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Currently, item prices are modulated daily and completely randomly (see Items.update_value method in items.py). This works pretty well, but another possibility would to modulate item prices based on supply/demand; for example, if the player buys a large amount of steel, the price of steel on all planets could increase during the following days in response to the decreased supply.

Perhaps we could implement the "supply/demand" based approach in such a way that it could be easily switched on or off, and that would let us play with both strategies and see which one is more fun?

Each day, as well as tweaking the item prices on each planet, we should also (sometimes, randomly) pick a new item that the planet doesn't already have, and add some random quantity of that item.

We probably shouldn't remove items, since that would make things more complicated when we want to show price history for an item

When the reset button is clicked, the counter indicating how many items the player is holding does not get set back to 0

example;

player reaches 1,000,000,000:
max. days increases to 35, max. store visits per day increases to 5

player reaches 100,000,000:
max. days increases to 40, max. store visits per day increases to 6

Need a new store item that increases the player's item capacity by some fixed amount

Need a new item that can be bought from the store, and allows the player to see the items on another planet without travelling to it