The game of choice for speculative capitalist pigs all over the world, vonflare's*cough* and Aronis's game returns to MS.net with a bigger title under the control of a new benevolent dictator: me! Your friendly neighborhood rich businessman.
The point here is simple
:
You have money. Spend money on stocks.
Stocks increase and decrease in value. Hopefully the former.
When stocks increase in value, sell them for more money.
Literally, profit!
Repeat steps 1-4.
Stuff
TM
will happen every once in awhile that affects stocks or the owners of stocks (you people). This Stuff
TM
could be good or it could be bad or it could be both or it could be neither. You can do anything you want (within reason) with our little slice of capitalist h
ell
eaven, just PM me before you do it to make sure it's actually within reason. This includes but is not limited to: buying/selling stocks directly with another player (trading), attempting to takeover a company, hosting events yourself that affect stocks and/or owners, etc.
Y U NO TAKE MY MONEY
How do I play?
Same as last time, except with more $ -
you have $750 to spend when you start. No need to "/in", just start buying stocks and you'll be entered into the Google Doc linked below.
All active players from Aronis's game have higher starting $. If you have a problem with the buyout, send me a formal IRS-compliant assessment of your net worth (e.g. count that shit up using math and PM me) and we'll get you started with what you should actually have, roughly.
released a statement as the Fed began an investigation of the company for fraud. A primary investor in the company came forward with information and was granted immunity in return for testimony. The administration publicly encouraged anyone else with information to come forward immediately.
N
E
O
N
FUTURISTICS
was implicated but no charges were levied. The assets of both companies were frozen.
Spoiler: More information about Egg Inc.
There are still
12 11 10
2 falsified
EGG INCORPORATED
stock certificates floating around in the United States of Maestro. I'll PM you if you buy one, and you can do whatever you want with it including attempting to sell it to another player or something (selling it this way will net you
twice the profits
and some
DARK GRAY
stock, by the way). If you keep the counterfeit stock for too long, or if you ever try to sell it directly back to the market, you might suffer a penalty as law enforcement is likely to find out and assume you are the original counterfeiter. If you abuse the inter-player profit bonus,
DARK GRAY
will exact punishment of its own... which is not something you want.
Two members of
BLACK
's board of directors, including the chairman, resigned amid accusations of fraud. The remaining directors, including the vice chairman, ask for two appointees from among the stockholders. Valid votes are
lilith2013
,
PrivateI
,
Tatsuya Kaname
,
BipolarChemist
,
Lowell
, and
Lokiben
.
PrivateI
is in the lead with 2 public votes. Stockholders in competitor companies (
WHITE
,
NATURAL GAS
,
N
E
O
N
,
EGG INC.
) may lobby the NPC directors with private pseudo-votes. Three of these lobbying votes = one direct vote.
GREEN
began an unprecedented hostile takeover of
BLUE
, purchasing 50 shares immediately and promising to purchase 10 more every day until the company was under their control. The Maestro administration threatened anti-trust action against
GREEN
, and called for private investors to invest in the company to prevent privatization. Government subsidies increased, and federal deregulation allowed
BLUE
to manually lower stock prices by $10 to encourage private investment.
Spoiler: CURRENT $TOCK$ - Check the $pread$heet for price$
RED CROSS
Normal stock. Increases or decreases by small amounts.
ORANGE CO-OP
Normal stock. Increases or decreases by small amounts. Lower value than Red, but more shares exist.
YELLOW
Normal stock. When it's value is high, it has a tendency to go down... and vice-versa.
GREEN
Normal stock. When it's value is high, it has a tendency to go down... and vice-versa.
BLUE
Speculative stock. A formerly-bankrupt, now government-subsidized company.
PURPLE
Speculative stock. An (in)famous company, risky but rewarding to owners.
WHITE
Safe stock. Increases
very
slowly.
BLACK
Risky stock. Decreases slowly, but occasionally rises by a large amount.
NATURAL GAS
Risky stock. Increases slowly, but occasionally falls by a large amount. Newly rebranded.
N
E
O
N
FUTURISTICS
Incorporated stock. Influenced often by events, the board of directors, the CEO/CFO, etc.
EGG INCORPORATED
Incorporated stock. Influenced often by events, the board of directors, the CEO/CFO, etc.
SPRING
Limited stock. No other information available.
AUTUMN
Limited stock. No other information available.
GOLD
Special stock. Not for sale. "Awarded" for sportsmanlike behavior.
GRAY
Special stock. Not for sale. "Awarded", in some cases, for extreme misfortune.
DARK GRAY
Special stock. Not for sale. "Awarded" for unsportsmanlike behavior
POLITICO
Politically-entangled stock. Not always for sale.
