>>29917709NTA, I usually placed a bit higher in income than my rank, which is why I was very slowly rising. However, topping the trading report just simply isn't enough to rise. It's not like I kept it concealed how good funds are as a money sink - look at priestess in the last Returns Report. The person who always had no choice but to throw hundreds of millions down the drain without an alternative now tops the RR in terms of trading, and is catching up in terms of fund ownership.
The market is rapidly deflating, and that means that holding large amounts of coins is a liability. I'm actively liquidating my large stacks, using coins to /trade/ and to buy more oshi. I would argue that this is a much better state of the game than before, since now at least there are more alternatives.
Should trading be buffed? Yeah, absolutely. Should funds be made a bit worse for investors but better for CEOs? Yeah, probably, to reward the active managing of funds rather than the passing buy-in. I'd like for there to be more mechanics, a lot of fixes made, weird gacha and a dividends rework, but there doesn't seem to be enough manpower for it in the Dev team. With the radio silence from Dev the 3rd and Devchama, it can be assumed that only honkler is actively coding at the moment, which is why the feature roll-out takes so long.
I'm assuming that trial dev and #dev just do QoL based on their posts.I am still buying coins, because they are viable. I am just no longer hoarding them. I don't necessarily think that the funds mechanic is shitty, rather that the playstyle that has remained stagnant and constant for the past 9 months has changed, and if you scroll down to the bottom of the trading report you can see the people who either no longer care or didn't adapt to it. It is "free money" in the sense that you are no longer forced to pour money down the drain or hoard your way through a deflating market.
Sorry for the somewhat disjointed post, I don't have access to a computer at the moment so I am forced to effortpost on a phone and it's nigh impossible to get a long, coherent, long post that'd be adequate to respond to you. 