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Type : PC Game
Version : North American
Genre : Simulation/Strategy
Rated : Everyone
Published by : Activision Value
Designed by : Animedia Entertainment
Initial Release FAQ : January 2, 2003
Version FAQ : 1.1
Writtten by : Eli H.
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System Requirements:
Minimum: Win 98/ME/2000/XP
Pentium II 233Mhz or AMD K6-2 233Mhz
32MB RAM
600MB Hard Drive Space
4x CD-ROM
DirectX 8
DirectX 8 Compatible Video Card with 4 MB
16 bit DirectX 8 Compatible Sound Card
Recommended: Pentium III 450Mhz or Higher
64MB RAM or Higher
8x CD-ROM
DirectX 8 Compatible Video Card with 16MB of Video
Memory
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| ~~ TABLE OF CONTENTS ~~ |
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I - Introduction
II - Toolbars
III - Walkthrough
1 ~ Numerous Rival
2 ~ Dream of Best
3 ~ Future Manger
4 ~ Hardworking Day
5 ~ To Succeed or Not
IV - The Valleys
A ~ Venture Valley
B ~ Soft Valley
C ~ Future Valley
D ~ Moving Office
V - Custom Scenario
VI - Interior Design
VII - Employees Placement and Assignment
A ~ Employees Placement
B ~ Employees Assignment
VIII - Skills
A ~ Skills
B ~ Boosting Skills
IX - Departments
A ~ Development Department
B ~ R & D Department
C ~ Administrative Department
D ~ Distribution Department
E ~ Public Relation Department
X - Managements
A ~ Office Management
B ~ Staff Management
C ~ Department Management
XI - Products
XII - Self Control
XIII - Securities and Bond
A ~ Listing Your Company
B ~ Stocks Value and Capital
C ~ Merging
D ~ Keep the Stocks Value High
XIV - Updates and Email
XV - Credits
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Another great tycoon game, but this time comes with cute cartoon looking
characters. You start your business from the ground up as you have a custom
scenario choice or varieties of objectives to be met if you choose mission
scenarios. There are several type of business you can choose from
pharmaceutical goods, game software, business software, children toys, sports
equipment, education textbooks, clothes, electronic appliances, and military
products. If you play custom scenario, you can choose where you want to start
your company as the game provide you with three different cities with a lot
of building varieties in each of the city.
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This game has a lot of toolbars. ^_^! Your upper screen will be full of it.
/'--------------------------------'\
| A ~ MAIN TOOLBARS - Upper Screen |
\'--------------------------------'/
- Pause
If you want to pause the game even though while in pause mode you can't
do anything. It's not like Sim City where you can build while you're in
pause mode.
- Save
You can save your current game here. Double click if you want to save in
the same file or click 'New Safe' if you want to save it in another file.
- Exit
Self explanatory.
- Message
Here's you can see all the messages from your employees including
complaints, ....
- Sound Effects
Turn the sound effect on/off
- Background Music
If you want different kind of background music, you can choose it here.
- Zoom In/Zoom Out
There are 4 type of zoom in/out that you can choose.
- Rotation
Here's to rotate your office. If you want to rotate items use space bar
or wheel mouse.
- Valley
Here's you can see city map where your office is located. Red arrow
means that is your office. Click here if you want to expand your office
in other words; if you want to move to bigger office space.
- Self Control
This is 'your' toolbar. If you want to do anything such as make a product
or put advertisement, you need to increase your skills too. You only
have two skills though. They are physical skill and administrative
skills.
- Office Management
This is where you can clean your office by paying a cleaner. The cost
depends on your office space.
- Staff Management
This toolbar function is to look at your current employees. You can do
numerous things such as give a raise, give a bonus, give a gift,
give a position for employees, give holiday, plan a diner meeting, and
plan a picnic. Also you can scout other companies and even "grab"
their employees. **Evil Grin**
- Interior Design
Here's where you buy items for your office. All the items you need for
making your office a better work environment for employees are here.
Some of the items aren't available until certain times or certain
achievement.
- Charities
If you want to do charities so your company will be known as a company
that pay attention on what's happening in the society, this is the place.
You need to have your employees in the Administrative Department.
- Project
This is the 'Heart' of the company.
This is the place where you make products. You need to have your
employees in the Development Department in order to make products.
Keep in mind, assign employees who have high Intelligence Skill,
Development Skill and Art Skill.
- Develop Business
If you want to have diversity on the products you can make, here's where
you have to go. You need to have your employees in the Research and
Development Department. Assign employees who have high Intelligence Skill
and Development Skill.
- Department Management
This is where you assign your employees. The Departments are R&D
Department, Development Department, Administrative Department,
Distribution Department and PR Department.
- PR
How can people know your products exist? The answer is advertisement.
There are several ways on how would you like to put the advertisement,
from simple leaflets, newspaper, cable broadcasting, and radio
broadcasting.
- Read Newspaper
You can see what's going on the business world by reading newspaper even
though it's only one page. !^_^
You can check weather, stock quotes, and events. Sometimes reading the
news is important because certain events will cause stock either to rise
or fall. Another reason to read newspaper is to monitor about products.
- Banking
You can get a loan here, also you can deposit money and get monthly
interests.
- Dealing in Securities and Bond
If you want to make investment, go to stock exchange. You can buy and
sell stocks here, also you can go public with your company too; however,
there are few rules to be met to go public.
- Distribution
You have to distribute your product in order for you to make profits.
Employee/s is/are needed if you want to sell the right of the product
that you made.
- Job Offer
If you want to hire more employees, this is the place. If you want to
hire employees with specific skill, click on the skill and change it
into the skill that you're looking for.
- Item Store
This is the place where you buy gifts for your employees. Gifts are good
because it gives employees skill boosting.
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- Status Bar
Here's where you can see the info of your ads, your office rent,
financial status, employees info, and all activities in progress.
- 'Big Biz Tycoon'
If you want to look at company description and objective to be met,
click 'Big Biz Tycoon' on the right bottom corner of the screen.
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This North American version has only 5 missions in total. I don't know if
there are more in Korean version just because if you see the main menu there
is 'Online' menu which means you play online with other player and bragging
your office design (^_^), also if you checked the 'Background Music' there
are option to choose Missions Theme(it shows more than 5 missions). You can
choose which mission you want to start first between these 5 missions;
however, I recommend you to start from the beginning to the end. The lowest
difficulty level should be the first mission. Every mission has default
product/s but you can do research later on in each mission.
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__________________________// \\___________________________
__________________________| 1 ~ NUMEROUS RIVAL |___________________________
\\____________________//
Company : Red
The President: Shima
Shima was an extremely ordinary university student, majoring in Business
Administration. One day, he won one hundred thousand dollars in a public
lottery after having a dream of being crushed to death by countless falling
four-leaf clovers. He didn't know what to do with this windfall, but finally
decided to open Venture Company called 'Red' as becoming a president of a
company was his dream.
Mission: Please try to make the company with a capital of three hundred
thousand dollars within 5 years.
Start with: Date(y/m/d): 0-01-27
$200,000
10x10 empty office space
Office Rent : $300
Cleaner Cost: $500
Product: Lv 1 Children Toys
Company Employees with Their Respective Skills:
+------------+------------------------+
| Employees | INT DEV ART CHA |
+------------+------------------------+
| Dennis | 58 22 41 31 |
| Percy | 9 14 14 34 |
| Cassini | 54 18 64 39 |
+------------+------------------------+
How to complete it:
1. BUY ITEMS.
This one is a quick mission. I did it within a year.
First, buy 3 desks, 3 chairs, and 3 computers. These are for your
employees. Next, build a small restroom, consider you don't have
large space. Then, buy 1 or 2 single bed, sofa/couch, vending machine,
coffee maker, purifier water, and heaters.
2. STATION/DESK ASSIGNMENT.
The employees quickly complain about where they're going to seat.
After you bought the desks and everything, assign your employees
to their station/desk. Don't know how? Here's the idea:
-Right click the desk.
-It shows up choices, choose "INFO"
-Then you'll see names of your employees who currently available.
-Symbol "X" means this person doesn't have a desk yet, whereas "O"
means you've been assigned him/her.
3. WORK ASSIGNMENT.
If you've done giving your employees their desks, now you have to assign
them to their respective department. You can choose them to work on:
*Research Department - Develop new business
*Development Department - Make a new product
*Administrative Department - Put employees to work on charities
*Distribution Department - If you want to sell the right of product
*PR Department - Advertise your product
You can assign your employees simply by choosing "Department Management"
on the toolbars. Here's you can see your employees and their skills.
Highlight the chosen employee and choose which department s/he will be
assigned.
4. PRODUCTS.
Done with the assignment, now it's time to start making products!!
Just in case you didn't know how to send your employees making a product:
-Go to 'Project Toolbar'
-Highlighted the name of employees
-Named the product
-Click 'Check Mark'
Sometimes it says 'You need to improve your physical/administrative skill'
When you got this message, go to 'Self Control' and choose 'Study' if you
need Administrative Skill. Choose 'Sport' if you need Physical Skill.
5. DISTRIBUTE
You will get announcement once your project finished. Now start to get
THE MONEY..! ^_^
-Go to 'Distribution Toolbar'
-Highlighted the name of the product
-Click 'Distribute'
-It'll go the different menu box, now you have to set up the price and
how many you want to make this product(Yield).
