| Daniel Iceling | Thursday, May 3, 2018 - 06:17 pm 
I agree with Andy,
To provide further details. Each Enterprise is limited in how many Corporations it can Build, Relocate, or Bid on, in a single country. Once this limit has been reached, an Enterprise can not build a new Corporation in that Country, can not Relocate an existing Corporation to that Country, and can not Bid on a Corporation based in that Country. However an Enterprise is still allowed to buy shares in any Public Corporation (Corporation that has been IPOed), even when that Corporation is based in a Country, where the CEO has already reached the cap.
Additionally, the cap is set for each Enterprise, not for each CEO. This means that if you have 2 Enterprises on the same world, the second Enterprise can still Build, Relate, Bid on, Corporations in a Country, where your first Enterprise has already reached the cap.
The current level of the cap, is 20 Corporations per Country, if the Enterprise is controlled by the same player as the Country. However if the Enterprise, and the Country are controlled by different players, then the cap is 6 Corporations per Country.
These caps exist for two main reasons.
The cap on Enterprises having Corps in Countries controlled by the same player, is there to prevent players from exploiting the bonuses provided to CEO Corps. Without the cap, a player could have an Enterprise run all their Corps in their Country, that are in practice State Corps, laundered through the Enterprise, to make them look like they are genuinely private Corps. Exploiting a game loop hole, making large amounts of money, at zero risk.
The cap on Enterprises having Corps in Countries controlled by another player. Is there to prevent a powerful and rich CEO, taking total control of the economy of another player's country. Leaving the President at the complete mercy of the veteran CEO.
In short, the caps are in place for a good reason. And if anything, allowing players to use their Enterprise to control 20 "Private" Corporations (really State Corporations just shuffled through their Enterprise, so they get all the bonuses for being private, when they are actually completely State controlled). Is already ridiculously generous, considering the limit for people who aren't using this exploit, is only 6 Corps per Country (as it should be, more would make Presidents far too dependent on a single CEO).
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