Factory and branch merging

[ez]

Just interested in knowing what happens when you acquire or considate with another company in terms of branches and factories.

Eg does just the bigger factory remain in a city or are the factories merged so you get the equivalent of both the factories in one?

[Eric.B]

When it comes to duplicates, I believe the game keeps your factory/branch and sells the duplicate. The reason being is that the player specifically designed the factory the way they wanted (normally by the time they're merging with companies). So adjusting those values or switching it out would be a annoying to some.

[EvilFinchen]

Which is a pity in terms of factory duplicates. Because some companies do have much larger factories that (depending on price for the acquisition) sell at great discount to building it from scratch.

I mean you sure can look it up in the broker tab and close the smaller ones but... tedious?
Is it possible to keep factories from acquisitions that are larger than the ones you currently have?

[Eric.B]

Sorry for the late reply, trying to get everything wrapped up for v1.23.3, and there were a couple headaches along the way.

Originally posted by EvilFinchen:

Which is a pity in terms of factory duplicates. Because some companies do have much larger factories that (depending on price for the acquisition) sell at great discount to building it from scratch.

I mean you sure can look it up in the broker tab and close the smaller ones but... tedious?
Is it possible to keep factories from acquisitions that are larger than the ones you currently have?

I won't be making any adjustments to the way it works now. What you can do from an end user prospective is close down your factory before purchasing their company. Better yet, if you have the money, start a small subsidiary, Spin them off with the duplicate factory locations and then buy out the other company. Therefor you'd still have the old factories, but they'll only be used by a wholly owned subsidiary.

[EvilFinchen]

We'll sure find a way for dealing with this one way or another.

If you need a helping hand with "whatever we might be helpful with" - just say a word. I can always spare one or two hours in the evening in which i'd rather "work" on anything than look up stupid stuff on the internet until bedtime :)

[ez]

Originally posted by Eric.B:

When it comes to duplicates, I believe the game keeps your factory/branch and sells the duplicate. The reason being is that the player specifically designed the factory the way they wanted (normally by the time they're merging with companies). So adjusting those values or switching it out would be a annoying to some.

That makes sense.

Having now merged with another company I have noticed what seems to be a bug, I keep getting news about factory workers being upset because 'we are paying factory workers less than we agreed to' and each time where the city should be it's blank. I'm guessing this might be due to the company I merged with having made agreements. It was a consolidation merger.

[Eric.B]

Originally posted by EvilFinchen:

I can always spare one or two hours in the evening in which i'd rather "work" on anything than look up stupid stuff on the internet until bedtime :)

Shouldn't you be playing GearCity? :)

Other than editing my poor English (which ATX may be doing) and writing reviews (which Sgt. York said he would do but has been awol since), the only thing really needed is help with translations: http://translator.ventdev.com outside of that. I've got most things covered. We'll be asking for some community made bodies with v1.24.

Originally posted by deavski:

Having now merged with another company I have noticed what seems to be a bug, I keep getting news about factory workers being upset because 'we are paying factory workers less than we agreed to' and each time where the city should be it's blank. I'm guessing this might be due to the company I merged with having made agreements. It was a consolidation merger.

Sounds like a bug alright. If you still have that save game it will be helpful. http://wiki.gearcity.info/doku.php?id=troubleshooting:steam_installfolder#sending_a_save_game I'll look into it for v1.23.4

[TheBear]

off topic maybe but i might maybe write a reveiw or two.
Whats the conditions for writing one?
or how the text should be writen both for what u need and for compabilty to the game?

[Eric.B]

Originally posted by TheBear:

Whats the conditions for writing one?

Flawless English skills. And the ability to either work cheap or license your work as CC-BY or CC0.

or how the text should be writen both for what u need and for compabilty to the game?

See: here: http://wiki.gearcity.info/doku.php?id=modtools:revieweditor and shoot me an email for more detailed explanation, so we don't throw this thread too far off topic.