-Couple of suggestions for you; put the price $1,000 higher than the
cost so you will get more customer. I usually put the 'Yield' around
800,000+ products. I know it cost a bit of money, but it'll paid off.
6. COMPLETE THE MISSION
I made 10 products of level 1 and 1 product of level 2 when I completed
the scenario within 1 year and months.
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___________________________// \\___________________________
___________________________| 2 ~ DREAM OF BEST |___________________________
\\___________________//
Company : Silver
The President: Willis
Willis who has worked for a small company 10 years, has been making a
constant trouble with his boss and co-workers because of this obstinate
nature. The more time passed, the bigger trouble was, so Willis thinks that
he cannot make it what he wants, that he quits his long-run company. And,
with money that he earned during that time, he begins to run his own small
company.
Mission: Please try to make the company with a capital of one million dollars
within 3 years and 8 months.
Start with: Date(y/m/d): 0-08-26
$286,926
10x10 office space
Office Rent : $ 300
Cleaner Cost : $ 500
Product: - Lv 1 Sports Equipment
- Lv 1 Education Textbooks
Lv 2 Education Textbooks
- Lv 1 Clothes
Company Employees with Their Respective Skills:
+------------+------------------------+
| Employees | INT DEV ART CHA |
+------------+------------------------+
| Gloria | 17 50 68 4 |
| Conan | 66 46 24 67 |
+------------+------------------------+
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AQ - Aquarium
As - Ashtray
B.Co - Big Couch (3 spaces)
Bn - Bin
D - Single Door
DOOR/DDD - Double Door
MR - Mirror
OC - Office Chair
OF.D - Office Desk
PL - Plant
SC - Small Couch
Sf - Safe
SF - Small Fridge
ST - Sofa Table
T - Table
TL - Toilet
UR - Urinal
WP - Water Purifier
How to complete it:
1. UTILIZE THE SPACE
You can maximize the current office space since it's not full 10x10 size.
You have to expand the space because you need extra place for placing
new desks for new employees and lounge room.
Make it full 10x10 size than you have every space you need.
2. HIRE MORE EMPLOYEES
Two employees aren't enough to make a lot of profits in order for you to
reach the mission objective. Hire 3 more employees with excessive skills
on intelligence, development, and art.
3. START MAKING PRODUCTS
Once you have all the employees you need, start making products. Now you
have 5 employees, choose 2 of them to work on 1 project and the rest on
the second project. It'll be faster to receive profits if you have
your employees work on several projects at the same time. For your
information, I only made sports equipment products since I thought
this product will give me good income.
4. KEEP THE MONEY POURING IN
Keep making product simultaneously. If you made 10 products of level 1,
you get the chance to make level 2 product. This is the time to start
making only level 2 products. Don't forget to distribute all the
finished products so you'll get the money pouring in soon. You'll lose
money first just because of mass production to be made, but feel no fear
it'll paid off.
5. COMPLETE THE MISSION
I had 10 products of level 1 and 10 products of level 2 when I completed
the mission in 2 years and 10 months. With the exact amount of cash
$ 1,106,756!!
___________________
___________________________// \\___________________________
___________________________| 3 ~ FUTURE MANGER |___________________________
\\___________________//
Company : Gold
The President: Rita
Rita, a management student who is the hope of those around her becomes to
meet a chairman in an industrial forum where she accompanied her academic
advisor to. The chairman is leading a mammoth enterprise and has observed
Rita's brightness and managerial ability carefully. Then he comes to suggest
something to her...
The suggestion is to resuscitate his small scale interrelated enterprise
which is on the wane!
Rita considers it for a long time and thinks this is an opportunity in a
thousand. At last she accepts the suggestion, being encouraged by the
academic advisor.
Mission: Please try to make the company's assets ranking in third within
7 years.
To look at the ranking go to 'Securities and Bond' and click Top 100
to see the ranking of your company. Don't forget your company name
is GOLD and your name is RITA. ^_^
Start with: Date(y/m/d): 2-01-14
$795,395
17x17 office space
Office Rent : $ 3,757
Cleaner Cost : $ 1,445
Product: - Lv 1 Pharmaceutical Goods
Lv 2 Pharmaceutical Goods
Lv 3 Pharmaceutical Goods
- Lv 1 Electronic Appliances
Lv 2 Electronic Appliances
- Lv 1 Military Products
Lv 2 Military Products
Company Employees with Their Respective Skills:
+-------------+------------------------+
| Employees | INT DEV ART CHA |
+-------------+------------------------+
| Brahm | 46 17 69 30 |
| Castiglioni | 61 25 52 11 |
| Cates | 64 70 45 63 |
| Patty | 63 66 47 31 |
| Kathleen | 9 49 63 47 |
| Anjelica | 41 39 60 25 |
| Patti | 13 46 12 13 |
| Russell | 61 33 13 71 |
| Corcoran | 31 30 61 30 |
+-------------+------------------------+
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Abbreviations definition in alphabetical order:
AQ - Aquarium OC - Office Chair
B.Co - Big Couch OF.D - Office Desk
BF - Big Fridge PI - Paper Incinerator
Bn - Bin PL - Plant
BS - Book Shelf SB - Single Bed
BN - Basin SC - Small Couch
Cb - Cabinet SR - Shelf Restroom
CC - CD Case ST - Sofa Table
Ch - Chair STE - Stereo
CM - Coffee Maker T - Table
D - Single Door TV - TV
DOOR/DDD - Double Door VT - VTR
DSR - Dresser
FE - Fire Extinguishe
HE - Heater
Hm - Humidifier
How to complete it:
1. MAXIMIZE THE SPACE
You need more spaces to put extra tables for the new employees.
I recommend expanding the space on top left corner of the map above.
You can put 3 tables over there. Personally, I'd delete the Double Door
between rooms because it makes all the employees easier to go from one
room to another.
2. HIRE EMPLOYEES
If you see the information above on the skills of all the employees you
have now, obviously, you need help. ^_^
Hire more employees, say three more, with the EXCESSIVE skills on the
Intelligence and Development Departments. Why? Well, as you know, you have
enough employees with high Art skill, but not many of them have high skills
on the Intelligence and Development, therefore, you need to hire more
employees. After looking from times to times, I recommend to search new
employees from the 'Staff Management', in other words, 'Steal them from
other companies'. *Evil Grin*
3. START MAKING PRODUCTS
I made all Electronic Appliances level 1 since it doesn't take very long
to make it also it quite cheap to make the mass production. Keep making
product simultaneously and divide your employees in two or three group
so you'll have two/three projects at the same time.
4. COMBINATION OF EMPLOYEES
If you look carefully, when you highlighted the employees for making a
product, the cost of the product get higher. In logic, once you reached
the number of skills you need, do not put more unnecessary employees, if
you do that, the cost will go higher. In essence, find the cheapest
combination of employees than you'll be granted cheaper mass production
cost. Still confuse? Here for example;
-------------------------
| Name | Cost |
|--------------|--------|
| Employee A | $ 100 |
| Employee B | $ 150 |
| Employee C | $ 200 |
| Employee D | $ 50 |
-------------------------
Now, assuming either combination will reach the skill you need to make 2
products, we can look for the best combination that will result the
cheapest cost to make that product.
Combination 1 --- Employees A+B $250 ------> 1 product
Employees C+D $250 ------> 1 product
Combination 2 --- Employees A+D $150 ------> 1 product
Employees B+C $350 ------> 1 product
Combination 3 --- Employees A+C $300 ------> 1 product
Employees B+D $200 ------> 1 product
The best combination will be the first one, it's not the cheapest one you
can get considering the second combination, you could make 1 product less
cost, but with the first combination, you could make two products with
cheaper mass production cost than the rest of combinations.
5. DISTRIBUTE INSTANTLY
Since you have quite a bit of money, you don't have to worry on the cost
of the mass production. I make all the products to 1,000,000. The price
is $2,000 higher than the cost. You lost around $190,000+ if you did just
like me but the profit will around $170,000.
6. ADVERTISE
You need to advertise so you'd sell better. The lowest type of
advertisement you can get is leaflets. You only need 80 points of Charm
Skill to advertise in the leaflets.
7. COMPLETE THE MISSION
Just keep making products and distributing it simultaneously. By the third
year I could make $1,500,000+ and I'm in 10th ranking. Around the fifth
year my total cash (which means 'company's asset') $2,800,000+.
Maintain the position for a good month to pass the mission.
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__________________________| 4 ~ HARDWORKING DAY |__________________________
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Company : Brown
The President: Abbott
Abbott is a 7 years industrious worker of Brown Company. One day the chief's
condition of his health was got worse, so that he got not to be able to work
anymore. The chief is supposed to take a rest for 10 years in the country
house where is in the remote island, so they need the replacement of chief.
Abbott is got a mission because he has worked with the positive and
industrious attitude.
Mission: Please try to make the company's stock value ranking in third within
10 years.
