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Corporate Nodes
And stock prices...

It would be valuable to create a more meaningful battlefield for deckers to engage with each other if the grid had more incentive for players to engage with it. Clearly.

So, what I propose is that the current metric for how stock prices are determined ties into corporate players receiving a bonus every so often. Maybe once a month or so. And this bonus can scale with where those stock prices are. The higher the stock price, the better the bonus. It can also scale on other factors, but that should be the main metric.

Then, we have each corporation has a unique Corporate Grid Account. The more nodes that this special grid account has attached to it, the better the stock prices are doing. But, when those nodes hit an ICE score of 0, and a program adds another grid account to it through external means, this should damage the stock prices for the corporation.

Of course there are additional things as well that can and should affect stock prices, such as when a Corpie is killed. And the bonus should be paid out to any service mixer employed by that corp, as well.

Having some way to actually affect stock prices would be amazing, but tying it to the number of nodes would be a bad way of doing it, imo. Defacing the official/primary node(s) of a corp having some impact could be a good way of handling it instead.
Deaths impacting stock prices could be good gameplay but it'd be smallworldy, why would investors care about some random junior getting killed? Corporate deaths inside the towers affecting prices would make a little more sense.
Yeah, the comment on the number of nodes for me was about creating an incentive for corporate PCs to create additional nodes, which translates into additional targets for deckers.

I agree with you on corporate deaths, though. Maybe also things like, graffiti could lower stock prices as well.