Capitalism 2 and Capitalism Lab Forum

So a few MINOR things are starting to annoy me:

1. The lack of alphabetization in Corporate Detains/Stocks/Personal Report screen, however, the human player company in corporate details should come first.
2. The same people in almost every game has the same expertise level. Can this be randomized?
3. When I hire an executive if they already own stocks they start selling all of their stocks in every other company, even when they don't need to, because you hired them. This goes against sound financial advice and isn't reality based. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/lawrencelig ... bc5307168b) - When a see a skilled executive whose net worth is one billion dollars and see that they own stock in three companies and have mansions I feel like that it is a positive things. The fact that they are willing to accept a job and earn a salary even though they're set for life is very realistic, but just because you are employed by a company doesn't mean you have to divest your personal stocks. This is not a big deal but has began to annoy me. Every time I hire an exec they just sell their stock it doesn't make any sense.

So these are not mission critical of course but I have found that these little things have began to annoy me after multiple games and tons of hours.

yup point 1 and 2 i totally agree alphabetically would be nice and change of ppl / skills as well. always the ugly guys have the best skills



3. does not go against sound financial advice and is very reality based

a executive member of a company / member of the board can not have an interest conflict and therefore is usualle probhibited to have investments in any other companies then the one you are exec in. there are very few exeptions to it, because your judgement will be inaccurate as you might make decisions in favour of another company you got shares off.

of course this "Conflict of duty and interest" rule can be overwritten by the company itself but you would have to declare conflict of interest whenever it arrises. this rule is so strictly enforced that, even where the conflict of interest or conflict of duty is purely hypothetical ... see here ...


"A corporate body can only act by agents, and it is, of course, the duty of those agents so to act as best to promote the interests of the corporation whose affairs they are conducting. Such agents have duties to discharge of a fiduciary nature towards their principal. And it is a rule of universal application that no one, having such duties to discharge, shall be allowed to enter into engagements in which he has, or can have, a personal interest conflicting or which possibly may conflict, with the interests of those whom he is bound to protect... So strictly is this principle adhered to that no question is allowed to be raised as to the fairness or unfairness of the contract entered into..."

so if the AI C-suite is selling all their stocks of all the other companies on hire, they doing themself a favour as breaking business laws is worse then murder.

anjali wrote: "A corporate body can only act by agents, and it is, of course, the duty of those agents so to act as best to promote the interests of the corporation whose affairs they are conducting. Such agents have duties to discharge of a fiduciary nature towards their principal. And it is a rule of universal application that no one, having such duties to discharge, shall be allowed to enter into engagements in which he has, or can have, a personal interest conflicting or which possibly may conflict, with the interests of those whom he is bound to protect... So strictly is this principle adhered to that no question is allowed to be raised as to the fairness or unfairness of the contract entered into..."

so if the AI C-suite is selling all their stocks of all the other companies on hire, they doing themself a favour as breaking business laws is worse then murder.

Makes sense.

Let's add when using the User-Defined Layout Plans for Live Stock firms it starts producing say Eggs though I actually want to choose Chicken. I would like for just the layout and have it wait until I defined what I want to produce. The way the factory layout plans work seems to have the perfect balance from a usability/flexibility standpoint and should be implemented to work the same way in all firms.