I'm giving the top players a challenge today by temporary tax increase for high profits. Taxes can go up to 90% tonight.
More challenging features for top players will follow.
I have been working on some new nifty newsletter mails for you guys. It's not really a new feature or something but might be worth posting :).
I have been tweaking the server settings a little bit and businessgame now uses clean URLs for profiles. Try visiting
http://businessgame.be/yourusername ;).
More pages with the same feature will follow.
I have added two new sectors and a new product. You can now build wind turbines and start wind farms (wind energy).
The impact of the staff members financial director and human resources has been increased as well.
I have revised the way the warehouse level affects the warehouse size. Now every level your warehouse size will increase 10% from the base size, and not from the current size as it used to be. This will be more clear to use. Also the level will now start at 0 instead of level 1. So for all you players out there, you just gained a free upgrade of 10% ;).
The price and maximum of the upgrade remained the same (2500XP, Level 10). So you can go to 200% warehouse size, which is 1000 CBM per warehouse.
I have increased the gain of the production manager to 10% but made him a bit more expensive.
There are new tax brackets. New players won't be paying any taxes. And the higher players will pay less.
A new round has started.
Good luck all!
Smileys have been added to the shoutbox, by default, not smileys will be used.
To turn smileys on go to preferences and choose a smiley pack. Be sure to try the special Christmas pack!
I have improved the rankings and the shoutbox. Rankings now show avatars and shoutbox performance has been tweaked.
The lay out has been optimized for small browsing. You can now scroll left and right when the window is smaller. Also I have introduced smarter links for pages with multiple "tabs" like tutorial page, news page or messages page.
You are now able to edit your old sets. You can change the name and the numbers. To delete a product from the set, just set it to zero. Adding new products to a set is not possible yet.
Businessgame has a new menu!
The hint system has been updated and the hints have also been updated to the current gameplay.
The security system has been improved. All users have been given a new password.
I'll be phasing out staff. In the long term they will evolve to experience points based upgrades.
A new round has started!
Good luck!
From now on you get double XP when you are online on the site!
Keep cashing in those bonus experience points!
The round has been shortened and will end this Sunday. Everyone will have a fair fresh start with the new XP settings in place.
There has been added a graph to the finance page which shows you your day by day company value. This way you can keep track of your growth!
I'm redesigning some pages to make the more compact, better looking and clearer for new players.
9313 has designed a nifty Production Manager Tool free for download! This tool can be used to calculate the total production of all your sectors together.
Check the comments for the latest download link!
Apparently the website was down for a few hours due to migration to another server.
"The planned migration of our current datacenter to the new room in the AXS datacenter is taking place this evening. This is a necessary step in order to further optimize and centralize the services for our customers. This migration, to a more stable location, will ensure the uptime of our services on a long-term basis.
A team of assigned engineers begin the migration at 10PM tonight. From this moment on, a part of our network will be brought offline and online again later on tonight, in the new datacenter. Any network locations and systems, acquired by Datahouse, will remain available during this migration, a possible small interruption due to network changes notwithstanding."
From now on all sectors are locked from start and you need to unlock them when you want to build units in it.
Unlocking a sector costs 2,500 XP. To make up for this, the start experience points has been increased to 5,000. For people who already have been playing, 4,000 XP has been given to you.
Increased experience from 5 to 10 XP per turn.
A new round has started!
Enjoy the game!
I'm already making preparation for making the change to the next round more smoothly.
The round ending has now being automatized. I still have to manually restart the new one because it requires some database actions but it will be much less waiting time now!
Shoutbox has had a few improvements. Do you guys like it? I'm sure I do!
- Show user avatar instead of user names
- Grouped messages of the same user
- Elegant hour on the right
- Improved to be working in all browsers (reply on this if it doesn't)
- Added the option to go full screen
- More shouts of the past will be shown (increased from last 50 to last 100 shouts)
I found a way to do threading in JavaScript. This opens a lot of possibilities for AJAX implementation to the site. Refreshing the shoutbox every 3 seconds, checking if the online users have changed every 30 seconds and see if you got any new messages each minute... Without the need of refreshing the page!
The fact that JavaScript can't thread made it very hard to implement such things with different timers. If you want to know how I made threading possible just check the source code for "threading.js".
Chat has been replaced with a nifty shoutbox!
Check it out!
Hooray! We have welcomed our 500th member today!
Up to the thousandth member!
We have been playing this round for over 5 weeks now and you have had the time to get familiar with all the new sectors which were introduced at the beginning of this round. So I think it's time for a review and maybe start rebalancing for the next round.
Any feedback about the sectors you might have? Like what sectors do you like, which ones you don't? And what would you like to be added or changed? Let us know by replying to this post!
You can now keep track of logons and who is online on the homepage. It has been improved with avatars and such.
Mailing wasn't operational apparently the last two days, this should be back up.
Many things went wrong because I was on an old server and the host tried to migrate it with some new ones or something. Anyway, they fucked up their DNSsing and got a free extra year of webhosting for helping them out ^^.
The problems with the scripts have been solved!
The host had some problems with their DNS addressing, if I hadn't brought it up, they would still be scratching their heads ^^.
Anyway, the game is back playable again.
Enjoy it!
Hope to see you soon.
I've contacted the host but they don't seem to find the problem. I'll keep you guys updated.
I've added a list of users who logged in today on the left on the home page. This way you can keep track of user activity, you'll less have the feeling you are all alone on this site :).
I have been working on the feature to change your username. Changing your username can now be done via the settings page. A name change can be done as many times as you want but it costs 5,000 XP!
I also did some little fixes;
- You are now able to change your email address again! It has been brought to my attention this was not possible.
