thomcaster
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Now nobody go and tip off Bungie or Microsoft or anything but I have an awesome idea for a game but i am not sure if anybody would like to play it. Respond to this post with your opinions.
The game I am thinking of is little past the concept stage but it should be awesome. It works where you, and possibly thousands of other players, each own stuff . For example, you can own a company. This company can be anything from a restaurant to a cell phone company. Now here is the complicated bit; there is a system of markets, each of which can contain any number of companies. Based on the networths of the companies, the stock prices of those companies changes like in real life. Players invest like in real life, but with some more game-like twists. To make things more interesting, there are new elements such as different stock 'colors', each color changing independently. Blue stocks of the same company might gain two points but red ones fall eight points. Those players who chose to invest in blue stocks would gain but the ones who invested in red would lose. To this effect, even though the company lost networth, the blue investors would still gain money. There may be four to six colors. There will be many other such elements, but the fact that they exist is enough for now- i have perhaps ten more in mind. Players can own commodities, which also change in value. These can be anything from hot candies to mercury to More-Tex jackets. Markets trade these commodities as well and if your company does not produce them that is how you have to get them.
One other element would be business ventures. You can own land in a number of regions. You might own 300 blocks of land in the Really Vile Swamp on the continent of Swampiness. You can sell this land out to hunters to hunt for crocodiles, use it for slash-and-burn farming, drill for oil, build stores on it, or even houses. Every day new business ventures appear, for example if a crocodile was spotted on one of your Really Vile Swamp land blocks then you might be able to make a profit selling hunting permits for the creatures.
Also, players will be able to own their own markets after they become multibillionaires. Markets control the companies that choose to join them and various market forces such as the size of a 'maturation fund' and the insurance or interest that the market provides alter the way stocks change value and the value of the players' money.
Tell me what you think in a reply that is hopefully not as long as this monster.
The game I am thinking of is little past the concept stage but it should be awesome. It works where you, and possibly thousands of other players, each own stuff . For example, you can own a company. This company can be anything from a restaurant to a cell phone company. Now here is the complicated bit; there is a system of markets, each of which can contain any number of companies. Based on the networths of the companies, the stock prices of those companies changes like in real life. Players invest like in real life, but with some more game-like twists. To make things more interesting, there are new elements such as different stock 'colors', each color changing independently. Blue stocks of the same company might gain two points but red ones fall eight points. Those players who chose to invest in blue stocks would gain but the ones who invested in red would lose. To this effect, even though the company lost networth, the blue investors would still gain money. There may be four to six colors. There will be many other such elements, but the fact that they exist is enough for now- i have perhaps ten more in mind. Players can own commodities, which also change in value. These can be anything from hot candies to mercury to More-Tex jackets. Markets trade these commodities as well and if your company does not produce them that is how you have to get them.
One other element would be business ventures. You can own land in a number of regions. You might own 300 blocks of land in the Really Vile Swamp on the continent of Swampiness. You can sell this land out to hunters to hunt for crocodiles, use it for slash-and-burn farming, drill for oil, build stores on it, or even houses. Every day new business ventures appear, for example if a crocodile was spotted on one of your Really Vile Swamp land blocks then you might be able to make a profit selling hunting permits for the creatures.
Also, players will be able to own their own markets after they become multibillionaires. Markets control the companies that choose to join them and various market forces such as the size of a 'maturation fund' and the insurance or interest that the market provides alter the way stocks change value and the value of the players' money.
Tell me what you think in a reply that is hopefully not as long as this monster.