The ability to define specific closure parameters would be awesome! I would love it if we could do that even when we aren't merging. Like, for example if I have a couple hundred factories, and there are a number of duplicates as there no doubt would be, I would love to be able to go into City 1 and choose to close all duplicate factories, which would keep only the most profitable factory and reroute all purchases from closed factories automatically to the remaining factory.

I don't think this kind of test prove it, only enforced merger could be one of the factor, it still could be another "factor" along side merger action is the true cause (like a negative profit growth combing with max-out personal salary). Without closing down firms, you still have huge negative net profit due to stock lost at the moment of merger no matter what.

In order to prove a IF-THEN condition wrong, you need to create an "IF condition" (a merger action), that doesn't cause the "THEN consequence" (personal salary cap reset). That's why I suggest to lower your salary to a very low level before merger and see if by doing this, your salary cap won't be reset.

Another option is to somehow gain enough profit to cover the massive stock lost after merger (might be very difficult) or not causing a massive stock lost in the first place. In my own experience when I had a massive corporation that merger a very small new corporation (didn't affect profit much), my salary level remained (although I didn't max-out my salary, I relied more on dividends).

I did another test, even if I don't close down the firms, the next year my salary drops to 100k, so, it's the merge action that causes this difference.

Interesting, maybe it has nothing to do with merger at all (not directly at least). I seems to encounter similar situation before when I max-out CEO personal salary.

Try lowering your salary to minimum right before merger and keep low the year after that (2012-2013), and see if it's still reset after merger, also see if you can raise the salary back at 2014. If it's still a problem, maybe there is a bug in calculating personal salary and inflation, or really has something to do with merger, and you can report this problem.

Just in case, this game has a difficulty of 343%, with two cities and 30 companies.

I upload some pictures to show what I mean. It really has a change on corporate income statement, but after 36 months, the lifetime situation did't change much, but i could raise my salary again. The salary for before and after merge at the same year are the same.

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I would really LOVE the option to automatically close down ALL the factories in case of a merger. Or maybe something like "close all factories that are not profitable" or so.
Same for R&D-centers and Real Estate.

profit 100M or so is after your salary had been reset to 100k? If so I guess your real profit is probably near zero at the point right after merger (before you close down firms of do anything) consider your previous salary of 75M was around the same level.

Was the income statement reported a real net lost in sales after merger year's December income statement?

Well, at the same year my profit had lower (from 240M to 100M or so), but only after 36 months I could raise my salary back to normal.

Ex.: 75M -> 100K -> 100K -> 100K -> 75M

[quote="Cassius"]No, is the payment we define to ourselves in our headquarters.[/quote]

If it's CEO's salary we are talking about, its scale is related to fiscal year net profit. So did the merge and close down process also cost annual profit to drop a lot? I imaging it would, since there would be a lot of write-off.