Start with: Date(y/m/d): 0-11-26
$944,483
13x13 office space
Office Rent : $845
Cleaner Cost: $676
Product: - Lv 1 Education Textbooks
- Lv 1 Children Toys
Lv 2 Children Toys
Company Employees with Their Respective Skills:
+-------------+------------------------+
| Employees | INT DEV ART CHA |
+-------------+------------------------+
| Basia | 31 67 58 32 |
| Dabney | 42 38 50 8 |
| Nobel | 43 44 33 8 |
| Arsenia | 51 38 30 45 |
| Erving | 27 57 21 12 |
| Graham | 70 3 36 66 | ---\The last two employees by
| Norris | 37 30 12 56 | ---/default in the PR Department
+-------------+------------------------+
Default Office Map Appearance:
+---------7----------+-------6---------+
+- +--------------------------------------+ -+
| |BS|OF. D|T |OF. D|BS|BS|OF. D| |OC|OF| |
| |--+-----+--+-----+--|--+-----+ +--|. | |
| | |OC| |OC| | |OC| |D | |
| | +--+ +--+ +--| +--+ +--| |
| | |HE| |BS| |
| | +--| +--| 6
| | |BS| |
7 | | +--| |
| | | | |
| |--+ | +--| +--+-----| |
| |S | | |PI| |HE|S B | |
| | | |--+ +--|--+-D+-----------+ -+
| |B | |AC| |DP|PL| |SC|Cb|Cb| |
+- +--------+-D+--+-----|--+ +--+--+--| |
| |AQ|MR| | |BN| | |
| |--+--+ + +--|--+ | |
| | D |T | | |
| + +--+ | | +--+--------| 7
| D |As| |V | |HE|C.OF. D | |
6 D +--|--+ |--+ +--+--------| |
| D | |UR| |VT| |OC| | |
| +--+ |B |--+D-+--+ +--+--| |
| |WP| |. | | |D | |
| |--+ | |--+--|--+-----+--+ |S | |
| |VM| |Co|Bn|TL|HG| STE |AC| |R | |
+- +--------------+-----+-----------------+ -+
Abbreviations definition in alphabetical order:
AC - Air Conditioner MR - Mirror
AQ - Aquarium OC - Office Chair
As - Ashtray OF.D - Office Desk
B.Co - Big Couch PI - Paper Incinerator
Bn - Bin PL - Plant
BN - Basin SB - Single Bed
BS - Book Shelf SC - Small Couch
Cb - Cabinet STE - Stereo
C.OF.D - Computer Office Desk T - Table
D - Single Door TL - Toilet
DDD - Double Door TV - TV
DP - Duplicator UR - Urinal
DSR - Dresser VM - Vending Machine
HE - Heater VT - VTR
HG - Hanger WP - Water Purifier
How to complete it:
By far this is the hardest mission I've had since I have no clue about stocks
and how to manage it.
1. MAKING PRODUCTS IMMEDIATELY
You have exactly 2 years to settle in before you can listed your company
or in economic word would be 'go public'. You can list your company at the
beginning of 3rd years, since the company begun at 0-11-26, the third year
would be 2-??-??.
I recommend make only Education Textbooks because with level 1 product you
can make 2 products at the same time and the period of time needed is only
14 days. I know Children Toys has better period but the cost is higher so
my best bet would Education Textbooks. Now, devide your employees to 2
groups in the project. Keep making products, you need lots of products to
be distributed before the second years end.
2. HIRE MORE EMPLOYEES
Hire more employees and try to find them in the competitor company so
you hit two bird usng only one stone. Personally, since I need only four
people to work on 2 project, I transfered the rest of the employees to
PR Department and Administrative Department. I hired 5 new employees and
dismiss 1-2 of them. Search employees with high points in Charm Skill.
You need to assign around 5-6 people to PR Department.
3. ADVERTISE IMMEDIATELY
The reason you need to advertise your company immediately because you need
to be acknowledged by the public beforehand (before listing your company).
So by the time you're ready to list your company in public, they know that
you exist, beside it gives better sales too. Now you have around 5-6
people in this department, hopefully your 'Marketing Ability' is higher
than 420. I suggest you go all out, advertise using all the advertising
types and put 12 months on each of them.
4. REMEMBER ALWAYS TO DISTRIBUTE
You will have quite a bit of finished products since the time period your
employees need to make one product is only 14 days. When a product is
finished, always remember to distribute it. I always put $1,000 higher
than the cost and the mass production (Yield) is 1,000,000. With this
method, you'll get profit $50,000/product in average.
5. 2nd YEAR: LISTING YOUR COMPANY
I have around $1,500,000 by the beginning of the third year. It's time to
list your company in public. Go to 'Securities and Bond' and listing your
company, once you click 'List' a menu box pops up showing how many stocks
will be listed, how many stocks you will earn, and how much is the value
for each stock. Once you listed your company, you can see from the right
bottom screen where you usually see the amount money you have, right now
it blinks and repeatedly showing your Stock Value (SV). You need to keep
watching it. ^_^
6. STOCK VALUE RANKING
If you want to see your company stock value, go to 'Securities and Bond'
and choose 'Buy Stock'. The Brown Company should be in the bottom list.
By the way, at the beginning you Stock Value is 1,800,000.
This list shows the current price of your stock, closing price, and
trading volume. Now, if the 'Closing Price' is shown in a positive value,
it indicates that your company stock value goes up by that points, which's
good. You don't want to get minus value on closing price.
7. MAKE YOUR EMPLOYEES HAPPY
Now that you listed your company, you need to make your employees happy
because it's part of the internal factor which effect the Stock Value.
I frequently throw Dinner Meeting and Picnic so they're always in good
condition and their loyalty always sky high. Don't forget one thing, it's
not hurt to give them gifts, as a matter a fact, I always give them gifts.
Remember to give them gifts that benefit you, for example; give gift that
has Intelligence Skill bonus to an employee who works in Development
Department. And give gifts that has Charm Skill to employees that work in
PR Department.
8. LEVEL 2 PRODUCTS
It's time to make level 2 products since your company went public now.
If you keep making level 1 products as I suggested earlier, you will have
the ability to make level 2 and 3 product by now. You only need three
employees to make one level 2 product. There is one employee left with
nothing to do, transfer him/her to Administrative Department. It's time to
do donation/charities. I prefer to do donation type of charities that
don't require that much of physical activity.
9. KEEP TRACK OF THE RANKING
I'm watching my company SV ranking. It changes every month. For the first
few months (January-March, 2nd year), there is nothing much of different.
If you want to check your company ranking, as usual go to 'Securities and
Bond', click on 'TOP 100'and then click on 'Stock Value'. You will see the
company who has the highest Stock Value should be in the first place.
The SV is changing quite significantly in April which is 2,050,000
and it's in 7th place of the listing company. It's changing again in May
to 3,060,000 which is put me to 5th place. ^_^
In June the Stock Value reached 3,600,000 and in 4th place with $2,700,000
money in the pocket. Almost there!!
Finaly, in August the Stock Value reached 4,410,000 and I'm in third place.
The mission is completed automatically once you have your Stock Value in
third rank of TOP 100.
10. SPECIAL APPEARANCE
From time to time, you will a beggar or a thief comes to your office.
There is nothing you could do to prevent this even though the game manual
says that you could prevent this by assign someone with excessive
Management Skill, but that's the thing, I assume the game manual
translated into English without changing it. There is no Honesty and
Management Skill. I draw conclusion that Management is the same as Control
and Honesty is the same Sincerity just because these are the skills that
replaced that skill positions.
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_________________________| 5 ~ TO SUCCEED OR NOT |_________________________
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Company : Orange
The President: Fisher
Fisher majored in Business Administration in university. He has lived by
I would rather be a penniless bum than ordinary salary man.
Someday he inherited his distant relatives company that is an insolvent
enterprise. Fisher has had great desire to be a manager so he decide to
enter into business after recognize the finance condition in the company.
Mission: Please try to pay back the company's bank loan of five hundred
thousand dollars within 8 years.
