| Andy | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 12:13 pm 
1. Searching for a country to build a corporation
The search function for a country is extended with the welfare index. It is now possible to specify the required welfare index level and countries will be selected that have the required level. This feature will make it easier to quickly find countries where corporations have more chance of becoming successful.
In addition, the number of countries showing on the screen is increased and a next page feature is added.
2. Easy IPO - Enterprise selling shares
A new page is added showing all the corporations that can perform an IPO and allowing for multiple IPOs to take place.
This feature was requested by many players and it is now part of Simcountry.
3. Boosters
The booster pages now show the number of gold coins that are available to the player.
4. Production in Corporations
Production in corporations now shows the number of products produced in precision of up to 2 decimals. For some products this is essential as very small numbers are produced each game month.
5. Factory Maintenance Units
Factory maintenance units must be available for the production process to continue. Before, the lack of maintenance units did not cause production to stop but rather, reduced the number of available factory units to negative.
This change was announced ahead of time (Last week) to prevent a surprise.
6. Salary Target in Moving Corporations
The target level of salaries is now removed when a corporation is being moved to another country. The owner can set new targets once the corporation is moved. The change will prevent salary changes in moving corporations that are probably not relevant in the new country.
7. Share Trading
The buy and sell pages for shares now show the number of shares that can be purchased or sold. This will speed up the procedure and prevent wrong numbers from being entered, causing the transaction to fail.
The page also shows the minimum and maximum price that can be offered or requested for the shares. This too will simplify the transactions.
8. Funds
Funds will now become more aggressive in trying to increase their share holdings in corporations or, when this is impossible, sell very small holdings. This change is aimed at reducing the number of shareholders in corporations and create a smaller group of shareholders that hold larger percentages of the shares.
Investment funds will also make more effort to invest larger part of their capital in the share market instead of keeping most of their assets in cash.
9. Shares splits and reverse splits
Share prices used to move in the range of 10 to 100. Once above 100, the shares would split 1 to 2 and the price will be reduced by 50%. When under 10, a reverse split took place, the number of shares was reduced by 50% and their value doubled.
This was done to prevent share prices from going into the tens of thousands while other shares would cost fraction of cents.
We currently see that many corporations have very large numbers of shares and transactions now involve billions of shares.
We will now split shares when the value reaches 120 and reverse split when the value goes under 20. Several more changes will follow and the numbers of shares will decline while their values will increase.
Share splits and reverse splits have no influence on the market value of corporations nor do they have any influence on the profit or loss of corporations.
10. The Share market
More tuning of the share market will take place in the coming days and weeks to try and stimulate more trading in more different shares. Funds will be allowed to trade more different shares while the processing time of the share market will be monitored to prevent it from slowing down all other processes in Simcountry.
The reduction of the very small stock holdings may help processing as the number of share holders per corporation will decrease. This may allow for more transactions to take place.
11. Inside Information - for all players to know
The changes in the stock market are likely to increase investments in shares and there is a chance that the price of shares will increase. This does not mean that the price of all shares will increase, it will depend on the performance/profit of the corporations but a more aggressive involvement of the investment funds and their effort to invest a larger part of their assets in the market creates a larger buyers market and is likely to push prices up. |
| SuperSoldierRCP | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 08:01 pm
Andy
You of all people are going to be shocked but
+1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
on top of that i have nothing else to say but I LOVE ALL THESE UPDATES keep them comming  |
| Drew | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 08:39 pm
I logged in today, and everything was just so incredibly easy compared to how it was yesterday. Wow! Fantastic Job +1
Still not sure if i like more aggressive IF's but it's definately more functional |
| Alexandrov Stolin | Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 09:29 pm
yay |
| Phoenix King | Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 01:54 am
Like i said before love the IPO page thanks a million andy all the updates have been great. |
| Phoenix King | Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 01:55 am
Full member for life <<<<!!!! |
| Keto | Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 02:01 am
One small problem. Why the increase in value of a corporation to $600 before an IPO can be done? |
| shallom | Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 04:46 am
awesome |
| Andy | Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 08:41 am
Corporation values have been on the increase for some time and the measure of a successful corporation is shifting.
600B is currently a low limit. Many corporations have a market value of 1T+. We have published here some time ago, when the required values were lowered, that we expect corp. values to increase and that the IPO limit will follow.
Just forgot to put it on the game news. |
| Auxle | Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 09:15 am
I have seen a bug with item #1 when using Google Crome version 21.0.1180.89 M.
The search works correctly. The problem is the displayed results. The display ranges from a selection of 2 to 5 companies.
The next page button does work.
I had a search display 5 companies, go to the next page and display 3 companies for my enterprises. |
| Lorelei | Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 03:51 pm
Well when there comes a day that I can just do one click of the mouse and everything will be done to manage my countries, I'll be happy!!! :P |
| Andy | Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 11:35 pm
Auxle
Thanks for the bug report.
we will check on this in the morning.
we also found a bug on the IPO page with Google Crome and fixed it today. This one sounds similar. |
| Arccuk | Friday, September 28, 2012 - 12:22 am
Sweet |
| Sir Anthony King | Friday, September 28, 2012 - 09:20 am
An explanation to the Production Process Quality in decreasing would be nice. |
