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CookiStocker 2 | Automatic Stock Trading Mod

Lightball - You actually need the Maximum number of cookies for auto trading to be enabled. When you have that much, the Banked Cookies label will turn from yellow to green.

I apologize for the confusion here. In the next release (which is coming soon), both the labeling and the error message will be a lot clearer.

this just.. stopped working for some reason? i have enough brokers, i have more than the required minimum but its still saying insufficient resources and not doing ANYTHING anymore

For those people who want to know how Exponential Warehouses and the Warehouse Exponent slider work, I have given a detailed explanation in this post in the Future Development discussion. This explanation will eventually be incorporated into the Steam Guide. Note that the Warehouse Exponent slider is currently nonfunctional due to a couple of bugs, but I have fixed these bugs, and the fixed version of this feature will be available in the next release, which is coming soon.

pogof - There is one suggestion of yours that I think I should adopt immediately, and that is the one about a more specific error message. I also hate error messages that are too generic, and I'm afraid I have created one here. So I will fix it to identify exactly what the problem is.

pogof - The surprises you referred to were due to a bug that has been fixed; a release with the bug fix will be coming out soon. I definitely don't want to subject players to "surprises" like that. The standard auto buying of brokers and auto trading occur at a level that is low enough that it does not have a significant effect on the cookie bank.

One of the reasons to list the number of brokers owned is that this number is displayed in red if it is below the number of brokers needed. This immediately makes it clear what one source of "insufficient resources" is.

I've changed the messages about cookies required as described in my previous post; we'll see how that goes. If necessary, I'll simplify that whole process further.

As for starting out with all actions disabled, I can tell you from experience that this will lead to a lot of posts along the lines of, "I installed CookiStocker, but it isn't doing anything!" Basically, no set of defaults is going to please everyone.

Ah I see now. So I have to still farm more cookies then. As it is now it doesn't make much sense. I would like to suggest the following changes:

* The Mod should start with trading and autobuy brokers disabled.
This is to prevent surprises and for the player to have time to go through the settings before anything actually starts happening.

* The required resources line should really only include the necessary info.
- Brokers needed (red, not enough, green enough)
- Cookies required (the amount of banked cookies required for the auto trade to start; red, not enough; yellow, minimum recommended range; green, safe amount)
- Max bank use [%] = [cookies used per trade]

There is no need to write how many brokers you own when it is literally written two lines above it or anything else that you can read elsewhere.

The red message could also tell you directly what is the exact problem instead of the generic message and "read the steam guide".


And now to get to cookie farming :D

I'd like to refine my previous recommendations to the following: For the first number, the label would be "Cheapest trade:" while for the second number, the label would be "Any trade (required cookies):". Comments are welcome.

Unfortunately, this line is the longest in the display already. This makes it very difficult to use more verbose labels.

After considering my last post, I think there is a problem in that the labels in the display are somewhat misleading. I'm thinking of changing "Required cookie minimum" to "Cookies for cheapest trade" and changing "Maximum" to "Required cookies." What do people think of these changes? Does anyone have any other suggestions?

Yellow means you have enough cookies to buy at least the cheapest stock, but not the most expensive. The auto trading mechanism needs to be able to trade all stocks in order to perform properly. So once your number of cookies reaches or exceeds the Maximum cookies number, your cookies number will turn from yellow to green, and auto trading will automatically start.

This information will be included in the revised Steam Guide that I'm currently working on.

Hello, the mod loads for me however it will not auto trade, displaying the red text "THERE ARE INSUFFICIENT RESOURCES...", however I own 102 brokers, have the highest werehouse and banked cookies is yellow 928 octodecillion) and green required minimum 72 octodecillion. So I'm not quite sure what am I doing wrong.