Start with: Date(y/m/d): 3-02-05
$94,802
19x19 office space
Office Rent : $3,610
Cleaner Cost: $1,805
Product: - Lv 1 Game Software
Lv 2 Game Software
- Lv 1 Business Software
- Lv 1 Sport Equipment
Lv 2 Sport Equipment
Company Employees with Their Respective Skills:
+-------------+------------------------+
| Employees | INT DEV ART CHA |
+-------------+------------------------+
| Linda K.K. | 53 63 43 39 |
| Heather | 26 8 63 64 |
| V.Sant | 45 58 1 70 |
| Leslie | 42 61 44 23 |
| Juhi | 20 17 63 6 |
| Tricky | 1 18 11 42 |
| Ruggiero | 16 26 33 34 |
| Matt | 5 8 39 50 |
+-------------+------------------------+
Default Office Map Appearance:
+--------6--------+ +-----4-----+
+-----------------+ +--+-DOOR+--+
|Sf|Bn|C |CH|T |CH| | | |VM|
|--+--|. |--+--+--+ |R | +--|
| |OC|OF| |CH| | |C | |As|
| +--+. + +--+ | |H | +--+--------+ -+
| |D | | | | |VM| AQ |PL| |
+--------+-- +--+ +--|-----+--+ +--+-----+--| |
|UR| | |D |PL|PL|FE| |SC|Hm|SC| |
|-----+ |S |--+--+--+ +--+--+--| |
|Bn| D |R | | |
|--+ |--+--------+-D+--+--+ +--------| 6
|TL| |BN|T |C | | ST | |
+--------+--|. | +--------| |
|OC|OF| | |
|--|. | +--------| |
| |D | | B. Co | |
| +--+ +--------| -+
| |HH| | |
| +-----+ +-----+ +--+ +--+ |
| (1) | D D | D |L | 3
|--+--+--+ +--+ +--+ +--+ +--+ +--| |
|SC|As|SC| |TL| |UR| |TL| |AQ| | |
+--------+ +--------------+ +--------+ -+
///////////| |//////////////| |///////////
//+--------+-DOOR+--------+//+-----+ +--------+ -+
//|T |OF. D| |C.OF. D |//| T | |OC|OF| |
//+--+-----+ +--------|//|-----+ +--|. | |
//| |OC| |OC| |//|OF| |D | |
+--------+//| +--+ +--+ |//|. |--+ +-----| |
|BS|Cb|BS|//| |//|D |OC| | T | |
|--+--+--+--+ +--|//+--+--+ +-----| |
| |HE|/////| |CL|//// 7
| +-----+ +--+--|//+-----+ +--+--+ |
| |//| | |OC| |//| T | |OC|OF| |
| (1) |//|T |-----+-----+-----|T |//|-----+ +--|. | |
| |//| |OF. D| STE |OF. D| |//|OF| |D | |
| +--+ |//+-----------------------+//|. |--+--+--+-----| |
| |L | |/////////////////////////////|D |OC|PI|HH| T | |
+--------+/////////////////////////////+-----------------+ -+
+----3---+ +----------8------------+ +---------6-------+
Abbreviations Definition in alphabetical order:
AQ - Aquarium L - Lamp
As - Ashtray OC - Office Chair
B.Co - Big Couch OF.D - Office Desk
Bn - Bin PI - Paper Incinerator
BN - Basin PL - Plant
BS - Book Shelf RCH - Resting Chair
Cb - Cabinet SC - Small Couch
C.OF.D - Computer Office Desk Sf - Safe
CH - Chair ST - Sofa Table
CL - Clock TL - Toilet
D - Single Door T - Table
DOOR - Double Door VM - Vending Machine
DSR - Dresser UR - Urinal
FE - Fire Extinguisher
HE - Heater
HH - Humidifier Heater
Hm - Humidifier
How to complete it:
1. CHOICES TO EXPAND OR NOT (1)
For this mission, I didn't maximize the space since the office is big
and full of things already. One thing is missing though, it's a bed. Put
couple of beds, there are empty rooms(1). I deleted the door at the left
bottom corner of the map and put double bed over there. I also deleted
the small couchs and an ashtray to put another bed over there.
2. MAKING PRODUCTS
You don't have lots of money, only $90,000+. Therefore, don't make high
level products. The best choice is to make level 1 business software. It's
cheap ($1,380 more or less) and a short term project(only 10 days prior to
completion). Plus, you only need two employees to finish the project, in
that case, you could make several of products at the same time.
3. DISTRIBUTE
Okay, you know the drill by now. However, for the first time, you can only
make 500,000 products for $70,000+. Be patient, the first few months, you
can only distribute few products. Once the first products' income comes in
wait until your money reached $90,000+ then distribute the second product
for another 500,000-700,000 mass production.
4. SETTLE IN
By now, your company has a lot of products waiting to be distributed and
steady income from several products that you've been distributed. If you
waited until your money reached $130,000+ you could distribute 1,000,000
products. You'll get more profit this way, around $120,000 per product.
Surprisingly, I thought this last mission would be a difficult one. But
I did it in no time and I didn't find it hard at all.
I waited until my money get $140,000+ then distribute for 1,000,000.
I repeated this again and again.
By June, 3rd year, I paid $100,000. I paid another $100,000 in August.
And last I paid the rest of the loan in September also I still have a good
couple of hundreds thousand dollars in my pocket.
5. HILARIOUS APPEARANCES
Through out the mission, I found something funny. Your company situation's
that you have a loan to pay off. Now if you paid it gradually, on several
occasions creditors show up and harass you (sort of) so you'll pay them
faster. It's funny because the creditors dress in black suit like they're
in the mafia or something like that and carrying either a baseball bat or
a chair. What they did is even funnier. For a man who carries a chair,
he'll bash the chair again and again, same thing goes to the baseball bat.
It was so funny, even though your employees did not acknowledge their
existence. ^_^
That's all guys. You finished all the missions. Congratulations! Personally,
I think this game gives us insight on how the business world is working. You
will have better understanding about product making, mass production, all the
things that related to it, and last but not least stocks which I find it
quite stimulating. I know this game is made to be easy enough (read: simple)
for us to understand, but hey, it works for me. ^_^
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These are the cities that available for you. The cities are the same either
play missions scenarios or custom scenario. If you play missions scenario,
you'll automatically get office space, of course with default space too.
However you can expand/move to bigger office if you want, just click 'Valley'
on the main toolbars.
In the custom scenario, you can choose 3 different cities each with different
atmosphere. Beware though, there are several bigger office that cheaper just
because of the location, and it goes the other way around too, there are
several smaller office that cost higher just because its location.
Here's I put every city map to give you a good idea on which city part best
for building your 'empire'.
Note: - I didn't use a proportional map size as it's hard to put exact size
or exact proportion of the map.
- As you can see there are some small office spaces that are
considerably big in size, just because some of these offices have
luxury such as swimming pool, big parking lots, park, and
tennis court.
- There are some small office spaces with rent space higher than some
of the bigger spaces, just because either it has luxury or its
location is in business area or in the center of the map.
/'------------------'\
| A ~ VENTURE VALLEY |
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This city has a lot more tall buildings.
Coming Soon
/'---------------'\
| B ~ SOFT VALLEY |
\'---------------'/
This city doesn't have many sky crappers. When you see this city, it gives
the country feeling in it, sort of like suburban city.
| | .----------------------.
| |---------. | ??x?? = Office Space |
| | 24x24 | | $?? = Rent per yard|
| | $3 | '----------------------'
| |------------.-----.
| | 38x38 |25x25|
|R| $6 | $3 |
| |------------| |
___________|O|__________ '-----'
, `. _________________________
| ________ A ________ | | ___ |
| |________| |________| | | ,-' `._ |
| D | | / \ |
`.__________ ___________/ | | | |
| | | | .' '. |
| |31x31|-----. | | | |
| | $8 | | | | STADIUM | |
| | |14x14| | \ / |
| |-----| $8 | | \ / |
| | |-----| | \ / |
--------------. | |28x28|23x23| | `. ,' |
------------. `. | | $9 | $6 | | `.___.- |
|32x32| `. | | | | | | |
| $5 | | |_____| |_____________________________ PARKING|
'-----' | ___________________________________ `. LOTS | | |
.-----. .-----| | | | | `. ' | | |
|15x15| |30x30|R|25x25| | 29x29 |----------------. |R|-------,------| |
| $4 | | $8 | | $10 | | $10 | ` | | 20x20 | 23x23| |
------' | |O| | '-------| BIG PARK | |O| $9 | $7 | |
| '_____| |-----| |28x28 | & | | | | | |
| | |A|19x19| | $10 | PARKING LOTS , |A|-------,------| |
| |33x33| | $10 | | | ---------------' | | | | |C
POWER| | $8 |D|-----| '------' |D| 32x32 |36x36 | |O
PLANT| | | | | ............................. | | $9 | $8 | |N
| '-----| |25x25| | ,-'''-. | . ._____________| |T
| |27x27| | $12 | | ,' `. | `_______________ |I
| | $8 | | | | | 48x48 | PARKING |---------------- | |N
| '-----| |-----| | '. $13 .' LOTS | 22x22 | 27x27 | | |U
| | |15x15| | `. ,' | $10 | $10 | | |E
| | | $10 | | `-...-' | | | , ,
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--------------------------------------. .-----------------. .------. , M
|30x30 | 30x30|26x26| |26x26|25x25|30x30| |28x28| `. ` A
| $6 | $7 | $10 | | $11 | $11 | $10 | | $6 | | | P
| | | | | | | | | | |R|
'------'------'-----| |-----'-----'-----| |-----' | | B
| | 28x28 | |29x29|-----|23x23| |17x17| |O| E
|32x32| $7 | | $11 |30x30| $9 | | $8 | | | L
| $7 |--------| | | $9 | | |-----' |A| O
| | 24| 24 | '-----------------' | | | W
'-----|x24|x24 | .-----------------. |------. |D|
|$5 | $6 | | | |19x19 | | |
| | | |-----.------. | | $8 | | |
'---'----| |22x22| 26x26| | |------' | |
| | $7 | $8 | | | | |
| | | | | |---.---. | .
| |-----.------' | |13x|36x| `. `--
| | | | | 13|36 | `---
| |39x39| | |$4 |$5 |
| | $5 | | |---| |
| | | | | |------.
| |-----' .------| |---| |
| | |18x18 | |25x| 31x31|
| | | $6 | | 25| $5 |
| | | | | $7| |
| | .------| |---'------'
| | |28x|
|10x10 | |28 |
| $4 | | $6|
'------| |---'
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~CONTINUE MAP~
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| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |------.-----.
| |35x35 |36x36|
| | $7 | $5 |
______| |------'-----'
______ |37x37 |18x18|
| | $8 | $8 |
| |------'-------
| | |14x|10x|14x|
, , |14 |10 |14 |
-----/ / |$5 |$5 |$4 |
--. , '---'---'---'
`. ` .-----.
| |------------------|16x16|
|R|14x14|11x11| | $4 |
| | $7 | $5 |17x17 |-----'
|O|-----.-----| $4 |25x25|
| |16x16|12x12|------' $4 |
|A| $6 | $6 | '-----'
| |-----'-----'
|D|15x15|
| | $6 |
| |-----'---.
| |14x14/$6 |
| |---------.
| . 10x10/$6|
`. `-----------------------
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| C ~ FUTURE VALLEY |
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As the name says, this city looks so futuritic.
