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Ciao David in export company is difficult to read yellow and white text on cyan background, see screenshot.
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it would be nice if they could move forwards to a fully customisable font/background colour at some point.

piermario wrote: Sun Jul 28, 2024 5:03 pm Ciao David in export company is difficult to read yellow and white text on cyan background, see screenshot.
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Hi Piermario, I've forwarded your comment to the dev team.

Just reposting this is my suggestion to add to the cities tab for mayors to see how each term went which will give a nice 4 year detailed summary, and will let our cities have so much more characters and bring a lot more world building.

When i run the game i get error message and game doesnt run "Error accessing the User Documents folder for save games. Game interrupted. Folder: "Please let me know how to run.

Could be lots of issues, things like one drive, antivirus blocking it, folder permissions

while testing around a bit i found an issue with the management options not working

on banks and Insurance companies ...
CEO is set to only present the company so not permitted to change anything
now in banks i got to change advertisement and training budget usually 3 times a month so i m only sticking around checking daily bank/branches to change back advertisement and training budget after the CEO changed it. its really annoying.
also the CEO keeps selling land even more annoying when you need to secure your landplots for later expansion and you got to watch day by day if he has more cash then start searching everywhere for the 1 sold plot.

the moment u add 2 advertiesemnts even when the radio and tv is owned by your parent ... every day i add it ... everyday the CEO cancels it thats unplayable

i always set AI to be unable to change anything in my companies only there to use their expertise or in case of subsidary its required to have him, as this is fatal and only gives me never ending micro management to fix what they break. so i would expect that this kind of advertisement and training budget change in banks should not happen if the AI person isnt permitted to change anything.

to add to that> YES i did set the CEO as IDLE in every Firm and he still changes crap
would be nice to fix that

thanks in advance

anjali wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2024 9:07 pm while testing around a bit i found an issue with the management options not working

on banks and Insurance companies ...
CEO is set to only present the company so not permitted to change anything
now in banks i got to change advertisement and training budget usually 3 times a month so i m only sticking around checking daily bank/branches to change back advertisement and training budget after the CEO changed it. its really annoying.
also the CEO keeps selling land even more annoying when you need to secure your landplots for later expansion and you got to watch day by day if he has more cash then start searching everywhere for the 1 sold plot.

the moment u add 2 advertiesemnts even when the radio and tv is owned by your parent ... every day i add it ... everyday the CEO cancels it thats unplayable

i always set AI to be unable to change anything in my companies only there to use their expertise or in case of subsidary its required to have him, as this is fatal and only gives me never ending micro management to fix what they break. so i would expect that this kind of advertisement and training budget change in banks should not happen if the AI person isnt permitted to change anything.

to add to that> YES i did set the CEO as IDLE in every Firm and he still changes crap
would be nice to fix that

thanks in advance

Do you have any specific suggestions what options should be added to allow you to control the CEO as you described?

Currently the player main company's banks cannot be run by COO and must be managed by the player personally, so the IDLE setting does not apply to it.

Subsidiary CEO can manage banks but the game currently does not have any options for customizing the management styles of the CEO as they are supposed to be CEOs - running their own companies with ample autonomy.

Do you want an option that completely disable subsidiary CEOs from doing anything? If so, I can suggest it to the dev team for the reason that you (and possibly some players as well) want to micromanage every subsidiary companies.

David wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:08 am
Do you want an option that completely disable subsidiary CEOs from doing anything? If so, I can suggest it to the dev team for the reason that you (and possibly some players as well) want to micromanage every subsidiary companies.

My view on this is if the subsidiary CEO isnt actively managing or doing anything, then how would the subsidiary company be benefiting from their expertise.

Hiring someone who is good at training, but then not letting them manage training wouldn't give a company any boost in training.

So i would think if you totally disable the CEO then any expertise boosts they give should also be disabled.

David wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:08 am Do you have any specific suggestions what options should be added to allow you to control the CEO as you described?

Currently the player main company's banks cannot be run by COO and must be managed by the player personally, so the IDLE setting does not apply to it.

