Watch the American Economy Crash before your Eyes! [UPDATED 23rd March]

Day 1,218, 14:47 • Published in USA USA • by Onishi
UPDATE, 23rd March.

I've been collected the following data for the last few months, but let's just take a look back at the last month. We've seen several significant economic changes in that time, so let's see what happened.

14th March: Unified Inventory was introduced, allowing for easier tracking of products, unlimited storage, and complete circumvention of tax.

Over the next few days, food consumption became a lot easier, not only allowing you to eat freshly produced food without it going near the market, but allowing you to go all the way up to 100 wellness in one click. This means that there is no longer any distinction between the different quality levels of food from the consumer's point of view. As you can see by following the charts, the prices changed to respect this, the PPQ1 prices becoming much closer together than before.

17th March: Companies begin disappearing off the market. It is no longer possible to purchase Hospital, Defence Systems, or Stone companies in the United States. It is unknown why these companies disappeared, as there were plenty of them for sale the previous day.

18th March: Producing higher quality finished products now takes more raw materials, but you will always produce the same amount of products, nomatter what quality you work at. For example, if you produce 10 Q1 weapons, you will consume 600 iron, and if the next day you worked at a Q5 company, you would produce 10 Q5 weapons, and would consume 3000 iron. To counter-balance this, RM production was doubled. This saw a devaluation of raw materials, but with the majority of manufacturing companies being Q1, it also saw an excess of RM's on the markets, causing an even further devaluation.

Moving Ticket Companies and Oil companies have disappeared off the company markets.

19th March: Oil companies become available for purchase again.

23rd March: Oil companies disappear from the markets once more. RM prices continue to fall, but manufactured goods have levelled out, and even risen in some cases, particularly in the food markets, allowing for some interesting fluctuations, particularly in the higher quality foods.

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As you can see here, Oil companies become completely unavailable for a day. I decided to value them (for the sake of the chart) as worthless rather than priceless, as the assumption at the time was that Oil companies were being filtered out of the game.

Credit to Tudor Corneliu for helping me on a couple of points.

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