Coming Soon
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| D ~ MOVING OFFICE |
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You could move to another office space if you think the current office isn't
adequate for your company. To do that, click 'Valley' and choose which
office space you desired, then click 'Move'.
Keep in mind that if you moved to a bigger office space, your items/furnitues
will be carried over. That isn't the case if you moved to smaller space, the
furnitures/items will be deleted and you have to redesign your office again.
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The maps above are a good guidance if you want to play custom scenario. You
can choose between three cities which one that suits the best to start your
'Empire'. You can choose which product you want to make also have the freedom
to choose 'yourself' as a CEO since in mission scenarios you have fixed CEO
that act as you. Each character has strengths and weaknesses. I personally
always choose character that has medium/high intelligence and control.
I don't mind having weak physical skill since I can manipulate that by
'golfing'. ^_^ However, you have limited amount of money at the beginning.
You have to build your company from the ground up, in other words you're
renting an empty office space.
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| A ~ STATISTIC AND CHARACTERS |
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~~~~~<< 1 ~ WHERE TO BEGIN >>~~~~~
Start with: $100,000
choose which product you desired
choose a character as CEO of the company(you) and name him/her
named your company
choose your office
~~~~~<< 2 ~ CHARACTERS >>~~~~~
+--------------------------------+----+-----+-----+
| Description | Ph | Cha | Con |
+--------------------------------+----+-----+-----+
| A guy with light brown hair | 60 | 88 | 32 |
| An old man with glasses | 53 | 35 | 92 |
| A guy with black hair | 57 | 58 | 65 |
| A cheerful lady with pink hair | 89 | 54 | 37 |
| A sexy lady with brown hair | 45 | 93 | 42 |
| A lady with blue hair | 70 | 24 | 86 |
+--------------------------------+----+-----+-----+
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This toolbar function is to decorate your office with equipments and
facilities. There are items still locks until you reach certain point of
the game or certain achievement to be met.
+-----------------+
| 1 - Floors List |
+-----------------+
+---------------------------------+
| Lists | Price |
+-------------------------+-------+
| Concrete Floor | $ 1 |
| Steel Floor | $ 2 |
| Glass Fiber Floor | $ 3 |
| Chestnut Floor | $ 4 |
| Art. Marble Floor | $24 |
| Oak Floor | $ 6 |
| Maple Floor | $ 7 |
| Ocher Floor | $ 8 |
| Urethane Floor | $ 5 |
| Epoxy Floor | $10 |
| Wood Floor | $11 |
| Gadolinium Floor | $12 |
| Bio-Plaster Floor | $ 9 |
| Art. Granite Floor | $20 |
| Nat. Granite Floor | $40 |
| Nat. Marble Floor | $50 |
| Cork Floor | $13 |
| Carpet Floor 1 (Brown) | $36 |
| Carpet Floor 2 (Blue) | $48 |
| Carpet Floor 3 (Green ) | $80 |
+---------------------------------+
+---------------------------------------+
| 2 - Walls, Doors, and Partitions List |
+---------------------------------------+
+---------------------------------+
| Lists | Price |
+-------------------------+-------+
| Concrete Wall | $ 3 |
| Bio-Plaster Wall | $ 4 |
| Glass Fiber Wall | $ 5 |
| Lumber Wall | $10 |
| Brick Wall | $20 |
| Glass Wall | $30 |
| Mineral Wall | $40 |
| Pulpwood Wall | $25 |
| Lime Wall 1 (Green) | $35 |
| Lime Wall 1 (Blue) | $45 |
| Lime Wall 1 (Red) | $57 |
| Glass Door | $10 |
| Aluminium Door | $12 |
| Steel-Barred Door | $14 |
| Pulpwood Door | $30 |
| Iron Door | $18 |
| Wood Door | $16 |
| Glass Door 2 | $18 |
| Aluminium Door 2 | $21 |
| Steel-Barred Door | $25 |
| Wood Door 2 | $28 |
| Iron Door 2 | $32 |
| Green Partition | $12 |
| Window Partition 1 | $ 7 |
| Striped Partition | $ 8 |
| Pink Partition | $12 |
| Window Partition 2 | $ 9 |
| Plain Partition 1 | $ 6 |
| Normal Partition | $10 |
| High-Class Partition | $15 |
| Plain Partition 2 | $ 8 |
| Restroom Partition | $ 5 |
| Steel Panel | $22 |
| Acryloyl Panel | $28 |
+---------------------------------+
+---------------------------+
| 3 - Desks and Chairs List |
+---------------------------+
+---------------------------------+
| Lists | Price |
+-------------------------+-------+
| Straw Basket Chair | $ 4 |
| Rotating Armchair | $ 8 |
| High-Class Armchair | $13 |
| Double-Back Chair | $35 |
| Gliding Chair 1 | $ 5 |
| Gliding Chair 2 | $ 7 |
| Gliding Chair 3 | $11 |
| Folding Chair | $ 2 |
| Normal Chair | $ 3 |
| Office Chair | $ 4 |
| High-Back Chair | $ 3 |
| Iron Chair | $ 1 |
| High-Quality Chair | $24 |
| Leather Chair | $19 |
| Chestnut Desk | $ 6 |
| Teak Desk 1 | $ 7 |
| Circular Desk 1 | $ 8 |
| Iron Desk | $ 5 |
| Black-Master Desk | $14 |
| Gus Desk | $30 |
| System Desk 1 | $52 |
| System Desk 2 | $70 |
| Pulpwood Desk | $26 |
| Teak Desk 2 | $17 |
| Circular Desk 2 | $20 |
| Chestnut Table | $16 |
| Iron Table | $14 |
| Oak Table | $18 |
| Pulpwood Table | $32 |
| Circular Table | $30 |
| Striped Table | $ 8 |
| Small Table | $ 7 |
| High-Quality Table | $27 |
| Extra Desk | $ 7 |
| Extra Table | $ 6 |
+---------------------------------+
+---------------------+
| 4 - Furniture List |
+---------------------+
+----------------------------------+
| Lists | Price |
+-------------------------+--------+
| Modern Bed | $20 |
| Iron Bed | $15 |
| Field Bed | $ 7 |
| Ondol Bed | $60 |
| Leather Sofa 1 | $37 |
| Leather Sofa 2 | $100 |
| Art. Leather Sofa 1 | $24 |
| Art. Leather Sofa 2 | $70 |
| Cloth Sofa 1 | $26 |
| Cloth Sofa 2 | $75 |
| Resting Chair 1 | $ 4 |
| Resting Chair 2 | $ 6 |
| Bookshelf 1 | $10 |
| Bookshelf 2 | $11 |
| Bookshelf 3 | $12 |
| Pulpwood Cabinet 1 | $40 |
| Pulpwood Cabinet 2 | $28 |
| Iron Cabinet 1 | $16 |
| Wood Cabinet | $34 |
| Iron Cabinet 2 | $ 7 |
| Personal Cabinet | $15 |
| Pulpwood Wardrobe | $23 |
| VIP Dresser | $55 |
| File Cabinet 1 | $ 2 |
| File Cabinet 2 | $ 3 |
| Multipurpose Bed | $10 |
| Classical Double Bed | $25 |
| Water Double Bed | $50 |
| Ondol Double Bed | $80 |
| Telephone Stand | $35 |
| Wood Table (Sofa) | $14 |
| Glass Table (Sofa) | $12 |
| Pulpwood Table (Sofa) | $30 |
| Quality Table (Sofa) | $50 |
| Modern Table (Sofa) | $45 |
+---------------------------------+
+----------------------+
| 5 - Electronics List |
+----------------------+
+----------------------------------+
| Lists | Price |
+-------------------------+--------+
| Coffee VM | $300 |
| Coffee Maker | $ 10 |
| Drink VM | $400 |
| Water Purifier | $ 55 |
| Duplicator | $400 |
| Printer | $ 40 |
| Facsimile | $ 50 |
| Scanner | $ 30 |
| White Board | $ 8 |
| Switchboard Phone | $ 5 |
| General Phone | $ 3 |
| Wireless Phone | $ 15 |
| Large Printer | $300 |
| Paper Incinerator | $ 70 |
| Large TV | $300 |
| Large HDTV | $400 |
| VTR | $ 50 |
| Large Refrigerator | $190 |
| Small Refrigerator | $ 25 |
| Humidifier | $ 8 |
| Large Audio | $ 80 |
| Small Audio | $ 40 |
| Fan | $ 25 |
| Air Conditioner (S) | $ 70 |
| Air Conditioner (M) | $120 |
| Air Conditioner (L) | $200 |
| Desktop Computer 1 | $250 |
| Desktop Computer 2 | $400 |
| Laptop Computer | $500 |
| Computer Set 1 | $450 |
| Computer Set 2 | $420 |
| Computer Set 3 | $550 |
| Warm Air Circulator | $ 80 |
| Heater | $ 80 |
| Humidified Heater | $ 30 |
+---------------------------------+
+--------------------+
| 6 - Restrooms List |
+--------------------+
+----------------------------------+
| Lists | Price |
+-------------------------+--------+
| Western Toilet Bowl | $14 |
| Siphon Toilet Bowl | $18 |
| Bidet Toilet Bowl | $22 |
| Basin | $10 |
| Supportive Basin | $15 |
| Water Saving Basin | $20 |
| Public Basin | $40 |
| Urinal | $ 8 |
| High Quality Urinal | $12 |
| Toilet Paper | $ 1 |
| White Towel | $ 2 |
| Yellow Towel | $ 3 |
| Blue Towel | $ 4 |
| Silk Towel | $10 |
| Shelf for Restroom | $50 |
+----------------------------------+
+----------------------+
| 7 - Decorations List |
+----------------------+
+----------------------------------+
| Lists | Price |
+-------------------------+--------+
| Benjamina | $ 5 |
| Aloe | $ 9 |
| Cactus | $ 3 |
| Cycad | $ 8 |
| Insectivorous plant | $ 2 |
| Monster deliciosa | $ 6 |
| Rhapia flabelliformis | $ 7 |
| Small apple tree | $ 10 |
| Butterfly orchid | $ 6 |
| China rose | $ 4 |
| Lucky wood | $ 5 |
| Hule | $ 1 |
| Fire extinguisher | $ 15 |
| Diet go-go | $ 1 |
| A water mill | $ 20 |
| A household | $ 80 |
| The Monalisa |$50,000 |
| Shiek |$20,000 |
| No title | $ 12 |
| Continental nature | $ 32 |
| Dash off in a brush | $ 40 |
| Clothes hanger | $ 3 |
| Safe | $ 80 |
| Electronic Safe | $250 |
| Fingerprint Safe | $700 |
| Speech Safe | $3,000 |
| Square clock | $ 5 |
| Cuckoo clock | $ 15 |
| Silver clock | $100 |
| Gold clock | $300 |
| Floor clock | $800 |
| Tissue | $ 3 |
| Brown waste basket | $ 1 |
| White waste basket | $ 2 |
| Yellow waste basket | $ 3 |
| Blue waste basket | $ 4 |
| Wall mirror | $ 5 |
| Stand mirror | $ 12 |
| Ashtray | $ 5 |
| High quality ashtray | $ 8 |
| Small aquarium | $ 50 |
| Large aquarium | $105 |
| CD cabinet 1 | $ 50 |
| CD cabinet 2 | $ 60 |
| Illumination | $ 30 |
+----------------------------------+
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| A ~ EMPLOYEES PLACEMENT |
\'-----------------------'/
When you hire employees, they will automatically hang around outside your
office. Now they will complain instantly, saying 'Where is my seat?'
