Hostile bidder (White Giant)

Can someone please explain here why you don't just go around and buying more shares of public corporations than the major shareholder. One badly failing "newb" (have I been around here long enough to use that epitaph?) took one of my favourite corps and can't seem to understand why it is wrong.

poor etiquette.
waist of a work force for the country when the corporation is public and held by a foriegn enterprise.
the action in not desired, thus hostile.

Often leads to hostile reaction.

CEO's rely on the hospitality of player presidents.

can i point out, that the only hostile reaction left to us is to rant, uselessly. we just don't have the tools available to us to do more.

that considered, you'd be better off to not sell off enough shares that some one can do this. its the only thing you can do, to prevent it.

hostile bidders will fall by waist side like pigs an vanish from annals of sim country book of life im writing saint augustine give hostile bidder prochecy of doom an gloom no more mention an blot out of the sun of simcountry book of life

Saint Augustine
forumly known as LH
Underworld God

need a boycott option.
goto war if he owns a country.
atleast smear the name. :P

Urian Corporation committed the first offence, and now Karnage has just put a bid on one of my corps...that's two. On the first one, though it was expensive and made no economic sense, I renationalized it. On the second...well, he has a corp in my country, so I'm nationalizing that. Fair trade?

Fair trade, but a privately held corp will make more profit for you than a nationalized or state corp. This is why you asked for CEO's in your country to begin with, isn't it?

Quite different from buying control of a public corp.

At any rate if you want us out, just increase your tax and block CEO's.

Edit: Mine is also not hostile, I would retract if asked.

What's this? You bid on Chulabhorn pharmaceuticals? It doesn't matter what sort of benefits I would potentially get, it would be proper to ask first.

Forgive me... may I?
It's theese darn requirements, see..

seriously

its obvious you dont own a company in real life or if you do you'll be standing in the unemployment line soon. you never sell more than 49 % of any companies shares if you want control of it. the so called newb schooled you thats the way business works and your here calling him a newb you made the newbyest move ever. not to be mean but think about it, then your compounding it by complaining in a public forum and telling every ceo that you dont maintain enough shares in your public companies to keep contrl thus painting a giant bullseye on all your remaing public companies by advertising they are ripe for a cheap takeover. this is a business simulation its a dog eat dog world you got ate. learn from your mistake and put on some big boy pants and move along you made a newb mistake and a so called newb by you, schooled you on how the world really works. colonal mustard called he said get a clue

sorry bout the tough love but blame no one but yourself

*sighs*

westy, seriously?

hey, its a new sim era. with free accounts, and war levels, and every body, can do anything they want, behave any way they want, and no one can stop them. if you don't want to loose share control, to the dozen newbs that are buying all the shares they can, so that they can get enough corps to level up... then don't offer enough stock on the world market to make it possible.

thats the new friendly and safe environment that every one wanted. no one can do anything to any one else. lol.

seriously, i lost 50 corps in a single country. i politely asked a player to sell down shares of a corp they gained control of. and i really was polite. the player responded by buying every corp in that country he could, and relocated them. just because i asked him not to buy my shares. i didn't come to the forum comlaining about it. i made game adjustments. i mean i was making tons of money off of controling those corps with 1% shares. but then had to rebuild the whole thing. not worth it. and nothing i can do to counter it, just not allow it to happen... so time to readjust my strat.

every one, get used to it. unless the GM step in to do something...and we can still fight from just C3s while our empires are in war protection... to give you a hint of how fast this might be fixed...

lol maybe I should stop buying shares then?

"not particularly, just got money to burn and not payin much attention to what i am doin"

A quote from a current hostile bidder.

What shall I do?

@ Synicus

"a privately held corp will make more profit for you than a nationalized or state corp".

Says who?

Says the decider! ;)

That'll be my states then

Owner few shares in a public corp has the benefit of upgrades...which, "westy", I might point out is another feature that separates this game from real life corporation holding.