Buyout Car Companies

[09webbad]

I don't think it works like that Flaxix...

[WizzyThaMan]

Personally I think it is better to fix this company stocks and buying shares should be kept simple at first, so we can have different difficulties and simulation settings where players who want to have a bit more simple gameplay can choose to buy company shares with 25% at a time (like in TTDLX/OpenTTD) and more advanced economics when players want that, including previous named things like selling stocks to get money for the company, but investors having a say in certain actions you take (risky actions might cause an investor to leave your company, and thus letting you go bankrupt maybe?)

So in short, simple and advanced setting perhaps? With simple being the first way to go to get the tycoon part up and running?

[fordford]

@wizzythaman agreed. ultimately id like to see the same complexity as capitalism 2 though.

[WizzyThaMan]

Not sure if that would fit the game though... depends on a lot of things, but mostly I think it is key to keep manufacturing cars in mind as a priority as the developers aren't making a marketing game to teach you how to read markets as a first thing, I guess.

[Ryan]

You could end up with a company like the VAG group, or maybe split with two halves like Toyota & Lexus?

My first thoughts were of the stocks in Capitalism 2

[Daffyflyer]

There will be a stock market system for sure, how complex it will be I don't yet know.

You will be able to run multiple brands like Toyota and Lexus under the same company, they'll share a lot of things but have somewhat separate reputations with customers, so if you start making bad Toyotas you won't entirely ruin Lexus.

Coop will always be an option in Multiplayer, like the Anno series you'll just be able to have additional people join a company, or start their own company. Coop teams would share control over a company, and might want to do things like have one of the players in charge of running the european market and one the US market, although that won't be enforced by the game.

[Mergelsberg]

just to make this clear we can own more than one company right?

I'm not sure, you'll definitely be able to have more than one brand under one company, but how owning two companies would work I'm not sure.

I suppose you could make it so that when the player company goes public, it becomes a holding company with a division in it. That division is the old company with the brands that go with that company. If the player then buys out another company, that company becomes a new division within the player's holding company. That way the player only ever has to control one holding company entity and from a 'database' point of view it's a simple structure of repeating groups.

As far as a controlling stake goes, I prefer the option for a simplified version like in TTDX where the company can't just be bought out from under you, potentially ruining a good game because you made one silly mistake. That said I certainly wouldn't object to the option of a more hardcore stock market where you can lose it all at the click of a button. I'd just prefer it to be player choice. If there isn't a player choice, I'd prefer a simplified version, fun over realism for me.