Corporations missing

I keep losing corporations to takeover I suspect, where can I go to see this info? Can the game not at least send me a message? I hate having to try and figure out what went missing etc every time this happens.

That would be a nice feature...if you are on white giant, check out Zontani Wa. He's been hostile bidding.

Until they implement such a thing, Standardize your Corporation Naming conventions. Like say Dac Chemicals 001 to Dac Chemicals 010 and so on for everything. You want the leading zeros to keep the text based sort sequential, when you sort by name.
That helps me figure out what I lost since everything should be sequential and thus by product. You will find you must abbreviate at times should you do this. Especially if you had Pub to Public Corporations.
It has a side benefit of letting you know how much and of what type of Corporations you have. It also keeps everything nice and neat for those of us that are OCD.
Figuring out what you are missing then becomes easy and just as easy to find in your Shares page, provided the missing Corporation was not renamed yet.

this naming convention has been what i'm doing, but i just don't get why the darn system don't let 10 comes after 9, and has to come after 1.


the line from your cashflow statement

"Corporations bought, sold, closed and moved"

will probably be the closest you get to know what happened

Thats why rage said name them 001 so that 010 does come after 009... :0)

Or just be odd and use roman numerals like i do and deal with them not being sequential..

i need buyers for my corps, come to fb, buy all you want.

Thanks, I do in fact do the naming thing, sort of, will likely adopt the name001 concept moving forward. Until now I named things nameA1-9 B1-9 never had enough to go any higher.

But yes its a mystery to me why there is not a message of SOME sort when a corporation is bought out etc.

"but i just don't get why the darn system don't let 10 comes after 9, and has to come after 1. "
Because it is a pure Text/String based sort of any character. In these sorts, they treat integers as strings, so 1 looks similar to 10, 11 and 12. Thus they group together. To avoid this, I imagine it requires special coding and I would prefer they work on more important things like fixing the now FUBAR economy.

Dear GM I need an answer: My cargo shuttle corporation, Apo Cargo Shuttles went missing suddenly at April 3465 on KB. It was a new corp that I used 10 GCs to super boost it to max and I stocked it with A LOT of cash and with 10.000s of shuttle components and 10s of shuttle engines, extentions and fuselages. All in all I spent about 1.0T in sim cash and 10GCs for this corporation. And after 1-2 years or so, with no debt, no trace, it vanishes. And it was owned by my CEO so no chance of moving away. And no notice of any takeover bid was given (it was so new anyway that no bid could be made). No notice in my enterprise's newspaper either.

I need an answer about this and I want my 10GCs and my 1T $ back

Edit: A notice appeared in my enterprise paper after I posted this saying that the corp was closed because of high debt! I had tons of cash in it!... And al

corp naming tip

you can get them to line up right, with out the extra 0. if you type Services , 1, (no comma) with 2 spaces in front of the number, up to 9, then with 10 on, go with one space, like Services 10. also, you can right click, open the corp in a new window or tab, change the name, and close it, taking you back to the list, with out having to reload the whole page.

So how can someone takeover my corporations if I never give up more than 15% of my shares??? I have lost more, with ZERO notification.

This sucks!!!!

A president can prevent take overs.
you can turn it off.

enterprises can take over corporations of other enterprises.
this is part of the game.
make your enterprise corporations successful, increase their market value and a takeover will not occur or will bring you a large profit.

There is a 6 game months delay before a takeover takes place.
(between the offer and the execution of the transaction).

how does a president prevent takeovers andy because ever since you got rid of nationalization i have lost about 15-20 corps to hostile CEOs

what do you mean by got rid of nationalization? you still can.

Please check the settings page.

In addition, you should be very happy with corporations go private and public.
state corporations hardly produce profits for the country.

the best countries and empires, have mainly private and public corporations.

block the CEOs and you shoot yourself in the foot.

Josias is correct in the naming tip. In this case the spaces take over the purpose of the leading 0s. This can be done with any Character, Alpha Numeric or otherwise, provided the Game does not prevent said Characters usage.

not allowing CEOs into ones country does not affect weather they can buy shares of truly public corps and take them over... free players cannot nationalize public corps any more.... i block ceos because i use country controlled truly public corps..... however there are certain CEOs that dedicate their whole existence to buying controlling interest of mine and my friends corps

it would be nice to just let the 10 comes after 9, so that all my corps are in consecutive order

i have a "space" between the number and word description, but 10 still comes after 1; 30 comes after 3, but not after 29

it's still:
oil 1
oil 10
oil 100
oil 101
.
.
.
oil 11
oil 2
oil 3
oil 4
oil 5
oil 6
oil 7
oil 9
oil 90
.
.
.

make it like this

Oil__1
Oil__2
Oil_10

I think that is what they are saying about spacing... i just use roman numerals it does not bother me too much.

That is correct Erin. XON basically you need to make your Corp names the same length within each Product type, mirror Erin's example.
Then they will be treated the way you desire them to be.

Thanks for the tips GM, I will certainly employ.

It would still be VERY nice to have a log of WHAT happens to corporations...ie closed/purchased etc. Blindly having to determine and assume what happened is not pleasant.

So... Perhaps add the ability to buy shares of Enterprise Controlled Public Corporations in your country? Imagine the profits that would come with that. woot woot

(If you already addressed this above... Apologies)

Maybe check the country newspaper once in a while.
it contains at least the last 10 issues and includes messages about corporations closing and the reasons for it.

Countries are not in the business of trading shares. Enterprises are.
A president can decide to take a corporation to the stock market or sell it. The president can also decide to keep the corporation ownership.
going into share trading is a different game and the domain of enterprises.

Back in August it was mentioned that presidents could buy shares in corps located in their country. I would like to be able to increase my county's minority share of public corps. I still get the message "you can only buy shares in companies you control"