I don’t like the requirement for further investment for losses because that isn’t how things work, but maybe each fond has a budget that increases as players buy shares from Agora and profits, but decreases from losses. ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com
> On Jun 2, 2017, at 7:05 AM, Martin Rönsch <martinjroen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Some people have shown interest in a stock market and the Idea of combining > it with ownership of rules has also been mentioned. I think this is very > interesting, so here are my ideas for such a stock market. > They are not in form suited to submit as proposal yet, because this would be > my first attempt at writing a rule and I'm not sure on how to implement > various things yet. Also I want to wait for Aris' proposal on assets to make > the stock market compatible with that. > Anyway, here's how i imagined the stock market: > > > Up to five rules can be grouped into a rules fonds. > For each fonds, there are shares. I think a fixed number of 100 shares per > fonds should work fine. > Players can simply create fonds by announcement from rules that do not belong > to any fonds. > Fonds with no shares in circulation can be destroyed so that the rules > belonging to it can be redistributed to other fonds. > > Shares can be initially bought from Agora for a fixed price (Power of all > rules belonging to the fonds added together = price of one share in Shinies). > Players and organizations are then free to trade shares between each other. > > Once a month the fonds makes profits or losses. > The fonds makes losses if no rule belonging to it has ben created, amended or > cited in the ruling of a CFJ. > The fonds make profits if more than half of the rules belonging to the fonds > have been created, amended or cited in the ruling of a CFJ. > If there are profits, the shareholders get paid from Agora (a percentage of > the initial price of their shares?) > If there are losses, the shareholdes have to invest additional capital, or > lose their shares in the fonds. > > I think players who own no shares at all should be able to claim some amount > of shares for free, to get things started. > > There probably needs to be an Officer who keeps track of existing fonds and > who owns shares of them. > > > I'd very much like any feedback on this. I have begun to codify these ideas > into a rule, but it's not very refined yet, as this is my first attempt to > write a rule. > > Veggiekeks