> Future games will be a week shorter.

That seems about a good length of time. Two weeks is plenty, and it will mean that people will not be able to get too far ahead.

>The other
> thing I may do is drop the amount of money you
> start with -- down to $75 or so.

I'm all for that as well. That would make it so that you won't even be able to purchase certain stocks at first. You'll definitely have to go for that dollar increase from the Apogee FAQ, instead of the 20 point jump prominent in other stocks :)

> > the price of stock is not only determined by the hits/day, but by the amount of people that buy/sell said stock.

> I'm not convinced about how
> much it will help. Stocks that are abnormally
> low and bound to jump high are the ones that a
> lot of people will buy. Stocks that will go up
> only a little will be bought by only a few. So
> the end result may be that the market is more
> stable -- which isn't very interesting at all.
>

That's true, but it may also give more of an edge to people planning longer-term strategies. If you think that a stock will become very popular soon, it may give you an incentive to buy it beyond just the increase you'd get from the normal rise in hits.

Now, combine this with the ability to buy multiple shares, and you could get some interesting results. Hey, take it a step further and have there be a limited number of shares in each site, thus the value of a stock would be in not only what it was worth but how much of it you could buy. But this may be getting too far from the original game (and it's also easy to throw out wacky ideas when I don't have to implement them)...