Subsidiary CEO can manage banks but the game currently does not have any options for customizing the management styles of the CEO as they are supposed to be CEOs - running their own companies with ample autonomy.

in the past when taking over majority stock of AI companies beyond 75% ownership i was able to tell the CEO to do nothing but have their expertise for the companies i.e. R&D/training/marketing so the options are actually there when i turn off everything on the managers/CEOs screen

running their own business? yeah into the ground.
as training zero by 40+ customer waiting time isnt really a well run business ... most banking companies crash within a few years for no cash left as they are also unable to manage the banks correctly, when ever this happens it hits half the companies of the game that deposited but at least i get free money from taking out max loans before it crashes.

i think thiss another point to fix in their management abilities to stop infusing money to cover loans beyond the point of the companies liquidity as this is certainly also an exploit as it weakens the AI companies and gives the player free cash. (after the last 2 banks crashed within 2 years of exsistence in current game about 70% of all companoes are dowen from 10$ to about 2-4$ a share and 1 by 1 starts to undergo stock split as theur trading price falls below 1$

David wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:08 am
Do you want an option that completely disable subsidiary CEOs from doing anything? If so, I can suggest it to the dev team for the reason that you (and possibly some players as well) want to micromanage every subsidiary companies.

the temporarley Idle you integrated on the buildings is sufficient if it would actually really turn them off and just lend their skills. this would make it possible to i.e. banks again ... Idle on branches, active on HQ / Idle on R$D so they dont switch always to some other research but active on factories i loved to see this implemented if it would work on CEO hehe

the "dont expand in anything" etc is working on the subsidary CEO screen where you can set all preferences for him might not be too hard to tell the game to also use the setting on the banks and insurance buildings like on other buildings or as above just get the IDLE button working on the bank buildings.

i did mainly play all the years with a single company and never set up subsidies as the point of letting the CEOs do their crap was annoying as they just mess up everything to run the company in the ground. or to mess with my sales so i only used them to hold the aquired companies till they where consolidated/ripped apart completely and the remaining empty body merged into another compay when its a good time. that way i kept the merger chaos with all the subsidary buildings to sort out off my neck and the subsidaries had to burden the restructuring expenses especially on a multi billion $ company you relly dont want to merge it into your main company with all the crap bad setup trash buildings. takes years to restructure it before its ready to end its exsistence and fire the CEO

cantdownloadit wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2024 9:04 am
My view on this is if the subsidiary CEO isnt actively managing or doing anything, then how would the subsidiary company be benefiting from their expertise.

Hiring someone who is good at training, but then not letting them manage training wouldn't give a company any boost in training.

So i would think if you totally disable the CEO then any expertise boosts they give should also be disabled.

if the CEO would do as commanded like IRL then i wouldnt want to turn him off ...
any ceo messing up sales chains / neglecting staff training, throwing cash away on every corner would be replaced quite fast by the parent company or the board of directors.

... but its a game and its just a dumb AI CEO so yes i need to tell em whjat to do by disable as much stuff as possible and do the settings once personally then fire and forget. the other micromanaging he can do IF he does it well / else its a turn off too and a CEO is anyway just to sign some papers and present in public, he actually doesnt run the company himself just beeing present in his office read a paper or invite all managers/directors in the evening for a party golden credit companies creditcard is paying for it ... and wait till day is over ... that was the only job of the CEO in the multinational i was beeing manager of operations for about 10 years.

like having the bank /insurance on a seperate company as 100% Sub
so the CEO does manage the HQ for depositing/withdrawing the cash there so that its like my private bank company for my main. it would only deal with banks and insurance and internet sales maybe + R&D on the CEO=s expertise

the advantage is on the hand the CEO got skills and he is hired explicit for this type of skills and trainig is set to max usually till its maxed out
i wouldnt mind letting them manage the training but then please ... set the training to max till its completely finished especially when you gain shitloads of profits so the training expenses are pennies and without training the demand cant be met so loosing out on additional profits due to bad ass 0% to 10% training budget. its an AI ...