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Post by amadeico on Feb 12, 2024 21:21:25 GMT
I would like to be able to invest in company shares. That large companies can be listed on the stock exchange and that shares can be bought. It would be great to invest in companies not just by buying their bonds, but by buying stocks that can go up or down in price based on their performance, just like in real life.
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Post by ducks224 on Feb 14, 2024 23:39:59 GMT
Hello Friend, I really loved the idea because I thought the same when I started playing the game. I created a basic prototype, keeping the essence of simplicity of the game but bringing something new, if you have something in mind don't hesitate to share so we can improve! imgur.com/dZ4iryB
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2024 8:57:39 GMT
I would like to see this too.
My ideas on how to implement it would be Lv 30 unlock (to sell), share sale capped at 25.00% of company value. 90 day lock up for the initial buyer once stock is issued (much longer commitment then bonds) buyer would receive proportional profit share daily. (25.00% if they own all 25.00% of available shares).
I've seen suggestions for total company buy-outs, but I would stop short of that, I think buying out whole companies would be ripe for exploitation, monopolisation, hostile take overs and a world of problems that would become very hard to police.
The secondary market would have a transaction fee of 2.00% to stop high frequency trading and maybe a 7-14 day lock up similar to bonds, not sure. The idea of a stock market should be to provide a liquidity alternative to bonds for sellers and a supplementary income to investors, making the market too fluid would change the dynamics of the game entirely, making it a stock market simulator with few bothering to produce anything and just trading stock instead, virtual hedge funds.
Of course there is downside risk to investments, the company your invested in may not produce decent profits for a while so you get paid less. If the company goes inactive the same liquidation process as bonds would follow, you are able to recover a percentage of the value paid at time of purchase based on the company credit rating at the time. The seller (inactive company) would be delisted and barred from issuing stock again for a period of time.
If a stock holder (the investor) goes inactive the stock would be released after a period of time on to the secondary market at 'fair value' (something between price paid and current value) the investor would receive the cash balance minus a handling fee.
I would also consider some sort of graduated limit to how much stock a buyer can buy and hold. Either linked to company value and/or credit rating, like bonds, or maybe even even limiting the number of companies one company can hold.
The stock issuing company should also have the ability to buy back it's own stock on the market when it's available.
Just some thoughts, I suspect implementing a reliable and active stock market would be a sizeable technical challenge.
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