The very proftable GM corporations

In the gamedocumentation it says the following about purchasing the GM corporations:
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The "Gamemaster Corporations Enterprise" has many high value corporations that can be purchased at a low price. Many of these corporations are very profitable or can easily become profitable if handled correctly.
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Firstly, by 'low price' this apparantly means you don't pay the mark-up that you do when you purchase other corporations. But there is no option to buy GM corporations at 'low price'. Minimum price is the company value. Fair and square maybe, but the text is then misleading.

Secondly, I fail to find those many very proftable corporations. Looking at perhaps 20, I found 2 or 3 that produced a profit at all. And I also found that the profitable corporations all had high prices. Makes sense, but it's not like you can buy a corporation for few money and make a small profit. Sort of all of the GM corporations I saw below 700B make no profit.

Thirdly, what can easily be done to make them profitable? Some of them can be upgraded a bit, but all are allready at 300 salary and probably running at max production for the country they are in. And upgrading, as you know costs quite a bit.

What else can 'easily' be done?

Having recently started an enterprise, I could see no use of buying GM corporations compared to simply building a new one.

You have to consider it costs 100B to build a new corp so any GM corps within that range is a fair price. Also if you tak a look you'll see alot of them are fully upgraded. Not sure how much it costs to fully upgrade a corp but it's a good few billion.

The main benefit from buying GM corps is the speed you can build an enterprise. If you have the cash you'll be able to bid on 6 corps several times per game month.

Not really.

I just set up a new corporation. It cost me 55B. Add to that 200 upgrades @ app. 200M = app 40B.

So in fact the total tally just for the purchase is only 100B.

You might want to add the losses endured by the corporation while it upgrades.

But even with that, you'll never arrive at something like the 700 to 800B which is the lowest cost of any actually profitable GM company.

So my question still remains: why would one ever want to buy a GM corporation instead of build ones own?

The only reason I can see is if you're a very impatient person.

That's got nothing to do with being a good businessman, though.

buying gm corps is folly usually.....although there are some very low MV corps out there that you can buy upgrade and wait for MV to increase

I am new and have bought all GM's. I have of course looked at saleries of the corps in countries and have lowered mine to comete with others. My main problem is material cost. I am spending per corp twice the amount as Market price due to demand. Are ther any countries or enterprises that trade by contract one on one? I only have three corps in the enterprise and am trying to figure this out but I am losing due to cost of materials purchased. Any advse on what to do?

Well it used to be 100B per new corp. I haven't bothered to check lately.

I told you the main advantage is speed of build. It's nothing to do with being a good buisnessman jeez. It's a game. If you wanna catch up with the players who've been here longer then that's a way to do it. Im an impatient person so it's perfect for me. When you've played this game as long as I have I dont even bother with the micromanagement. I'd say your to caught up in every little detail sbroccoli judging from your posts.

cchadwick76 you'll need to build more than 3 ceo corps if you wanna make good money. Stay away from products in surplus. I'd suggest you focus your builds on HTS,Construction,Services, Military services, FMU's to name a few.