*The Stock Market In The Eyes Of The Public

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I can answer the one about "designed by the casino for themselves"

the designer didnt work for the casino until afterwards

Okay since I've now seen two Casino employees get upset about this quote (which *shock* is something I told Plat), I'm going to elaborate on it because I don't think the way that people are interpreting it is in line with how I meant it. I should have been more careful about how I phrased this at first, sorry about this.

The meaning that I think most people are interpreting this, which is definitely not the meaning I intended, is that Casino employees designed the Casino to increase their ISFL bank accounts at the expense of other people in the league. It's blatantly false for, among many other reasons, the one that AdamS gives here.

What I meant by this is that the Casino, as a "game" to play within the ISFL, was designed to be fun for the people who designed it (and other people who think similarly to them, myself included), without considering what might make it fun or unfun for people outside of that small-ish group. I think some of the mechanics which result in unintuitive stuff like stock prices moving independently of on-field results, different tax rates on sales made back to the Casino and via open auctions, etc. etc. are cool to analytics-y nerds like me who enjoy understanding how the stock market works in detail and figuring out ways to take advantage of these mechanics.

But to the general user who thinks "Oh! There's a stock market, let me check it out! I'll buy 3 shares of my team's stock! Wait, my team is 3-1, why has our stock price gone down while Arizona's has gone up???" I don't think the stock market is very fun at all, hence the majority of Plat's quotes from other users.

Hopefully that explains my thinking on this topic. Please direct any questions or concerns to Frostbite.