PENUMBRA
Fantastical stock. Not always for sale.
G
O
O
G
L
E
Realistic stock. Extremely limited and expensive. Perhaps you've heard of this company...
Spoiler: HI$TORICAL EVENT$ / $TOCK$
February 7th, 2016 -
S
E
A
H
A
W
K
S
stock plummets in value, and eventually the company files for bankruptcy, contributing to the fall of the
United States of Aronis
.
March 7th, 2016 - The
United States of Maestro
peacefully merged with the
United States of Aronis
, after negotiations including much charm and financial skill on both sides. The leaders were seen skipping off into the sunset together, tossing around hundred-dollar bills with their portraits on them.
BLUE
is bailed out of continuing bankruptcy by the United States of Maestro.
N
E
O
N
FUTURISTICS
, the new face of Neon Hoverboards, is established and holds its IPO.
EGG INCORPORATED
rises from the ashes of Robin's Egg, a defunct pencil company.
SPRING
falls
from its place of prominence, inspiring competition from other
seasonal
companies, and
AUTUMN
springs
into existence as a modern alternative.
TEAL
rebrands itself as
GOLD
, with a new positive outlook, and
DARK GRAY
emerges as a last-resort company that contributes to financiers scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Players found the
G
O
O
G
L
E
stock password and PMed it to me, their benevolent financial dictator. The first 2 to do so,
stockowners. Some of them got in on whatever opportunity he had in mind, others didn't. (???)
N
E
O
N
began a selling price adjustment to match its competitors: it's stock value was still whatever the Sheet said, but it was being sold $12 cheaper per share.
N
E
O
N
stock purchased during this deal could not be sold back by any player until the deal had ended (ended 03/11/16 @ 11 PM EST).
EGG INCORPORATED
's CFO conferred with the board of directors and agreed the company will begin lending funding to that one billionaire's space station and satellite program. Stock automatically increased in value by $5 in ancitipation of the company's growing connection to the
VIRGIN GROUP
, which has yet to offer stock purchasing in the United States of Maestro.
NATURAL GAS?
began a rebranding, and as
NATURAL GAS
the board of directors' first move was to consolidate shares. The number of total stock was slashed in half, and price doubled.
PENUMBRA
began a limited IPO with 20 stocks now available for purchase on the market.
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I reserve the right to do things that are not within reason, such as this:
MY FIRST ACT AS BENEVOLENT DICTATOR IS TO BUY OUT ALL PLAYERS WHO PREVIOUSLY OWNED STOCK IN THE STOCK MARKET OF THE UNITED STATES OF ARONIS - WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF MAESTRO YOU LOVABLE CAPITALIST PIGS
In post 3, D3f3nd3r wrote:10 Orange
5 Red
5 White
2 Purple
3 Egg
1 Neon
And for the
FIRST EVENT OF THE GAME
:
Search around and look closely. Find the Google stock password and PM it to me.
The first 2 to do so, who do not already own Google stock, receive 1 Google stock each.
In post 7, Mist7676 wrote:I'll purchase one Google stock and as many Egg Incorporated as I can.
I interpret this to mean:
1 Google
30 Egg Incorporated
Our first event has already concluded!
PrivateI
and
BipolarChemist
have each been awarded 1 Google stock.
Now, everybody who looked at my sig or got a PM should come buy stock!
If we get 4 more entries within (expired on 2016-03-07 23:59:00) I'll start another event when I post the stock fluctuations tomorrow morning, EST. Don't worry about optimizing or breaking the darn game; just have fun and drop some cold hard
CA$H
.
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10 Autumn for $900
10 White for $400
10 Black for $400
5 Purple for $300
Ok, so, I'm removing the available stock numbers from the OP because they update in real time on the Google Doc thanks to function magic I have in place there. e.g. Whenever I update a player's owned stocks the available stock updates automagically. So I don't wanna have to copy it over. Sue me.
THIS POST IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
Holder of the Longest Continuous Weekly Mafiascum Post Record. 1 July 2012 - 16 Feb 2023
*It may be held by someone else if you discount the major downtime in 2012 and 2014, I'm not doing the research.
THIS POST IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
has begun a competitive selling price adjustment to match its competitors: it's stock value is still whatever the OP or the Sheet says, but it is being sold at the value in parentheses.
N
E
O
N
stock purchased during this deal may not be sold back by any player until the deal has ended.
POLITICO
sees a huge fall at the hands of a nasty tweet by Donald Trump.
YELLOW
and
BLACK
see some not-negligible shortfalls. Could it be a sign of things to come or just a fluke?
