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Should subsidiaries be playable? #3

Open GNY-001F2 opened 8 years ago

GNY-001F2 commented 8 years ago

They're basically the weakest kind of vassal government that could have in a public or private corporation. They won't be stockholders, can be freely revoked, locked up to county level etc.

Do you guys have better ideas?

Darokrithia commented 8 years ago

I think that they should be playable, but people should know that they have good chance of getting a game over

Shoall commented 8 years ago

Aye but we should give them a chance to break free and take over the parent company

GNY-001F2 commented 8 years ago

@Shoall Do you know of any legal mechanisms in the real world by which a fully owned subsidiary can try to split off from the parent against the parent's will?

The other way I can think of is:

  1. Subsidiary chief can buy stock in the parent and become a director
  2. Director can attempt to divest his stock, commence hostile takeover etc.
Shoall commented 8 years ago

@GNY-001F2 Not really but it doesnt really matter since its a game and we must adapt to game mechanics and make it balanced so if we sacrifice some reality in exchange for that then its ok.

Darokrithia commented 8 years ago

I think we can work the buy out mechanic in.

GNY-001F2 commented 8 years ago

Maybe we should separate landed titles from business titles. So someone forming a business would be a custom titular title while the map structure would be completely unaffected. That way we could modify the diplomatic actions button to ensure a clean kick that wouldn't make characters completely unlanded.

Darokrithia commented 8 years ago

I really like that idea. It could use adventurer mechanics, and people who become "adventures" should get the entrepreneur trait.

GNY-001F2 commented 8 years ago

I was thinking that entrepreneurs would be landed characters without any titular businesses to their name. Losing land should effectively be game over - you have exited the market of the city.

Darokrithia commented 8 years ago

There are businesses that are run out of people's households (at least in the beginning), and don't have a real location for their businesses. Entrepreneurs, IMO, are more realistic if they can enter the market from a courtier status. I think most should be weak, but occasionally they would be able to hostilely take over, or peacefully buy out a larger company.

GNY-001F2 commented 8 years ago

Do businesses that run from people's homes make significant citywide impact though? I thought that was the hallmark of mass market reach.

Darokrithia commented 8 years ago

Not normally, but every business starts somewhere, hence the entrepreneurs adventurer. They would be rare and prone to failure, but could sometimes become landed.