Skin Crates

[0.1.0] - 2026-10-31

The first release of Skin Crates: a weapon skin market as an app in the Intranet, on the computer, phone and tablet. Tabs: Inventory, Shop, Market and Trade Up. All names are made up; the pictures are placeholders for now.

• Shop: 6 crates with 17 weapon skins each (the Origin Crate has 9), in four tiers (Mil-Spec, Restricted, Classified, Covert) plus rare special items (knives, gloves). Crates and keys are bought with Money; opening needs a crate and its key and shows a spinning reel.
• Every item has a float and an exterior (Factory New to Battle-Scarred); 10 % come with KillCount.
• Prices follow the world's date (requires Tycoon Calendar): every crate has a release date; crate, key and skin prices move month by month (launch peak, cheap while a crate drops, a jump when it stops dropping, then a rise of about 18-26 % a year). Before its release a crate shows as "Coming soon" and can't be bought. Price charts on the crate and skin pages, 30-day trend in the shop.
• Market-wide boom and crash phases over the calendar, shaped after real market history (2014-2026) and continued until 2035. Crates swing hardest, common skins least.
• Market: buys skins at today's price, depending on tier, exterior and KillCount. Sell one by one or all of a tier. An opening pays back 40-50 % of crate plus key on average.
• Trade Up: 10 skins of one tier for one of the next higher tier, or 5 Covert for a special item. The result comes from the crates of your skins, its float is the average of the inputs, KillCount carries over (all inputs or none). The page shows every possible result with chance and float and asks for confirmation before signing.
• Origin Crate (released 2013-08-14, drops only for 5 months): 9 skins and 5 knives, with a price curve modelled on the very first crate.
• Purchases and sales show up on the Money bank statement as "SkinCrates shop" / "SkinCrates market" and use the same account as other mods (shared accounts included).
• Selling from an item's page asks for confirmation first, so a stray click after the reel no longer sells the prize you just won.
• Inventory per player on the server, multiplayer-safe.
• Requires Intranet 0.1.1, Money 0.4.0 and Tycoon Calendar 0.1.2 or newer.