True Value
by Avolation Industries - v1.0.0.0

Every machine priced for what it's actually worth.


WHAT IT DOES
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A holistic economy rebalancer for a modded shop. Mod pricing is chaos - one
author sells a 200hp tractor for $4,000, the next wants a fortune for a plough,
and a cheat pack undercuts the lot. True Value re-prices every item in the shop
against a curve calibrated on the base game, so price finally tracks capability
and buying decisions mean something again.

Nothing is re-baked and nothing is permanent: it works at runtime, prices are
never written to your savegame, and it reverts the moment you switch it off.


CONFIGURE IT IN-GAME
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Open the menu and find the "True Value" page (its own tab). Click any row to
read exactly what it does. No console needed:

  Preset             One tap - Realist, Cheaper, Harsh, Keep-character,
                     Tame-cheats, Flat, or Off.
  Overall price      Global multiplier - your economy difficulty dial.
  Consistency        0 = keep the modder's price, 1 = full base-game-fair.
                     This is what tames underpriced and cheat mods.
  Spread             How hard a machine's stats swing its price around the
                     category average.
  Cheat limiter      Clamps wild outliers back toward fair.
  Vintage discount   How much cheaper old, low-power machines get. Graduated -
                     a 60hp classic barely moves, a 20hp toy drops a long way.
  Factor cheat cfgs  A vehicle with a normal AND a cheat config: price it on the
                     standard config (default), or on the cheat one.
  Reprice used lot   The second-hand shop tracks the new prices too.
  Shop sort order    Price / HP / Weight / A-Z - no sorting mod required.

Everything applies live. A default install changes nothing until you pick a
preset, so you are always in control.


HOW THE PRICING WORKS
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Most rebalancers ship a hand-made price list, so they only ever cover the mods
the author happened to own. True Value carries no price list at all:

  - It reads each machine's real stats live from the game - the same numbers on
    the shop card - so configurations, parent files and mis-authored specs all
    resolve correctly.
  - It fits those stats to a curve calibrated on the base game, per category:
    tractors and harvesters by power, trailers by capacity, storage by volume,
    and everything else by weight (which turns out to predict price best).
  - So it prices ANY mod - including ones released long after this one -
    automatically. No scan, no database, no updates, nothing to maintain.
  - Below the base game's range (vintage iron) the curve is an unreliable
    extrapolation, so it is discounted on a graduated curve rather than trusted.
  - A machine carrying both a normal and a "cheat" configuration gets the
    benefit of the doubt and is priced on its standard one.

Items with no meaningful stat - pallets, decorations, fences - are simply left
at their author price.


COMPATIBILITY
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Singleplayer and multiplayer. Fully standalone - no companion mods, no scans.
Fully reversible; prices are never persisted to your save.


CONTROLS (ADVANCED / CONSOLE)
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The in-game page covers everything; these are for power users:

  valPreset <name>       realist / cheaper / harsh / character / nocheats /
                         flat / default
  valLevel <n>           Overall price level
  valConsistency <0-1>   Author price -> base-game-fair
  valSpread <n>          Characteristic swing
  valCheatLimit <0-1>    Clamp outliers
  valVintage <0-0.95>    Vintage discount
  valFactorCheats <0/1>  Price on cheat configs or not
  valUsed <0/1>          Reprice the second-hand lot
  valSort <mode>         off / price / hp / weight / alpha
  valRevert              Back to stock prices, mod off

Diagnostics: valInfo (knobs + coverage), valKey <name> (why an item is or isn't
priced), valProbe (dump every item's live stats to a CSV).


CREDITS
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Made by Avolation Industries.
Part of the Avolation "True" line - see also True Vintage Start.