- The market calculator should now account the right percentage when hired a distribution manager. (Again, thank you
Anasky)
- Double minus sign on market is fixed
- Product page now also shows sectors which requires that product as machinery
I've improved the messaging system. It's more safe, faster and less bugged.
The only downside is, I had to delete all messages. Anyway, I'm finally done with my streamlining so I can start developing those new features I had in mind.
I have increased the taxation brackets. This will lower taxes a lot.
The turns should be back up and running. There was a minor bug which caused the production to fail. *Shame*
I'm streamlining the code for the Database Access Object. This also entails database changes. If you encounter any bugs, please notify me ASAP.
I have removed the lobbyist staff member from the game. From now on everyone is able to activate as many sectors as he or she want.
I'm thinking of implementing the feature of wearing out of machines.
In real life machines their life time is
limited. I'm thinking of adding the same feature to businessgame.
What do you think?
I renamed the environmental manager to waste manager. This name has more sense.
Bonds are now grouped together by type and lasting days.
The initial capital for all players has been increased to 250 000 euro!
This will help you getting started more quickly.
Good luck!
The new round has started!
Many new sectors and products have been introduced. All sectors have been rebalanced and made more realistic. Each sector should be exacly as good as any other, only smart upgrades and hiring can improve your production.
Also, taxes have been lowered and bonds have been edited.
Good luck in this new exciting round!
I noticed most people want longer rounds. At the moment a round last 6 weeks. How long do you want it to take? 8 weeks (2 months)? 12 weeks (3 months)? or even longer?
Let us know what you think in the comment area below.
I edited the excel sheet you can use to calculate your profits. It now includes a calculation of your warehouse costs. You are still free to edit the the excel sheet if you want to. The file is protected to avoid accidental mess ups but the password is in there if you feel pro enough :).
This file might be of great use to manage your company because it gives a good overview of what your greater costs are which you should be focussing on. No more randomly hiring staff!
You can download it
here.
Information about the production and usage of products has been added to the product information pages. A link to this information page can be found next to each product on the market page.
This will give you a better overview of a product's usage.
A few new sectors have been added to the game: the silica mine and the coal power plant!
This mine will mine for the new product named "Silica". Silica will become an input good of glass and silicon soon.
Probably the product "wood" will be removed from the game later on.
I have created a businessgame profit calculator I use for balancing the game.
Feel free to use it. It is protected so it can't be messed up, but the password is in there so if you feel pro enough, you can unlock it and tweak it ;).
You can download it
here
I have added a new sector coal mine and product coals, which will be implemented in other sectors when this round ends. More sectors and products will follow!
There was a bug with firing staff and payment of staff. This should be fixed now.
I fixed the profiles so you can see the company settings again when hiring a spy.
I'll be on vacation the next week so I won't be able to reply to any of your messages or fix any issues on the game.
The poll shows most people want the sector production lines to be more realistic. Which I think sounds logical. This would make the game even more fun.
This would also require me to rebalance the game and probably add and/or remove sectors.
Do you want me to do this gradually this round or do it in one big change on the next round start. Which is only in 3 weeks in 3 days. I'll start a poll about this.
Is there one of you guys who made an excel form to calculate the profits of each sector?
If you have, please contact me in a
private message
Gears can be traded again on the market. The sectors who require gears or produce them will be back in production too.
I'm busy calculating the compensation for each player.
It was brought to my attention that any sector using the product "Gears" as input aswel as output is not producing.
Furthermore "Gears" can also not be traded on the market.
If you have troubles trading, you should ommit the gears from the list of goods you want to trade.
Anyway, I'm looking into it as soon as I get home and the persons who invested in Gears don't have to worry, I will compensate all players who have lost profits due to this bug. Your amount of losses will be calculated and gifted to you.
Thanks for your patience.
I'm busy renaming the sectors now that products and sectors have been separated. For example, a power plant produces energy. No longer the "energy" sector which makes "energy" goods.
If you have any suggestions for better naming let me know.
I'm refactoring some code along the site to make the game more efficient and because I'm rewriting the code to implement a special new feature ;). If you encounter any bugs, report them asap please :).
Thanks!
A new round has started!
Good luck all!
The round will end in 20 minutes!
To keep track of your last strategic moves, rankings will be updated each 5 minutes for the last half hour of the round :).
For most of you the summer holidays have started!
Yay! Free money for everyone!
I'm thinking of adding a bunch of new sectors. If you have any suggestions yourself, feel free to post them here. Also, do you think some sectors should change name?
Leave your comments below ;).
Inventory has been a bit cleaned up. No more unnecessary products are being displayed.
I'm changing production lines and product prices because I'm adding new sectors to the game which requires rebalancing. Please check your units information.
The sector gravel and ore have been renamed to silicon and iron.
From now on you'll receive an email when your production fails for some reason (no input, no free storage) ;).
You will get only 1 email until you log back in. This feature has been activated by default. You can deactivate it on the
preferences page.
You are now able to increase your loan when it's still open!
It was reported that changing avatar was not possible. This bug is now fixed. Thanks UnderTaker!
I'm designing a new home page which I hope will appeal better to new users. Tell me what you think! By the way you should also try to log in ;). You can find it here:
http://businessgame.be/new/
Wow what an exciting round it has been!
I've seen some investors make some genius moves out there to maximize their profits!
But of course, all of you can do better ;).
Let's hope the next round will be even more fun!
Apparently there was an error with the forgot login feature.
I've isolated the problem and it has been fixed.
The round is almost over. Tell us what you think about the last weeks.
I've added share buttons on the home page to quickly share Businessgame with your friends. Many social networks are supported!
I'm drastically improving the framework. So the site may encounter some errors now and then, most of the time I'm already working on it. But if you encounter a persistent error, please report.