Here's step by step description on how to place your employees:
1. Now, buy desks and computers for them.
2. Right click on the desk, it'll show you to either 'delete, info, repair'.
3. Choose info, it'll take you to another menu box with the names of your
employees.
4. All the employees with 'X' mark mean that you haven't put them on their
station yet.
5. Highlighted one employee who has 'X' mark.
6. Click the chair picture which means you place him/her to that desk.
/'------------------------'\
| B ~ EMPLOYEES ASSIGNMENT |
\'------------------------'/
When you want to make a product, you need to assign employees on the
Department. Here's step by step on how to assign your employees:
1. Choose 'Management Department' on the toolbars menu.
2. Now, you're in the menu where you can see:
+-----+-----+-----+------+----+
| Rch | Dev | Adm | Dist | PR |
+-------------------------+ +-----------------------------+
| Employees |Skill| | Name |Skill|
+-------------------+-----+--------|-----------------------------+
| Guillaume | | All -> | | |
| Kathleen | | | | |
| Matt | | ---> | | |
| Selvi | | | | |
| | | <--- | | |
| | | | | |
| | | All <- | | |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
3. Highlighted the employees' names.
4. Choose the Department you want your employee/s to be assigned.
The departments are:
** Research Department
This is where you want to expand your business. If you want to have
another product, put your employees in the Research Department.
Assign employees who have the skills need in Intelligence(INT)
and Development(DEV).
** Development Department
This is where you can assign your employees to work on the project to
make new products. The product has level of goods, period of making,
and cost of making. Each level is different. The skills that employees
need are Intelligence(INT), Development(DEV), and Art(ART).
** Administrative Department
This is where you can assign your employees to do charities. The skill
that employees need is Physical(PH). By far, this department is the
easiest one consider you could manipulate employees physical by
buying them 'Dinner Meeting' even though it goes up only 5 points but
it effects all employees and it's cheap too, only $60 each time.
** Distribution Department
Once the product is finished, you have to distribute it in order for
you to gain profit. Don't let it waste in your warehouse!!!
(By the way, when I talked warehouse, it doesn't mean you have a
warehouse, just a logic thinking: products ---> a warehouse.
So don't email me asking 'Where is the warehouse?')
The skill that employees need is Sales(SAL). Too bad I can't find a
specific menu that shown the exact number of Sales skill that your
employees have. It's only shown in bar chart in the Distribution
Department. One more thing, you don't need to put someone in the
this department if you don't want to sell the right of your product
to another company.
** PR Department
Every good company has good advertising in order for them to be
recognised by the people aka future costumers.
5. Click 'Select' for individual assignment or 'Select all' to assign all
of them.
6. Be smart on assigning employees. Don't waste employees skills, for example,
don't put employee with high skill points on Intelligence in the PR
Department, you're wasting his/her intelligence skill.
You have to see where their skills have the highest points.
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| A ~ SKILLS |
\'----------'/
Every employee has their own strength and weaknesses. It is hard to find
employee that has all the skills with high points. You have to decide which
departments you want to assign your future employees before hiring.
After that, you have to choose wisely who you will hire as you can not get
all high skills points within one person. The skill points are shown in
the skill chart and the skill shows in a vertical bar shape. The higher
the points of the respective skill, the bar will be shown taller.
Here's how it looks like:
100 ------------------------------------------------
| |
90 + +
| ___ |
80 -------------------------------------|L|--------
| |O| |
70 + |Y| +
| ___ | | ___ |
60 ------------|I|----------------------| |--|S|---
| ___ |N| ___ | | |I| |
50 + |P| |T| |D| | | |N| +
| |H| ___ | | |E| | | | | |
40 --| |--|C|--| |-------|V|------------| |--| |---
| | | |O| | | ___ | | ___ | | | | |
30 + | | |N| | | |C| | | |A| | | | | +
| | | | | | | |H| | | ___ |R| | | | | |
20 --| |--| |--| |--|A|--| |--|S|--|T|--| |--| |---
| | | | | | | | | | | |A| | | | | | | |
10 + | | | | | | | | | | |L| | | | | | | +
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
------------------------------------------------
Description on the abbreviations:
PH - Physical ~~ Red
It shows how much strength each of employee has; keep in mind that in
the game you can boost this physical skill. See section 'Self Control'
for the explanation on the skill boosting. Employees'll complain more
they worn out, and in worst case scenario(assuming the office working
environment is not helping either) they will resign.
CON - Control ~~ Orange
An employee who has high points of Control Skill is best for 'Manager'
position. An office without manager will give you thieves and spies
appearances from time to time.
INT - Intelligence ~~ Yellow
You need smart brains within your company to create good product.
Also it's a plus to have someone with high intelligence for creating
product, if you want to make a product with higher level. This skill
needed in the Project Department and Development Department. By far,
most of the products need higher points of Intelligence Skill than
Development and Art Skills.
CHA - Charm ~~ Green
You need this skill for advertising your company. If want to put an
add, you need 'Marketing' which means charm skill. The higher
the value the better s/he will be in the PR Department. Another
Department that needs this skill is Distribution but if only you want
to sell the rights of your product.
DEV - Development ~~ Light Blue
Employees with decent development skill are always good to have.
This skill needed for the Project Department and Development
Department. This skill's the second most needed in the product making.
SAL - Sales ~~ Medium Blue
Sales oriented employees are needed for the Distribution Department if
only you want to sell the product' right, in other words, if you don't
want to be bothered from selling the product yourself, you could sell
the right/licence of that product to other company.
However, be sure to place employees with high Sales points so you will
have a good deal.
ART - Art ~~ Dark Blue
You only need this skill to make product. Some of the products
required a high or at least good Art Skill. There aren't too many
products that need high points of Art, but I know for sure that Game
Software and Clothes need higher points of Art than other products.
LOY - Loyalty ~~ Purple
Loyalty is important for the company. High Loyalty points means high
motivation and loyal to the company (so far I have not found my
employees quit, so I don't know if employees could either be bought by
other company or simply quit.
SIN - Sincerity ~~ Pink
This skill shows how motivate an employee to do her/his job without
playing around (taking nap all the time or sleep on their desk).
An employee who has higher points in this skill will work hard and
avoid unnecessary break/rest.
/'-------------------'\
| B ~ BOSSTING SKILLS |
\'-------------------'/
There are ways for you to boost your employees skills. The best way is to
give them present/gift. There is toolbar on the main panel toolbars called
'Item', this is where you buy all the items you want to give your employees.
Each item represents each skill and you can't give your employees more than
one item.
