Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So, i noticed that each corporation has shares, but we dont have a stock market in eve.
Heres my idea.
Each corp has its shares valued, on things like liquid capital available, assets and their value, number of members in the corp etc.age of the corp should also be taken into account.
once a value has been given to a share, the corp CEO can decide what percentange of the number of shares they want to put on the market, say 20%.
so now 20% of the corps shares are on the market for everyone to buy at the given rate, plus a percentage to the broker thats modified by the day trading skill.
a player comes along, buys the shares, with the money, minus tax and brokers fee, going to the corp.
If the corp does well or badly, measured by number of kills, things built, growth in liquid capital, assets etc etc, then the value of the shares increase or decrease.
so, the player that bought the shares sees that they are doing well, and decides to sell, he puts them up for sale, paying the brokers fee. When they sell, the player would get the bulk if the isk, the corp would get a percentage and the tax man would get paid.
this would also happen if the shares decreased but the player would lose money.

The problems that i envisage being the hardest are the share price formula, as players shouldnt be able to set the price of each share. Once the formula is in place, calculating the increase or decrease in value would be dimple putting numbers into the formula.
price variations should be updated every 5 or 10 minutes, to allow for numbers to be updated.
Number of shares should also be increased from 1000 to 10000 or 15000.

Care to elaborate? Whats to stop someone forming a one man corp, putting shares up for a bil each, then shutting down and staring again? Theres a reason why companies irk dont set there own share prices.
Also, without atuomated share prices, how does one price the share that they want to buy or sell?

You check, however, how do you check to find out how much a corp has in its wallet? Its level of production? Its activity?

You dont check to see what your buying? Hold on let me put up a few 1 bil trits for you
and it gives value to the shares as it shows that the corp is less likely, barring thiefs and politics, to fold, if a corp folds, you lose you shares, your isk and any profit that is there to be had.

Not for in game items and modules, but to help evaluate a corp to see if its worth buying into, yes, yes i do.
people that trade on the FTSE100 and the Nasdaq need it, so if you dont, your in the wrong job m8.
how about, instead of shooting my idea down, be constructive and alter what you think is wrong.

^^ this, + people are afraid of corporate takeovers. Apparently shares hold the added advantage of votes in decision making (like disbanding the corp or paying dividends).

everything else is disposable in this game, why not corps?

some of this idea is in partly in the game, but publicly traded corporations are not at the moment.

I think it would be a nice change of pace for us who train into social/trade. give us something to PvP so to speak. (wallet PvP lol) in the end, you don't have to sell if you don't want to. You can just hold on to shares yourself.

Corporations that are blocking this discussion are like miners declaring they should be immune to ganking IMO.

Presumably this was the intention from the start but it's hard to see a way to make this both interesting and anything other than a system to scam people without fundamentally altering the game and its culture.


The reason he's taking a dump on your idea is because it neither works nor fits.