Even if you could prevent scamming, thereās hardly any reason or need to raise capital in the game due to the very low baseline investments needed to engage in any industrial activity outside of maybe supercapital production.
For example, do you really need an IPO in order to fund a T2 production line? And then have to deal with paying dividends on your profits, when you could just mine or run missions for a few hours, and have enough seed capital to ensure that you produce solely for your own profit? This isnāt like real life, where it costs millions of dollars to launch a company.
Where exact are the staff coming from to manage 1 and 2? Those arenāt small jobs that only a few people can manage - seriously, thatās a massive amount of work for CCP employees, who could make a lot more money doing that in the real world vs trying to do it in a video game. It makes zero sense for CCP to create these systems to regulate a player driven open economy and restrict the freedom of players to play how they want.
A realistic stock market is not a logical development in EVE, as it conflicts with a number of core economy tenets and is a huge money sink for CCP to implement with no return on the investment - seriously, how many people are going to sub just to play the entirely opt-in stock market?
If you want a stock market simulation, EVE isnāt the game for you.
Also: this should be in Player Features & Ideas, not GD. You can move it by editing your OP.
You actually can make a realistic stock market in EVE Online.
The players have the power to do this, it works just like real life. You are free to simply create a Stock Exchange, sell stocks, and create your own rules. Of course, you will need to manage regulatory enforcement yourself, good luck!
Sure, players can do this. CCP should not, and the idea as presented requires CCP intervention to make possible. Players have claimed to be running stock markets in the past, and have scammed people accordingly. Without an outside, inviolable group managing enforcement, there will never be a stock market that isnāt full of scammers.
In real-life, there is no āoutside inviolable group managing enforcementā. Real-life stock markets are enforced by law, and the ability to enforce the law. If you want to create an EVE stock market, you need to create an EVE government. I have my own government and hence my own stock market, with numerous shareholders. If you would like to invest, just send me isk and I will sell shares in the New Order for 1 million isk apiece.
I really like the idea of a stock market. Unfortunately, I seriously doubt it will ever happen:
If you need capital fast, the best option for both parties is probably going to be a collateralized loan.
An unregulated stock market will be rife with scammers, and go unused by most players.
A manually regulated stock market wouldnāt be worth the effort for CCP (I seriously doubt it will create that much revenue for them unless they find a way to monetize it directly).
A stock market regulated by mechanics could conceivably work, but Iām pretty sure it would require collateral of some kind (players can stop playing on a character, or stop playing the game). In which case, weāre right back to collateralized loans being the best option.
I wish there were a way to make this work, but Iām not going to hold my breath. Regardless, if you are that committed to the idea, I suggest going back to the drawing board. Come up with a detailed solution that addresses peoples criticisms and concerns, as well as a persuasive argument for why it would be good for the game.
I made a suggestion about having a game-wide stock market a few months ago. I think its an amazing idea, and itād be great if it was corporate based like it is for us now. Players investing in corps from some sort of market oriented gUI, as a form of investment in the game. It would be extremely beneficial or economic viscosity.