I listed all the items based on the skill charts order:
+----------------------+-----------------+--------+
| Items | Boosting Skills | Cost |
+----------------------+-----------------+--------+
| Vitamin C | Ph 10 | $ 40 |
| Sport Club Tickets | Ph 17 | $ 82 |
|----------------------|-----------------|--------|
| Rule of Life | Con 10 | $ 40 |
| Electronic Note | Con 17 | $ 83 |
|----------------------|-----------------|--------|
| New Economies Report | Int 10 | $ 40 |
| Encyclopaedia | Int 17 | $ 85 |
|----------------------|-----------------|--------|
| Pager | Cha 10 | $ 40 |
| High Class Stickpin | Cha 17 | $ 86 |
|----------------------|-----------------|--------|
| High Class Keyboard | Dev 10 | $ 40 |
| DVD Player | Dev 17 | $ 85 |
|----------------------|-----------------|--------|
| Mouthwash | Sal 10 | $ 40 |
| A Life of S.S. Lee | Sal 17 | $ 81 |
|----------------------|-----------------|--------|
| Wireless Wheel Mouse | Art 10 | $ 40 |
| MP3 Player | Art 17 | $ 88 |
+----------------------+-----------------+--------+
If you gave your employees item, it's not only their skill got higher but
also their loyalty. It is always good to add extra points to your employees,
it could means between hire more employee or not necessarily.
There's another way to boost skill in a small way and it's limited to
physical and loyalty. Go to 'Staff Management' and you'll see small pictures
of 'food and drink' and 'boat'.
+-----------------------+-------------------+--------+
| Names | Boosting Skills | Cost |
+-----------------------+-------------------+--------+
| Dinner Meeting | Physical 5 points | $ 60 |
| Picnic | Loyalty 5 points | $120 |
+-----------------------+-------------------+--------+
For Sincerity Skill, you could have your employees gain points on Sincerity
Skill if you had them worked on charities. I'm not sure how many points you
will get.
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| A ~ DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT |
\'--------------------------'/
This is the HEART of the company. You could not possibly survive without
making a product. You have to start right away to make products otherwise
you can't get money soon. The menu box should be like this:
+-----+-----+
| 1 | 2 |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
| ------------- | Employees Names | Skills |
| | /\ | |-------------------|--------|
| --------------------- | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| |-------------------| | | |
| | Product Name | | | |
| --------------------- | | |
| | \/ | | | |
| ------------ | | |
| | | |
| Level : ... | | |
| Name : ... | | |
| Period: ... | | |
| Cost : ... | | |
|Int:../???Dev:../???Art:../??| | |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
Description: 1 - Choosing the product
2 - Work In Progress
??? - The required skill points
Each product has default cost and every time you highlighted an employee the
cost will go up. The best thing is to find the cheapest combination so later
on when you want to distribute that product, you will have the chance to make
more mass production with less total cost. You need employees with
Intelligence, Development, and Art Skills. Try to
find employees who have three of these skill with considerably high points.
If you do so, it will save you money of production. The higher the level of
a product you wish to make, the longer the period of the project and the
higher skill points needed. One more thing, make sure you don't overworked
your employees, if you did the project will take longer to finish than you'd
expect. Even though through out the game I never have this problem because I
tried to make them happy.
/'--------------------'\
| B ~ R & D DEPARTMENT |
\'--------------------'/
If you bore because you make the same product over and over again, you can
make a completely new product but you have to do research first. You'd be
able to do research if your current product reached level 3. The menu box
should be like this:
+-----+-----+
| 1 | 2 |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
| ------------- | Employees Names | Skills |
| | /\ | |-------------------|--------|
| --------------------- | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
| |-------------------| | | |
| | Product Name | | | |
| --------------------- | | |
| | \/ | | | |
| ------------ | | |
| | | |
|Int: ../??? Dev: ../??? | | |
+----------------------------------------------------------+
Description: 1 - Choosing the product
2 - Work In Progress
??? - The required skill points
Choose the product you wish to make and employees who will work on the
project. MUST REMEMBER one thing though, that you have to keep track your
employees who are working on research project. Why? Because you need to
monitor their physical skill. Don't let it reach 0 (zero). Once it reach
zero, the project will be suspended until that employee' physical skill goes
up again. However, the period your need to complete the project goes up by
the amount of time when the project was suspended. If the project suspended
more than three times, you'll get failure result. There's another reason why
the project failed, that is if you ran out of money.
+-----------------------+-----+-----+----------+
| Research | Int | Dev | Period |
+-----------------------+-----+-----+----------+
| Game Software | 390 | 440 | 200 days |
| Business Software | 390 | 440 | 200 days |
| Sports Equipment | 390 | 290 | 175 days |
| Education Textbooks | 440 | 140 | 125 days |
| Children Toys | 340 | 240 | 107 days |
| Clothes | 440 | 90 | 125 days |
| Military Products | 640 | 690 | 225 days |
| Pharmaceutical Goods | 590 | 490 | 275 days |
| Electronic Appliances | 540 | 540 | 237 days |
+----------------------------------------------+
The cost of each product varies. It depends on the employees that you assign
to make that product.
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| C ~ ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT |
\'-----------------------------'/
A company known as Community oriented is a good advertisement itself. You can
assign your employees to do charity benefits for the society. You need
employees with excessive physical. Do not worry though, you could
manipulate this skill, see section VII for detail. Basically, it has two type
of charity; Money Oriented Charities and Physical Oriented Charities.
The first one, you can spend money on helping or donating for Food Banks or
Charity Donation that help unfortunate people. The second one, you need
execissive physical ability to execute this one. You have your employees
volunteer in the Environment Protection(it's more like demonstration to me,
include the headband !^_^),helping on the Disaster Relief, and Blood
Donation.
If you want to increase company recognition, better of with advertising.
However, there's an advantage doing charities, employee whom you sent to
do charities will gain Sincerity Skill points.
/'---------------------------'\
| D ~ DISTRIBUTION DEPARTMENT |
\'---------------------------'/
Okay, you made products. But did you distribute it? AHA!
Don't waste the product your employees worked very hard to achieve it. There
are two ways to distribute all the finished products. First, you distribute
it yourself and second, you sell the rights(license) of your product to other
company. You don't need to assign employees if you distribute it yourself,
but you need an employee as mediator if you want to sell the rights of a
product.
There are three main bar; the first one contains all the products you've
made, the second one contains all the information of all the products that
you're distributing, and the last one is for selling the rights of the
product to other company.
In order for you to gain income considerably, do not sell the products with
high selling price, no one will buy your products that way. You could sell
it for high price but you won't sell as many if you put decent sell price.
For me and it works anyway, put the price $1,000 or $2,000(for level 2+) on
the selling price. I always put the maximum mass production (Yield) if I have
the money. It'snot the case on the level 2+ products though, you need more
money since the cost will higher than lower level products.
If you decided to sell the rights of the product. You need an employee who
has Charm and Sales Skills, remember always hire employees with high points
skills. Go to the third main bar and highlighted your employee and product
and click on 'Negotiate'. Another menu pops up. You will get a quite chunk
of money instantly this way, even though if you counted in total, the money
you earn from distributing yourself will be higher in long period of time.
/'------------------------------'\
| E ~ PUBLIC RELATION DEPARTMENT |
\'------------------------------'/
What can you do to make the world aware of your products? ADVERTISEMENT is
the answer. The more you advertise, the more people would recognize your
products and have better chance for selling more and hiring employees.
+---------------------------+---------------+------------+
| Type of Advertisement | Charm Skill | Cost/month |
+---------------------------+---------------+------------+
| Leaflets | 80 points | $ 300 |
| Newspaper | 180 points | $ 1,500 |
| Cable Broadcast | 300 points | $ 6,000 |
| Radio Broadcast | 420 points | $ 15,000 |
+---------------------------+---------------+------------+
You can use all the type of advertising if you have all the Charm Skill
needed and the money, but you can't advertise using the same method twice at
the same time. For example, you could do Leaflets, Newspaper, and Radio at
the same time, but you can't do 2 Leaflets at the same time. The maximum
amount of time you could choose would be 12 months.
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| A ~ OFFICE MANAGEMENT |
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Once a while you need to clean up your office, you can't do it by yourself.
After all, YOU are the boss. ^_~
Click 'Office Management' on the main toolbar, it'll show how much you've
to spend to clean your office. The bigger the office space you rent, the
higher the cost you'd have to spend.
/'--------------------'\
| B ~ STAFF MANAGEMENT |
\'--------------------'/
This contains all the information about your employees. It devides in three
main categories:
~~~~~<< 1 ~ EMPLOYEES INFORMATION >>~~~~~
You can see their skills and give them vacation. Highlighted the name of
the employee you wish to give a vacation. You can only give 1 day vacation
and the cost is $20 and click checkmark. You'll notice that employee will be
gone and s/he'll be back after the vacation is over.
~~~~~<< 2 ~ BONUS/GIFT/SALARY/POSITION >>~~~~~
The second categories contains all the extra stuffs that you can do to make
employees feel comfortable working at your company. Giving them position will
motivate them to work harder for the company, also their loyalty goes up too.
It recommends to give them bonus annually so in essence you have to do
anything to make them happy. You can adjust their salary and position too.
Gifts are important if you want to be appreciated by your employees no to
mention gift will give your employees extra/bonus skill. One item could only
give one bonus skill. Highlighted the employee' name and item you want to
give and click 'Ok'. However, keep in mind that your employees can only hold
one gift at a time, if you gave them another one, it will replace the old one
along with the bonus skill. You can see what kind of item they have by right
clicking the employee and choose 'Info'
~~~~~<< 3 ~ OTHER COMPANY >>~~~~~
This section use for hiring employees from other company. Personally, I
always search this section first before go to 'Job Offer' because this
section wihtout a doubt has quite range of employees, lots of them have
excessive skills. There's another reason why you should hire from this
section, you could say by hiring employees from competitor company, you
'sabotage' them. Sometimes, potential emplyees will reject your offer no
matter how much annual salary you offered. They have reason for rejecting
your offer:
a. His/her current office has better working environment than your company.
b. Your company isn't well known enough(recognition). Advertise more so the
public knows your company existence.
