what kind of one
and what country do you think it would be in

Like, a virtual sharemarket? Would it be based on the current world or entirely fictitious?

Yeah I guess that would be cool. It will be hard to make a trading game where the aim is to increase your net worth as much as you can, because then people would not trade for lower valued items and hence no trading would result. Perhaps we should have something like, each player needs to collect their own thing, for instance, I might have to collect 100 calculators whilst someone else might have to collect 200 anime mangas. Would be a good tactical game.

what the....

I didn't get any of that.

I would love that.

What about you have a family to keep running and you are the only one who works so you have to run a good business.

Last edited by rida (2007-02-17 23:26:34)

What would be a cool game is a finite amount of products with a finite amount of money.  That is, there is no way for products to be created or destroyed or money to be created or destroyed.  When the game starts up, there is a general pool you can buy from.  The money you buy with goes into a bank.  Anything you sell, the money has to come out of the bank.  The more objects of some type that are in the pool, the less each object costs.  The less objects that are in the pool, the more each object costs.  Along with the pool/bank, people can trade with each other.

That way, it's a real life simulation of the way the market works.

kl i cant wait!

I guess travelling is going to cost something, right? If it is, you might want someone to own trainstations etc., or else the pool of money will just decrease all the time, 'til no one has enough money to travel.

That might be a bit hard to begin with We looked at role-playing games and you need a million to make one.

I am just thinking of something relatively simple. A map of the world, a status bar, and sidebar. You can pick a city and it will show you what gems you can buy and sell.

The price of gems changes with time and place, so if you hunt around you can get bargains, and sell for profit. If you are unlucky you make a loss.

So ... who are you buying the gems from? Other forum members, "automated" players, or possibly both.

rida wrote:

maybe you could have a special talent,like mining and smithing or you could make clothes and sell them.

isnt that kinda copying runescape?

why dont you do it like imvu or faketown when you make diff things to sell in auction and bids and whatever. heres a link to fake town for ideas

http://www.faketown.com/?action=login&myToken=241c55c4c1aecefdf6166b02cfec7193

what i mean by creating things as in jewelery using the gems you buy. then you can sell the jewelery for even more. and you get like 1 credit for each minuite you stay online

Last edited by espeon (2007-02-20 21:31:49)

not really. im not saying make houses to build  im saying you can make stuff with the gems that you buy. and another way to get creds is to stay for every minuite. im not copying really. in runescape its called 'marketing' or something like that. you have to get people to buy stuff for more money. auctions are more fair. and anyway if we have to pay for credits 1 minuite per cred would be great. . my friend bought 20k on faketown....

Great ideas. Just how to program the laws of supply and demand?

Anyway, if I am to get started on this I need a plan of attack.

1. A map of the world with cities
2. Click on a city (it can cost) brings up a list of buy/sell offers
3. You can buy if you have the money, or sell if you have the item.