Extra note:
When a player buys something from a chest shop, SELL contract, or AH from an executive of a company, whatever the PSP (public stock percentage) is adds to the value [/com info value {company name}] of the company.
The value is 100% of the company, while market cap is only share value times number of shares.

In the example above, 20% is public, 80% is private. 100% is value, 20% is market cap.

When a player BUYS something via BUY contract or chest shop, the value of the company DECREASES by the amount they spent, and the market value (which again, is always 20% of the company value) DECREASES by 20% of the amount they spent.

This will help fix the problem of the lack of trade, not as much as the CW system does, but it still encourages it in more of a risk factor style if anything. I believe that this will have a positive impact on the CCNet community and its economic system.

good suggestion

I was working on creating a stock market for my residents's companies, I wanted to use a Discord bot to sort commercial activities of specific people's shops and goods on /ah using the #market channel. But I realized how easy it could be to manipulate the market by simply putting items for sale higher than their real value and asking for a friend to buy them, I'd prefer to make it a manual thing because a person can determine better than a plugin when a company is trying to fake their value

Ricola4325, This is exactly as I intend it, but I want this to be something that can be implemented simpler as a server-wide thing. I will send you a pm questioning your current companies and see if cooperation with TradeStruct could be a possibility

big words.. brain melting (please write this in ccnet terms i cant understand it)

Purchasing an item does not necessarily decrease a company value. For example, if a company holds 200$ and spends 200$ on a carbanando furnace, then it has moved from cash to the asset purchased. Now if it was spent on a consumable (duct tape) then it'd be a different matter. Also a bit more complicated because we obviously do not immediately spend and such.

of course, but keeping record of asset value is not possible with a plugin because someone could simply junk something and the game would not know. the company has no way to lose value without this consideration, but i do appreciate your effort to input

I see what you mean. The "balance sheet" concerns itself with cash only.

Also you have not implemented the IPO properly. In order to be able to freely purchase/sell a share at an arbitrary price that requires a secondary market which we call the stock market.

> Share Value: 250 [/com set shareprice {integer}] ; One share will cost 250 for the first person to buy a share, unless the market changes before then.

Your proposal should also mention that there is a limited quantity of shares. Owning 100% of these shares is tantamount to owning the whole PSP (shareholder equity).

Although why is penny stocks not a thing? Why 100$ minimum?

100 dollar minimum was no thoughts, i guess it was moreso to try to keep with integers but there should be some form of a minimum value.
Could you elaborate one what modifications you would make to the IPO process, and elaborate on your comment about limiting the total amount of shares? I of course am not the most educated in economics and would be very open to being informed.

I have a cursory view into it, but the reason why there would be a fixed quantity of shares is because assets/equity is finite. Please note I may have explained this incorrectly :(

A stock market is a secondary market. We trade what we think its value is. Even if we are overpricing said share relative to how much equity it actually holds. Assume we have 4 shares (400$ equity), you own 3 (Put in 300$) and lets call the other guy Bob, owns 1 share (Gave you 100$ what a nice guy). Now, Bob who owns 25% of your equity, may choose to sell it to another person at 2x the value of that share. This is a type of IPO since Bob was an existing shareholder. That person, Alice now owns a share. Now, why would one willingly buy said share for double its price? They expect the company value to go up.

At this point in time, the company is still currently worth 400$.

You still own 300$ (3/4)
Bob has his nice 200$

Alice holds a share entitling her to 1/4, hence $100. Currently she is at -100$.

Now, imagine this company blows the records on sales.

Lets just pretend the company equity goes up to 1k. (Not that big of sale I know)

Now if we re-evaluate, you have 750, and Alice has 250. Alice now has a share worth more than what she paid for.

Now, someone else wants to get in on the action. Actually, too many people want to get in. So they're now naming their prices for the singular share upon the expectation the company will continue its performance.

Now Alice can sell for a price that she can name assuming there are buyers. So now we have Alice making her selling bid, and buyers making their bids. Therefore, we have the stock market which springs up after IPO.

We can also willingly agree to create new shares. Back to the original starting point of the company. You can choose to issue 6 new shares for the price of 100$ a piece. Now, if you really wanted, you can choose to make it so these shares only entitles to their share of equity. A commodity (I think) if you will.

After all of these shares are bought up, we have O = 40%, B = 10%, P = 50%, with E=1k. Lets assume sales this time doubles your company equity. In this case, you each see your shares intrinsic value double. Now, pretend people want in. Stock market created.

Back to Bob selling Alice his share. Now, if you really want to buy immediately... then you pay whatever Alice demands. Or sell immediately? You agree to the buyer with the highest price at the moment. This is a market order (I had to look this up)

Or if you're stubborn, then you put in a limit order of whatever your buy/sell is.