Stock market

[MickMacF]

My suggestion is to add a stock market system in to the server, this would bring in a new legitimate way to make money that's interesting and also opens up lots of avenues for more RP.

Stocks could be bought for general things like gas and real estate but also player owned business. This would make for business owners want their business to do well and get investors into there stocks and see them rise. It also means that in game things could effect the stock prices and players could influence the market over their actions in game providing more roleplay. 

For example if Noble stores get robbed then the stocks would see a dip for a time being, If there are a lot of cars on a Saturday night stolen then the insurance company stocks would go up or down. If a company holds a big event then you might see the stocks rise if successful and so on. 

Another thing that could come from it would be stock brokers. people in game who become successful with trading may want to invest money for you or point you in the right direction, there could be trading company's, a mini wall street in the city who knows. Stocks could be purchased on your phone by an app and you may need a license to start trading. 

Pros:

• New way to make money that takes some research and time
  
• Lots of new RP scenarios for crims / cops / citizens who might try to influence the market in some way
  
• More business' could come from it such as stock brokers. 
  

Cons:

• Dev work and upkeep of the market 
  
• People may try to find ways to manipulate the market but this could be a thing to resolve in RP (CID investigating CEO's of business' and stuff)
  

Please feel free to comment below your opinions and ideas on this and any more negative or positive points 

 

[Ade]

Great idea Mick.

The thing i'm not sure about is HOW. Like, how would you define when it goes up, down, or stays the same. I feel like it would be a massive load of work for developing it. Soooooooo many different ways to influence gains and losses. Is there anything like it out there in fivem that could be utilised code wise or what?

 

[William Antrim]

GTA V single player hardcoded stock market rises tied to missions. It was binned from the multiplayer game (GTA Online) sometime around 2015 because they couldnt get the dynamic fluctuations working properly (if memory serves correctly). If R* devs couldnt get it to work or found it not worth the effort then despite this being a brilliant idea it might be too much for a dev team like this to take on. 

It may be better to do something like this in the casino as there is already an existing location/system/group of processes where this can take place. The stock market is basically another form of gambling anyway so throwing this sort of brainpower into that effort might be better. 

 

[Mike Polo]

GTA V single player hardcoded stock market rises tied to missions. It was binned from the multiplayer game (GTA Online) sometime around 2015 because they couldnt get the dynamic fluctuations working properly (if memory serves correctly). If R* devs couldnt get it to work or found it not worth the effort then despite this being a brilliant idea it might be too much for a dev team like this to take on. 

It may be better to do something like this in the casino as there is already an existing location/system/group of processes where this can take place. The stock market is basically another form of gambling anyway so throwing this sort of brainpower into that effort might be better. 

Desicions that R* Takes are not the decisions we take as showen by the fact we are using a multiplayer modification built off the back of there game instead of a service they provide

@TinyBigJacko had this idea yonks ago and we have a an idea on how we would achieve it. Just with anything devs do its Time, Effort, Skils, and Reward.

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[Chilli]

Joshua gonna be the next elon musk. Sell a bunch of police stocks say somehting stupid then buy it back

 

[Hussain]

@Chilli you forgot smoke a joint on a podcast haha 

 

[William Antrim]

Desicions that R* Takes are not the decisions we take as showen by the fact we are using a multiplayer modification built off the back of there game instead of a service they provide

@TinyBigJacko had this idea yonks ago and we have a an idea on how we would achieve it. Just with anything devs do its Time, Effort, Skils, and Reward.

Wholeheartedly agree. But the limitations involved are infinitely more pronounced with a volunteer dev team doing things in their free time compared to a FTSE 100 company and the resources available to it. That was the comparison I was making, nothing to do with individual creative direction. There are 100s of good ideas in this forum that never see the light of day as the finite resource is time as always. 

 

[MickMacF]

Wholeheartedly agree. But the limitations involved are infinitely more pronounced with a volunteer dev team doing things in their free time compared to a FTSE 100 company and the resources available to it. That was the comparison I was making, nothing to do with individual creative direction. There are 100s of good ideas in this forum that never see the light of day as the finite resource is time as always. 

Exactly why a wee donation can improve the server and help out the guys devoting personal time and effort into constantly developing the amazing game

but also sure I’ve seen some other servers with a stock market system so it is possible as  @Mike Polosays however I’m an idiot with no clue how that stuff works 

 

[ricosky]

Am I tripping or was this a thing? I swear I remember a stock market app around maybe February that listed various in game items.