Milarqui
Deity
Introduction
In this world of Terra, the peoples try to go on with their lives after the 8-year-long Great War that ended 2 years ago. This is a world that knows about nuclear weapons, but never has one been fired. This is a world where four political blocs dominate the scene, attempting to make the most of the situation. 12 great nations dispute for power in Terra. The technology is similar to that of our world in the 1950s.
It is in one of this nations, Noropini, where this game is set. Being a nation where, fortunately, no battle was fought, it is nonetheless in a state of disrepair due to the bombardments done on their territory. The government has thus decided, through a series of laws, to promote the creation of Corporations, led by private individuals, so that they start to organise the recovery of the industry of the nation, as well as to give jobs to all the soldiers that fought in the war and then came back.
You, the player, are one of these corporations. Your task is, from a small-sized company, manage to create the greatest corporation ever through means of trade, deal, publicity and research. You will have to deal with other companies, your workers and the shareholders so that they work next to you. You will also have to play on the stock market in order to gain more benefits, to gain control of other companies and to expand your corporative holding. You will have to buy raw materials and sell finished products.
This is a war that is not fought with soldiers, but with executives. This is a battle that will be won by the one that negotiates the best. This is a confrontation that will ask that you support your best researchers.
This is Raw & Stock.
Rules
Stats
Each Corporation has a series of stats that will tell you how well your corporation is doing in the market. This is a blueprint of how the stats are presented:Mikkanan Incorporated/Milarqui
CEO: Mikka Hammerst
Headquarters: Trantor
Corporation Stock: Mikkanan Company (75%), MatriMines (25%)
Subsidiary Companies (Main Corp/Other Corps/Minor Stockbrokers) (Products): Mikkanan Company (75%/15%/10%) (Construction)
Gross Income: 0
Net Income: -70,075
Other Income: 10,000
Account: 500,000
Stock: 200 Building Units
Properties: 1 Medium Warehouse, 1 Small Office Block, 1 Small Laboratory
Workers: 300 workers/30 specialized/5 execs/5 researchers
Workers' Ability: 4/3/2/4
Total Salaries: 68825
Projects: Iron Mine (500/1000), Steelized Cement (35%) (6,000/40,000
Patents: Carbon Microtubes (makes better quality buildings) (3/10)
Deals: Small Iron Mine for 500,000
Popularity: 45%
Now, the explanation of each part (in the spoiler, so that you can pass over it without any problem):
Spoiler :
Building costs
There are two ways to get a building: one of them is to buy it, already done, to the Government (due to the war, they nationalized loads of factories or some explanation like that), or you may ask a Construction Company to build it for you. The former gives you the building now, but it costs a lot, while the latter costs a bit less, but it takes some time.I know that I have put some prices in the Pre-thread, but now I realise that I will have to raise the Government's prices so that the costs for the Construction Company may be compensated.
Building: Small/Medium/Large
Factory: 600,000
Office Block: 300,000
Laboratory: 900,000
Laboratories cost more because the Construction includes the many security systems they require and the computers et al required by the researchers.
Stock Market
The Stock Market is shown in the third post. Each company has 10,000 shares in total (ALL of them). The shares represent the level of control a corporation has on a given company (a 0.01% per share). Shares also give its controller a percentage of the Net Income equal to their control of the company (e.g: the Controlling Corporation has 70% of the shares, the Other Corporations have 20% of the shares and the Minor Investors have the remaining 10% of the shares of a company: if that company's Net Income reachs 100,000
You can sell shares in order to make money, but be careful of how many shares you sell, or you may find yourself losing money.
Government can also sell Treasury Bonds in order to make money. They are a very secure investment in that they are unlikely to go bankrupt, but one makes few money with them.
The shares of each company will have a price. This price will be set by me, and it will then depend on many things:
- Offer/demand: the most classical example of how the market works. The more shares there are in the market, the less they cost, and the more people that want to buy shares, the more they cost.
- Company success: the better a company is doing, the higher will be the shares' prices.
- Deals: if you make a deal with a successful company, your shares will raise.
- Rumours: this can be initiated by you (it costs money to pay someone to do this, and the higher your executives' level is, the better the chance is) or can be random events. For example, you may start rumours of some corporation attempting a takeover of a company you own (but that has Minor Investors and still has shares on the market), then the shares of that company would rise as people want to buy them before the public offer of acquisition is made.
A takeover of a company can be done by buying 51% of the shares, or convincing the Minor Investors to work with you in giving you the control of their council votes and attempt to reach the desired 51% between your shares and that of the council. That would, virtually, allow you to disengage that company from the corporation that is controlling it right now and have it become a part of your own corporation.
A corporation that finds itself without money may declare themselves in a bankrupt. In that case, the shares of the company/companies controlled by the corporation will be sold at a price high enough to pay all the workers of the companies one or two salaries and any debts they may have with banks or other corporations.
If you feel risky, you can attempt to engage in the short selling of shares. If you have seen Dan Aykroyd's and Eddie Murphy's film Trading Places, you might understand how this works: Short selling is, basically, promising to sell a number of shares you don't have yet at a certain price, and then buying them at a different price. Of course, this has the huge risk that, if the shares you buy end up being at a higher price when you do that, you may get ruined. (It's also how Le Chiffre, the blood-crying banker from Casino Royale, invests the money that is given to him by terrorists. Of course, he uses illegal methods to do this, such as short selling the shares of an airplane company and then paying a man to put a bomb on the trial test of a new airplane designed by said company, which would make the company's shares' price plummet)
Noropini
Noropini is the nation where the corporations will play on. You may attempt to make deals with other nations' government, but beware, as those nations may be enemies of your own nation and your government may punish you for dealing with the enemy. Just think of it as if an US weapons company tried to make private deals with the USSR government to sell them machinegunes.You can see the results of the world building (developed by Haseri) in the attached Word Document "MilarNES World Building". The nation of Noropini is shown in the attached Word Document "MilarNES Noropini". The map of Noropini with the names of the cities (one of them will have your headquarters) is also attached.
EDIT: Fill-able stats for those who want to join. Instead of the Xs, put what you want.
Corporation/Player
CEO: X
Headquarters: X
Corporation Stock: X (100%)
Subsidiary Companies (Main Corp/Other Corps/Minor Stockbrokers) (Products): X (100%/0%/0%) (X)
Gross Income: 0
Net Income: -19,500
Other Income: 0
Account: 1,000,000
Stock:
Properties: 1 Small Factory, 1 Small Office Block, 1 Small Laboratory
Workers: 100/10/5/5
Workers' Ability: 1/1/1/1
Total Salaries: 19500
Projects:
Patents:
Deals:
Popularity: 5%
. I need raw materials from those who deal with it, but I don't think Jewelry making itself is a chemistry. It more like Tobacco industry - in that that both produce luxury goods.
