[quote name=\'gameshowsteve\' date=\'Dec 28 2003, 12:33 AM\'] That's a terrific question. Going into my appearance, I think I would've set mine at $2000 (since I ended up spending about $1200 to be on the show) and $16,000 (since that's where a *lot* of people have been winding up this season, it's a respectable amount of money, and it'd give me a free guess at $32K, where I feel the questions have been disproportionately hard this year). [/quote]
My thought process is based on the same thing--Figure out how much it's costing me to get there and set the first one a little above that. As to the second one ...
If they did this, eventually the producers would notice where people were opting to place their second milestone and make that a tough question. (They might only look at the people who actually get the question right for the second milestone.) So, for the first season, there's probably no point in observing where the "tough" questions fall.
If I were planning to try out the second season that they did this, I'd track it through the first season. If they were placing it at $64,000 or lower, I'd stick with the current $32,000. If they were placing it at $125,000 or higher, I'd place it one level below that.