>The proposal things Maybe its just me but I'm not particularly motivated to make proposals. Its a bit because of Adam Smith-like economics and personal greed I guess.
I know that using my shinies to make proposals myself will likely result in those shinies being used woefully inefficiently (in comparison to a veteran), because I just don't know how to make proposals too well in the Agoran context, from lack of experience. So... It just seems like a very good idea to hold onto my shinies, for bartering later on, because I have so little, and even if I did have them, they're not particularly efficient for me to use (because I'm not well-versed in the decision-making required to use their "prime material" abilities for proposal stuff). But someone else can use them better, and a profit can be made from making a trade between me and them. They get shinies which are "worth more" from them because they can use them more efficiently, and I get some other kind of profit which may be worth more to me than the use I could make from those shinies. That or I'm misunderstanding shinies lol.