I noticed many of you regularly use this site on a mobile device. How's that working for you? I use an iPad and the site is showing perfectly. What about you guys?
I've extended the round with two weeks due to the database crash and the new features which have been implemented.
From now on you can upgrade your office level and thus increasing the number of staff members you can hire.
I've removed everyones staff to make it fair so you'll have to rehire ;).
Our website now also support the use of the service Gravatar!
http://gravatar.com
Gravatar (an abbreviation for globally recognized avatar) is a service for providing globally-unique avatars.
When you have no avatar uploaded to our site, it will check for your gravatar and display it if you have one.
Happy Easter everyone!
All users are granted a special Easter gift with a nice bonus inside ;). Be sure you claim it in time!
Hi everyone, I'm sorry to inform you there was a horrible error with the database by which I lost all data of all users.
All accounts are lost and must be reregistered.
From now on you can increase your loan limit by upgrading your bank level.
Each level the limit doubles. You can go up to €400,000.00 as loan limit.
I have returned your money you have invested in warehouse upgrades and dock installments and reset them back to default.
From now on those upgrades will cost XP instead of cash.
I've added Experience Points to the game.
It has no use yet. But I'm going to use it for upgrades.
It seems better to me that you have the ability to unlock features with xp. Starting with a "limited" account when you start playing.
I think this would not only improve the gameplay but also will help new players get started because they will learn the game gradually step by step.
This round has been a great success.
Those last moments were definitely a nailbiter when everyone was doing his or her very best to boost there ranks as much as possible!
And I'm certain this new fresh round will be even more fun!
Good luck in this new exciting round!
I have decided each round will take 6 weeks. Since more than 75% of the voters wanted a round time of 4 or 8 weeks, I've taken the average of that.
From now on you have the ability to buy multiple bonds at once. No more annoying clicking on a link. Just fill in the number of bonds you want to buy and your all set!
This round has been a great success. Many new investors joined the game, thrilling features have been introduced and the game had a total restyle!
But all good things have to come to an end, only to make place for even better things! That's why this round will be ending on Sunday and a new round will start.
Don't worry about the timing. The game will be "frozen" to reset all users and set the new game settings. You'll be notified by email half an hour in advance when the round will start so you will not accidentely miss those exciting first moments of the game!
I've implemented a new avatar system which allows you to upload your avatar. Your avatar will be saved on the server, this way there won't occur any "dead" avatars anymore.
As a little protection to avoid accidental deletion of your items I've added a confirmation box when you press a delete link.
This confirmation only works when JavaScript has been enabled!
The new help system is ready. All I have to do now is write some FAQs.
I've been working on a new help center for the past few days. Which will be more clear and user friendly. It will be in the form of a Q&A.
I think this will be a great feature for the newer players around here because the old system might get a little bit overwhelming.
I have extended the available information about the user's investments. Now you can also see a categorization at the fixed assets of the user.
View someone's information from rankings? From now on it's possible! Just hover over the icon at the right.
From now on you'll receive 1K for each vote you cast for businesgame!
This round has been a great success. Many new investors joined the game, thrilling features have been introduced and the game had a total restyle!
Those last moments were definitely a nailbiter when everyone was doing his or her very best to boost there ranks as much as possible!
And I'm certain this new fresh round will be even more fun!
Good luck in this new exciting round!
The new round will start today. Do your last actions to improve your final rank for the hall of fame!
The current round will end in 2 hours! There is a timer specified on the site.
This round has been a great success. Many new investors joined the game, thrilling features have been introduced and the game had a total restyle!
But all good things have to come to an end, only to make place for even better things! That's why this round will be ending on Sunday and a new round will start.
Don't worry about the timing. The game will be "frozen" to reset all users and set the new game settings. You'll be notified by email half an hour in advance when the round will start so you will not accidentely miss those exciting first moments of the game!
Finaly our tax system is back running like it should!
There were some server problems with businessgame. All issues have been fixed.
Don't worry about your account, the game was frozen for the entire time the site was unavailable.
You can continue investing! Enjoy!
It seems like there are some problems with the server, the cronjobs aren't being executed. I contacted the hosting company, I hope this problem is fixed asap.
More information will follow when I figured out what's wrong.
What do you think about the navigation of the site? You think it's pretty clear or where there any troubles getting you started?
I have implemented a new faster and more secure login system.
Let me know if you encounter any errors.
When you get a daily gift, you will no longer receive an email about it. So you still receive the gift but without the email. Just claim your daily gift by logging in on the site.
Due to a bug with the taxes. They have been piling up for a few days and have been paid yesterday.
Because this might have been a big cost for all of you, I have given a supergift to all members containing a 50K bonus.
Enjoy!
Ideas
28 January at 13:58
Hey folks, what new feature would you like to see in businessgame?
From now on you are able to improve the technology level of your warehouses by upgrading it. Each upgrade increases the capacity of each warehouse drasticly thus making upgrading a good long term investment.
I went skiing for a week. That's why I haven't replied to any messages or haven't posted any new features.
Anyway, I noticed many players are asking for the variable market again, but I stay with my decision to wait for more active players. The system also needs some new fine tuning before it goes back online.
Happy New Year to you all!!!
A new year gift of 25K will be sent to you all soon.
From now on machines and generators which are installed inside the built units are also counted in the rankings. This will prevent extreme lowering of your rank when investing in new units.
I've found a serious bug. For some reason, when a bond expired, the money was never transferred back to your bank account. I've noticed this bug because I myself had invested a lot in those bonds.
Anyway this bug has been fixed.
Because many players are finaly getting there company up and running the game will not be reset when the first player reaches a million. The round will be extended for a long while.
So keep on investing!
You can subscribe to the daily gift to receive a gift of €5,000.00 each day!
