I was thinking, I've got I personally have about fifteen ships in storage, and we have the ability to hire NPC's, and I like many other players have large reserves of credits in cash, ie at least a couple of hundred million in the bank. I once had a billion credits in cash but then went and bought a lot of prismatic shields which ate a lot of money.
SO... What can I do with all this wealth, not a great deal to be honest. It would be good if I could put some of it into a share portfolio and have a meta game to play, give me a reason to follow galactic happenings, as BGS factions wax and wane their share prices soar and plummet, could buy my own star system with enough seed capital and good luck, or lose it all trying. When it was announced wreaken corporation had that big convoy leaving Zearla to go and build some hush hush stuff in Col70, their share price would have risen, when the
Or with all those ships gathering dust in my hangars at my home starport, and my credits doing nothing for me, and all the crew lounges having unemployed pilots, why can't we the players start up our own organisations? Say make it cost 5bn credits so either uber rich players or groups of players could collaborate into it and crowd fund a corporation.
Once started this corporation would then be able to invest in ships, pilots, automatic mining extractors, surface bases etc... The organisation would then be able to earn money by such things trading, mining, putting NPC's in our organisations ships to run missions for our faction or others for reward. PLayer owned BGS factions would be on the stock market, mergers and acquisitions would be possible, though the mechanics of players organisations being bought out would need some massaging to prevent torrents of tears.
If organisations owned a rake of synergic assets, such as an extraction economy and a refinery and a manufacturing asset, the flow of materials from their own mining to refinery to factory would yield higher proffits than just buying in the commodoties from external suppliers.
Basically I'm proposing to give the galaxy an actual economy with high finance. It wouldn't directly affect the current playing of the game, players would still be free to be a lone wolf one pilot, but they could speculate on the endeavours of others of they themseves could group up to be something bigger than themselves, adding depth to the galaxy.
SO... What can I do with all this wealth, not a great deal to be honest. It would be good if I could put some of it into a share portfolio and have a meta game to play, give me a reason to follow galactic happenings, as BGS factions wax and wane their share prices soar and plummet, could buy my own star system with enough seed capital and good luck, or lose it all trying. When it was announced wreaken corporation had that big convoy leaving Zearla to go and build some hush hush stuff in Col70, their share price would have risen, when the
Or with all those ships gathering dust in my hangars at my home starport, and my credits doing nothing for me, and all the crew lounges having unemployed pilots, why can't we the players start up our own organisations? Say make it cost 5bn credits so either uber rich players or groups of players could collaborate into it and crowd fund a corporation.
Once started this corporation would then be able to invest in ships, pilots, automatic mining extractors, surface bases etc... The organisation would then be able to earn money by such things trading, mining, putting NPC's in our organisations ships to run missions for our faction or others for reward. PLayer owned BGS factions would be on the stock market, mergers and acquisitions would be possible, though the mechanics of players organisations being bought out would need some massaging to prevent torrents of tears.
If organisations owned a rake of synergic assets, such as an extraction economy and a refinery and a manufacturing asset, the flow of materials from their own mining to refinery to factory would yield higher proffits than just buying in the commodoties from external suppliers.
Basically I'm proposing to give the galaxy an actual economy with high finance. It wouldn't directly affect the current playing of the game, players would still be free to be a lone wolf one pilot, but they could speculate on the endeavours of others of they themseves could group up to be something bigger than themselves, adding depth to the galaxy.
