Take over are just overkill...

[Yuuki]

well the current take over mechanism are surely a litle bit over kill ^^"

[BailsBach]

Take over? I'm not sure what you mean? If you could explain in further detail, maybe I can let the developer know, otherwise email him at [e-mail] or add me on Steam as I am a moderator and I will talk to Kenneth the developer as soon as possible. Thanks alot. Sorry if you have any problems.

[Yuuki]

well i mean the process of buying up all of the stock of another company.
let us say you spend like 15 million to take them over. This seems reasonable but then its crazy.
i suddenly got like 1 billion back.

[BailsBach]

Ah yes I see. That is probably the most unrealistic thing about the game, Kenneth has had many complaints about this mechanic. Please contact him at [e-mail] as it would help alot in improving the game! Thanks again.

[Coredumping]

Yes it is, the stock market will get an overhaul in the future.

[Pie Lord]

Worst part for me, since I was buying up companies and such trying to force them out, I cannot gain reputation anymore despite making several open software items within a year or two. I was having fun going through the stock market but I cannot seem to gain reputaton despite releasing about ten open source things in a row.

[Steven2805]

I had a rather simple strategy to keep the game exciting whilst maintaining my own profits.

I would buy over all new companies take 95% ownership this would mean I could kill any unwanted software releases... (open-source, OS) Buying 95% of the companies was costing about $25k per company which is nothing when your wage bill is reach 150k per month. The only problem was the those that I had to either buy over or went under. I would end up with a bunch of crap software that clutters my menues.

[heroix]

Buying out other companies hits you really hard on the reputation, because of their terrible products which you are the owner now. In my last game I have rocketed in profits, so I decided to buy off all the other companies to finish the game. IMHO I shouldn't have been able to do that in such an easy way in the first place, but that's another story. Thing is - the game wasn't on pause so my reputation began to drop immediately and I couldn't finish buying them all (link[i.imgur.com]). I had to take all that crapware out off the market one by one to regain my reputation, which as you can see is really annoying (link[i.imgur.com]). Only then I was able to regain my reputation to finally become a software monopoly (link[i.imgur.com]).

I think both stocks and reputation should really be reworked.

[Yuuki]

take over shouldnt mean that you take over all ips from them persay. instead they should be more like you dautgher. You could order them to develop a game or help you a bit with you projects. You would get a certain amount of shares from them and ypu should be able to put money into them to help them. and so on.

[Coredumping]

I will add a filter to the product window so you can filter between IP you've bought and invented. Maybe just add a column you can sort by?

The reason your reputation is dropping is probably due to the server needs of your new IP, this shouldn't affect you though, I'm planning to disable having to support networking from IP you bought

[heroix]

Sortable column seems quite reasonable. Although in the long run I think NPC products should expire too and shouldn't only be a player option.

Also, out of topic: have you ever played GamBiz series[www.veloci.dk]? Visually they look like crap, thought I think you could get inspiration for some ideas if you are looking for any. They had some interesting mechanics. Especially considering the time they were released in. Or maybe its just my mind remembering them in the brighter colours :) Anyway I've been looking for any similar game since and Software Inc. is the closest to a vision of a game I always had in mind.

[Coredumping]

Haven't tried, all I know is that it was made by a fellow danish person :P

[魔女小王]

Originally posted by Coredumping:

Haven't tried, all I know is that it was made by a fellow danish person :P

highly suggest you to play that game..