Add the ability to turn off the stock market using a script for the first few years.
At the start of the game, the value of a company's shares is the amount of net money of these companies, excluding their future earnings. This leads to the fact that the purchase brings huge profits, which is not entirely realistic. Plus, the shares of profitable companies after a while no longer have free circulation and they have to be bought out several times more expensive. The disabled ability to buy shares will give time for these shares to approximately correspond to their real value.
Stock market
Re: Stock market
There is this way you can play once you start up with maximum amount of cash and your competitor with low cash for fun. Then you can cheaply buy some of the 2 or 3 Retail focused AI stocks. They always 10$ at the start and depending on settings you are guarantee to have them at more than 50 or 100 at the end of year 1 or 2.
You can borrow money to the bank at 10% interest no problem, just buy more of the AI stocks.
Usually i try to keep my total debt to the bank in check with the money i would receive from an IPO or 20% of the company. You can borrow way more money than what is cost-efficient.
Dont IPO too early though depending on how the AI retail are performing you can wait 3 years before doing so.
Goal is to take control of some company, 50.10% is enough to set the dividend to 60%.
If you can't get at least 1 of the retail company at 50.10% it's a failure, but if you bought 20 or 25% of the 2 or 3 retail AI you can always decide to sell the participations in all but 1 to achieve your goal.
With a bit of practice while keeping the same starting settings, you learn to buy slow enough to not inflate the price too much, but not too slow so that you make the more money out of their growth and gain control of 55% share of all retail focused company, and set them all with a 60% dividend. To make sure you do not cripple only your possesion with something like 90%
.while leaving their competitor untouched.
If you want the more growth in net worth The stock market allow you to order the stock by price of 1 share. That is a very powerful tool to exploit the mechanically-induced increase in AI stock price. The 3 company you own 20-50% of should be in the top 4 most valuable, because 1 is you and the others are ALWAYS the retail focused one at the beginning of the game. You can sell some of those stocks to buy into the other companies that are still around 8 to 15$ per share.( say you got 55% but the AI bought back shares now you have 56.2%, just sell 5% if share went from 10=>100 you would get your initial money back to do the trick to another company) .Those that are "diversified" don't buy tech company, too early, no media focused one, too chaotic, no real estate focused, too slow, only exception could be another stock focused company that happens to have picked well its initial investment in other Retail company like you for example.
The look of the graph of every "diversifed" company is very similar the first years. It's flat at 8to 15$ until they start producing in their first factory the product from their field of expertise. Then it increases very fast before it reach a phase where it relates with the size of the market for that field of expertise and the amount of competitors in that specific field. In order to maximize net worth value of the company you need to sell stocks that reach that phase because there is no more crazy growth potential. With the money you get you buy stocks that are 20 to 50$ . Rince and repeat.
The Retail AI always boom very early on compared to other AI that need R&D or setting up factory. And then the Retail AI stocks stabilize or decrease. This behavior consistently repeats and is an exploitable artefact in the model which would be supressed by a script that would turn off the stock martet the first few year which is why i like the suggestion as it sound simple and adress totally the matter.
Several followings moves are possible after the iniital capital leverage despite not building anything. One can open 20% of the capital of the company for massive amount of cash and repay the debt clean. It happened to me to get 2 billions out of the initial public offer after 2 years of doing nothing except investing in retail focused ai stock right at the start of the game and borrow money to the bank for it.
Now if you have 2 billions you can only repay 1 billion of debt and go for whatever you want as a regular game. You can choose to repay as much debt as required so that the dividend of the company you own 50%+ will roughly pay for the interest.
If you want operationnal control of industy It's decently easy to enter a sector where your rival has to pay 90% dividend, during the previously mentionned operation, you can retain 55% ownership of the Diversifed AI that share your desired field of expertise. Then cripple them with dividend. This will allow to start in 1990's the stock market game, and by 1995 2000 you can convert to industry that are slow to start with a frozen competitor.
Instead of always buying cheap stocks and selling them high. One can try to get 50.10% ownership of as many corporation as possible before the prices are too high because all public stocks are gone. With 40 competitors on 8 cities, one can get 10 to 30 or so company with 50%+ ownership and ridiculous dividend. Yielding billions each january 3rd. sometimes tens of billions ! But this also means you would need to sell the earlier booming company stock amongst which are sometimes the biggest in the long run if you don't cripple them with dividend. And you can't have enough money available at the correct timing to buy all company that are booming making it a challenge to choose priority;
My personnal favourite is to continue buying cheap stock of company that do not yet produce in their field of expertise and are about to do so and sell them once their price stabilize until the game reach the phase of the products such as tablet computers. In this phase the companies "Tech Focused" start to produce something highly technological compared to the more classic "diversified AI". Those are the last AI to follow the pattern of havng them stock predictibly increasing. This means no dividend early on as trying to get 50% is not the goal, just buy what you can when you see the stock price is about to increase, and sell all when you need cash for another one of those company with better potential, very easy to see when you order stock by price in the market. Then keep 50%+ of only the latest to emerge companies, for product like smartphones or along the way, something like 30% of the only/leading car manufacturer or Drug seller, whatever market looks like it has the least competition and the most margin.
