An actual gameplay discussion? In this thread? While I was sleeping and then working? That died down when I was away? I'm about to become non-linear.
>>23208428At this point I'd like to point out that NASFAQ doesn't have any real way to get people truly excited and doing reps for the short-term. Yes, even a multicoin expansion would not fix this problem. It is easy to rely on nostalgia, remembering the times when every small investment /meant/ something, but this is purely because of how little funds you owned and how new the game was - thus, even small revelations were important. This is, and I'd want to stress this out, /still/ the new player experience, although it is I imagine marred with the Mori/Suisei swings disproportionately.
In other words, you will not get the "HOOOOOONK"/"NOOOOOO"/"I MADE ITTTT" again, unless something like seasons or reset were to be implemented, neither of which fix the fundamental problem with the game. The game is by no means 'solved', but the issue is that the difference between "okay" and "perfect" play is stupidly small. This is the real reason why all the player graphs over time look same-y. The single biggest differentiating play in the past 6 months or so was buying post-termination Rushia, and probably the only one that led to real leaderboard shuffling. It's also, coincidentally, the only thing that involved actual risk. Swing-trading, dividends, inflation, all of those are basically zero-risk due to how much is known about the market and how stagnant and predictable the market is.
For months I have been shilling for there to be a new gameplay mechanic, best if revolving around financial instruments - high risk, high reward. I was hopeful that it would bring some much needed life to the game, and that it would serve to differentiate between the players, providing a means to get financially ruined or outclass your rivals. Unfortunately, due to several issues the first draft of shorting/options was not that. I keep hoping that they will come out, and when they do, they will serve as the high-risk high-reward mechanic.
You'd likely want for the game to keep the players engaged and for the game to be able to differentiate between player performance. Right now, the endgame isn't as much engaging as it is tedious, tying you down to specific times and making everything in its powers to be as obtuse as possible, all for extremely marginal returns.
>>23209967You are correct when it comes to $1000 average dividends that likely stem from a common total dividend pool. It wasn't as noticeable with JP6 (beyond the week before their debuts and the week after it) since they were pulling fair numbers on their own. That being said, the dividends seem to be split proportionally, so performance of all coins will be higher across the board, just higher for the highest earners either way.
Regarding the music channels and their dividends: to my knowledge music channels have their dividends calculated normally, as every other coin, although their weeks are on average higher than pre-music channel-ing due to the fact that their music pulls even more views for them. Mori and Suisei were and are amazing performers by NASFAQ's particular metrics (views, subs), so them having high dividends should not be surprising. The issue with them is their price and price swings. Due to how the adjustments formula works, as well as transactional volatility and so on, these coins have their prices dramatically lowered to the point where the market cannot actually make them reach a point in price where other coins could compete in terms of ROI. I like your later suggestion of capping their down-swings to -$10k, but this is merely a band-aid. The point is, players do not control the long-term prices of coins in the way you would expect for these two particular coins. I would argue that player action has the most significant impact on coins that either have very low views and thus small adjustments and of course on intra-day pricing of coins.
>>23210711They really should get their prices fixed somehow. It isn't fun for me or anyone else.
>>23211823You technically don't lose from hoarding almost any coin unless you buy them at absurd prices, which is the case with high multicoin Mori and Suisei. At that point, the question is, "can this money be spent more efficiently" or "how long will it take for the coin to pay back on initial investment". Don't forget $HOLO. Back then, people also lamented how braindead and solved the game was, and just bought "metacoins", which included overpriced $HOLO.
Regarding that logic, I think it will hold, just the pool and averages have to be expanded.
After all, I spotted the (at the time) $57k dividends pool and shared it with him. It has been confirmed several times, together with being able to explain some movements around coin debuts. 