With all of the detail, back stories and economy models, you are putting in the game, for the various corporations, will there be some type of stock market where players can invest in these corporations and earn dividends, or just buy and sell stocks for profit?asked by K_Cravener
TL;DRA stock market for investing in corporations is a good idea they'd like to do, but employee insider-trading risks and security issues would have to be worked out first.
I actually had a conversation about this with Dan Tracy and the other guys, saying it'd be really cool to be able to invest in these corporations, like if they were publicly traded on the UEE stock market or something. You could buy shares, and whether the stocks might crash, say going back to the unobtanium example, if you owned shares in a company that made mining or ore-freighter ships your shares might increase in value as they sold a lot of those ships.
We could engage in some SICK insider trading stuff 'cause we'd know where the economy was going...
That would be a good reason for us NOT to do it!
Ah yeah, you're right!
Obviously there are a lot of risk having employees playing the game, we'll have to work out a few tricks and security issues before getting it in there.
But its a good idea and we'd really like to do it anyway.