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Message no. 1
From: Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Playing the Market (suggestion for The Shadowrun Archive)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 20:54:12 -0400
>I was thinking of buying stock (in maybe Ares or something) for one of my
>characters and was wondering what would be the best way to handle this?
>
> >snip<
>
>The problem is market fluctuations ... the simplest thing would be to say
>that the market is fairly steady or give the stock a fixed % growth per
>year (basicly an interest rate.). Other options include some kind of die
>roll or saying the stock follows some RL stock (too much work for me ...
>I don't want to check the stocks section of the paper every once in a
>while for this ...)
>
>What do you think?

I think the Shadowrun Archive should have a page that uses the rules from
Shadowfiles in some way to adjust corporate asset ratings every quarter. It
should also list stock prices for the megas and the larger second tier
corps, and alter their prices on a daily basis based on either a) random
adjustments, b) input from people or c) both.

For instance, maybe there could be a form which a GM could fill out that
would submit something along the lines of "my team made a run for corp A
against corp B that dealt with cost/gained the corp(s) X million nuyen."
This information would be used to alter stock value in some (probably very
small) fashion.

Wordman

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