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Study: Comparing stock markets: Neopets, Marapets, Powerpets


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I have decided to compare the Major 3 pet sites with a stock market:

 

MARAPETS:

 

Earning potential: 25-75 million MP/month

Min. share price to buy: 100 MP

Description: Stocks can go negative and jump to exponential proportions in one day.

Max. share limit: 2500

Influence: Shop sales

Automatically sold in: 7 days

 

Rating: 1/5

 

NEOPETS:

 

Earning potential: 1.5 million NP/month

Min. share price to buy: 15 NP

Description: Stocks never go below 6. Stocks go to 60 every year or so.

Max. share limit: 1000

Influence: Random

Automatically sold in: NEVER

 

Rating: 4/5

 

POWERPETS:

 

 

Earning potential: 4-18 million PB/month

Min. share price to buy: None

Description: Some stocks need to be unlocked by paying real money.

Max. share limit:

You can own up to

3000

stocks. You are limited to owning

1000

stocks of the same company.

If you

upgrade your account

, you can own up to

6000

stocks and up to

2500

stocks of the same company.

Influence: Formula based on shop sales

Automatically sold in: 30 days, locked in in 12 hours (stocks won't move 12 hrs. after you buy it)

 

Rating: 3/5

 

(I wonder how the stock market is not artificially inflated even if it is based on shop sales. Maybe they're just less abusive players than Neopians.)

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Wow. I would hate for my stocks to be sold automatically. :/ That's half the point of the stock market, I think. You're supposed to make an investment over a long period of time. :/

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Wow. I would hate for my stocks to be sold automatically. :/ That's half the point of the stock market, I think. You're supposed to make an investment over a long period of time. :/

Agreed. If they were sold automatically I probably wouldn't do it!

 

 

It would be interesting if Neopets operated more like a real stock market instead of being a random system, but I think it used to be and people abused it. So, I guess it's fine the way it is. :)

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Agreed. If they were sold automatically I probably wouldn't do it!

 

 

It would be interesting if Neopets operated more like a real stock market instead of being a random system, but I think it used to be and people abused it. So, I guess it's fine the way it is. :)

Yeppers! When it first started it was based on what people bought, and there was no 15np minimum. But TNT didn't like that there was no risk of a stock going lower if you bought it at 6np, and guilds were popping up to abuse the stock market. So now we have our current system. Woo. :b

And yeah, I wouldn't use it either if my stocks sold automatically! It just seems weird. o_O

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