The concept is very interesting! I really wanted to make line go up, but I couldn't really figure out how to predict the stocks from the newspaper :(
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no worries! The logic behind the generated news and its effects on the market are surprisingly complicated and the main reason I didn’t finish in time lol, but to put it simply:
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Each paragraph is either a misc event, positive company event, negative company event, or a red herring. Misc events are mainly world flavor.
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Positive company events increase the likelihood of positive stock movements for the day through weighted averages, but doesn’t make downward movements impossible. Same thing with negative company events, it increases the likelihood of negative stock movements for the day.
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Red herring paragraphs are meant to be refuted or otherwise “zeroed out” by other paragraphs in the news article, making it so the player needs to be careful if they just skim for company names or stock tickers.