Hi, everyone! Welcome to this very productive week's developer's diary!
Welcome to another war!
A tariff war!
The tariff war is now part of the game! It's a whole new game mechanics of Trump in the game with a bit of story content.
But what exactly is a tariff?
Here is a short description of this skill.
And how does the tariff war represent in the game?
You can now use your teammate Trump to set up tariff rates!
Do those numbers look familiar?
Anyway, since the tariff is in place,...
you will now need to pay a higher price to purchase anything from outside the US. That does not sound fun, right? But, hey! It gives Trump EXP. The more you pay for additional tariffs, the more Trump wins!
Don't be weak, don't be stupid, don't be a "Panican." Trump will level up tremendously faster!
Also, since the effect of tariffs only happens outside the US and when Trump is in your group.
If you buy items in places like Queensmouth or any other American town, you will not be affected by tariffs. Support your local vendors!
Meanwhile, the tariff effect only takes place if Trump is in your group. It does not affect anyone who chooses not to recruit Trump at all or whenever you kick him out of your group. After all, we have a big, highly diverse community. You have the freedom to play this content or totally ignore it as if it never existed. You have all the freedom in this game.
But who is winning this tariff war? Here is where you will learn why I got so excited. :D
We are! The people of NEOLITHIA! In addition to the new game content. This is a very productive week in the stock market, too. I have gained profits in both the US and Chinese stock markets through the chaos and panic. It's pretty simple: when the stock market crashed on Monday, I mobilized a great amount of liquid assets at my disposal to charge into the market to save the world. I'd gladly take some stocks away from people who are panicking and who want to sell their stocks at terribly low prices. If you know our history, you know I am good at handling crises like this, just like in 2015, 2016, and 2020. This is still where most parts of NEOLITHIA's developing funds come from. That's why I can sell this game so cheaply. That's why I can develop this game endlessly. Usually, such a crisis may take months to see a profit. However, just a few days later, I can already declare our victory over 10%+ profits in just a few days when Trump paused the tariff. It's awesome! But, reasonable. After all, if we take Elon Musk into consideration, we know he is not a big fan of tariffs, So good news came earlier. But it's far from over yet. This tariff war will continue. And we shall react accordingly to benefit more from it!
Now, what kind of stock we shall buy?
Here is my advice to you:
1. Buy those stocks from companies you know that they have many of the smartest people of our time! That's why US tech stocks, in the long run, always go up. Because the best minds all over the world are in those tech companies. In a time of crisis, if people in those companies cannot overcome the crisis, then humanity has no future. I have many classmates, students, and ex-coworkers in such companies. I know them. They can achieve great things no matter what. Thus, even just to show my support to them, I will buy those companies' stocks. To invest in a stock is to invest in a company. To invest in a company is to invest in its people.
2. Buy those stocks from companies whose products you use a lot. Companies gain profit because of their customers. When you pick their products over their competitors, you have made your investment. I find many people are more picky when they buy a product than when they pick stocks. That's ignorance. Instead, only buy the stocks you are familiar with in their industry. Being a customer of their product gives you a great edge over the fools who get into the market with no clues.
3. Buy slowly. You know how powerful Trump's Twitter is. One Twitter may sink or raise the stock price dramatically. Do not assume how low the price of a stock can go. Do not go all-in at any moment. It helps if you have other incomes, an endless income source to keep adding ammo to fight this war. After all, once you have purchased all the stocks from all the people who want to sell, the price will no longer go down. That requires a lot of money. But, if the stock price keeps going down, and you have a lot of money still in reserve, it's much easier.
Those are just some basic tips. But, with this, you are already more equipped to stand against the storm than many others and can come out on top of it with profits that other people may work months to earn from their boring day-to-day jobs.
We are winning this tariff war!
Believe and march to a sacred goal,
With fire and blood, we remain whole!
OK, now let's check the other parts of this week's content updates.
Another big thing of this week is that one of my AIs is now able to create cooking recipes.
The first one she created is Chicken Pot Pie, something I've never heard before.
From there, more just keep coming.
We got 10 more cooking recipes from this AI alone this week. Those recipes cover many foods we should have but have not had before. Food like sushi and onigiri should have been here long ago. You can already purchase them from vendors. But that's never as fun as making our own ones. That's my attitude in real life, too. I love sushi.
It's a great start. It's not perfect. I still need to proofread and correct some mistakes in those recipes AI created. But, the productivity has been increased greatly. Just look at the length of this week's logs.
The biggest problem for an indie solo game developer is never money since we should have all achieved our economic independence before even starting to be an indie game developer. The biggest problem is the time and energy. AIs will help me solve this issue, just like I mentioned last week. As an additional benefit, AI also inspired me to learn many food recipes I've never heard about before. As such, the game's content can go beyond my knowledge limitations.
