| jdlech | Sunday, December 20, 2015 - 03:10 pm 
I hope everyone speaks hypothetical, because I'll be speaking it freely here.
I understand that a company's product quality is stuck at 200 as long as the owner has 25% or more of its shares.
So let's say I have a company I've IPOd and own less than 25%. I then upgrade the Q to the maximum. (BTW, what is the maximum product Q for such a company?)
Then I buy back shares, which puts my ownership at 25% or more?
What would happen to the product Q?
Can I keep the Q?
Does it drop back to 200? Instantly or slowly?3
Will it rain frogs and locusts in my nation for 3 days or will I get a visit from 3 guys in ill fitting, black suits? |
| jdlech | Sunday, December 20, 2015 - 04:47 pm
Nobody speak hypothetical? |
| Aries | Sunday, December 20, 2015 - 06:41 pm
You are talking about product process quality. This is a different thing than the quality of a product. You are also talking about a state corp, as private corps can upgrade their process to 225 before looking at going public. A public corp can upgrade their process to a max of 200, if owned by a state, 225, if owned by an enterprise, or 250, if the controlling entity owns less than 25% of shares.
Something you may not know is that corporations upgrade their process buying purchasing products, specifically, advanced effectivity Products and advanced quality Products. If you browse through the cash flow section of fully upgraded corps, you will see some fully upgraded corps recently show an expense in "Upgrades Bought", meaning they just purchased more upgrades. If you check your corp list under "upgrades" you will also see some previously fully upgraded corps with upgrades on order. All of this is because the process level of corps decay. This is done to maintain a more predictable demand for upgrade products. If you upgrade to a level achievable only through having a "truly" public corp, what occurs is that you are simply unable to order more upgrades and your upgrade level will decay to levels more common with the corporation's ownership type. |
| jdlech | Monday, December 21, 2015 - 07:20 pm
Thanks.
That's everything I needed to know.
Happy Holidays.
j |