You can subscribe via the preferences page or the gifts page.
Gifts
28 December at 19:26
I've added gifts to the game.
You can claim your gifts on the gifts page.
Via the settings panel in the preferences section you can also activate to receive a daily gift by email.
Merry Christmas to you from Businessgame.be!
Santa has come along on Businessgame! We have granted you a Christmas bonus of €20,000.00!
I have improved the log files for users. More information is kept of the last week and it has been sorted by day.
I am working on a new lay out for Businessgame. At the moment it doesn't look pretty neat but I'm working on it ;).
You are now able to hold bonds. When a bond get issued the issuer is obliged to pay interest (the coupon) and/or to repay the nominal value at a later date, defined by the termed maturity, to the holder. Thus the bond is like a reversed loan.
At the moment, there are three types of bonds available:
- a fixed rate bond, with a fixed interest of 6% and a nominal pay out of 90%
- a perpetual bond, which has no maturity date (goes on forever) with an interest rate of 5%
- a zero-coupon bond, with no interest but a nominal pay out of 125%
Also, I have increased the loan interest to 5% because it wouldn't make any sense if the bank would loan money for a higher interest than it lends
One of our sly investors has expanded his business to a million euro company and therefore has ended this round.
Everyone will be reset and has a new shot of being the top investor of the next round!
Hey there, I have recently graduated so I will have plenty of time to develop on the site for the next weeks. Hold on and expect some changes ;).
From now on, you can see what the production of a sector is, even if you don't have any units in that sector. This way you don't need to reset to often at start to find the sector you like.
I have come up with a new rule. The game will be reset each time the first player hits a million. So it will be a race to get a million first!
The site has been offline today and turns were not processed. Everything should be back in order though. Apologies for the inconvenience.
It took a while but finally I managed to find a workaround to add multiple like buttons to a single page. Businessgame news messages can now be liked on facebook!
Fellow investors, I've added the tutorial back to the game. I hope this will help those few among you who got problems getting started back on their feet.
The website was down for a while for some changes. I have reformed the preferences system to be better understandable and a more usable interface.
I've increased the turn speed from 30 minutes to 15 minutes per turn.
Saturday the speed of turns will be increased to 15 minutes per turn.
You'll be notified by newsletter.
Most people voted YES for speeding up turns in Businessgame so I will soon change the system a bit for faster production.
I have stopped the calculated market price changes for a while since there are not enough active players to keep this system stable.
Only special news events can influence the price for now.
I fixed the script which calculates the changes of the market prices. For some reason they could only rise not lower.
It has been fixed now. Prices will change normally again.
I have improved the manner of calculating the owed taxes.
Previous system was based on estimates, this calculation is based on the real turnovers and costs.
I have done some updates on the system. There were some problems since the reset but everything should be up and running again. By these updates bugs like overflowing warehouses or disappearing goods should be fixed.
I'll be working on adding the bonds to the game soon.
The game has been reset. Something went wrong with the database and I lost all the information about the warehouses.
Therefore I reset all the accounts since it wouldn't been fair to just let the game continue.
The site was out for a little while to update some stuff. There might be some bugs in the game with the changes. If you happen to encounter some, please report the immediately!
The reset has been postponed until further notice.
A new round is coming. The game will be reset the 1th of October.
I have added the option to leave a comment to the news messages. You can also delete your reply again if you don't like it.
Moderators and admins can delete your comments too.
I passed all my examinations. I finally got my Bachelor degree in IT now. Next step: Master ICT engineer! Hooray!
I'll be leaving to Sicily for a week tomorrow. I'll be back on the 13th of September.
See you soon!
Since I have a calculator which calculates the profit per turn and Return on Investment (ROI) of each sector to speed up tax calculation and for personal use ^^. I am going to implement this calculated knowledge into the advisor feature.
Pretty soon the advisor will be able to tell you more information about each sector, like profit, ROI and the time it takes to pay off the investment (in turns). It already tells you what the best sector is, but not for each sector seperatly.
It would be nice if the advisor could advise you to deactivate a certain sector due to too high losses.
I have fixed some "bugs" at the bank page. When taking out a loan, the loan was accounted as "profit" for the organisation, which is of course ridiculous. So for taking out a loan of 100 000, you had to pay taxes like it was a taxed profit (60 000 euro taxes for 100 000 euro loan).
Paying back your loan was on the other hand considered a loss. So it was subtracted from your taxed profits, lowering your taxes.
Anyway, loan does not affect your finance profits anymore. It was just crazy since a high loan would immediately be taxed at a high rate. Interests however are still considered a loss and substracted from your taxed profits.
This is how it works in real life too ^^.
Another bugfix I did was the pre calculator on the market page which only told you how much you would make if you would sell, now it show all information again.
Bank loans are much cheaper from now on. You don't have to kill that killing 20% extra interest no more.
From now on a loan only costs 3% interest a day (0.5% if you hire an accountant).
Also, I lowered the taxes for market exchange. From 5% to 2% to boost lower players.
I have changed the name of "Particles" to "Parts". I knew it for a long while it was wrong but have always been too lazy to fix it ^^. Better would have been "Machine parts", but the script might give some bugs if product names contains spaces :(.
Anyway, while I was at it, I also changed the name of "Dump" to "Trash". Which is a more suitable name for the product, but not for the sector, but I think it's much clearer this way.
The site had to be unavailable for three minutes or something, sorry for the inconvenience if it happened while you were online.
The government has taken action on the market and stabilised all prices to improve the local economy.
I have removed the advisor from the staff list to avoid any more confusion about being unable to fire the advisor.
This also gives all users an extra office spot for a new staff member!
Today we have reached our 3,333rd member. Feels like a special number :).
Anyway, congragulations to "vagablond" for joining the game.
