Real corporations?

[caitlinm]

Not sure where to ask this, but has anyone made or would be interested in making a mod pack using real corporations? Everything else in the game is based on real history, so I think it would be a neat touch.

Some suggestions:
-McDonalds instead of Cereal Mills (because it provides food)
-Pfizer instead of Sid's Sushi (because it requires medicine)
-Viacom instead of Creative Construction (because it provides culture)
-Pepsi instead of Aluminum Inc. (because it requires aluminum)
-Exxon Mobile instead of Standard Ethanol Inc. (obviously)
-GM (General Motors) instead of Mining Inc. (because it requires coal and iron)

Of course, they could be changed to whatever has a small, easily recognizable logo. It would just be a matter of choosing what makes sense. (e.g. Gives you culture, make it an entertainment company. Requires medicine tech, make it a health/science corporation, and so on).

I'd request someone to make this but if it's already out there, please point me in the right direction. Thanks.

 

[Seven05]

Aluminum Inc makes aluminum out of coal, it doesn't require aluminum

 

[caitlinm]

Well, either way. They could be using coal in their cola-producing factories, rendering aluminum cans filled with soda!

 

[asioasioasio]

Why all the companies are from USA? World isn't just USA!!! I choosed companies by theire size, worth, the number of markets they operate and impact on global economy/art

Mining Inc - BHP Billiton - (the biggest mining company in the world, i don't know if is there any larger)

Cereal Mills - Mars Inc (The biggest food company - and Mars Family belongs to the group of people who don't know what to do with money)

Standard Ethanol Inc. - Petrobras (Exxon Mobile obviously not - they don't produce biofuels on that scale - it just exploits global resources and destroys environment) - Brazil is biggest producer of Bioethanol and other biofuels and Petrobras is leading company.

Creative Construction - Bauhaus - i know that this company doesn't exist now (But it wans't economy this time - Hitler closed this company) but they're made a lot for people and modern art (they made everything in the filling of modernism (Art Deco) from jewelry through chairs (the shape of the chair you're sitting right now it's due brave decisions of Bauhaus engineers and artists who throw away simple wooden and heavy chairs) to buildings)

Aluminium Inc doesn't need aluminium - it produces alluminium from coal - so it's kind of carbon materials, fibers, polymers and alloys - i would propose Aditya Birla Group, but perhaps they can be other producers of polymers, composytes and alloys that are bigger or fits better

Sid's Sushi - Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc - the biggest seafood producer in the world (after the fusion planned on 2007 october 1st)

EDIT
Civilized Jewellers - Signet Group (i think it fit's best)

 

[caitlinm]

Well, because I only know American companies, silly.

And part of the game is choosing universally recognizable things. The leaders and the wonders included in the game aren't the only ones, but they are ones most people know. I'd at least like to see a mod with some familiar/famous companies.

I must say, this Beyond the Sword expansion pack has been out for a while and I am shocked to find no one has modded it into real companies. Could someone please do it?!

 

[asioasioasio]

In 1939 mod version for bts companies would have real names - i think it's a part of game climat.

 

[caitlinm]

In 1939 mod version for bts companies would have real names - i think it's a part of game climat.

What? I don't understand that sentence. Your 1930 mod pack would have real names? Huh?
edit: OK, now I see that English may not be your first language and I think you were trying to say that your 1939 mod pack for BTS will have real corporations in it. I'll look out for your updated version.

I'd still like real corporations for general gameplay though. No one is heeding my pleas!

 

[asioasioasio]

exactly - 1939 mod pack for BTS will have real corporations in it.
yup english isn't my first language and i always hated to learn grammar and such other borring things.

Maybe it's because many ppl get used to it. I think that firaxis choosed well choosing new names rather than copy existing ones

 

[Ball Lightning]

Some real world corporations will be used in World of Legends.

 

[Fanatic Demon]

Personally, I think real world names should only be used for real world scenario Mods, like 1939. Generic Era Mods should preferably use generic names, because it simply makes no sence that a world which would be totally different from ours, create exactly the same names over thousands of years.

 

[caitlinm]

Generic Era Mods should preferably use generic names, because it simply makes no sence that a world which would be totally different from ours, create exactly the same names over thousands of years.

I think that is true for much of what happens in the game. If the world was a different place, Shakespeare might have never existed. Some other famous playwright might've. City names may not be the same. Different technologies might've been discovered if research advancements had unfolded differently, etc.

It just feels really silly to me to have a corporation called Sid's Sushi in a game based on real history featuring real historical characters, advancements, buildings, events, etc.

 

[CornPlanter]

They let choose names for cities. I'd like you could do the same with corps you found and also that you could give the name to your colonies. I think it's pretty silly that e.g. seafood corpo just must be named Sid's Sushi.

 

[Thorn]

You know there are real corp logos that were installed with the game but aren't used. I know there's a VW one in there. And I think Coke.

 

[mgbx4]

Umbrella...lol