It simulates real life pretty well: - I have an unread email in the inbox but I can't find it - The banks send me emails with no content in the body, some email glitch on their side - I tried to buy a property, lost my solicitor's fee but never got the property - There are no good jobs available except one underpaid junior position - I pay way too much in tax compared to what I make
Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
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Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#12It simulates real life pretty well: - I have an unread email in the inbox but I can't find it - The banks send me emails with no content in the body, some email glitch on their side - I tried to buy a property, lost my solicitor's fee but never got the property - There are no good jobs available except one underpaid junior position - I pay way too much in tax compared to what I make
This may well be an en-gb locale specific bug. Also, who's mum charges rent?
Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#13It simulates real life pretty well: - I have an unread email in the inbox but I can't find it - The banks send me emails with no content in the body, some email glitch on their side - I tried to buy a property, lost my solicitor's fee but never got the property - There are no good jobs available except one underpaid junior position - I pay way too much in tax compared to what I make
This may well be an en-gb locale specific bug. Also, who's mum charges rent?
Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#14It simulates real life pretty well: - I have an unread email in the inbox but I can't find it - The banks send me emails with no content in the body, some email glitch on their side - I tried to buy a property, lost my solicitor's fee but never got the property - There are no good jobs available except one underpaid junior position - I pay way too much in tax compared to what I make
This may well be an en-gb locale specific bug. Also, who's mum charges rent?
Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#15This is really really cool and is the kind of thing schools should use to teach kids about money management. I would make the next turn button a bit more prominent as I did not notice it at first. I would also maybe add a bit more of a tutorial. Really cool and keep it up.
However, I think the style of the browser game might be a little off-putting for kids as they are not familiar with the "old windows" and generally more pixelated style.
Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#16If you want unlimited amount of money:
Get any job, then edit the "next turn" button to include an id.
Then just run this in the console:
const but = document.getElementById('theidyoupicked');
for (let i = 0; i but.click(), 1000 * i)}
You can lower the amount of time on the timeout, but it seems like there is some logic to prevent too fast calls.
But be gentle, it seems like it does a http request each time you click on "next turn" (I hope the author has some stable hosting because people who play will spam this button anyway).
I have hundreds of thousands of money but I cannot see a single property or car. It seems like there are a few bugs still.
Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#17Read the first few emails, checked out the bank and web and started advancing next turn.
And... nothing.. just calendar advancing month at a time.
No new e-mails warning me of unemployment, no warnings about expiring bank balance.
You'd expect that your bank account at least would go down.
Hopefully, I am not considered dead - incidentally it would be realistic to add some actuary data to the game. Not everyone makes it retirement.
Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#18It simulates real life pretty well: - I have an unread email in the inbox but I can't find it - The banks send me emails with no content in the body, some email glitch on their side - I tried to buy a property, lost my solicitor's fee but never got the property - There are no good jobs available except one underpaid junior position - I pay way too much in tax compared to what I make
This may well be an en-gb locale specific bug. Also, who's mum charges rent?
https://www.onefamily.com/talking-finance/finance/should-you...
> According to a survey by My Job Quote people over the age of 18 and living with their parents pay on average £230 per month to their parents in rent – 65% less than the £690 median rent in England in 2018.
Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#19I tried to buy a property, they took my money but I never got anything for it. :(
Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#20I tried to buy a property, they took my money but I never got anything for it. :(