The stock market engine in our remake of Sundog is a beautiful thing, since it is designed to operate independent of any heavy-handed scripting or manipulation by the game developer.  Once the market is dropped under the game's hood, the in-game GUI will feed right off it. It is a VERY dynamic market system that runs completely by itself, keying off of 14 variables that affect market prices (as opposed to the original Sundog's 3 variables and some forced manual-coding), which creates very real-world market reactions and price fluctuations. Such variables are crime, wealth, planet fertility, temperature, political instability, and population, just to name a few.  There are 40 stocks to play with (basically all the original stocks plus a few extras).

 The engine first looks to see if you can either buy or sell from the stock market in question. This is determined by a set of tests that look at the individual stock and then at the variables mentioned above. For instance, if you have Grains/Cereals and you were attempting to sell them on planet Heavy in the Jondd system (which is a agricultural heavy society) the market engine would not allow it since Heavy is saturated with grains and cereals already. BUT you could buy that stock from them. Once the determination has been made that you can buy or sell from that stock exchange, the engine then looks to determine the price. It performs some math (again using the variables) then multiplies the resulting figure by a base price for that stock. This allows variables such as large populations to increase the price of a stock (greater demand, such as on Glory I and Glory II) and allows others to decrease the price (for instance, the level of trade, which is your competition and saturates the market to lower the price).  Planets with extreme variables such as Enlie and high crime rates like Woremed will also impact the prices. Local city variables are also taken into account, such as Drahew.

 As of the moment, there is no Java or Python engine to release, since the market is still undergoing testing and database work. Once testing is complete, we'll transfer the existing engine architecture to Python, since the equations and tests that I am testing on at the moment will work the same Python. When I say 'testing', I mean that I am testing the market under various conditions by tweaking data in a companion database, and looking for undesirable price fluctuations.  Any “undesirable” fluctuations and prices are not necessarily bad, since the market is merely performing as it should, but I am trying to adjust the variables and stock equations so that the player finds a market somewhat comparable to the original game, at least for the first part of the game. Once the player leaves the original systems and gets access to the massive full galaxy in Sundog Resurrection, they can exploit any high/low prices they find, but for the first part of the game, located in the original systems, I want the market to work pretty much as it did in the original.