Poll: removing the restrictions on the minimum number of shares outstanding, and certain SEC regulations

[David]

What are your opinions about the suggestion of removing the restrictions on the minimum number of shares outstanding, and SEC regulations prohibiting certain trades?

Note that the SEC regulations now currently only enforced when the "Alternative Stock Sim" option on the "Environment" page of the New game settings menu is enabled.

This is the original user post that suggests making the changes:

Consider removing the restrictions on the minimum number of shares outstanding, and SEC regulations prohibiting certain trades. It doesn't really add anything positive to the game, and they aren't realistic restrictions anyway. You can't buy back shares for example if the share count goes below 1m on a 1-for-10 reverse split. There is no reason to have a mandatory 1-for-10 reverse split as well. The player should be able to buy shares in other companies which the player's corporation has shares in, and you should be able to direct your listed subsidiaries to buy back their own stock without restriction as well.

To see the original user post: http://www.capitalism2.com/forum/viewto ... 044#p29050

[buells]

Could you just break the Alternative Stock Sim into 2 parts? It is REALLY annoying having to sell all my subsidiary's stock at a discount to market and then buy it back from another private investor at a huge premium to market when I want to acquire somebody or consolidate my stake.

[David]

Could you just break the Alternative Stock Sim into 2 parts? It is REALLY annoying having to sell all my subsidiary's stock at a discount to market and then buy it back from another private investor at a huge premium to market when I want to acquire somebody or consolidate my stake.

What if you just turn off the Alternative Stock Sim mode to disable the SEC regulations? Are there any downsides to that in your game?

[David]

The Stock Split function has been implemented in the latest version 6.2.00. You may download it from http://www.capitalism2.com/forum/viewto ... =52&t=7160

I believe that it will reduce the need for removing the restrictions on the minimum number of shares outstanding. As the player can now split its corporate stock to increase the total number of shares. What do you think?