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IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FED2 - COMPANIES AND FACTORIESINCORPORATIONWhen you have had your fill of futures contracts, and amassed a high enough Trader Rating, you can promote once more and turn your groat-making skills in a different direction. You can float your own company on the Galactic stock exchange, which will operate factories producing commodities to be sold on the open market, bringing you wealth and economic power. To buy a company you must go to the brokers office on Earth and use the command 'IPO price companyname' where 'price' is the initial share price for the company, and 'companyname' is what you want the company to be called. This can be anything you like, up to 31 characters long, and can include spaces. You can see what names the existing CEOs are using with the 'DI COMPANIES' command, which lists all of the companies currently in the game. 'DI CEO companyname' will tell you who owns a particular company. This will set up your company, and promote you to Industrialist. The company has 10,000 shares of which you are buying 500 at the initial price that you specify (the rest are sold on the stock market to private investors). So if you set the price at 1,000, you will pay 500,000 groats for the company. The amount you choose determines how much working capital the company has initially. A price of 1,000 gives the company 10,000,000 ig (10 megagroats). Value the shares too low and the company won't have enough to operate. On the other appendage, value them too high so the company is awash with money, and it will be harder to make a decent rate of return for the shareholders, because the higher the initial price, the higher the dividend you will have to pay to keep shareholders happy. If you have any warehouses left over from your trading days, the company will take them over and issue you an extra 10 shares for each one. It will convert them all to depots, which costs the company 500,000 ig each. You can look at your company details with 'DI COMPANY' which produces a display something like this:
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