stock market in Norrath?

[Coica]

<p>ok, I swear Im not an uberstock geek or anything, but I was wondering about the possibility of having a stock market in Norrath?</p><p> I have no idea how it would work? maybe based off items that sell on the broker,kinda like futures trading or something?</p><p> or maybe more random like betting on the pig race?</p><p> you go in to qumbies market store in freeport and they have a board setup quoting prices for hogs in the commonlands currently and what the price might be next season and place bets/invest in it somehow?</p><p> I dont know.</p><p> seeing the amount of people who just paid about 5 plat yesterday to get a worg made me wish i had been partners with the quest-person for some of that $ and it got me thinking.</p><p> am I just high?</p><p> anyone else think this might be an interesting feature if done right?</p><p> I'll shut up now.</p>

[Lord_Quaymar]

Buying low and selling high on the broker is pretty much the same thing. I have made a fortune doing that.

[SteelPiston]

<p>Buying low and selling high is really just scalping, but it is an established way to make money in EQ2.</p><p>If the price of items being sold by a merchant went up and down depending on demand, then it would be interesting. Unfortunately, apart from arrows and axes for thrown weapons, the town merchants in EQ2 sell crap that nobody wants or uses. In Asheron's Call, if you sold hundreds of arrows to a merchant, the prices that he paid for arrows went down. In Guild Wars, the prices of dyes from the merchants increases and decreases from the supply and demand. Unfortunately, as in the real world world markets, there are people that horde stuff to drive the prices up on the merchants. They then sell the items privately below the merchant price to prevent the prices from going back down.</p><p>I think a revamp of the crap being sold by the merchants and also the way that they work is more needed than a stock market.</p>