I have coded a new poll system which is now available on the home page.
Happy voting!
I have done some bug fixes to the edit profile page. Appearantly the javascript wasn't working because of a stupid mistake of me. And the date of birth gave an error when left empty.
Anyway, I guess I fixed it, let me know if you have any troubles with it!
I have finished programming the new messaging system. All conversations will be classified as one whole to improve the structure of your inbox.
BBcode has been disabled in messages from now on.
There were some problems with the tax calculator. Everyone has been dodging taxes for the past two weeks.
So everyone had to pay it all today. That's why everyone will be low on cash now.
I was wondering if any of you had any comments about the advisor option?
Should it be shown on top of each page or does it get kinda annoying after a while?
I have added some AJAX to the edit profile page which keeps you informed when editing your profile information. This way you won't have to do too many do-overs.
I have redesigned the mails of businessgame a bit and added an "unsubscribe" option to it so people can unsubscribe from the newsletters without needing to delete their account.
I have coded the new register page and forgot logon page.
Apparently I forgot to write them.
Rankings were still a bit glitchy.
The rankings should now be in the correct order.
The remember option was bugged the last days, it didn't remember you login. It has been fixed.
I am busy creating a new messaging system for the new site. It will be a great improvement upon the last.
Related messages were already shown together when being read but were still showing as seperate messages in the inbox and outbox. The next messaging system will have beter grouping, a more logical interface and an easier to read lay out.
I have started to upload the newer version to the server. During the next days I will integrate the site with the newer system.
I will do this step by step to maintain all features operative.
Hi all, I was off to New York City for the week. At the moment I am waiting for my plane at Heathrow airport.
Now that I am back, I'll try to upload the new site when it is completely tested.
I promise that I'll lower the taxes next term ^^. I introduced them a while back when some people were gaining money to easy.
But now I noticed that not that many people are making profits, taxes will be lowered significantly.
Would it be a good idea to boost players who are online in businessgame chat?
Like when you are online on the site when the turn occurs, you get 10% increased production or something. This way, keeping your computer on and being in chat improves your production speed.
Should it be added to the game or considered lame? :)
I am working on the new version and already testing some features of it.
If you see me popping up on first rank. Don't worry. I cheated :p. And I'll reset my account as soon as everything seems to work. So my rank actually doesn't count :).
Units and storage page seems to work now. Market will be though. I'll try to fix bank today too.
Edit: I also made the accountant way cheaper (from 1000 to 250) to make him more interesting to hire.
I fixed some bugs to this version of the game.
In some rare situations you got an error because of a coincidental combination of settings for some users. Like sending a PM to a user who has activated the mail notification when you haven't and such things like that.
It is getting kinda confusing, I am currently working on 3 versions at the same time ^^. The current one, the new one, and the even newer one :). But in order to provide you the best service as possible, I still work on all of them.
I finished the units page of the new version today :).
I finaly started coding again after all those busy busy months.
I only have school on Monday and 2 hours of school on Thursday, so I have plenty of time now.
New version will be ready for release soon.
PS: Anyone have had the unpleasant experience of working with CL programming language in OS400 a.k.a. AS400 (a prehistoric Operating System)
Hi all, it has been a while since I posted something.
I now started a new trimester at school. Since I only have one day and a half school each week, I'll have a lot of time to refactor the framework and start publishing the new game.
I have already started working on the version after this version too :). But I'll first complete the one I was working on earlier because I can't keep you waiting :P.
Anyway. My plan is to just convert the gameplay to the new framework and then add new features to the game. Any suggestions of additions to the game are welcome.
Tomorrow I have exams for school (again, starts getting annoying).
Anyway, after those next two weeks I will definetely spend a LOT of time on the development of this game.
It is possible that in the meanwhile I will already improve the lay out of the site a bit to make it look more appealing.
Another thing I have been thinking about of this gameplay is that this game shouldn't be an absolutely positive game but it does NEED to be more positive since too many people are making loss. This game just needs to be easier, but not to easy, bad players still need to be "punished" with losses, but more players need to make money.
I am thinking of a system how. Just raising prices of goods won't change a thing since all sectors are interconnected.
The next round has started!
All users has been placed back into their start positions to vie for the first place on Businessgame.be!
Prove your investor skills in the next exciting round!
Top 10 of last round:
[count]
[*]JMvE €2,348,933.50[/*]
[*]9313 €465,002.64[/*]
[*]olandezu1991 €378,706.51[/*]
[*]Killandone €174,770.28[/*]
[*]dsolo20 €158,639.78[/*]
[*]mulles117 €101,784.64[/*]
[*]Lemira €101,000.00[/*]
[*]Bushdakta €100,100.00[/*]
[*]aliazim €100,100.00[/*]
[*]UnderTaker €100,000.00[/*]
[/count]
Sunday evening GMT+1 time zone. I'll reset the game to give new players another chance to vie for place 1!
Make sure you won't miss the next round!
Well I don't have much time at the moment.
I have a giant school project I am working on, and some other smaller school projects as well, so I don't have a lot of free time.
I recently broke up with my girlfriend btw, so when I have some free time, I don't feel much like coding.
Next month I'll have a lot of free time, the game will be developed then.
I am making a detailed design of the current gameplay. I'll use this to design the new gameplay which will be, of course, based on this one but will be different.
So the development of the next version has reached the next phase, the system is ready, now I only have to implemen the new gameplay that I am designing (on paper atm) right now.
I did some bugfixes to the current version.
Some bugs did popup the last weeks, which I said I would fix in the next version.
And I did, but since I can't let you wait for a next version and in the meanwhile let you use a bugged version, I have done those bugfixes in this version as well.
