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[Paul]

In the real world they sell the shares at a set price, and real people have to buy all of them for the company to get the money. Real people then trade the stock on the market at prices that are set by what people are willing to pay for the stock. If the founders are making money off of it, it would be them under-pricing their shares in the IPO and then selling them once the company is publicly trading at a higher price. It likely wouldn't work in such quantities as 60% of the entire stock, since then you'd be flooding the market and other people wanting to sell their shares would be undercutting you. Something like that could quickly kill a stock - if the price starts to plummet people are going to suspect that there is something wrong with it, even if it's a perfectly good company. In reality you also have people working in the company that won't up and quit when it changes ownership, so it will keep running.

In game the stock is automatically started at the current value of the company - you get 1 share per dollar of value. But then it spikes up as people buy it. There isn't really an IPO, it just gives the company money. And then when you buy and sell shares you're buying and selling to the computer. And in the game when the original owner sells out, the computer just buys it from him no questions asked. And the company is left without anyone controlling it and will completely stop running unless the next best shareholder decides to take time to control it (even though most of the folks buying stock are wanting OTHER people to control the companies - the stock market is supposed to be a way to invest money for a bit of return without work).

[Muz]

Hmm... good points.

But I still think that there should be some way for a company to 'sell out' and get absorbed by a larger company.

[Paul]

Some type of merger mechanic would be nice. Not sure how it would work with the way the game handles factory spaces, though - land is at a premium.

[LoSboccacc]

as it is there is no company owning other companies, everything is owned by private parties.

It would be interesting a subsidiary mechanic, but it would just become a workaround to tight factory space, as Paul said

[Frajic]

Posting a status report just because. My petroleum venture has grown dramatically - now producing Q37 from a 1200m2 well. I sold off my prospector R&D because Q38 costs $200k - expanding my well by 50% seemed like a better investment

[Mr. Palau]

Posting a status report just because. My petroleum venture has grown dramatically - now producing Q37 from a 1200m2 well. I sold off my prospector R&D because Q38 costs $200k - expanding my well by 50% seemed like a better investment

Tell us when you have an IPO.

[Paul]

I'm refraining from going public on most of my companies. I did it on KFC just to test out the system, but with the way the system works I think I'd rather keep my companies private. If it didn't cost such a huge amount of money to do things like issue stock I might like it more.

For instance, my KFC company - it wants 24,500,000 just to issue more stock or offer a stock split. My whole company's net worth is only 75 mil. So it's wanting 1/3 of my entire company's worth just to issue more stock. That's a pretty hefty fee, and it kind of negates the purpose of issuing stock (to raise money) if it costs almost as much just to issue stock as you could even get from the issue.

[Mr. Palau]

I'm refraining from going public on most of my companies. I did it on KFC just to test out the system, but with the way the system works I think I'd rather keep my companies private. If it didn't cost such a huge amount of money to do things like issue stock I might like it more.

For instance, my KFC company - it wants 24,500,000 just to issue more stock or offer a stock split. My whole company's net worth is only 75 mil. So it's wanting 1/3 of my entire company's worth just to issue more stock. That's a pretty hefty fee, and it kind of negates the purpose of issuing stock (to raise money) if it costs almost as much just to issue stock as you could even get from the issue.

Yep, although you could then buy that stock as an individual and minipulate it into making you more money.

[MarcAFK]

I was meaning to dump the random company i ended up with stocks in, however realising that i was making money from it and that i wouldn't get all of the company's stock value when selling it off caused me to have a change of heart.
Buying back stock however caused the company's value to double meaning i couldn't quite afford 50%. grrr :s

[Brons]

The stock market will value your company at a pretty high multiple though. I IPO'ed my company and immediately bought all the issued shares for myself, my networth went up about 1000% in one day.

[LoSboccacc]

the new queue functionality is awesome.

is there an user script to change the eta in the right hand side to local time?

[MrWiggles]

the new queue functionality is awesome.

is there an user script to change the eta in the right hand side to local time?

It's only awesome if it's functional.

I just set my three orchards with about 36 hours worth of queue, but I think we're going to be getting a couple of sorries and free monies in the next few days.

[The Darkling Wolf]

It seems to be working fine for me.
Although it would have been nice to have it before I interrupted my 96 hours of factory work to make a smaller batch

[Sirian]

It seems to be working fine for me.
Although it would have been nice to have it before I interrupted my 96 hours of factory work to make a smaller batch

I've seen a little display bug so far (it looked like the next item in the queue was being produced and the previous one removed), but reloading fixed that. Can't wait for the R&D queue though, it would be the most useful one for me.

[MrWiggles]

+1 for for RD Queque.

With the timings being so quick for everything, it'd be great to have it.