On Sun, 2017-07-02 at 15:06 -0500, Nicholas Evans wrote: > On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> > wrote: > > I know, but you never make a /profit/ by spending Shinies. So > > failing to make a loss is the best you can manage. > > That's not true. Since FV changes weekly, and it takes a week for a > proposal to pass, you just need to pend a week before an FV increase. > Pending itself will (marginally) increase FV. Buying a stamp would do > so even more. The more people pending and buying things W1, the more > the proposal will payout W2.
Doesn't FV decrease over time, though (as more Shinies accumulate in the hands of people who won't use them)? Timing a pend for just before an FV increase seems almost impossible. I guess it's possible you'd get into a pattern where people alternated between having a week where everyone pends, and a week where nobody pends, in an attempt to make a profit. But that sort of extreme FV manipulation seems unlikely to be something that people would bother to do in practice, and even then it'd be unlikely to counteract the general downwards trend of the FV longterm (in fact, it would accelerate it). -- ais523