Of course, to make the cooking system better. some changes have also been made.
For example,
The system will now recursively check the generated items to see if they can create new dishes. (For example: (Water + Paddy) + Egg = Rice + Egg = Egg Fried Rice, both (Water + Paddy + Egg) and (Rice + Egg) will give you Egg Fried Rice)
In addition to everything mentioned above, the development of our monster lore book known as "The Guide to Monster Hunting" continues. So far, in the game, we have thousands of different enemies. It will take a long time to fill all of them into this big lore book, even with the help of AIs. But, slowly, we will get more and more entries in that book.
It also serves as another pass to revisit our existing enemies. Some balance changes will come along the way when the book expands.
That's for this week. I am consulting my AIs on some story plots. Maybe next week, we can see some development in some quests.
The full update log of this week:
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[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Mannequin.
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Vengeful Sprite
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Trees. (You don't even need to defeat them to unlock this entry. Strange, isn't it?)
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Cat-Faced Old Lady
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Rats (Entry unlocked by default)
[Guide to Monster Hunting]The Undead category is now divided into more detailed categories. (Yes, we have too many distinct undead creatures.)
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for GhoOoOoOost
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Shade (A.K.A UPEX0000 by the Foundation in the game A.K.A SCP-zh-022 by the SCP Foundation in real life written by 渺兔. :P) Story progress required to unlock this entry in addition to defeating one of them. This entry itself is an infohazzard. But, whatever, since you have already read another one, =￣ω￣=
Hey! Do you know 渺兔's indie game will be released on April 8th? https://store.steampowered.com/app/3431480/The_Hearts_of_Immortality/ (OK, this is an advertisement hiding inside the log. :P)
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[Guide to Monster Hunting]Fixed missing Chinese localization text for Firefighter Zombies.
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【怪物狩猎指南】加入了人体模型的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了复仇怨灵的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了树的条目。（你甚至都不需要击败过他们就能解锁这个条目。很奇怪，对吧？）
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了猫脸老太太的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了老鼠的条目。（条目是默认解锁的）
【怪物狩猎指南】不死亡灵的分类现在变成了更详细的分类。（对，我们这里的亡灵生物种类太多了。）
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了幽欧欧欧欧灵的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了暗影（又被游戏中的基金会称为UPEX0000，又被现实中的SCP基金会称为SCP-zh-022 (渺兔写的)）的条目。除了要击败它们中的一个之外，还需要主线故事剧情才能解锁。这条目本身就是个信息灾害，不过算了，反正你已经看过另外一个信息灾害了。 =￣ω￣=
你听说渺兔的游戏要在4月8日发布了吗？ https://store.steampowered.com/app/3431480/The_Hearts_of_Immortality/ （好吧，这是混在日志里的广告。:P）
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【怪物狩猎指南】修复了消防员僵尸没有中文文本的问题。
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[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Cat (They have multiple database entries. Something special has been made to make them merge into one entry in the Guide for Monster Hunting. Basic entry information is unlocked by default.)
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Ghost Cat
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Slime
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Fire Slime
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Bear (Entry unlocked by default)
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Bat (Entry unlocked by default)
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【怪物狩猎指南】加入了猫猫的条目。（在游戏数据库中有多个条目，所以进行了一些特殊的处理让它们变成一个在怪物狩猎指南里的条目。条目基本信息默认解锁。）
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了幽灵猫猫的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了史莱姆的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了火焰史莱姆的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了熊的条目。（条目是默认解锁的）
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了蝙蝠的条目。（条目是默认解锁的）
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[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Cactus People
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Pig (Entry unlocked by default)
[Enemy/Pet]Pigs have been changed to match their entry in the Guide to Monster Hunting.
[UI]Increased the opacity of category and entry selection windows to make the UI more clear.
[Guide to Monster Hunting]The Animal category is now divided into normal and supernatural categories.
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Statue of Philosopher
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Black Frog
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Earth Golem
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Molten Golem
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【怪物狩猎指南】加入了仙人掌人的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了猪猪的条目。（条目是默认解锁的）
【敌人/宠物】猪猪的一些属性现在一具它们在怪物狩猎指南的条目有所变化。
【界面】提高了怪物狩猎指南的目录和条目的选择窗口的不透明度，以便让界面更清晰。
【怪物狩猎指南】原本的动物分类现在被分割为普通和超自然的两个分类。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了哲学家雕像的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了黑蛙的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了大地魔像的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了熔岩魔像的条目。
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[Cooking]New recipe: Chicken Pot Pie (This is the first recipe made by an AI. I don't know why she made this type of food after I taught her how to code for a few hours.=￣ω￣=)
[Cooking]New recipe: Chicken Fried Rice (It seems the AI likes chicken dishes. I may change some parameters next.)
[Cooking]Rice is now a cooking ingredient.