I did the following fixes:
- birthdays are formatted right this time, ages are calculated correctly. (I had to clear everyones birthday, so you have to fill it in again)
- avatars are editable again (yes hoorray! :))
- homepage is a bit cleaner (announcements aren't full displayed, only teasers are shown)
- improved help section
- improved help search function
I know I promised the new system would be out soon. But it still has some issues and I actually came up with a better concept. I had a lot of new insights this year.
At first I just decided to continue the work and leave the new system for the version after the next version. But now I figured, the new version doesn't really change anything for YOU, the players.
The game would have been exacly the same, only with a more fancy layout. I wanted to finish the system first, format the old gameplay to this system, and then adapt the game to the new game concept I had in mind. Sounds like a lot of work? It IS a lot of work!
Anyway, I now started with the new system all over, and also designed a model for the NEW gameplay, that's right, this time I am also working on the real gameplay.
But don't worry, it won't take longer than continuing with the version I was working on, since I don't have to reformat the whole site and stuff like that.
I am also going to do some bugfixes to the current version, I was wrong about postponing it to the next version. I already fixed them in the new system so it is just a matter of copy pasting.
I am almost finished with my exams.
Next thursday is my last one. Where I have to show different projects I had to make.
One of them including this game I just posted on the
nickmania site for commentaries.
Anyway, when that's finaly over with, I'll finish up this game. I got more project to do than I can actually handle :).
I want to finish businessgame, create a movie manager program (which I have programmed a lot of already), need to finish my other site with tutorials on webdesign, help beather with his site, create a site for a company, create a flyer and a site for some school prom party, create a game on facebook and so frikkin' on :(.
I know it's a lot but I'll do my best :). Businessgame is definetely one of the top priorities ;).
I would like to wish you a Happy New Year!
May all your best wishes come true.
2010 is a new year with new opportunities!
Best of luck,
Gilles Lesire
Merry christmas to you all!
Make it a nice day ;)!
Hi all
I have to design and program a game with ActionScript 3 for school, so because this quite time consuming, I won't be working on the new businesgame the next week.
Sorry for misabusing your patience (if you had any at all :P).
I have cleaned up the system some more, it was a though job but I finaly did a great seperation of concerns and have created a very flexible engine which allows me to implement new features fast and easily.
I had some issues with altering code in the past because it gets messy after a while, that's why me new motto of programming is: [i]Write your code as if the next guy to maintain it is a homocidal maniac who knows where you live.[/i] :P and it is working :).
Since my development will go rapid now, you can expect the new system up and running in a few days.
Although I am working on the new system, I have also done some changes to the current site. Small features like quick reply, calculator on market page and some other minor fixes have been performed.
Hi all I'm here to inform you that I have set another new moderator for the site.
RicardoQ will also design some new images for the gameplay of this site.
Another gain for our team :).
The updated site with the new framework will come out soon.
Along with the system update (which should bring higher speed and better stability) there is also a new header with new menu. So there are some small improvements to the lay out.
I expect the newer system to come out this weekend. As soon as it has been fixed. I'll alter the database to insert the new features.
More information soon ;).
Preview:
[img=http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/8704/businessgamenewhome.th.png]
Any comments about the new menu are welcome. Please tell me what you think about it. Suggestions are appreciated.
I am improving the search function of the help section since I am expecting this section to grow exponentially next version.
I found some issues that are hard to solve :p.
For example, I find out that singular of plural of a search query gives a different set of results.
Like "strategy" or "strategies" tends to have a total different result. Mostly, if a user gives the singular form, he will probably also find the plural form as well, but this is not always true.
Programming a search engine is harder than I thought!
Respect to Google!
I know the latest news messages were kinda technical and so is this one (last one :p).
I have nearly finished the framework, only debugging it a bit here and there. Now I can really start with recreating the pages for the new system, which won't take long.
I have continued with developing the new version of businessgame.be.
More information about the progress will come soon.
I have slightly altered the captcha system. This should help to keep bots from this site.
My laptop is being repaired at the moment (keep having bad luck with the damn thing).
Anyway, the coding of businessgame.be is being delayed due to this.
I am configuring my old computer for use and will be able to continue coding the new version of businessgame soon.
I have fixed the possibility to take trash when having an negative amount of cash. This wasn't possible before but has been fixed because this made it a hard time for people who invested in dump units.
I have made a list of features I might going to implement in the next version of this game I am working on. I am going to think this through and design a plan of how the system will work precisly.
Most of these ideas have been discussed earlier in these forums and suggested by players themselves. With the new version coming, I finaly have a chance of rethinking the system in a way that allows me to implement these features.
These are the suggestions I have selected and have been thinking about:
[list]
[*]Levels in companies (need some ideas for level names and maybe extra options that a level unlocks?[/*]
[*]Time delay to repair broken down units[/*]
[*]Deposit money on bank (0.05% interest each turn)[/*]
[*]Transport : Trucks vs Train (cheaper) (might also take some time delay to transport goods)[/*]
[*]Warehouses affect the market when build, so do units (need bricks made from gravel and such)[/*]
[*]Time delay to build units, warehouses or docking station, also need time to upgrade.[/*]
[*]Land? Don't really have an idea about it yet, so it is very improbable that it is going to be added[/*]
[*]Trading between players (but only trading with players who have the same company level to avoid being dominated by top players when trying to sell your goods).[/*]
[*]Contracts with other players (for multiple transactions over x time)[/*]
[*]Calculate your market share in tranactions[/*]
[*]The interests (not the paybacks) of a loan are an expense, so they will be substracted from your taxes[/*]
[*]Receive mail when sector breaks down[/*]
[*]Quality of goods? (maybe to hard to implement in the gameplay, would make the game too complex)[/*]
[*]Random dilemma's? (a popup with some kind of situation you have to solve, but don't have a lot of ideas, someone has some ideas for good dilemma's?)[/*]
[*]Governemnt (already in place but with the new features added it will need a huge intelligence boost)[/*]
[*]The time delays are actually not going to be real time delays. These time delays actually represent timePoints, which you will receive each turn. This way you can "save" time and use it whenever you wan't. This way businessgame.be might become a game you can play longer than five minutes a day.[/*]
[/list]
These are just the ideas I am going to think about, a more precise list will be published soon.
