Liquidate a Company
Posted: 09 May 2009 10:06 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Can you add a feature so a player can liquidate a company?

Also… Can I merge my holding company with one of my subsidiaries?


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Posted: 09 May 2009 01:40 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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You can merge a subsidiary with its parent company if the parent company owns 80% of more.
Open the subsidiary window, Actions menu, click on Merge.
The non owned shares can be paid cash or exchanged with shares of the parent company.

Liquidation: well, can you give more details about what you mean by liquidation?
For instance do you want your player to get back residual value?
What to do with existing units? existing properties like natural resources or stocks?

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Posted: 09 May 2009 09:56 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Liquidations… That is the tricky thing..

Just giving an example from the last game I was playing.

When you liquidated a company you received 80% of the startup cost for each business unit, your shareholdings were put back onto the market for the market price.. Everything else was based on default values.

I don’t know of a correct solution because it got exploited at the other game… I was hoping maybe you could think of a way to make it work without being an exploit.

You have to worry about a player abusing it by running down a company and then liquidating and ending up with more cash than it is worth if you are using default values for liquidation.

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Posted: 10 May 2009 01:00 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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I will take a look at this.
What’s sure is that a player liquidating a company will receive much less than the overall current value of the company.

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Posted: 10 May 2009 09:31 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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Yeah that would be expected.

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