Merge Options

[counting]

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.

[Cassius]

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.

[counting]

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).

[greene345]

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.