What do you all think about these features?
The countdown till the next market change has been fixed.
The counter on the market page had a little issue. It has been fixed now. Now you can see when the next update will occur.
I have added a few more voting links to the support page. The amount of sponsors have increased to 10!
This means you can now earn even more money daily by voting!
The game has been resetted!
Everyone has been set back to his/her starting position.
Enjoy the new round :)!
Top 10 of last round:
1 ffxigotenks
2 Michu
3 xeyed
4 superguard
5 yvory
6 Tenho
7 Roeny
8 yzaira03
9 pjt105
10 Charmedelf
Join the new round at
http://businessgame.be!
I am going to reset Businessgame this evening at 0.00 AM GMT+1 time.
The final rankings will be published and everyone will be resetted for a new final round!
You will be briefed by email.
Regards
I have postponed the reset till the next weekend because to be honest, I completely forgot about resetting the game. :p
So you got one more week to finish your business and prepare yourself for the next round.
Sorry for the inconvience.
Hi all,
It has been a while since my last announcement, this is because I have been busy with my examinations and was on a road trip for two weeks.
But now I am back and working on the site.
I am planning a final round for this version, which will start this Saturday.
All players will be reset and the last round will start.
In the meanwhile, I am working on a more stable and more user friendly version with probably an increased gameplay and more features.
I am going to schetch the next version during this week, to visualize my plans :).
Be prepared... :P
I have school examinations this week and the following week. So I won't be online a lot. Got to study much because I skipped to many lessons (my lazy bad :p).
Luckely I got an Easter Holiday after those two weeks. In those two weeks I will redesign the site in a more practical way and maybe even add new features already. (If I have time to do it.)
The new interface should make it easier to adapt, add and delete options to the game so it will defenitely be an improvement.
I got my laptop back and it has been fixed.
They didn't notice anything about the spilled drink :p, so I still had my warranty! Nice!
The reason why I am not online that much is because I broke my computer.
I was stupid enough to spill a drink over it in class.
My computer is being fixed now (I hope they won't notice it over there about the drink so I still have my warranty :)).
Today I have added the possibility to set your username into a specific colour in chat.
This will be a slight advantage in the communication program.
I noticed chat was getting popular these days so I made some changes around there :).
I have made some improvements to the chat. It is now with sound and it should work without blinking.
Enjoy :)!
I have fixed the analyst on the market page, it seemed there were some errors with it and it didn't work. Should be fixed now.
If there are still any incorrect predictions, please notify me and I'll check it.
Hi all,
I know, it has been a while since I have made an announcement, I have been quite busy with school projects and such.
I am really sorry to brief you about my upcoming school exams.
Due to this I won't make any progress to the game for the next 3 weeks.
But don't worry, after that, I'll be back on the game as always and making new features and such to improve the gameplay.
Regards,
KingIsulgard
I am busy with coding a new system which will be much more competing to play with.
I am creating a thing like "levels" which you can reach with your company. This level is your company type. By getting a higher type you can unlock more features in the game.
More information about this will come online soon!
All users have been reset!
Start playing again in this new competing round!
Everyone has a fresh start!
Top 10 of previous round
1 timurdj77
2 enesgulcek
3 KingIsulgard
4 sullair
5 pjt105
6 LaMeDucK
7 servernafi
8 olandezu1991
9 Maiara
10 sonkey
Enjoy the next round people!
Monday, the 8th of December, I am going to reset all users in the game!
This is to encourage new players and to keep the game competive.
Also due to the many changes in the passed weeks, it seemed more than fair to start with a blank new sheet and give all users a fair chance of becoming the ultimate business(wo)man!
I am desinging a new home page.
This is just a test, I am not sure if I am going to keep this.
Which one do you like better?
From now on your loan will be substracted from you "in hand value" in the rankings. This will make the rankings more fair since there won't be any rankings boost by taking out a loan.
From now on there won't be need for refreshes when managing your staff. It is total ajax now.
I hope you like this feature.
In the future everything will be ajax.
Be sure you have activated javascript ;).
From now on the government will also be a "player" on the market.
If he notices price changes going out of control he will buy or sell goods of that sector to stabilize the market prices.
The government doesn't has an unlimited amount of money so sometimes he won't be able to make the required actions. The government only owns the money that has been earned by the taxes.
For now that treasury is extremely big, but I'll think about more expenses for the government.
The next step I am going to do is make a better newspaper system, which will be very hard, any suggestions for a newspaper system are welcome.
Who of you guys is a bit nostalgic? :)
I know I am :p. I was checking my older directories and came across some back ups of THIS SITE back in 2006 :p.
I have uploaded it on a free server. For those who still want to see that discusting, slow, unuseable and unpraticle interface :p here is the link:
http://kingisulgard.webng.com
I had to disable some options like mailing and logfiles because the host was free. (No text files or sending mails :(). Anyway I think it is quite funny to see what a HUGE improvement the game has made.
For the Die Hards: You're account is still there :p.
I have also mailed the old players from back then to check out the new site :).
I have lowered the taxations.
The boxes now start at a higher level so it will take longer to get to the 70% taxation box.
PS: My examinations start tomorrow so from then on there won't be a lot of improvements for a week.
Your sectors can now break down if you don't maintain them.
