| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 12:33 am 
There is interest in having a contest to find out who can get the largest market value out of a FOOD corp in a set amount of time.
The entry fee will be 500b in game cash. Winner takes all. The contest will run for 3 real months to begin next Friday July 4th at 07:00 am Eastern Standard Time (New York time) and ending at 06:59 am on Friday September 5th (same time zone)
Each contestant will be starting from scratch, THE SAME state run FOOD corp. Every player will be allowed to vote on which corp we all will build. The corporation choices to vote on are below.
When the contest begins, each contestant will start from scratch, the chosen FOOD corp in one of their countries, (Preferably your main to avoid any loss due to wars).
This corp will be started as a state owned corp.
It may not be a CEO corp unless it has been IPO'd AFTER it reaches 200b in market value.
Until it reaches 200B in market value it must remain a state run corp.
You may nationalize it to protect it from hostile bidders, (anybody that hostiles a food corp needs their head examined anyway).
After it reaches 200b in market value, you are free to IPO it and either take it private with a CEO (You must declare which ceo is getting it beforehand), or you may take it public as a country controlled public corporation or a ceo controlled public corporation as long as the controller is declared beforehand.
Any changes in control of the corp due to share sales needs to be announced as it happens.
The entity (CEO or country) that is the controller of the corp may NOT have another of the same type of corporation in it's control during this competition. This will be an automatic disqualification and your entry fee won't be refunded.
The choices for FOOD corp type to vote on are these 6:
1) Bread
2) Eggs
3) Fish
4) Milk
5) Rice
6) Vegetables
They are all in shortages presently on WG. It won't be difficult to get them profitable.
The most votes tallied by the entrants for what corp to build will be declared the corp for all of us to build and manage.
Please post your name in this thread if you are interested or have any questions or concerns.
T. |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 12:38 am
The corporation with the highest MARKET VALUE will be declared the winner and the pot will be the reward. It's a winner take all pot. 2nd place is just the first loser.
T |
| Christopher Ameche (Golden Rainbow) | Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 01:36 am
what about other food products huh smarty:P |
| Phatz (White Giant) | Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 02:07 am
Other Food Products has almost 1000 corps making it, so it would already be in many peoples' countries.
Rice with 129 corps and Eggs with 74 corps may not work well since both are close to meeting world demand and adding 10-20 corps for the competition would drive them to be unprofitable. |
| josias jorvick (White Giant) | Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 02:11 am
OFP is a winner corp type, it would kinda defeat the purpose, don't you think def?
and the point of this it making an unprofitable corps profitable...
i'm in this, i'll vote later as to what i want |
| Victor Von Doom (White Giant) | Sunday, June 29, 2008 - 07:05 am
I guess this is an okay idea I don't think I'll join. In Latveria I do have a vegetable corp that is worth 400 B so it is possible, however my food corps in DOOM Enterprises are less well off  .
Have fun guys  |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Monday, June 30, 2008 - 05:46 am
Well I cast my vote for either FISH, MILK, or VEGETABLES.
I don't really care to be honest but would prefer any of those.
T |
| TattooedPriest (Golden Rainbow) | Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 08:43 pm
I don't care either, but I like fish. So lets go with fish. |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 07:06 am
How does FISH smell, er sound, to you guys? |
| josias jorvick (White Giant) | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 09:25 am
thing about fish, milk and veggies, i know they can all be winners, i've tries them in the past, what were the other choices? |
| josias jorvick (White Giant) | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 09:27 am
i guess my choices would be bread or rice, the point of this contest is to go for something that doesn't "win," and make it a winner... |
| josias jorvick (White Giant) | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 10:04 am
eggs? eggs are my choice, i'm always the odd guy out, but as far as i can tell eggs are a big loser, lets go for that...
my official vote is eggs!!! |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 09:30 pm
ok we have 2 fish and one eggs vote....anyone else? |
| John R | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 09:56 pm
I vote for bananas. ;-P
Just kidding. I'm going to join this and my vote goes for Fish. I like fish. Specially tuna. I'm going to start a poll to implement Tuna corps. |
| Christopher Ameche (Golden Rainbow) | Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 10:37 pm
TUNA? TUNA? You can't handle the TUNA!:P
I'll vote for fish. I guess other food products will just be my mistress for now. |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 12:13 am
ok 4 fish and one eggs. We have the makings of a nice fish omelet. yummy......Just think of the protein.
