Guestion(White Giant) (White Giant)

Hi im a new player, I just got started within the week. I was wondering, one of my corporations is at 0% production and 100% hiring, should I keep this corp and try to fix it, or just get rid of it?. How would I fix this if im going to keep it running?

The 0% production is very likely a result of not having enough supplies to produce the product.

When you go to your "my corps" page, under the supplies column, does the corp have a red "shortage" listed? If so, click on the "shortage" button, that will take you to a page where you can order supplies. You will probably see, under the "pending orders" part, one (or more) supplies ordered that have the "date ordered" column red. Click on the "details" button, on the next page click on the "change to an immediate order" link. You will pay a higher price, but your order then receives priority treatment.

Hope this helps.

thanks for the help rep I have another question,is it a good idea to nationalize corporations or is it better to have state corporations?, are they more profitable?

You're welcome Kunin.

I have never nationalized a corp, but there's two things to consider:

(1) NEVER nationalize a corp that belongs to another person doing business in your country. Unless it's run by the Gamemaster CEO. When you do that you are really "stealing" a corp from someone.

(2) I'm not 100%, but my understanding is that nationalized corps are the least profitable, state corps next, private after that, and public corps are potentially the most profitable.

Good luck.

National Industries cannot be bid on by enterprises. That's the only effect of nationalizing a state corporation. Unless something changed it's otherwise exactly the same as a state corporation.

And you cant privatise (ipo) a national corp.

Thanks for helping Kunin out. I learned something too, I always thought that a nationalized corp had slightly less profit potential than a state corp. Thanks for clarifying.

thanks for helping guys I have another question though, when I am short on supplies and do an immediate ordor, after the order does my corporation go back to the trading strategy it was on before the immediate order or do I have to go into my corporation and change the buy strategy manually?

It will return to your previous settings. "Immediate" is just sort of like an override. Then you fire your procurement clerk and find someone who knows how to get supplies .

Another question, whats a good standard to go by when checking to see if i should close a corporation or keep it open?, does anyone for example close corporations if their not making a certain amount of income per month? All my corporations have over 100% production and over 100% hiring. I always seem to be short of some worker so I dont want to waste my workers on corporations not up to par. One other thing if anybody know, my unemployment index has slightly gone up, and nothing has been closed, this is not crucial right now because its only at 8% unemployment now, up from 7% but i would just like to know incase it keep going up,anyways thanks for any input people have

There's a lot of different styles involved on when to close a corp. For me, closing a corp is always a last resort.

If it's a corp that's important to my country (provides goods I need) I'll stick with it for a long time. If my country doesn't need it and it's losing a couple B per month, there's a chance I'll close it if by doing so I can build a corp I DO need.

So that's a tough decision. If it's making any money at all I'd probably stick with it, personally.

Your unemployment picture is tough also. On your employment page (country screen) does it have any numbers on the line saying "needed for 100% production"? If it does that means you're short something and need to adjust your Education Priorities.

If that's not it, did you by any chance buy some population recently or get a "new player gift" of population recently? If so, those new

Just to add to Reps unemployment help, as your country grows the population will organically increase. This will of course create a small rise in unemployment. Put them to work in schools, hosps or corps, but DO NOT build infrastructure that you dont have enough workers for. They will just close again and waste your money.

Another thing I just thought of, if your corps are upgrading their efficiency each month then they are probably using less workers. They use more hi-tech workers but drop many more regular workers and that would also impact your unemployment. Just keep an eye on your hi-tech and get your education good enough to cope with the demand.

another question, what setting in my country should be automated and what shouldnt be?

Well... the help automation isn't really very helpful, BUT, if you are brand new and haven't even started to figure things out you might do well to leave them all on. When you feel you know a bit of how it works, turn all the help automation off.

If we are talking about just settings for corporations on that page... turn hiring/production to manual 100%, upgrades is down to you depending on how you manage your economy (I recommend auto upgrade if you're selling on world market), same for salaries (200 - 300) and sell/buy strategy is another issue altogether, I think you can only buy at best price as a new/free player, be sure to sell at a higher value than what you make, eg, make Q200, sell at 230), dropping by 10% monthly if not sold, follow quality. These are only rough guide lines, dont swear by them, try other strategies as you grow.