Server Saturday - #1!

Last year I wrote a new admin shop for our server, it's accessible online on our website and also in-game through a /search <itemname> command.

It's there to provide a base for our economy so even if players aren't selling an item you need the Admin Shop is there to offer the base materials so you can craft it yourself.

Well over the past few weeks I've upgraded this feature with investments. Now players can invest some of their money in the Admin Shop items they like and then they receive a cut of each sale.

Every item in the shop has five investment slots. 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25%. The cost to invest in these slots is based on past sales and sale prices and fluctuates daily.

It has been a really well received feature, is a picture of the website where I've selected our "Experience Orbs" sold on the Admin Shop (btw our shop only uses in-game money, we have no hard currency system of any kind). http://i.imgur.com/66fiwQv.png

As you can see it gives players both sales data over 30 days and sales prices in a little chart to help them make better investment decisions, our shop prices fluctuate based on demand which is why the prices have changed. We only have pricing data for a few days in the chart as this is a new feature and I didn't store pricing data before the chart was made.

There is also an investment menu each player can open which displays all their investments: http://i.imgur.com/naQu2OH.png

In the past three weeks players have invested R756,289.38 and profited combined R221,311.92

In the first week the feature was unveiled they spent over R200,000 and lost R67,000 but they've slowly learned what's selling well and what isn't and making smarter investment decisions.

Here is a link to our online shop so you can check it out without logging in, http://shop.renmx.com/ of course you're free to login (play.renmx.com) and when you load that page you'll be sent a link in-game to click on and then that'll authenticate you with the shop and all our other online services.

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