How often do the prices change for the LCNE? Is it enough to check once a day?
How often do stock prices change in GTA V
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Part of the problem here is that the LCN is not a true market. It's semi-random with scripted elements driven by events in the game. General consensus is that the graphs for LCN stock are just there to be pretty and don't ever change. I've heard, but haven't confirmed for myself, that the scripted events will change what the historical graph looks like temporarily to match the events the game describes.
I did an experiment to confirm this. I looked at the LCN page for Maze Bank. Then, without saving I jumped into online mode. After a few seconds, I next switched back to story mode. When I looked at the Maze Bank page again the history graph was completely different, but the current value was the same(well only a few cents off).
First Maze Bank Graph:
Second Maze Bank Graph:
So, yeah, it's just random noise meant to sell the "realism" of the LCN exchange.
If the graph did make sense the values would mean:
- High: The highest historical valuation of the stock.
- Low: The lowest historical valuation of the stock.
- Current: The current value of the stock.
- Last: The value at the close of the previous day of trading
- Change and %Change The change from the current price and the last value.
BAWSAQ works differently. It's semi-modeled to behave like a real market. All the players who buy stock effect the price so long as they have online access. How much they effect it is contentious. There have been a few organized pump and dump schemes, but the results are not quite obvious. This is why BAWSAQ has more sensible graphs that maintain an accurate history of the stock value.
Based on personal experience, I think the spawning for armored trucks is a bit irregular. When you leave them be I think they spawn at some regular time interval (10+ minutes or so). But when you actually attack one (again, based on personal experience) they begin spawning right after you attack a truck. I'm not sure if this is a bug or how the game is designed, but this can make it extremely easy to farm money if you have a friend or two as you can keep constantly attacking trucks.
I have run into this twice now where trucks begin constantly spawning as long as you continue attacking them, otherwise they go right back to their regular time interval. If someone else knows more specific details I'd also be curious to know, but this is what I know.
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The LCN stock prices update every thirty seconds, unless the game has been on for a significant period of time. As of this post the exchange will sometimes freeze. (Noted this problem after I'd left the game paused for three hours.)
Saving and loading fixes this, and starts the counter again.
The changes are small however, and waiting five to ten minutes between checking won't hurt much, and can give it time to change in whichever direction it's going to move in.