Business' being trade-able again?

[Godzilla]

I was talking to some kid who responded to my mass message of the thread link he said;

selling fn2k *Meter Maid* (Sun Jul 27 11:37:44 2014): As a new player I find it almost impossible to work up into a business, I've been in Moon Wok for months now and ownership is being passed among the ***** family consistently. I fully support them becoming trade-able. I feel like it's the only way I could successfully get my hands on a business without waiting years for these guys to quit and to actually notice me because i'm just a 'noob'.

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.

[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.

[Conqueror]

Originally Posted by Supaman771

..and we mined together tons...

yarite

[Supaman771]

Originally Posted by Conqueror

yarite

We did, I was a level 0 miner when I started there (that's why I was a stocker, I remember when John, Smogy, and I would mine but everyday my account reset b.c I was a trial... so I never liked mining after that) and left around level 25 (we shared rooms most of the time, when worker pots came out I would just help danny mine, he got to level like 65~ before he quit).

Then you, Jem, and Scoper all helped me mine and I got to around 38-40.

Then me and Kaz did the million$ run more than once (100000 rocks = 1m) I still have the notepad logbooks from those and posted screenshots a few times.

Then we ran PT for awhile.

I can't tell you how many trilogies and **** I've watched while mining without even remembering the mining part. I watched the entire ATLA series once while mining.

[Scoper]

It's kind of a shitshow either way. If they're sellable, then no matter what restrictions end up being put on, it's a ton of stupid hassle for involved staff and ends up being crazy hectic for the workers. If they're not, then rich people QQ about not being able to buy them, and poor workers QQ about not being owners.

Should just npc them all.

[Fiberwyre_P2P]

Originally Posted by Scoper

Should just npc them all.

I agree with this.