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

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Post by mcguire »

chakerb wrote: post #89
astura wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Aside: the HN average in the US may be $110k. The median household income is around $60k and the median personal income is $35-40k.

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

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Post by ryandrake »

rkimb wrote: post #101
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…

This is an awfully harsh critique for a free browser game made in someone's spare time.

Hopefully the author takes the critiques as validation that the idea is so interesting that rando Internet people will provide free bug reporting. The game concept is good, and it was brave to release it in an unfinished state to get feedback. Hope author stays encouraged and buckles down to fix the bugs now. Cool concept. The Windows UI isn't my cup of tea but that's subjective. I like the idea of a personal finance simulator/sandbox.

Would be cool if you could do a "quick" game that was year-by-year steps.

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

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Post by pattle »

iso1631 wrote: post #103
pattle wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The interest is set at 4% because that was typical for a savings account in the UK when the game starts (2002) but I need to make it change over time Yes I need to add more jobs and different career paths. Once I add universities the type of job you can get will depend on your degree. I'm going to add a dating aspect to the simulation so you can start a family and see the expenses associated with that. Setting a mont…

Why can't I buy Amazon shares from the start? :D

Ha, I want to add investments but it would have to be random-ish. No point in using historical data for share prices because that would make it a bad simulation if you already know the result.

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

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Post by pattle »

bovermyer wrote: post #108
pattle wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What's the database for?

Storing mail, transactions, jobs, savings, pension etc. You can't at the moment but I was to add the ability to save your progress soon.

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

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Post by xjlin0 »

Very fun game! Some observations:

  1. don't know why it need to calls to get https://simulator.money/img/windows-xp-bg.jpg and dings/chimes.mp3 on every month.  (Although cached by browser)
  2. After purchase a property, it does not listed under properties tab in the bank, even with monthly utility bills.
  3. Some missing mails there, maybe associate with mismatch unread count.
  4. As a player, I am not sure what is the unit of "mortgage last", is it month or years?
Very looking forward to other options such as college/cars/jobs, etc. Great work!
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