Q4 2015
Check on the solar panel research. Sell a quarter of my unrelated shares and buy up to 20% shares of my company.
Try to be as optimal as possible with the trade offer from the RSS and see what price they offer.
Investigate the disk further. Does it have any interesting specifics? What are the contents?
Research efficient power cells capable of holding a lot of energy for a long time.
[2] Research is still in progress. They have produced plenty of ideas to improve solar panel effectiveness, but have only one prototype in works. It improves effectiveness of solar panels by 20%, but is also more expensive. Power produced per dollar of cost ratio remains same as in existing technologies.
Stocks sold, but people are not selling. You have about 45% of Byzantine Energetics Inc. stocks under your ownership.
(You have to handle RSS deal with Flying Dice)
I assume you rather have your engineers to check out contents of the hard disc than do it completely yourself.
[4] The hard disk contains indeed tehcnologies and theories for renewable energy sources, but all those are only improvements for existing technologies. Solar energy, wind power, hydropower, wave and tidal power and geothermal energy.
[3] Your employees are being smart and deliver data of improved solar power technologies to your engineers working on it. By using data from the disk they manage to finish their prototype. It is 25% more effective than best solar panel in market, and only 15% more expensive.
[5] Engineers now focus on improving power cells.
Personal financial situation:Economic collapse cuts your dividends in half!
End year company finances:Electricity - This year was pretty good. Both revenue and profit rates raised despite of economic collapse at Q4.
Oil - Likewise oil sales went up. Increased expenses however ate part of profits, so improvements wasn't that much really.
Coal - Production increased slightly from Q3 but market is moving away from coal. This year coal trade results 300 million deficit.
Revenue from this year didn't change, but profits dropped from 2.75 billion to 1.8 billion USD.
CEO: Sophia Papanous
Gender: Female
Age: 54
Personal traits: - Mathematics
- Knows electricity
- Cold and Rational
Personal wealth: 23.1 billion USD
- Real estate: 4 bil USD
- Stocks: 12.25 bil USD
- Cash: 6.8615 bil USD
Quarterly income: 291.5 mil USD- Salary: 216.5 mil USD
- Dividend: 75 mil USD
Company name: Byzantine Energetics Inc.
Business: - Producing and selling electrical energy
- Oil Shafts and Coal Mines
Headquarters: Prague, Czech Republic
Electricity - Annual revenue: 11 billion USD
Electricity - Annual profit: 0.3 billion USD
Oil - Annual revenue: 41 billion USD
Oil - Annual profit: 1.8 billion USD
Coal - Annual revenue: 8 billion USD
Coal - Annual profit: -0.3 billion USD
Total - Annual revenue: 60 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 1.8 billion USD
Research: Efficient solar power dishes compatible with ships: Done.
Result: Solar panel prototype that improves effectiveness of solar panels by 25%, but increases cost by 15%.
Research: Efficient power cells: In progress
Have my staff figure out systems of aquaponics suitable for shipboard use. It's for a good cause. I can also spot them a whole lot of money for it, so there's that. If that lies outside the competence of my staff, seek appropriate specialists elsewhere.
[1] It lies outside of competence of your staff. [6] You hire highly qualified people working on it. You had to promise large wages in order to get them.
[5] They start working right away. You hear that by end of year they already have promising test enviroment set up.
Personal financial situation:Economic collapse really cuts into your dividends, but stocks manage to keep their value.
End year company finances:Revenue increased by 2 billion this year, but profits went down by one.
CEO: Codeine Ogudi Korir.
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Personal traits:- Well-read
- Quick hands
- Quick pitches
Personal wealth: 26.19 billion USD
- Real estate: 12 bil USD
- Stocks: 10 bil USD
- Cash: 4.19 bil USD
Quarterly income: 190 mil USD- Salary: 175 mil USD
- Dividend: 15 mil USD
Company name: The Equatorial Foods Corporation
Business:- Agribusiness
- Biotechnological research
Headquarters: Nairobi, Kenya
Total - Annual revenue: 22 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 4 billion USD
Has highly competent staff specialized on gene modification.
Has high wage aquaponics specialist.
Research: Aquaponics.
Stockpiles of MREs.
Find trade contracts, and make a deal for the self-reapiring metals, tell them it isn't made yet though.
[1] Nobody is interested of pharmaceuticals company expanding into experimental metal production. You have to find other mining companies. Hmm, didn't Herwald Rasmussen's company deal with metals?
[1] Greenpeace organizes large protests in your factory grounds completely halting progress.
Personal financial situation:Economic collapse drops value of your stocks down to 1.3 billion USD and halves dividends on this quarter.
End year company finances:Pharmaceuticals - Despite of worldwide economical collapse profits drop by half billion USD. Otherwise numbers are same as last year.
Kitchen appliances - This is where economical collapse really feels. Revenue dropped by 4 billion and profits gained negative prefix.
D Store - No matter the situation, people do need to take care of their health. D Store is doing fine.
