Business' being trade-able again?

[Supaman771]

Originally Posted by Rave_J

I honestly think its a bad idea, One it kind of kills businesses because say someone work at AM under a owner for a year and the owner wants to leave graal if this co owner is not a millionaire his hard work just goes to waste. It kind of defeats the purpose of trying to make your way up in a business. If you want to own a business then start from the bottom and work your way up. Loyalty and hard work goes a long ways.

Originally Posted by Godzilla

This kid had 400 hours and it touches almost everything I've said. Getting ownership of a business is really rare, everyone just hires their buddies as Co-Owner and working your way up is next to impossible.

I can agree with both stances here.

When I was not very well known around in the 08-09s I worked at Ammo Mart as a stocker. I did climb the proverbial ladder.. stocking tons I got up to Head Stocker, then eventually Manager. After awhile of managing everything (stockers, miners, minerals, etc.) Danny and I became very good friends (I had no relationship with him when I got hired by one of the managers to stock) and he made me Co-Owner. I remember worker potions (and others) were released while I was co-owner and we mined together tons and pretty much ran the business ourselves for awhile until he went inactive. He eventually gave me ownership but I turned it up to lead a gang shortly thereafter since I had basically been running the business game for a year and it got boring.

On the flip side; more recently one of my best friends at the time JEM got ownership of Gun Point because the owner became staff and had to pass it on. I practically ran it myself for awhile and he kept saying he would pass it to me 'this week' 'no this week'. As the story goes he eventually became staff (GBA) and was forced to give up the business. Instead of giving it to me though, he changed the business rules so he could sell it for a mini-fortune.. and thus all the items he still owns today were attained.

I can see where both points make some sense. But since working in a business hasn't been as.. well worth anything as it used to be, I'd lean more toward allowing owners to sell them with a set of rules around it like Godzilla proposed.