15 corp limit?

Any idea why this limit is in place? Kinda frustrating that my CEO can't put more corps in my country.

Be thankful. Until recently, it was only 10.

although that is no reason not to wish it were more!

Can you get around it by building country corps, going public, and buying stock til you take over the corp?

;)

Doesn't process that fast. Trying this out - 2 game days - shares still sitting.

When I did this below the 15 limit, they moved almost immediately.

Directly IPO your state corp to your CEO. Doesn't take any waiting. You can sell over 51% to get advantages of private with 49% dividend going to country, or sell 100%, or sell less than 25% to different entities to get a true public. In fact if you can get your IFs to buy over 25% it doesnt matter because they arent considered a controlling body so the true public status still stands.

Virtually limitless corps from your own CEO in your own country.. dah dah!

Got hit with processing lag time (had to wait for the new one to start). Got it transferred over now.

Went 100% for the nonce - going to try and put some into varying investment funds (and may offer some to Fed mates.)

+1 For Crafty and Pat.

On GR start processing the 16th or 17th of the month. On other worlds I find it to be pretty much the same.

Once you get the routine down you should be able to process 5 to 20 corps in 5 to 20 minutes if everything goes smoothly.

That is well within the processing time.

Also, don't IPO between 3/4 to the top of the hour.
Only IPO between top of the hour to 45 minutes after the hour
ie: 1:00pm-1:45pm or 6:00am-6:45am( these times are examples)

Are you guys still having any problems with the P/E ratios keeping you from IPO'ing?

I am.........

Guess I'm going to have to try some of those 'tanking' tricks that I have read somewhere.

Thanks Rick and Kato - lagging horribly here, so stopping for the time being. Hopefully, situation on my side of the terminal will clear up soon.

No major problems with P/E here, my friend.

Warmest regards,
M. Ney

Same here Chris. I think the IPO window has tightened up some.

Some corps, if you don't catch them as soon as they go over 350B in value, you loose them.

If I miss the IPO I drop them to 10% hiring immediately. When they get below 350B, if they are in the red I just rehire.

Can't remember having to do that twice.

How about if your reading through this thread and you know for sure what dates and times are valid for processing on your world, you list them here.

Everyone needs that info sooner or later.
Would make a great "go to" thread in the future.

The GM has explained that the processing of shares stops when the world processing starts due to large volume and server demand. He also said something like they were looking at re-configuring to allow the two to run in tandem.

Thanks Rick. I thought I read the 10% trick somewhere before; never have tried it, but I am going to give it a shot!

I haven't had any IPO time issues on GR as long as it the 16th through to the end of the month, and not around 7PM EST. Keto may be absolutely right about the 15 minute window before the top of the hour, but I have never had that issue on GR.

Marshall, if you don't already know, you can open simcountry in two browsers, have one with the country you are IPO'ing from, and the other browser open with the CEO that you are IPO'ing to. This makes things go much faster. Of course this keeps you from switching from country to CEO constantly within one browser.

I use Firefox and Chrome to IPO with.....don't know if it makes any difference what 2 browsers you use.

If you already knew this, sorry; maybe it will help new players that don't know...........

Thank you for the tip, my friend. Will help in war time as well.

Warmest regards,
M. Ney

Since this feature, IPO, is legit the limitation on CEO corps in player countries seems controversial. On similar note, assuming this is not just a time-sink, there seems to be little reason not being able to sell/buy up to 100% chunk of shares at once, even directly. Less processing, for everyone.

Tuco, I wish it was that easy to IPO. I don't see any reason why we can't sell/buy 100% chunks of shares either.

Does someone have an answer to that?

You can. Nationalise or bid on it.

Crafty, you had me all excited about bidding on a state corp. in my main from my CEO, until I got this message:

You already own 15 corporations in this country.

However, I will remember that if I don't own over the limit from now on to use your advice....it's easier than IPO'ing! ;)

The 15 corps limit, and subsequent IPO workaround, has some rationale - (liquidity of) share market, however, trading on such market should be as user friendly as possible since it would contribute to its liquidity too. How time consuming and unpleasant trading shares is should be understood by anyone playing the game to its full potential.