In light of final numbers Dharma Inc. did pretty well this year.
CEO: Priya Gupta
Gender: Female
Age: 47
Personal traits: - Persuasive
- Meticulous
- Caring
Personal wealth: 38.06 billion USD
- Real estate: 8 bil USD
- Stocks: 1.3 bil USD
- Cash: 28.761 bil USD
Quarterly income: 236.1 mil USD- Salary: 232.5 mil USD
- Dividend: 3.6 mil USD
Company name: Dharma Inc.
Business: - Kitchen appliances
- Pharmaceuticals
- Small chain of drugstores, named the D Store
Headquarters: Mumbai, India
Pharmaceuticals - Annual revenue: 45.8 billion USD
Pharmaceuticals - Annual profit: 13 billion USD
Kitchen appliances - Annual revenue: 11 billion USD
Kitchen appliances - Annual profit: -1 billion USD
D Store - Annual revenue: 20 million USD
D Store - Annual profit: 2.8 million USD
Self-repairing metals - Annual revenue: ?? USD
Self-repairing metals - Annual profit: ?? USD
Total - Annual revenue: 56.82 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 12.503 billion USD
Has handfull of decent engineers for self-repairing metals.
Prototype self-repairing metal factory:
Ready for production by Q3 2016
Canned food stockpiled
Same contract-drawing and refitting as prior post. Continue to purchase stock in own company with personal funds if and when it comes onto the market, with a 51% owned maximum.
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2] USA power company wins bidding by large margin and their expertise in shipboard reactors is notably better than others.
The contract is roughly like this:
1. Rasmussen Steel Services grants to the power company non-exlusive licence to produce land-based fusion reactors.
2. Power company must desing and build two variants of shipboard fusion reactor.
3. Power company must not redistribute technology received from Rasmussen Steel Services.
4. Power company must pay royalties of profits made using Rasmussen Steel Services fusion power technology.
Exact numbers of the contract is still in air, but will be finalized soon. The nameless power company will start development immediately.
[5] Three of your shipyards already have large enough dry docks. Two are repaired to ensure quality of work and safety of employees, third one must wait for current ship construction to finish before repairs can be done. Three other shipyards are refitted with larger dry docks.
[5] Collapse of economics ensure you can easily purchase stocks for dirt cheap. Unfortunately this means value of Rasmussen Steel Services stocks is quite low. 51% ownership archieved.
Personal financial situation:Like mentioned, value of your stocks are down to grass and dividends are fully dependant of profits your company. Speaking of devil...
End year company finances:Mining - This year was good. Revenue didn't improve, but profits did.
Shipbuilding - Shipbuilding is facing hardships, pun intended. Profits and revenue both dropped, profits even down to negatives.
In overall numbers dropped a little.
((Since you own stocks only from your own company I had to actually calculate stuff, good for you. RNG doesn't hold so much power over your income anymore.))
CEO: Herwald Rasmussen V.
Gender: Male.
Age: 53.
Personal traits:- Model-building
- Unlimited-weight all-waters U.S. Merchant Marine Captain's license
Personal wealth: 18.717 billion USD
- Real estate: 6 bil USD
- Stocks: 1.275 bil USD
- Cash: 11.442 bil USD
Quarterly income: 390 mil USD- Salary: 215 mil USD
- Dividend: 175 mil USD
Company name: Rasmussen Steel Services.
Business:- Mining and Refining
- Shipbuilding
Headquarters: Main office in Boston, USA. Strong secondary office retained in London, UK.
Mining - Annual revenue: 57.5 billion USD
Mining - Annual profit: 19 billion USD
Shipbuilding - Annual revenue: 16 billion USD
Shipbuilding - Annual profit: -1 billion USD
Total - Annual revenue: 73.5 billion USD
Total - Annual profit: 18 billion USD
Desalinization engineers view you unworthy.
Design for expensive and overly large ark-ship.
Desing of ark-ships oriented around long-term sustainability, durability and autonomy.
Deal with USA power companies:
Rasmussen Steel Services grants to the power company non-exlusive licence to produce land-based fusion reactors.
Power company must desing and build two variants of shipboard fusion reactor.
Power company must not redistribute technology received from Rasmussen Steel Services.
Power company must pay royalties of profits made using Rasmussen Steel Services fusion power technology.
NEWS:Financial:World economy is revealed to be a bubble. People are selling their stocks in panic trying to rescue their money.
Political:"Golden age in my ass." as one of leading societal scientist says it rather colorfully. North Korea declares war on USA and Japan and rekindles war with South Korea. Africa is burning with missile fire. Relations between Russia and USA are coldest since World War II and are racing to declare trade embargoes on each others allies. NATO is pulling its forces into almost full readiness, and nobody likes that.
Meteorological:Nobody is paying attention to weather when everybody is getting ready to next world war. Unnaturally warm winter on northern hemisphere prevents growth of polar ice cap. Likewise the hot southern summer hastens melting on Antartica.
Q1 2016