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The weekly newsletter for Fed2 by ibgamesEARTHDATE: March 15, 2009
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WHAT'S THAT PLANET OWNER DOING WITH A COMPANY?by HazedIn the next couple of days, some new code will be put into the game which will allow the test team to try out all the stuff Alan has been working on recently. The code provides a new kind of company, a private business, and it is intended that Industrialists will have one of these instead of IPOing a public company. For now, the only people who can set up one of these new-style businesses are members of staff - and the game doesn't actually care what rank they are at. Which is why you will see POs with businesses! This is a temporary measure - once everything has been thoroughly tested, the businesses will be taken away from them again, and only Traders will be able to set them up, as part of the new promotion mechanism to Industralist. At this stage, you won't notice many changes from the outside. Businesses still set up factories that work in just the same way. Financiers will notice a difference, because they won't be able to buy shares in businesses - instead, they will be able to put in bids for shares which the owner of the business can approve or otherwise, but that code won't be in for the first part of the testing. The testing will go on for at least a week, because we need businesses to be able to go through a full cycle, to make sure everything is working right. When we're ready to release this new code to players, I will give you full details of how businesses work and all the commands needed to run them. |
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