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Topic created : 29.05.2010, 07:03

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Ixnad
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Hi. I've been thinking, there could be a way to establish a mentor-apprentice relationship between a big company and a new company, from which each party can benefit.
 
New companies often face the problem of limited of production/commerce/management qualification and shortage of supply. I don't know what are the difficulty big companies are facing - being bored with all the cash? Hehe.
 
Anyway, here's some ideas. Welcome to add yours:
 
-The apprentice gets bonus points in qualification (e.g. equal to 5% of the mentor's own qualification), in return the mentor gets bonus growth (e.g.  10% of the apprentice's own growth).
 
-The mentor can also provide loans with interests, capped at certain amount (e.g. 10% of the apprentice's assets).
 
-They can sign special goods-for-goods contracts with each other.
 
These are off the top of my head. Obviously there are more ways to implement this. Wouldn't this be more interesting and dynamic? Well
   

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29.05.2010, 09:54

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Big companies problems:
- not enough qualification to produce all the goods we could sell in the store
- not enough supplies
- the larger the company, the more time,  concentration and planning is needed to keep things going
 
Mentor system is a nice idea, i'd be joining it, though
- i already did and would again provide loans with interest
- i 'm always up for good-for-goods contracts if conditions are right
- i have a mining partnership where another company sent me virts and i'm supplying resources at cost to that player
  (my benefit is slightly larger resource volume as more virts buy more resources, and a better usage of qualification) 
 

29.05.2010, 12:06
ccm_tsang
Winner of the Contest for Managers in the nomination "Knowledge is power!" Winner of the Contest for Managers in the nomination Consumer Goods Three years with Virtonomics
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good idea, Ixnad
 
there's been volunatary attempts to help smaller/newer companies for a while, like VL's, Light and ChrisB's relief funds for Mary.
 
players have been giving free advice to others for a long time in the forum.
 
i've been helped /mentored via pm's by the big players:
VL and Mike being two,
others have helped with steady and great quality supplies like Argo and Mr Edge
<good time to thank you guys publicly Gift Heart >
 
i've sent a few pms to players with suggestions for their companies.
 
having some formal incentive from admin to mentor/help new players would be a great idea, and as Ixnad suggested, qualification growth would be a good choice of reward since most older players seem to be limited by qualification restrictions.
 
hope admin would consider this.  should help more new players stay in the game, and maybe give a new point of interest for the older players 
 

31.05.2010, 07:16

Last time edited : 31.05.2010, 07:17
Ixnad
Ten years with Virtonomics
 
Mike1
Big companies problems:
- not enough qualification to produce all the goods we could sell in the store
- not enough supplies
- the larger the company, the more time,  concentration and planning is needed to keep things going

Seems like the same bottlenecks newbies would be facing. In addition to bonus qualification/growth for both parties, there could also be a way for them to bump up the production volume. If both companies have the same factory, production volume for both would increase by 5%, perhaps something like this?
 
Haha good deal you have.
 
About the time consuming thing, I think there should be a way to gradually relieve players of big companies from micromanagement. For example, at X qualification level, you can hire a "manager" that will hire/fire workers and adjust salaries in Y number of subdivisions automatically for you. Then at X + 10, you can hire a more powerful manager who can do more things for you, etc. Of course this is not to make it easy mode though, just eliminate some repetitive tasks the player has to do.
 
If I were to think of a way to address this with the proposed mentor system, I would probably give the apprentice the option to have an internship in one or several of the mentor's subdivisions. The apprentice would gain cash or other rewards while micromanage subdivisions for the mentor. Some sort of delegation system where the mentor can delegate tasks to the apprentice.
 
ccm_tsang
good idea, Ixnad
 
there's been volunatary attempts to help smaller/newer companies for a while, like VL's, Light and ChrisB's relief funds for Mary.

Yea I enjoyed all these programs a great deal. I hope someday I can start my own.
Any incentive to promote more corporation would be great. That's the thoughts behind the idea. 
 

31.05.2010, 14:33
ccm_tsang
Winner of the Contest for Managers in the nomination "Knowledge is power!" Winner of the Contest for Managers in the nomination Consumer Goods Three years with Virtonomics
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Ixnad

For example, at X qualification level, you can hire a "manager" that will hire/fire workers and adjust salaries in Y number of subdivisions automatically for you.

HR manager already available as innovation 
 

31.05.2010, 20:01
Ixnad
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ccm_tsang
Ixnad

For example, at X qualification level, you can hire a "manager" that will hire/fire workers and adjust salaries in Y number of subdivisions automatically for you.

HR manager already available as innovation

Yes I know that. That doesn't invalidate what I suggested though. I offered it as an innate features in mind, rather than an add-on feature, since it would require some significant game design philosophy changes to accommodate it.
 
And for the record all above suggestions were made with implementing them as innate features in mind too. Although I have some ideas for increasing the number of paying players by providing other distinct services, I will not go into details as they belong to another thread. So-so 
 

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