Interesting! We designed “safe mode” to be safe against the common newbie failure of losing all cash in a few big trades. It achieved that much at least. Each trade spent max of about *1%* of your cash, and moved it at most halfway towards your goal. A dedicated newbie could still burn cash, but it took effort.
Still, from your report, that may have happened more than I thought. If so, it may not even have achieved its main design goal. :-(
“The worst thing” was indeed atrocious. We fixed that fairly quickly, but … ugh.
Thanks for the thoughtful critique. We’re about to reuse the engine. I’m giving this some thought.
i’m not sure if it would fix easy mode, but i feel that the points that go into a trade should be some function of the points that have already gone into that question, such that a user’s total loss on a given question is capped.
Interesting! We designed “safe mode” to be safe against the common newbie failure of losing all cash in a few big trades. It achieved that much at least. Each trade spent max of about *1%* of your cash, and moved it at most halfway towards your goal. A dedicated newbie could still burn cash, but it took effort.
Still, from your report, that may have happened more than I thought. If so, it may not even have achieved its main design goal. :-(
“The worst thing” was indeed atrocious. We fixed that fairly quickly, but … ugh.
Thanks for the thoughtful critique. We’re about to reuse the engine. I’m giving this some thought.
i’m not sure if it would fix easy mode, but i feel that the points that go into a trade should be some function of the points that have already gone into that question, such that a user’s total loss on a given question is capped.