It is great to see this really cool game in further development. I’m a fan for years and have a session running here and there and looking for a new version.
I have one splitted suggestion for the new / enhanced game:
Suggestion 1-1: shareholder general meeting
There is a good part in the game about stock investment and Corporation interaction with other companies and the own stock. I think there should be some more about the political power a shareholder impose like a general meeting every year where the overall company success or loss is in the discussion. The meeting can propose company goals for the next period of time and check if goals of the last meeting where reached or not. Some more interactions could be possible, like the vote on the board of directors, a vote about the controlling powers of the board, maybe some votes could lead to company bonuses (like more efficient office productiveness) or negatives (like forbidding to invest or produce some goods, like drugs (cigarettes)). Maybe the CEO can propose own rules for the company which gives bonuses or negatives.
How could it work?
Thoughts about 1-1: shareholder general meeting in detail
The general meeting should be once every year at the end of december with the following content:
- Vote on the board of directors for the company
- general meeting with decisions
- others ? (to be discussed in this discussion thread)
There could be three groups of shareholders:
- the player
- the public shareholders (no specific ai individuals)
- AI individuals
In december of each year the percentage of votes is calculated from the amount of shares the company has issued and every group holds at this time.
For example the company has issued 1 000 000 shares and its spread on the groups like this :
- the player (250 000) = 25 % votes
- the public shareholders (600 000) = 60 % votes
- Business (AI) individual A (100 000) = 10 % votes
- Business (AI) individual B (20 000) = 2 % votes
- Business (AI) individual C (30 000) = 3 % votes
A shareholder with a percentage below one percent will not take part on the later voting process.
a) The Board of directors
The first meeting should additionaly constitute the board of directors which could be new constituted after:
- two years (my choice)
- a timeframe on which the general meeting can vote upon in one of its yearly meetings)
Amount of persons in this board should be eight:
- chairman (1)
- regular directors (7)
The candidates (should be double the size of the board to choose from) are generated from a list of random names. They should have the following skills:
- personality (random)
- business knowledge (random, can improve if some years in the board)
- group affection (based on how much shareholder percentage each group has plus some kind of randomnes, can improve or decrease over time the person is in the board)
- random decison making (random, to have something more unpredictible)
Vote process:
A list of the candidates with their skills is shown, including a forecast which candidates are preferred by the ai groups as chairman and as regular directors.
This could be calculated by:
- skills of the candidates
- randomness
- releations of AI individuals with the human player
- others ? (to be discussed in this discussion thread)
The player can now vote upon who he want as chairman and who as regular directors.
What could the board of directors stand for:
- give bonuses or malis for the company (production, worker effectivness)
- nothing, but now you have one
- more ? (to be discussed in this discussion thread)
b) The general meeting
There should be a catalog of possible questions which can be decided on a general meeting. The questions could be choosen:
- randomly from the catalog
- voted upon which question should be occur in the next general meeting.
- others ? (to be discussed in this discussion thread)
Which questions could be possible:
- Controlling of CEO fields transfered to the general meeting
-- e.g. is the dividend CEO or GE controlled (if GE, a question is activated in the question list and could be choosen from for the next or an other general meeting session)
-- more CEO fields
- others ? (to be discussed in this discussion thread)
Suggestion 1-2: Political Advertising
This leads to another part of the game which could be get more connected. The advertising and company awareness could be directed by the CEO (player) to get a majority of his shareholders for certain decisions at the general meeting. Or oppose his board of directors the kick some one of them out of office and one of his own friendly candidates in place.
How could it work?
That has yet to be discussed further ...
Suggestion 1-3: Political influence
To get even wider, there could be political elections which influence companies per city in their goals and production and on the other way around, the companies could sponsor some parties or politicians for their own agendas.
How could it work?
That has yet to be discussed further ...
That are my 2 cent to improve the game even more.
best regards
Lordi
