We have Drug Front Properties and Casino's which users can buy, both great additions as business' that earn users money.

Drug Front Properties are available to anyone who puts the effort in, they are priced fairly and attainable to all however, Casino's are only really available to Crew Leaders due to the large initial costs.

So my idea was a sindicate or joint venture where two or more players can band their monies together and purchase a casino or Drug Front Property. This will mean that Casinos attainable to multiple users rather than just leaders and would encourage user co-operation. Also, if a user is inactive for holiday or has net problems, they won't lose their Casino or DFP as their partner can bribe for them.

I knew you would eventually come up with something half decent. Nice idea chief.

I think this is a great idea Rhuarc.

yep i got to applaud again you GF rhuarc..MR needs more multi-user activities..

It's a great idea, but what should the limit of buyers be, and should the payout be different from rank to rank. 

 I don't think there should be a limit, end of the day it is a group venture and they should be able to pick how many people they want to join that venture with.

As for the payouts i think it should work similar to a crew page, The person who initially buys it, Sets the percentages of the payouts allocated to each player depending on how much they invested into the business. hopefully that makes sense.

I like Bald_Scouse_Virgin's idea, i think it adds maximum control and realism to this already fantastic idea. Increasing multiplayer opportunities is the way forward top idea Godfather Rhuarc

good idea. and maybe instead of trusting your money to some one to buy it how about a page where one enters "Buy casino" and a box underneath says "Join venture" and you enter one persons name and you each pay what you can and the person who pays the most earns the most, or sets the range.

Joint ventures are a good idea.  With casinos and DFPs, it could lead to people buying and selling shares in them as they progress or them being used as incentives

I like this idea something they could do as happen is that you can buy someone else out but as in a proper buissness you could decline the buyout. Something else i thought about is that if some dies there next character they would have the abbility to buy back in for say 1 million dollars but only for the first few days of them being alive.

I like matts idea. that was a good add on.

Any coders able to offer any ideas on hwo difficult this would be?

If this were set up a good way for it would be the way The-Reaper initially suggested. Though when you click on the joint venture button you should have a spot to put all the names that will be taking part. Name it like "The Montecito Group" or whatever you want to name it and the person with the most shares gets to decide how the stuff is run. And of course there will be the option of buying more stocks.

Hmmmmm....this is a valid idea. If a player decides he wants to buy a casino with a few of his compadres he should be able to do that. The payouts should be organized by the person who put up the most money. If a person dies while still owning a share of the casino, their child should still those shares. If not all of them at least a small percentage of his fathers/mothers shares.