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Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by duggable » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 1:52 PM UTC

staticelf wrote: post #16

Pretty fun. If 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 ti…

Even easier, just apply to the same job an infinite number of times at the beginning of the game, and receive multiple paychecks per month.

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by eitland » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 1:54 PM UTC

When I read the comments I immediately thought about "Jones in the fast lane" from the 90ies, but this seems to be something entirely different.

That said a few of you might like to see that game. It is available on internet archive, can be played online and is quite unusual for its time.

At least I was happy to find it and played it once against the Jones AI (it is way funnier with friends).

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by imtringued » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 1:56 PM UTC

There are too many problems to count. I got a message with the subject "Mortgage in principal" and no text. Same with pensions.

The browser opens new pages without hiding old ones.

Inbox count is wrong.

Buttons aren't responsive (no, I don't mean mobile design). They give no indication that something is happening.

Dragging windows is buggy.

There is no loading animation on clicking "next turn", nothing that indicates that the month has passed. Just add a dark overlay with a black and white loading bar and show the date afterwards.

I tried this in Chromium and Firefox and the problems are the same.

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by fallat » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:05 PM UTC

I would love to play a more refined version of this.

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by pattle » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:06 PM UTC

fallat wrote: post #84

I would love to play a more refined version of this.

You will be able to, just give me a month

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by pattle » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:08 PM UTC

imtringued wrote: post #83

There are too many problems to count. I got a message with the subject "Mortgage in principal" and no text. Same with pensions. The browser opens new pages without hiding old ones. Inbox count is wrong. Buttons aren't responsive (no, I don't mean mobile design). They give no indication that something is happening. Dragging windows is buggy. There is no loading animation on clicking "next turn", nothing that indicates…

I think part of these problems is that my server and database are really struggling with the traffic I'm getting.

Trying to implement performance fixes

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by jermaustin1 » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:22 PM UTC

This is exactly my type of game. I love the concept. There are a lot of bugs though. Do you have an issues page or anything? And are you open to working with other developers on it?

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by adamrezich » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:31 PM UTC

the pixel font looks really bad on Windows 10 in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, at 1080p.

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by chakerb » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:42 PM UTC

astura wrote: post #65

cpfohl wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, kinda wanted to respond sarcastically, but I'll be direct instead: Hiking, cooking together, playing board games, card games, playing music together, exploring, and just talking are all inexpensive or free. The most interesting people I've known in my life focused on those things anyway.

This is hacker news where everyone values their time at at least $100/hr. If you're socializing you, at the very least, aren't working.

That assumption is definitely wrong! Not everyone in HN is making around $200k per year. The average in the US is about $110k. And still not everyone in HN is in the US or being payed US rates.

Of course if you value your time more than what your employer is paying you then you either need to leave your current job or rethink what's the value of your time.

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by doublej818 » Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 2:55 PM UTC

Didn't take me long to figure out the api endpoint to skip to the next turn, and after writing literally 3 lines of code in an infinite loop...

- The year is now 2030

- I have 300,000 in my bank account

- I own two houses worth 200k

- I'm still paying monthly mortgage payments to a house I fully own

- 100k in pension

- All this with just 55k/yr

- Still paying mum rent