result, as I'm selling large quantities, every time I see 1g, the price drops, thus, you aren't paid $50/g for the total of 100g?


That's the only reason I can think of why Dennis would have only got 16k, not 31.5k.

[FARQ3X]

Will we ever get 4 door ranchers without Sirens?

[Fuzzy]

Will we ever get 4 door ranchers without Sirens?

As long as nobody of the people who say "omg I saw it on another server" tells me how they disabled the siren, then no

[Leon.]

Will notoriety influence drug prices?

[FARQ3X]

As long as nobody of the people who say "omg I saw it on another server" tells me how they disabled the siren, then no

That isn't possible :/

[Dennis.]

Will notoriety influence drug prices?

Good question. I will add "group status", too.

[Comrade]

After using this system the past five days, I am sure many will agree that the prices are just fine, but the cartel storage capabilities are not. As it is right now, cartel prices per gram increase faster than the amount of drugs one can actually sell to them, and thus often you see cartels that have high demand for a drug (80/g) but have 0 storage. 5kg for the whole server is honestly not enough, and either the storage or the recovery speed need to be increased ASAP, rather drastically. Likewise, sometimes you see cartels have 400g storage left, but the script prevents you from selling less than 500. That is counter productive, as two different scripts are literally contradicting one another - one not letting you sell past 400 while another not letting you sell less than 500.

The way I see it, a solution would be to remove the minimum selling restriction of 500, then increasing max storage from 5kg to 30kg or have it at 5kg but let it recover from 0 to 5000 in the span of say, 30-60 minutes or have it as it is right now, 5kg max and same recovery speed, but make the storage unique per player rather than share it among the whole server. Of course, since I am not a scripter, these are just suggestions that I came up with after using the system a lot for the past few days. While I urge you to take everything I say with a grain of salt, I can assure you that currently, right now, this system does not work the way it should.

Do you have any thoughts on this, Marcel? Perhaps anything you could share from a developers point of view?

[Marcel]

From the developers point of view, the following situation is currently true:

When I made the system, I entered the three cartels into the database with their respective properties. These properties include how fast they "sell off" the storage they have and how fast the price returns to its normal level. Even before we released the update, it was clear these values needed tweaking (as you are suggesting now) after the release. This is due to the fact we have to balance it out with the use of the drug script (amount of production, etc.).

It is now clear the system itself is good, but needs to allow for some 'larger' cartels in terms of storage. We will be collecting statistics and tweak the values mentioned above.

Thanks for the feedback on the update @Comrade

[beLTa]

Very nice, guys.

[Comrade]

Excellent, glad you are continuously working on improving the script. Thank you.