General Functionality Suggestions #1

Since playing again i've been making note of some game aspects and mechanisms that seem 'clunky,' especially to a new player. Hopefully the game gods will take a look and consider implementing some of these changes. They aren't designed or anticipated to be player controversial.

1. We need an easy search function for presidents, countries, CEO's and enterprises etc, preferably on the side bar. The current functionality leads to a feeling of isolation/insularity and also slows down other aspects of the game such as share trading.
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2. Multiple choices for the listing order of corporations within countries and CEO's. For example alphabetical, by product, by value etc. This would speed up a number of secondary tasks that rely on the corporation list.
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3. The ability to define and create groups of corp

Allow me to add a few notes.

Regarding #2:
I suggest these multiple choices also be available for viewing the corps of other players. That would help tremendously when one is looking for corps to buy. For that same reason, I also suggest including the PE of corps as one option for organizing the list.

Regarding #5:
Share splits or reverse splits don't affect portfolio targets because the targets are percentages.

The problem with splits is that many shares show negative or dubious purchase prices. For example, my share portfolio shows that the lowest price I've paid is -196,331.52/share and the highest price is 632,320.00/share.

Splits distort the prices paid and make it difficult for shareholders to know if we have capital gains or losses. If these problems can't be corrected, then I suggest eliminating share splits and reverse splits.

Regarding #6:
Yes to the option

Hi Madoff, thanks for your reply :-)

#2: I totally agree. A global setting for all corp lists would be ideal.

#5: I don't use the portfolio targets but was aware share splits don't affect the resultant %. They do when one is trading corp stock manually across a number of months, however. Pretty sure this catches out newer players who don't realise one can perform an unlimited number of share trading rounds per month, or that selling/buying at market price is risky if you are aiming for clean trades. I thus still think share splits are fairly useless.

#6: Perhaps I was a little too harsh suggesting share portfolio targets should be got rid of entirely. I trade shares manually and month round with the aim of having no IV involvement, so find it difficult to understand the utility of that page other than as a quick selling mechanism. Either way an enable/disable feature would be nice, as you say.

#8. Have you

but if you go to the sub menu to look up how to format something you will lose what part of your post you have already composed

Unless anyone knows different of course...

Tip Dub, use your browsers search function to find particular things once you have navigated to a list of countries or corps, whatever.

1. Yes.
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2. Yes yes yes. This is the biggest yes for me. I would add I would like the ability to sort by profit last month and by profit last year.
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3. Yes please. It also would help if you want different order strats as mentioned below.
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4-6. I don't do much in shares right now but as I recall from playing before, I didn't have issues. It's been awhile though.
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7. I like the idea of setting a target and it telling us how many we need to hit that target. I would also like to be able to say I want education index of x and health index of y, auto build to that index at z rate per month and maintain that target as population changes.
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