Lions pondered the fact that in M.U.L.E. it was fairly easy to monopolize all the food by buying all the land on the river.  Once monopolized, you could charge unattainable prices for it & become quite wealthy.  The result was losing the game because the colony as a whole wouldn't produce anything.  They wouldn't die off like oregon trail, but they would merely not produce.  

There are still memories of hoarding all the food.  All the computer players but 1 would stop bidding fairly low.  1 desperate player would keep advancing & give everything he had for maybe 1 unit of food.  Somewhere out in the universe, that 1 desperate computer player is still alive somewhere.

Lions long noted a similar phenomenon with stonks.  In times of great shortages of shares, you're better off giving shares to those who desperately need them.  A higher quantity of shares ends up becoming affordable later on.

Right now could be considered a shortage of housing much like the food monopoly.  There are lot of homeless & a lot of desperate computer players willing to drain all their savings for housing, but the monopolists are unwilling to sell their houses.  These tactics always lost the game.

In times of liquidity shortage, you're better off not hoarding cash but giving it to those who need it in exchange for shares.  They eventually pay it back in much bigger returns.

Index funds which now dominate the market are much like the unsympathetic monopolists.  They don't reallocate capital based on needs but manetain a static capital allocation. 

The lion kingdom being in a rebalancing phase, would be considered selling shares to those who need them if they just didn't buy any.  In the future, it will become important to sell shares to those who need them in times of great asset shortages.  That's the primary way of recovering cash since shares can't be sold during liquidity shortages.