Warning! This prototype is no longer being developed, and work is instead continued on the networking-enabled version at OuterSpatial
This is a C++ port of a C# port of an economy engine called bazaarBot with heavy modifications. Major changes:
- Asynchronous multithreaded operation instead of tick-based
- New AI logic using "desperation" functions to reflect financial position
- Charging broker fees and sales tax to extract profit rather than a bid-ask spread
- Message-passing structure (to make a future networking port easier)
- ASCII graph animations (for future ncurses frontend)
The original repo was based on a paper which had some serious issues, many of which were fixed by Vibr8gKiwi in their C# port.
- Original repo: https://github.com/larsiusprime/bazaarBot
- C# port: https://github.com/Vibr8gKiwi/bazaarBot2
output.mp4
The recorded run shows the market's price/time chart for 120 AI traders competing at 5 TPS. In reality this action-speed would be slowed down way more (otherwise the market changes way too fast!) but it makes for a more interesting demo.
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