I've been studying the stock market in school lately, and I think this is just what runescape needs. If a P2P member wants to post this Idea on the official runescape forums, feel free!

 

 

 

The Idea here is to sell shares of stock to citizens through the banking system. These shares would be valued by the amount of worth whatever shop is for that point. for example:

 

 

 

the General store pays $100,000 gp for Items that day. It makes $300,000

 

The Value of the stock total goes up by $200,000. That amount would be divided by the #of shares of stock there are in circulation (for the example 50,000)

 

 

 

That means that the value of one share of stock would go up by $4. Realistically, all these numbers would be very much higher. I would think that the general store would make this much in 5 minutes (All the General Stores in all locations in all worlds) I also think that the # of shares would be in the billions range... I would suggest this to be open to all players, but any player who is inactive for 6 months would forfeit his shares. .Further more, the total amount of money generated that day (drops, treasure chests, etc) Would have to be controlled some how, And I think this would be a good way to.

 

 

 

BTW, the inflation problem in runescape, any suggestions?

Thats very interesting actually, make all stores businesses and make them sell shares :-k

 

 

 

I also assume that the same store has an equal amount of shares, of an equal value throughout all servers, right? If thats possible.

Well, a store would count as the same store, no matter the location or server. It's like wal-mart. Many chains, but it's the same stock. . .

But, if it's based on general storess (which never lose money); whats the point; where's the risk? Nothing like the real stock market where you can actually lose money.

 

 

 

EDIT: Omg, this is my 100th post!

Well, I don't know. But doesn't the general store, if it doesn't sell an item within a certain time, deletes the item? And most people I know don't buy from general stores unless it's an item they can't do without. I know that if someone wanted to implement this, they would have to redesign the economy from the ground up, including how stores and banks work.

i think this is a pretty good idea. got some flaws but good idea in essense...i think its been suggested before though

You know there is a much bigger idea about the stockmarket already made

 

Look here this is the bigger idea by Veltia already made

...i think its been suggested before though

 

 

 

there i go quoting myself..

There are some fundamental differences in theory here. He wants users to create companies, I want to use existing companies.. .

Well, I don't know. But doesn't the general store, if it doesn't sell an item within a certain time, deletes the item? And most people I know don't buy from general stores unless it's an item they can't do without. I know that if someone wanted to implement this, they would have to redesign the economy from the ground up, including how stores and banks work.

What he said, the General Stores lose money all the time since items get deleted more than people buy. Might work for other stores though.

if u finaly read the whole topic you will come out on something else :

Didn't Veltia think of this first?

You know there is a much bigger idea about the stockmarket already made

 

Look here this is the bigger idea by Veltia already made

 

Topic already suggested. Locking this topic - McGuff1