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Welcome!

"This discussion is created especially for beginners. As beginner you can drop your questions here and we will try to help you as soon as possible."

......maybe I read that wrong???

I thought it said beginners too, but my vision is blurred from staring at the screen for the insane amount of time it takes to pop 100's of forts.

I recently bought billions of shares in a company to see what would happen. I now own roughly 34% of the company shares; this is the largest stake in the company, and my question is, why do I not control the company now? Even if I am the major shareholder.

Bought the shares with what?

If you bought the shares with your country's investment fund, you wont control the corp. IFs never control corps regardless of share percent ownership. If that is not the case and you bought with a CEO then either you are missing something or there is a problem. Post here with corp/country details if you want to have a player (me) have a look.

Thank you. I bought the shares with IF.

No worries. Owning shares with your IF is a good thing if the corp runs at a profit. Your country's fund will get 34% of the corps profit. I'm not an expert on IFs but I believe a higher fund dividend makes your people wealthier and they contribute more to country expenses. Does you a favour ;)
Find someone who knows the workings of IFs better than I if you want to learn more about them.

easiest way to figure the bottom line value of your IFs. Take the interest pay out, divide that by half, and thats the amount that makes it into your pocket. most of that is via income tax, but a little bit will will also come through the pop contributions to ed and health

Newbie Question:
If I dismantle all military units in my secured country, can I then zero my offensive and defensive forces in next year's budget? And use that money elsewhere? Assuming I have no military corporations in my country, what negative effects can I expect if I do this?

Your actual budget setting thing doesnt seem to do much (unless anyone can say better), but yes, for sure, in a secured main country dismantle and/or sell off as much military as you can, you will save loads of money. Military is the most expensive thing, dont have ANY in your main, not needed.
The only exception to this is: when you are making a bit of cash and ready to take on another country (slave) then you will want to get enough offensive weapons to take a C3. Get your economy going first though would be my advice.

(NB for any other new players reading, this DOESNT necessarily hold true for Fearless Blue because there are no secured mains)

Many thanks, Crafty!

May I ask another question?

What are the realistic chances of an unprovoked attack on an unsecured satellite? Do I really have to keep a 50+ unit standing army? Can I dismantle and then rebuild when a threat arises? Or is that just too much wishful thinking?

I'd like to concentrate on my satellite's econ, and lowering defense costs would really help the situation.

If you stay under war lvl 3, you cant be attacked by anyone.

Get out of here! Really?! So, basically, if I don't attack anyone, I don't have to worry about getting attacked? Can it really be that easy? Oh, that's some sweet news.

Lucky you, huh? lol.
Yes its that easy

How many supplies should I give my military units? I heard they use 1 mil supply per month per soldier and officer, is this correct? What about gasoline?

can't tell you the exact numbers, if you are planning on leaving them set up for long periods of time.... double the amount of default supplies and gas. make sure you have supply units set up

Ok thanks. By the way how many supply units should I have? And should I use small or large units?

I have a question: Seems how Private Corporations are so much more profitable than State Corporations, should i even try to build State Corporations or just wait for enterprises to come to my country, which has a tax rate of 0%.

@gamerno1 - This very much depends on how many garrisons and units you have active that need supplying. Start with 5 say, maybe 10. then after a while check all your units are being supplied, if some are short of supplies build another 5 supply units and so on.
*Pro Tip* - Most players use small supply units comprised of just 125 jeeps, very cheap and its not often that your supply units will get attacked (but that doesn't mean they can't/wont be).

@Mulljohn, it is not correct to say that CEO corps are more profitable. You can make more with state if manipulated right and you have the control over them. A favoured strategy that seems to be used to most advantage is to build state corps and then IPO them to make them public having your own CEO buy 51% of shares. There are even better IPOing strategies but they are more advanced and complicated. If you can successfully do what I just suggested then start trying differ

to through a foot note into what crafty said. i wrote up an ipo guide, here in the beginners forum. check it out

As a newby i am a little worried that every thread i read just has the same 5 or 6 people bickering about unrelated topics ...
NOTE TO GM's ... not really a good advertisement for those looking to pay for full membership !!

As a vet i am a lil worried that noobs are more worried about what ppl bicker about than his countries.

NOTE TO GM's Make em all pay and drop war lvl's..No more bickering

Lol Blue. Go easy :P

Eddie is sort of right though, not that I've looked at millions of forums but a few, and none of them are as slackly moderated as these.

Then again Eddie, if you're talking about the "general" topic, thats what that forum is for, anything goes (almost!).

Firstly to blue .. " As a vet " im not sure what sticking your hands in dead or soon to be dead animals has to do with this game.
And to crafty i was more referring to the moronic amount of threads on here about economics / beginers info that are all full of the same convo between the same 4 or 5 people !!!

Mr. Eddie, please shove it up your behind. The forum is for bickering. If anyone happens to learn anything, it is purely incidental.