next round, you cant change it now

NO market!

btw I re-read the post and still -5gc to +5gc every tic is a big change imo, it could be reasonable to do it every 5 tics like Noir said.
And for food +1gc to -1gc every 5 tics.  I supose this would be good for the server aswell, only make those calcs every 5 hours.

About how you decide it is positive or negative and the amount idk how are you doing it, random? keeping queues of inputs/outputs and then changing according to those queues?  Please Ps give us some more info about this, we can help willingly

hmmm .01 every 5 tics is really poor imo, maybe 0.5 is the right number if you think 1 is too much, just notice, the range by doing it +1 to -1 is 2gc, and the range by doing it +0.5 to -0.5 is 1gc, much more reasonible considering for iron/octa/endu the range is 10gc

dear god i hope you mean buying food at 2gc because selling food for anything over .5 is a goldmine

hell no, what Ps means with a range of +5 to -5 is that the price can vary in that range from the previous price, so lets say

buy iron at 7.49 in tic0, same in tic 1,2,3,4, then in tic5 it can go up or down no more than 5 gc

Easy way to do it is random, getting a random number between 0.01 and 5.00 and then adding it or substracting it to the previous price.

The same goes with food but this time the random number is between 0.01 and 0.50

The random mode is easy to implement and relaxed for the server, tho it makes no sense at all, its still usefull.
The logic mode would imply to calculate inputs vs outputs in the 5 previous tics and set a number in that range (-5 to +5) according to the input/output difference. There are many ways to calculate this and it would really work with offers and demands rules, so this has a lot of sense, but it is more complex to do.

Oh and yes the countdown should be in the market page

yes but its still a risky operation considering it can go down -0.5 meaning you would make -50gc per tic

anyway, that's the extreme value, you have 1/50 chances it goes that way

but its ok, I agree between 0.01 and 0.10 is an even slighter change, and thats what we lookin for, ok for the random mode, but not ok for the logic mode because we're moving on a range of only 10 steps, when people sells 10 millions food in the previous 5 tics then you reduce price the max value thats -0.1, the reduction should be bigger imo you need a longer range to make it fit with logic market movements.

if any change happens pls inform players at least 48 hours before.

it will have to be changed in a better way than that imo, but it shouldnt be hard

i think endu should start at 50 gc and gradually move towards the meduim, iron shoudl start around 25gc as resources take longer to come in and its often endu that we run out of. otherwise it is easy to buy endu and keep building

Doesn't anyone in this galaxy use Destroy Cash anymore?  Jeez! 

if u would make endu 50gc then u force people to build refs, even the cash bankers cuz then it wouldnt pay off to build CF's
so if u want a fair equal start, u should not make prices so high. stick to same gc a cash banker earns from 1 infra, then either people can go resource or go CF start, but grow equally for the first x ticks. (not taking building time in this calculation, but u could make resources a little bit more worth to even out the cash loss for the first x ticks, but also this u gotta calculate properly and ud need to know how manny ticks market wil be unchanged.

either keep it fair for all races, or just drop the market, u want diversity in the races even for a hc gall. more fun ud say.