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| C ~ DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT |
\'-------------------------'/
Your job is not finish just because you hired employees. You need to assign
them to the department that needs their skills. See section VII.B. for full
coverage on how you assign employees.
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Every scenarios have different selection of products. Some of the scenarios,
you can even have more than one products.
In order for you to advance the next level of the product, you have to make
10 products of the current level. For example, you have level 1 of Game
Software product, make 10 of these then you have the option to make level 2
of Game Software. If you make 20 products of level 1 or 10 products of
level 2, you can get level 3 product.
The cost in the tables is a default cost. It will go higher because of your
employees. Try to find the cheaper combination you can get. The cost of
product making is essential because if you can get cheap cost, you can do
mass production a lot more.
+--------------------------------------------------+
| G A M E S O F T W A R E |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level | INT | DEV | ART | PERIOD | COST($) |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level 1 | 70 | 80 | 60 | 15 days | $ 3,000 |
| Level 2 | 150 | 170 | 130 | 25 days | $15,000 |
| Level 3 | 230 | 260 | 200 | 40 days | $27,000 |
| Level 4 | 310 | 350 | 270 | 60 days | $39,000 |
| Level 5 | 390 | 440 | 340 | 80 days | $50,000 |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
+--------------------------------------------------+
| B U S I N E S S S O F T W A R E |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level | INT | DEV | ART | PERIOD | COST($) |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level 1 | 70 | 80 | 30 | 10 days | $ 1,000 |
| Level 2 | 150 | 170 | 70 | 15 days | $ 5,000 |
| Level 3 | 230 | 260 | 110 | 30 days | $10,000 |
| Level 4 | 310 | 350 | 150 | 50 days | $15,000 |
| Level 5 | 390 | 440 | 190 | 80 days | $20,000 |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
+--------------------------------------------------+
| S P O R T S E Q U I P M E N T |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level | INT | DEV | ART | PERIOD | COST($) |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level 1 | 70 | 50 | 40 | 20 days | $ 7,000 |
| Level 2 | 150 | 110 | 90 | 30 days | $ 8,000 |
| Level 3 | 230 | 170 | 140 | 40 days | $ 9,000 |
| Level 4 | 310 | 230 | 190 | 50 days | $10,000 |
| Level 5 | 390 | 290 | 240 | 70 days | $11,000 |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
+--------------------------------------------------+
| E D U C A T I O N T E X T B O O K S |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level | INT | DEV | ART | PERIOD | COST($) |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level 1 | 80 | 20 | 30 | 14 days | $ 500 |
| Level 2 | 170 | 50 | 70 | 23 days | $ 1,000 |
| Level 3 | 260 | 80 | 110 | 32 days | $ 2,000 |
| Level 4 | 350 | 110 | 150 | 41 days | $ 4,000 |
| Level 5 | 440 | 140 | 190 | 50 days | $10,700 |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
+--------------------------------------------------+
| C L O T H E S |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level | INT | DEV | ART | PERIOD | COST($) |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level 1 | 80 | 10 | 60 | 13 days | $ 5,000 |
| Level 2 | 170 | 30 | 130 | 20 days | $10,000 |
| Level 3 | 260 | 50 | 200 | 30 days | $20,000 |
| Level 4 | 350 | 70 | 270 | 40 days | $30,000 |
| Level 5 | 440 | 90 | 340 | 50 days | $40,000 |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
+--------------------------------------------------+
| C H I L D R E N T O Y S |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level | INT | DEV | ART | PERIOD | COST($) |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level 1 | 60 | 40 | 20 | 10 days | $ 2,000 |
| Level 2 | 130 | 90 | 50 | 16 days | $ 4,000 |
| Level 3 | 200 | 140 | 80 | 25 days | $ 6,000 |
| Level 4 | 270 | 190 | 110 | 34 days | $ 8,000 |
| Level 5 | 340 | 240 | 140 | 43 days | $10,000 |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
+---------------------------------------------------+
| P H A R M A C E U T I C A L G O O D S |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+----------+---------+
| Level | INT | DEV | ART | PERIOD | COST($) |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+----------+---------+
| Level 1 | 110 | 90 | 20 | 30 days | $20,000 |
| Level 2 | 230 | 190 | 50 | 50 days | $35,000 |
| Level 3 | 350 | 290 | 80 | 70 days | $50,000 |
| Level 4 | 470 | 390 | 110 | 90 days | $65,000 |
| Level 5 | 590 | 490 | 140 | 110 days | $80,000 |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+----------+---------+
+--------------------------------------------------+
| M I L I T A R Y P R O D U C T S |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level | INT | DEV | ART | PERIOD | COST($) |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level 1 | 120 | 130 | 30 | 30 days | $10,000 |
| Level 2 | 250 | 270 | 70 | 40 days | $25,000 |
| Level 3 | 380 | 410 | 110 | 50 days | $40,000 |
| Level 4 | 510 | 550 | 150 | 70 days | $55,000 |
| Level 5 | 640 | 690 | 190 | 90 days | $70,000 |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
+--------------------------------------------------+
| E L E C T R O N I C A P P L I A N C E S |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level | INT | DEV | ART | PERIOD | COST($) |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
| Level 1 | 100 | 100 | 50 | 30 days | $12,000 |
| Level 2 | 210 | 210 | 110 | 45 days | $22,000 |
| Level 3 | 320 | 320 | 170 | 60 days | $32,000 |
| Level 4 | 430 | 430 | 230 | 75 days | $42,000 |
| Level 5 | 540 | 540 | 290 | 95 days | $52,000 |
+------------+-----+-----+-----+---------+---------+
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You need to improve yourself before you can manage your company. There are
two skills you need to improve:
1. Physical
There are 3 choices to improve this skill:
+-------------------+-----------------+------+
| Sports | Points Obtained | Cost |
+-------------------+-----------------+------+
| Free Gymnastic | 5 | $ 10 |
| Physical Training | 20 | $150 |
| Golf | 50 | $500 |
+-------------------+-----------------+------+
2. Administrative
There are 3 choices to improve this skill:
+-------------------+-----------------+------+
| Study | Points Obtained | Cost |
+-------------------+-----------------+------+
| Reading | 10 | $100 |
| Take Lectures | 20 | $300 |
| Private Lesson | 30 | $800 |
+-------------------+-----------------+------+
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Another way to earn money is by buying and selling stocks. Go to "Securities
and Bond", you can see Top 100 listing company as your guidance for the best
choice of company.
Note: The description below (from Listing to Merging), I took it from the
game manual as I don't have extensive knowledge on Securities, Bond,
and Stocks; therefore I can't express it in words better than the game
manual.
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| A ~ LISTING YOUR COMPANY |
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Requirement:
1. Must be over 2 years since you established your company.
2. The capital of the company must be over $500,000.
Listing your company is not easy. You have to know few things:
- Listing shares should be over 100,000 stocks.
- You can't increase/decrease the capital after you are listed.
- If you are not a majority shareholder, you will be deprived of the right of
management and will lose your company.
- If you become the majority shareholder in another company, you'll get that
company's employees, capital, and technologies(products).
/'----------------------------'\
| B ~ STOCKS VALUE AND CAPITAL |
\'----------------------------'/
You will have Stocks Value after your company has been listed. Stocks Value
refers to the value connected with the stocks of the company. You have seen
this value in the TOP 100.
Stocks Value and Capital determine the list of the companies, as well as
internal factors (projects, PR, etc), external factors (what happen to
business world; read newspaper), and the price of the stocks. Corporate Value
will be indicated as part of the cash in hand.
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| C ~ MERGING |
\'-----------'/
Merging happen when you become the majority shareholder of one's company and
that company will be dissolved while you'll get that company employees,
capital, and technologies.
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| D ~ KEEP THE STOCKS VALUE HIGH |
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- Keep making products, preferably Level 2 and up.
- Keep distributing products (remember the formula: $1,000 higher & 1,000,000)
- Done the first two above, you will get steady income.
- Make the employees happy so there is no delay in the projects.
- Advertisement is essential for company acknowledgement.
- Charities are another way to be acknowledged by public even though the
overall result is not that great compare to advertisement.
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December 2, 2002 - Begin writing the FAQ. Made the lay out and some of the
section III and section IV.
December 12, 2002 - Haven't touch this FAQ for a while.
Added section III and IV.
December 13, 2002 - Added section IV.
December 14, 2002 - Added section IV on the office maps.
December 15, 2002 - Added section VI, VIII
December 20, 2002 - Added map on section V
December 21, 2002 - Added section VI, VII, IX, and X
December 22, 2002 - Added section IV,V, and VI
January 1, 2003 - Added section II, IV, V, VIII, IX, X, and XII
January 2, 2003 - Initial Release version 1.0
August 26, 2003 - Revision Version 1.1
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Activision Value - Thank you for publishing this game in North America.
GameFAQs - Thank you for being such a GREAT site
Thank you for posting this FAQ
The Game Manual - Helping me on the understanding of Securities and Bond