Makeing money

is thair a way to buy corps and strip them of thair products, suplys, and cash then close them when the debt is ran up?

The debt will just transfer to the enterprise or country.

While we're on the topic of making money...

For Enterprises:
I am finding it very difficult to make a profit. I chose industries with products in extreme shortages. I have invested in upgrades, messed with prices, performed strategy buying, raised salaries, etc. In the past three days, my enterprise has lost $0.17T without me spending any of that money. Yes, I've had to do transfers for upgrades, but the .17T does not account for that. My enterprise only has .07T left in cash.

Some corps make some profit, but all in all, I am netting a negative balance.

On a positive note, my share portfolio of other corporations has almost doubled in value.

I am guessing you are posting this b/c you are facing serious debt. I know this thread belongs in the help section, but I would like to get a discussion going on the dos and don'ts of corporation building for enterprises specifically. I realize there are guides to this, but none of that seems to be relevant to the current market situation. I know I am not the only one suffering with enterprise building. Loads of enterprises are carrying extreme debts or are worth absolutely nothing. This is happening to many new to moderate players in the enterprises.

To The Vets:
If you were starting out today, having never played the game before [as in no SC experience], do you think you would be able to sustain, let alone profit, in the enterprise you start? If so, how would you do just that given the current world market, especially on LU?
[I have no clue what the other world markets are like.]

Countries are challenging to run, but far easier to keep afloat, considering you have many enterprise corporations providing a solid source of revenue. In contrast, corporations of enterprises seem very difficult, especially at this time [presuming that enterprise building was easier in the past].

The problem with these corporations is that the welfare index is under 100%.
It means that with 100% hiring, they produce at 98% while the could produce at 115% or higher.

this is because of conditions in the country.
probably bad health care, or social security etc.
or maybe these countries have sold population.

Okay, thank you. I'll try moving some of my corporations into player-owned countries w/ low taxes and see how I do. And, I'll start paying attention to those stats from now on.

Andy, if this is the case as you say, then hows about improving C3 welfare to a minimum of 100.
They seem to average around 85% at the moment. Thats no good for CEOs building in them or countries that get de-regged with CEO corps in them. Hey, we have to put up with 30% tax as it is.

So what do you say...increased welfare for C3s???

you have a point Crafty.

I am looking into improving initialization condition in C3s right now, I will add this too.

The timing is excellent.

I like this idea as a CEO also i find building in c3's currently less profitable, which is why i never or try not to build in c'3s this will help alot and will help enterprises expand.

jhgrant


Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 07:53 am
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While we're on the topic of making money...

For Enterprises:
I am finding it very difficult to make a profit. I chose industries with products in extreme shortages. I have invested in upgrades, messed with prices, performed strategy buying, raised salaries, etc. In the past three days, my enterprise has lost $0.17T without me spending any of that money. Yes, I've had to do transfers for upgrades, but the .17T does not account for that. My enterprise only has .07T left in cash.

Some corps make some profit, but all in all, I am netting a negative balance.

On a positive note, my share portfolio of other corporations has almost doubled in value.

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If your value has doubled but you are facing cash shortages try some IPO's as a way to bring in some cash, when ever i have low cash i find some corporations i can ipo as a second way of bringing in cash.

Great news.

Thank you Andy.