For those who didn't play it, drugwars is a simple text game where the character starts with like $5000 debt to a loan shark, $2000 cash, space for 100 drugs in his pocket, and 30 days to pay off the loan shark and try to make a huge profit ($50,000,000 is considered perfect).
To do this, you go around five boroughs and buy and sell from a selection of like 8 drugs including cocaine (usually about $20,000), heroin (about $9000), weed (about $800) and so on. When you go to a different city, drug prices change slightly. However, a special event occurs as well including stuff like "a pharmacy was raided. Ecstasy is being sold for really cheap!" or "a cocaine bust occurred. Prices have skyrocketed!" (Which means ecstasy can fall from $1000 to like $300 or cocaine goes from $20,000 to $90,000 for example). There's opportunities to find drugs on dead people when you're going between cities, and sometimes officer hard ass attacks you - if he catches you, you lose all your drugs and pay a fine. You can try running or shooting him.
So basically here's what I need your help with. I wanna make a stocks based game which is based on that game. It'll be a Robinhood trader trying to take advantage of illegal shit ("4chan hacks Robinhood. Berkshire Hathaway stocks are being temporarily sold at a steep discount!" or "insider trading has occurred. A pump and dump has made Facebook stocks worth a lot more than normal!").
The problem is I need ideas on what stocks to use for the game. The cheapest of my stocks will just be a generic thing called "penny stocks". Since it'll be about doing electronic stocks, what would I use in place of going city to city? I'm thinking website to website might work, but it's still not a perfect plan.
Instead of officer hardass, the SEC will go after you. You can try to "run" by attempting to use legal loopholes. If you succeed, the SEC backs down for that day. If you fail, they steal all your stocks (and levy a fine). If you can afford it, you can buy a lawyer and have the lawyer fight back, but this makes the SEC mad and they do damage (damage can be represented by "evidence", and if you take 100 evidence worth of damage, you lose because you're jailed).
So basically, what stocks should I use? I need ideas on illegal events that occur that can raise or lower the prices of stocks. Random events where I find a Bitcoin (and make free money) or get phished (and lose stocks). And I need an idea for why I can only hold 100 stocks (pockets won't work since it's digital). Thanks.
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