Re: [spoon-discuss] Stocks

["Wonko the Sane" <also_wonko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >Oh, that's the other thing:
> >
> >The price of a player stock is N/10 BNS (rounded up) where N is the
> >player's
> >score, or 0 BNS if the player's score is negative. When a player's stock
> >is
> >purchased, e receives a bonus equal to the amount spent on the stock
> >
> >That means that a) you can't buy stock unless you've got enough BNS and 
> b)
> >Glotmorf's 'buy stock sell stock' thing gave us all BNS. Not that it
> >matters, as I just took all the remaining BNS, but nonetheless... ;)
>
> Well, the important thing at the time was that I was causing the Baron to 
> lose money...:)
>
> I could see it being interpreted that what one can buy is what there's a 
> price attached to.  For corporate stocks, the price is attached to shares.  
> For player stocks, the price is attached to stock.  So either "shares" 
> isn't defined for players, or that which is referred to as "shares" in 
> subsection E is equivalent to one unit to which a price has been attached 
> (quantity of 1 for players), or the actual process of purchasing player 
> stocks isn't defined.
>
> In any case, I don't think Wonko's million-share purchase went through.

That's an interesting interpretation. It's also a wrong one.

The rules declare that I can buy shares of any stock. Therefore, I can buy 
shares of player stocks. Now, it doesn't explicitly state what the price of 
a share is for a player stock, but if you look at the section regarding 
corporate stocks, it clearly implies that 'the price of stock A' is a 
shorthand form of saying 'the price of one share of stock A'.

Yer nitpicking, guy.

--
Wonko

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