>>10123875the main selling point for server side is turning off our machines. You have to have VERY dedicated people to leave on 1000W gaming rigs overnight for weeks on end because their shitty thinkpad would swallow cycles like crazy on any browser and testing on an old phone only leads to the conclusion "yeah one more night of this and the screen fucking melts off".
I use my rig 12-20 hours daily, nasfaq is always open, but it would be nice to be able to close it overnight. Also it would feel much more like a real stockmarket if you could adjust the bot on the go - that being a necessity caused by a vicious cycle of too good dividends causing a higher amount of plays to make. Then again, we're all aware this would cause the site to lag a lot more - if our local autotrader instances already crash firefox sometimes, I couldn't imagine the server performing well with 200-300 traderbots running parallel.
I can only speak for myself here and with this week's numbers, but $52,973,688.52 divvies to burn with an average coin price of $12,643.81 means around 4200 coins to purchase if I'm not selling. Without multicoin, that's 29 positions I'd have to pick to run 24/7 throughout the week so multicoin is actually a blessing with high-risk high-reward style duality of both the tool players want right now as well as the idiot-tax style money sink nasfaq desperately needed. Who knows, it might even make this huge amount of divvies workable in the big pictures, the various reports will give us clarity on that, thankfully.
>we want to make the game more engaging so players access the site more, not lesswhich relates to that point quite nicely, time spent != engagement.
Opinions will differ greatly here and I only speak for myself. I like playing with numbers even if I am average to retarded at math and programming, so right now a good 5% of my nasfaq-time is actually spent on the site, 0-45% is the thread and the rest is my trusty sheet I use to tell myself my decisions are at least somewhat informed
the cruel reality is good players would get to similar conclusions with gut feeling alone but oh well at least I have something to bring to the nasfaq show-and-tell which is the thread.
Right now the market is a one-way street from adjustments due to the nature of the bot and the abundance of money in the market, so you set the bot once and are done for the day most of the time. Your only hope is some graphs flipping, frankly the trading tax kinda killed that because a buy is much more of a commitment now, which means players should be more likely to hold a coin for longer and much less likely to even consider selling.
ROI on selling right now is really awful, and multicoin sales barely ever make sense at all. Selling 5 coins at once means you throw ~45% of the returns away only to sell it earlier, which implies the following things:
- you have over 720 of the coin
- the price rose to astronomical levels for that day only
- you expect a price drop of over 50% intra-day
- you also expect the coin to plummet to absolute shit the next adjustment
That's a bunch of stars aligning, and if you're 720 deep into a coin you are already prepared for playing the long game on that position anyways.
If we want more engagement, my first place to inspect would be multicoin sales numbers:
- more sales means more coins going out of the market, counteracting the current amassing meta
- it also tips the scales on post-adjustment coin trends being utterly stable
- it makes daytrading more viable and flexible since your position could be bigger than 144 without missing out much
It's a feeble mistress and I'm sure the top will abuse it however it rolls, how you want the meta to change is entirely up to the team.
I am also not in favour of taxing everyone equally on buys. I don't mind the 5% at all, it encourages burning money on superchats right now which is fine, but it also severely gimps smaller portfolios which HAVE to daytrade in order to make quicker progress. Balancing that will be tricky of course, I could see people superchatting just enough to drop down into the tax haven and then abusing the credits to make cheap buys to be better off in the long term.
Conclusively, there's more shit to consider right at adjustment (not only which coins but also how much per cycle to buy) and if you were to go even harder you might adjust those quantities over the day, so multicoin already made the game quite more engaging. The doomposting is a direct consequence of the massive nerfs to divvies rolled out and revoked in the span of 2 weeks, all because EN2 had a good day about a month ago now? This utterly crushed faith in the market and flipped old habits around. Some people couldn't take it and quit, although it wasn't as many as doomposting suggests. Having to cope with that kind of situations is, at least for me, part of a market scenario and fun in itself.
This has been another morning-effortpost nobody asked for.