Any more votes? You guys have til 07:00 tomorrow morning to cast the vote. Friday morning the contest begins.
T |
| Christopher Ameche (White Giant) | Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 12:37 am
Let the fishiness begin!!!!!! |
| Christopher Ameche (White Giant) | Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 12:38 am
I think we should raise the stakes tho, 500B is chump change. |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 01:02 am
Well it's more for posterity and bragging rights really. The kitty is just icing. |
| Ron McBride (White Giant) | Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 01:13 pm
Hey what the heck I guess I am in as well... But something sure smells fishy around here...
Ron |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 12:04 am
Ok guys......here we go,
The Corporation to build is FISH. It must be built in one of your countries as a state owned corporation. You may build it anytime after 07:00 eastern standard time on the 4th.
Please post in this thread your name, country it is built in and the corp name. I will contact all participants for their part of the pot.
Good luck to all.
T. |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 12:06 am
Once we get all the participants, I will start a new thread with everyone on the list and use that thread for stat and record keeping.
T |
| Iceberg Slim (Golden Rainbow) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 12:12 am
rgr that wishbone, ducka*uck out. |
| Iceberg Slim (Golden Rainbow) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 12:13 am
How's that for code names ;) |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 12:17 am
nice...lmao |
| Iceberg Slim (Golden Rainbow) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 12:18 am
:P |
| josias jorvick (White Giant) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 05:30 am
ok here's a silly question, how do i give 500b to some one? |
| Iceberg Slim (Golden Rainbow) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 05:37 am
Osmosis. |
| John R | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 11:20 am
You don't.
What some people may be thinking is that a GC will be offered for each of us and we'll bid 500B on it.
No. That's wrong. Instead of giving 500B, we would be buying the GC for 500B.
What should be done, and it better be so, is that we'll each buy a GC from Treas for its Market Value + 500B. Then, we would be buying the GC and giving the 500B (the competition fee).
Not sure how much a GC is worth now... but I bet its worth 600B. |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 01:56 pm
Right. Man, you guys think too much. John is right. I will pay one coin for 1T, then turn around and sell you a coin for 500b. This way, we all get our coin back as well. The only thing you will be less is the 500b entry.
That will pay your entrance and the winner gets the whole pot. I will post all transactions for public record.
T |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 01:59 pm
Ok it is now 07:30. The contest began 30 minutes ago. Build your FISH corp. I have decided to build in a slave because I have worker shortages in my main. It has been ordered in Treasorium.
I may have to buy wp to protect the slave for the 3 months.
T |
| Iceberg Slim (White Giant) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 06:58 pm
AWWWW phuck....i slept in:P ill build it now |
| Ms Claws (White Giant) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 08:36 pm
You just gotta call it the Food Fight |
| sfo Treasurer (White Giant) | Friday, July 4, 2008 - 09:47 pm
LMAO Claws.....definitely!!!!!! |
| TattooedPriest (White Giant) | Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 01:05 am
Tattooed Priest, Tribute, Fish A001 |
| Iceberg Slim (White Giant) | Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 01:18 am
Camp Butler MCB
STFU Dumb Fishies.
It's on.
Slim. |
| josias jorvick (White Giant) | Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 02:48 am
"Thanks for all the Fish"
in jackson
very cool, lets make some money |
| Phatz (White Giant) | Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 06:54 am
What the heck, count me in. I'll be a day behind so I'll have to hustle.
Fish n Chips
in Trinity |
| josias jorvick (White Giant) | Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 08:17 am
its a three month contest, i don't think a day or 2 will matter, welcome aboard |
| Phatz (White Giant) | Sunday, July 6, 2008 - 05:30 am
Started it in Nueces, instead.
Fish n Chips |
