Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35188846-20180831223746/@comment-36094989-20180902181232

KaiGavin wrote: It's pretty underhanded but the way the algorithm works it tries to get the most money it can out of every player. So after you buy something the prices will go up for awhile while it tests whether it can get you to pay a higher amount for the same thing. If you wait long enough the prices go back down.

Stuff like the stag and the seahorse and the 200/$0.99 deal are like "special discounts" they offer when they can't seem to get you to spend any money, the deals probably getting better the longer you keep them waiting. So it only makes sense that your secondary no spending game is the one that gets the most of these offers. They think it's a different person who is more of a cheapskate than the player of your main game. So they lower prices and offer deals to tempt your "cheapskate character."

I have spent money before but in a stockpile sort of way and now its probably been close to 3 months since I've paid money for anything. I've been getting the seahorse several times a week, sometimes multiple days in a row. So it does come back if you've spent before it just takes a while. That seahorse has a 24 hour timer - after the timer runs out, a new one begins.