Ok Freelancer is here and… content ahoy. In my first dive into the safe houses vault I noticed a check stocks action. And noticed it can effect your merces. So far I’ve been toggling it and lost around 2-20k merces, can anyone help/combine data on if anything affects this count each return you preform the check stocks action.
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In the CTT it felt completely random as far as gains/losses were concerned, just I think the more money you had, the more you could get/lose.
But maybe there’s more to it and someone here can crack it…
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In the CTT I used that option a few times, and every time but once I lost money so I quickly stopped checking stonks.
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Hitman + Stocks =
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It’d be nice if we had an in-game explanation.
The first time I used the damn thing I lost everything, which was around 5k, but at the time it felt like my entire life’s fortune to me.
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Don’t know if anybody has already discovered this or not, but as it seems most folks have given up on the stock aspect of Freelancer, I’m gonna assume this will be news for most.
So, when needing to get your Mercers up faster, especially during the beginning levels or if you’re prestiging, say when your Mercers are probably in the 10-50 thousand range, there is a strategy that, while not foolproof or 100% effective, can help increase your Mercers level in that range faster without needing to play a mission, and can help get you funds to purchase items and weapons you’ll need for completing objectives, if such is your focus, at least until you get on a roll.
On the stocks screen, there’s a black cross with a dot in the middle, like the intersection of the X and Y axis on a bar graph. If, when the bars of the stock screen are scrolling, you see the lowest dip approaching, the one that goes really low below the horizontal line most of the green bars are on, and had turned red, if you wait until the last rise in green bars crosses that dot at the intersection, and trigger the stock action on the computer at that exact moment, the odds of you getting a decent pay out are greater than at any other point. The cool thing is, you may be able to do this twice in a row more likely than if you fail for trying twice. Trying three times increases the likelihood of failure, however.
So after doing this, you can start a mission, do the disconnect restart like you can to avoid failing Freelancer or ETs, and restart the mode with the money you got from the stocks, and then repeat it. Do this a few times, restarting in the same way if you should have one of the occasions where you just lose money, and you should be able to build up your bank enough to buy important items like a sniper rifle or suppressed pistol before beginning missions where you need them to complete objectives when you are cleared out of your armory and funds.
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