Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is why it's a stupid idea. What you're suggesting with this comparison to station markets is that I try to make money by building and selling 100x Ravens, waiting until people need to liquidate their assets and sell their battleships back to me at a lower price, and then finally making a profit when I re-list those Ravens on the market at the original sale price. That's insanity from a market point of view, and I would never count on getting those assets back. In the real game I'm going to make a profit on the original sale, not the ridiculous buyback plan.

What would actually happen is that market speculators, independent from the corp that originally sold the stock, would put up those buy and sell orders and profit from people who need to quickly convert assets to ISK. The original issuing corporation would never see their stock back, and would not make a profit from the person who needs fast ISK. All the profit for the issuing corp would have to be in the initial sale, but your ridiculous "keep share prices low" idea means that the initial sale would have very little value for the corp.

The only way you'd be able to get your own shares back would be if the stock market has very few participants and the only buy/sell orders are from the issuing corps. And at that point you're presuming the dismal failure of your idea as a prerequisite for it to work at all.