Chapter 194

Chapter 194. Ships sometimes make for excellent stock market material. (3)

At first glance, it might seem like an ‘auction,’ but how exactly does this stock-like system work?

To be precise, the ship trading system in this game worked like this:

Users would set their desired selling and buying prices for specific ships.

Other users would then buy and sell based on those prices, and the average price would be calculated as the actual transaction price.

And how did small-time users like me turn this into a stock market?

Well, it’s nothing special.

Buy low, sell high—that kind of thing.

Of course, buying and selling strictly happens through the trade window, while the auction house is a whole different beast, combining a gambling-style system that’s absolutely insane.

One wrong move, and gamblers jump in, making the whole thing even more complicated.

But despite that, I charged into the market with overflowing confidence and a mere 2,100 gold.

However, as even Isaac Newton, who changed Earth’s gravity with an apple, couldn’t predict the madness of humans through stocks, I too was forced to experience the wild rollercoaster of ship-stocks, which skyrocketed and then crashed immediately.

At first, thanks to beginner’s luck, I turned 2,100 gold into 4,500 gold in just a few days, and then even reached 6,000 gold.

“Who am I? Icarus, the man blessed by fortune!”

Spouting nonsense like that, I was filled with hope that I could finally touch the ‘Heavy Cruiser’ class… but sadly, not long after, I crashed the graph, losing 6,000 gold and dropping to 1,500 gold.

Panicking, I tried to recover, only to end up losing another 2,500 gold in a disaster.

Of course, the details are still PTSD-inducing, so I can’t go into specifics, but I didn’t lose all that gold in one go.

I kept trying to hold on, making small moves here and there, chipping away bit by bit.

Naturally, Jessica, unable to bear watching me, called for help from Pashtira and Smeragi, who happened to be there for a report.

With bloodshot eyes, I tried to go all-in to recover the 6,000 gold, but they grabbed my arms and calmed me down…

A few minutes later.

-Soft and squishy♡

-Squishy squishy♡

“Ufufu, feeling calmer now, Commander?♡”

“Ugh, tsk tsk tsk…”

“Commander, next time, just do it once and then stop.”

Surrounded by soft, fluffy, squishy sensations from all sides, I felt my mind and body stabilize at an incredibly fast speed.

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Anyway, after such a disgraceful display.

Perhaps due to the brain parasite Gryanarr had shoved into me through some weird ‘red bean crumbs’ project.

Despite having a favorability of just over +100, Smeragi was oddly affectionate toward me, and I patted her head while saying:

“Jessica, if I keep trying to gain something solid from this, I’m going to end up with a big loss.”

“I’m glad you realized that now, Commander.”

Of course, while saying that, Jessica was radiating an aura of ‘I told you so’ with her entire being.

‘Ugh, such intensity.’

Feeling Jessica’s murderous(?) intensity, I decided to make a firm declaration.

“Let’s give up on making gold through ship stocks. Let’s just quietly and steadily profit from small ships.”

“Hmm, so you’re not even thinking about large ships anymore?”

“Unless I have 10 times the gold I have now, probably not.”

It was all based on beginner’s luck, which had tripled my initial investment.

But now, hoping for that kind of luck again would only worsen my already terrible gacha luck.

“If I save a few dozen to a few hundred gold each day, I’ll have around 10,000 gold in a month.”

“Is that so?”

“Plus, there’s one more thing I learned from this ship-stock experience.”

“Huh?”

I opened the community window and showed Jessica the gallery.

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Title: Attention to those trying ship-stocks or auctions!!

Author: ㅇㅇ

Content: [Background filled with all sorts of math formulas, but none of them are correct…]

Despite everything, the image of a toad with a proud expression is drawn.

I’m writing this because there are too many people who don’t know.

They say the only gold you get is the initial 100 gold from the auction house, and you can’t get it anywhere else.

That’s nonsense.

There’s a gem mining quest given by the Xenobia Empire.

If you take the gems from there to the auction house and sell them, you get 10 gold each.

And if you join a clan, and that clan takes over a space city or a decent residential area, the gold generated there is automatically distributed to the clan members.

Of course, it’s divided into Clan Leader – Deputy Clan Leader – Executives – 1st Line – 2nd Line, etc.

But if the clan hasn’t taken over any gold-generating areas, then there’s nothing like that.

Comments:

– [Is there really such a place?]

– [Tell us where to take over before you go!!!]

– [You should find that out yourself, goodbye.] (Author)

– [No wonder, some clan executive clearly had no gold but kept buying stuff, there was a reason.]

– [What, so the auction house was benefiting from the trickle-down effect?]

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“Wow, is it possible to get gold supply?”

“That’s what I’m saying, it wasn’t a thing when I originally played.”

Even when I first looked into the trading-auction house, no one ever mentioned such a gold supply.

As soon as I found out about this, I felt like I got hit hard on the back of my head.

Fortunately, now I’m stroking the white hair of Smeragi, who’s groaning next to me, and I’ve regained my mental stability, so it’s not a big deal.

Moreover, in this case, it’s not a problem caused by the management’s sneaky submarine patch…

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Title: The gold supply change happened quite a while ago.

Author: Yeah

Content: [Screenshot of receiving gold from the clan]

To be precise, it was right after possession here, about 3 years ago?

No, it was changed about 2 years and 10 months ago.

At that time, the uproar from users was so severe that they changed it so you could get gold through clans.

Comments:

– [Another update happened while I was gone.]

– [Why does this damn game only do convenience updates after all the users leave?]

– [But why did the number of users decrease even after that?]

– [Because the company kept doing stupid things, and no updates or patches could fix it.]

– [Ah, I see.]

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As the post I found in the gallery, which I was browsing to recover my mental state and to vent my anger on those jerks, indicated.

It was another patch that happened during the time I quit the game and wasn’t playing.

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Title: It’s natural that users complained about not getting gold in the early stages.

Author: Choglesk

Content: Think about it.

In the early stages, the maximum was just light or heavy cruisers, and ship points were only around 200-300.

Clans with users who couldn’t even reach 100 ships, what power could they have?

To get gold supply, you’d need a massive space city or a fortified planetary system.

Do you think clans at that time could handle that?

No matter how much they were veterans, the absolute difference in power scale was something they couldn’t do anything about.

Agree? Yeah, agree.

Comments:

– [That’s true.]

– [Definitely, last time I participated in a planetary siege, the fleets of low-level users just got wiped out, control or whatever, it was ridiculous.]

– [What’s city siege?]

– [These veterans are having fun with stuff only they know, leaving newbies out again.]

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As some oil from the Justice Clan said, at that time, even if they told users, they didn’t have the ability or means to deal with it.

So, knowingly or unknowingly, everyone just kept silent, and I could only nod in agreement.