During all this you don't build any single firm and have 0 employee all along, most of the time you can put maximum speed, yet you can end up the richest in the list by 2000 !
The stock market is a source of loophole in real life too so maybe this is working as intended I have used sometime ago a script to prevent me from building any firms the first few years, if there was the same for the stock market i would use it.
You can borrow money to the bank at 10% interest no problem, just buy more of the AI stocks.
Usually i try to keep my total debt to the bank in check with the money i would receive from an IPO or 20% of the company. You can borrow way more money than what is cost-efficient.
Dont IPO too early though depending on how the AI retail are performing you can wait 3 years before doing so.
Goal is to take control of some company, 50.10% is enough to set the dividend to 60%.
If you can't get at least 1 of the retail company at 50.10% it's a failure, but if you bought 20 or 25% of the 2 or 3 retail AI you can always decide to sell the participations in all but 1 to achieve your goal.
With a bit of practice while keeping the same starting settings, you learn to buy slow enough to not inflate the price too much, but not too slow so that you make the more money out of their growth and gain control of 55% share of all retail focused company, and set them all with a 60% dividend. To make sure you do not cripple only your possesion with something like 90%
.while leaving their competitor untouched.If you want the more growth in net worth The stock market allow you to order the stock by price of 1 share. That is a very powerful tool to exploit the mechanically-induced increase in AI stock price. The 3 company you own 20-50% of should be in the top 4 most valuable, because 1 is you and the others are ALWAYS the retail focused one at the beginning of the game. You can sell some of those stocks to buy into the other companies that are still around 8 to 15$ per share.( say you got 55% but the AI bought back shares now you have 56.2%, just sell 5% if share went from 10=>100 you would get your initial money back to do the trick to another company) .Those that are "diversified" don't buy tech company, too early, no media focused one, too chaotic, no real estate focused, too slow, only exception could be another stock focused company that happens to have picked well its initial investment in other Retail company like you for example.
The look of the graph of every "diversifed" company is very similar the first years. It's flat at 8to 15$ until they start producing in their first factory the product from their field of expertise. Then it increases very fast before it reach a phase where it relates with the size of the market for that field of expertise and the amount of competitors in that specific field. In order to maximize net worth value of the company you need to sell stocks that reach that phase because there is no more crazy growth potential. With the money you get you buy stocks that are 20 to 50$ . Rince and repeat.
The Retail AI always boom very early on compared to other AI that need R&D or setting up factory. And then the Retail AI stocks stabilize or decrease. This behavior consistently repeats and is an exploitable artefact in the model which would be supressed by a script that would turn off the stock martet the first few year which is why i like the suggestion as it sound simple and adress totally the matter.
Several followings moves are possible after the iniital capital leverage despite not building anything. One can open 20% of the capital of the company for massive amount of cash and repay the debt clean. It happened to me to get 2 billions out of the initial public offer after 2 years of doing nothing except investing in retail focused ai stock right at the start of the game and borrow money to the bank for it.
Now if you have 2 billions you can only repay 1 billion of debt and go for whatever you want as a regular game. You can choose to repay as much debt as required so that the dividend of the company you own 50%+ will roughly pay for the interest.
If you want operationnal control of industy It's decently easy to enter a sector where your rival has to pay 90% dividend, during the previously mentionned operation, you can retain 55% ownership of the Diversifed AI that share your desired field of expertise. Then cripple them with dividend. This will allow to start in 1990's the stock market game, and by 1995 2000 you can convert to industry that are slow to start with a frozen competitor.
Instead of always buying cheap stocks and selling them high. One can try to get 50.10% ownership of as many corporation as possible before the prices are too high because all public stocks are gone. With 40 competitors on 8 cities, one can get 10 to 30 or so company with 50%+ ownership and ridiculous dividend. Yielding billions each january 3rd. sometimes tens of billions ! But this also means you would need to sell the earlier booming company stock amongst which are sometimes the biggest in the long run if you don't cripple them with dividend. And you can't have enough money available at the correct timing to buy all company that are booming making it a challenge to choose priority;
My personnal favourite is to continue buying cheap stock of company that do not yet produce in their field of expertise and are about to do so and sell them once their price stabilize until the game reach the phase of the products such as tablet computers. In this phase the companies "Tech Focused" start to produce something highly technological compared to the more classic "diversified AI". Those are the last AI to follow the pattern of havng them stock predictibly increasing. This means no dividend early on as trying to get 50% is not the goal, just buy what you can when you see the stock price is about to increase, and sell all when you need cash for another one of those company with better potential, very easy to see when you order stock by price in the market. Then keep 50%+ of only the latest to emerge companies, for product like smartphones or along the way, something like 30% of the only/leading car manufacturer or Drug seller, whatever market looks like it has the least competition and the most margin
.During all this you don't build any single firm and have 0 employee all along, most of the time you can put maximum speed, yet you can end up the richest in the list by 2000 !
The stock market is a source of loophole in real life too so maybe this is working as intended
I have used sometime ago a script to prevent me from building any firms the first few years, if there was the same for the stock market i would use it.