>>29962140This is correct
>>29962602I found the game in the catalogue and it looked interesting. My first goal was to make a bot since it looked like it'd be good practice. The first step was figuring out what the most optimal strategy was as a bot does nothing more than what you tell it to. So in order to make a good trader bot you first need to trade well yourself. Besides that, as a secondary goal I wanted to reach the top 20. Getting into an oshiboard already looked impossible back then.
I stayed cause the early game was quite engaging, and the thread was fun to read. Back then you could YOLO your entire wallet for some stream and either make riches or go broke. There was an incentive to play, and by that I mean, actually pay attention to the game. Not only did I have to press the buy/sell every 10 minutes but I was constantly making decisions regarding when to stop or start buying/selling, and how to shuffle my limited capital around to maximize profits. I had to check on streams to make sure I bought the right coins and I had to check on the other players' activity to watch out for trend reversals. Interacting with the community/thread was fun as well, there were lots of speculation around and the game felt like a wild west of sorts, waiting to be explored.
Now, if you excuse me, I'll add one question to yours: What made you stop?
Gradually, as coins started to accumulate, your agency as a player started to diminish. You no longer were able to make crazy gambles, nor you needed to. As long as you had 144 of every coin you never had to look for good streams, as you could sell any spike regardless. As people started maxing their trades per day, the intra-day movements in price started to matter less as the graph looked more and more like a straight line, which meant in turn that you could also buy/sell a coin the entire day without much thought. Players started to feel like the game was solved (even though it was not, as the RR proved months later) and stopped speculating as much in the thread. This has only gotten worse.
Eventually, I achieved both of my goals, plus a couple more. Of course, I don't play anymore.
>>29960514>What would make (you) come back to the game?Nothing, maybe. There is something that's rarely mentioned whenever one of these discussions is happening and that is...
there was a fucking pandemic, remember? I would spend hours clicking buttons and watching streams cause I had the time and could afford doing so. I don't have such luxury anymore. Life must resume.
In any case, I'm happy to see something on-topic in the thread for once. I haven't checked the place in a week so this was a nice surprise.