[Cooking]Changed Egg Fried Rice recipe from Water + Paddy + Egg to Rice + Egg
[Cooking]The system will now recursively check the generated items to see if they can create new dishes. (For example: (Water + Paddy) + Egg = Rice + Egg = Egg Fried Rice, both (Water + Paddy + Egg) and (Rice + Egg) will give you Egg Fried Rice)
[Cooking]New recipe: Tomato Soup
[Cooking]New recipe: Nori Sushi Rolls (Yes! Finally, we can make our own sushi.)
[Cooking]New recipe: Nori Vegetable Soup (You can get different kinds of soups depending on which vegetable you are using. Name changes dynamically.)
[Wiki]Updated the cooking page to include those new recipes.
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The game will now export all raw element names to a text file for modding or AI training purposes.
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【料理】新食谱：鸡肉锅饼（这是第一个由AI生成的食谱。在我经过几个小时教会了AI写这方面的代码之后，她生成的第一个食谱就是这个，不知道为什么选的是这个。=￣ω￣=）
【料理】新食谱：鸡肉炒饭（看来AI很喜欢鸡肉料理。我来调整一些参数）
【料理】米饭现在被认为是一种食材。
【料理】改变了蛋炒饭的配方，从稻米+水+蛋 变成了 米饭+蛋
【料理】系统现在会通过递归的方式判断生成的食物是否可以作为食材再生成新的食物。（举例 （稻米+水）+蛋 = 米饭+蛋 = 蛋炒饭。 所以，无论你放入（米饭+蛋）还是（稻米+水+蛋）最后都能做出蛋炒饭）
【料理】新食谱：番茄汤
【料理】新食谱：海苔寿司卷 （终于我们可以自己卷寿司了。）
【料理】新食谱：海苔蔬菜汤（根据使用的蔬菜不同，名称动态变化。）
【维基】更新了料理页面，加入了这些新的食谱。
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游戏现在会自动输出所有元素的系统原始名称用于制作MOD和训练AI
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[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Machine Skeleton.
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Assaulter M.K.IV.
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Therasoid (Entry unlocked by default; check the Dark Elf King's storyline for the reason behind this.)
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Cleaning Bot.
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for [The Television]
[Guide to Monster Hunting]Added the entry for Corrupted Bots. (They are non-database-based enemies. But this book now also supports such entries.)
[Cooking]New recipe: Nori Egg Omelette
[Cooking]New recipe: Onigiri
[Wiki]Updated the cooking page to include those new recipes.
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【怪物狩猎指南】加入了机械骷髅的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了突击者肆型的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了帖拉所伊朵的条目（条目默认解锁，原因参考黑暗精灵王的剧情。）
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了扫地机器人的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了【电视机】的条目。
【怪物狩猎指南】加入了被侵蚀的机器人的条目。（这些不是标准的数据库条目。但是，这本书现在也支持它们的存在。）
【料理】新食谱：海苔蛋卷
【料理】新食谱：日式海苔饭团
【维基】更新了料理页面，加入了这些新的食谱。
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[Cooking]All AI-generated cooking recipes received a numerical balancing pass to get them more in line with my previous recipes.
[Cooking]New recipe: Potato Egg Hash
[Cooking]New recipe: Apple Rice Porridge
[Cooking]New recipe: Pork Fried Rice
[Shopping]Food Ingredient Vendors now sell pork and chicken meat in addition to those unspecified meat.
[Wiki]Updated the cooking page to include those new recipes.
[Skill]New Skill: Raise the Tariff!
[Trump]Added more story content for Trump.
[Trump]Added an entire Tariff mechanics for Trump.
[Wiki]Updated the skill page.
[Wiki]Added a page about Trump's Tariff.
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New program module: UtilityMapInfo
Added a function to check if a map is another map's ancestor on the map tree.
We can now find out if a game map belongs to a US location more accurately without using Butterfly data.
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【料理】所有AI生成的料理食谱现在经过了一次数值平衡，让它们的料理产物的物品属性和我之前配置的食谱在数值上相对一致。
【料理】新食谱：土豆蛋杂烩
【料理】新食谱：苹果米粥
【料理】新食谱：猪肉炒饭
【购物】食材商人现在会贩卖猪肉和鸡肉。（此前那些没有分类的肉类也还在。）
【维基】更新了料理页面，加入了这些新的食谱。
【技能】新技能：加关税！
【川普】为川普加入了更多剧情。
【川普】为川普加入了一整个的关税系统。
【维基】更新了技能界面。
【维基】加入了 一个川普的关税机制的页面。
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新程序模块：UtilityMapInfo
加入了一个函数检查一个地图是否是另外一个地图在地图树上的祖先。
现在我们可以不用蝴蝶数据也能更准确地判断一张游戏地图是否属于美国区域。
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