Upgrade Runescape

[Rorsch4ch]

I had an interesting Idea For Runescape that I think the staff should consider playing around with. As I was sitting in my Economics class this morning I was in a bit of a trance and we were in the process of an activity I figured would be boring, because let's face it, that is a very boring class. But in the midst of our research activity I asked my self a question, why does the best virtual world, video game society not have a stock market, virtually of course? So I figured I'd ask the staff to play around with that idea. Players could go public in the world of Runescape with products in the game creating stocks and shares for others to buy, and everyones making money, and since GE, (Grand Exchange) exists now, it may or may not be very simple to organize a Runescape virtual Stock Market since the products are all on that massive store. My feelings won't be hurt if the Jagex Satff decides they don't want to invest in creating this app, but i mean, at least play around with the idea. I think it would be cool.

- Thank you for simply existing Jagex, lookin' forward hear to some feed back, Later.

[K4ylan]

Well, the G.E. itself is a stock market in a sense. You can invest in shares of products ranging from logs to bars, then either sell them immediately for quick profit, or hold on to them in hopes they go up. And everybody can't make money. You can't just create money out of thin air in a stock market. And it is also very susceptible to manipulation.

[aspeeder]

Ummm, that would mean that other avatars would have the ability to cut off your cash flow because they don't like the way you play the game. Also since stocks mean partial ownership that would, in a way, violate the single user rule. Stocks are created by a buisness as a way to gain capitol to invest in expensive ventures, I don't really think there is any possibility of this being able to be implemented into a game without buisnesses. The ge already acts as an investment tool, you just invest in commodities instead of stocks.

[Tim]

1) We Aren't Jagex so we can't whip up the idea.

2) Wrong section of the Forums

3) we have players aged between 11 to 17, Even myself at 19, know nothing about Stock holding and would be VERY easily manipulated by a large group of Manipulation clans.

[Big_Stingman]

1) We Aren't Jagex so we can't whip up the idea.

2) Wrong section of the Forums

3) we have players aged between 11 to 17, Even myself at 19, know nothing about Stock holding and would be VERY easily manipulated by a large group of Manipulation clans.

 

I concur. I just finished an AP economics class and still have pretty much no clue about stocks and such. I mean, yes I get the whole supply/demand thing, but I would probably need some college level classes on how to properly deal with stocks.

 

Manipulation would play a large role if this was ever instituted.