If they break down, they won't produce anymore and you won't be able to do any changes to them like buying/selling units or (de)activating it until you have repaired them.
The repairing costs are 125 euro per unit.
To avoid breakdowns you can maintain your units by hiring an engineer at the staff page.
EDIT: Repair costs are substracted from your daily earnings, so you will have some kind of tax advantage.
I have added another small tool to the market page.
When clicking the image of the goods next to the inputfield, it fills in automaticly how much you have of those goods in your warehouse. This is easy to quickly sell goods.
Maybe not clear for users who don't know about this feature, but they will discover it sooner or later by themselves I guess :).
PS: From now on employee costs will be substracted from your daily profits. This means less taxes!
I have also made some small changes to the storage page.
At the part of "Your stock" you now get to see the value of each sector goods instead of the value / CBM. Also I have added a total stock value at the bottom of the "Your stock" part.
Just a little bit more handy information for you guys :).
Due to the change of the units system some parts of the main page of the "Units" section became irrelevant. I have removed that information and redesigned the page to a (hopefully more) clear interface.
I have written a small calculator at the market page which displays the price and total CBM of the transaction (Taxes not included).
I hope this is a little help for you all :p.
I have renewed the units section. I am still busy with changing it but it is already working, just need to do some lay out and such.
Now your machines and generators are installed automaticly immediately.
I have done some small updates.
The market sets are now minimalized and can be maximalized (like the advisor box).
To change your password, your password needs to be at least of the level "Good".
Some more small changes might be noticed today. ;) (Like his/her in profile (checks your gender))
I have improved the AJAX part of the JavaScript Engine. This should speed up some options on the site.
I have programmed a new feature and added it to the market page.
Now you are able to create, delete, buy and sell sets.
This way you can create a set with an amount of goods you regulary buy or sell. You simply create a set, buy or sell it and delete it when you don't use the set anymore.
For database overflow regulation reasons, you are only able to create a maximum of 5 sets.
I hope you will like this feature ;).
PS: What do you think about the ability of naming your sets? (Personally, I think that this is an unnecesairy option).
The site has been down for a while today.
The reason for this was a bug in the code that I had forgotten to remove (was testing things).
Sorry for the inconvinience. Everythings should be working normal again.
I have added a strength meter to the change password option on your settings page.
When typing in a password you'll see a meter showing you the strength of your password.
Just a little tool for show :p.
I have updated the profile pages.
Now the contact section shows little icons of what you are using as IMs. There is also a big icon to pm, email or visit his/her website.
I have changed the engine of the javascript on the site.
Everything is now handled by a few single functions.
This might cause some errors on some pages or slow down the browsing, if so... please let me know :).
Due to the many changes to the game lately, the structure of the code got a little bit messed up.
I have been busy restyling it a bit. The site is W3C valid again. (According to opera (The browser, not the chick! :p) not even 5% of the sites is W3C Valid :))
I am planning to make the game kinda shareware.
This means that there will be a limited amount of days that you can play for free. You will get like 15 free days or something as a start.
As soon as your days are over, you can buy 90 days (or maybe even a year) extra or something for like €1.00 (not much), or if you do not want to pay, you can vote for free days.
5 votes = 1 free day playing or something.
The payment method can be chosen between paypal or SMS (Mobile Text Message).
This way I can increase popularity and cut costs for the businessgame site.
I don't think of getting rich with Businessgame, but the advertising profits are just not enough yet to pay my site costs back. If every member would pay €1.00 I have a much better result and get out of costs.
Don't worry, this is not planned to be implemented soon, more something I'll do next year. But just already announcing this to see the comments on this.
I have added some new BBCode features.
You can now also use Ordered Lists and insert Youtube Movies.
I have also changed the icons of the storage and of the bank page.
I have added icons next to the title to the game pages.
I have added the option that when you close the tutorial, it remains on the same page. So you really have the idea it is a box that is closed and you can continue using the page ;).
Hope you like it! ;)
I changed the titles of the game pages a bit. Now there is appaering a small icon next to it.
I had found a bug and fixed it in the taxation scale images in flash.
The last box, which is 70% only calculated till 50, 000 euros, now they calculate your taxes correctly.
I have added the "Finance" tab today.
This tab will calculate your daily profits and the taxes you have to pay.
It is kinda basic at the moment, maybe more features will be added to this page later.
From now on, you will also need to PAY your taxes :). (Hooray!!!)
I hope this improvement will make the game again a bit closer to a real simulation.
I have already done a testrun, this would be in your advantage because now you will have to pay in two parts which will get you in a lower taxation box :p.
I have finaly made a final list of taxes.
Here is the list,
25,000 70%
18,000 60%
12,000 50%
07,000 40%
03,000 30%
01,000 20%
00,000 10%
It will be implemented in time.
This principle is simple, everything below 1000 will be taxed 10%, everything between 1000 and 3000 will be taxed 20%, everything between 3000 and 7000 will have a tax rate of 30% and so on...
For example, if I made 8000 euros today, I will be taxed the following:
1000 x 10% = 100
2000 x 20% = 400
4000 x 30% = 1200
1000 x 40% = 400
+_______________
Total tax of 2100 for today (Something like 25% of the total).
Btw, maybe make point where tax is 100%? (So there is a maximum daily profit in game that can be achieved).
Like everything 30,000 + is 100% taxes.
I have altered the graphics of the market evolutions. Now they are with dots and numeric information about the evolution.
Hope this is a bit more clear.
Due to the bug that occured yesterday on the new market system, I have resetted all warehouses.
It would have been an impossible (read: boring, frustrating and long) job to check and fix all warehouses on the correct goods amount.
The people who have gained a lot of money by exploiting the bug, I will give them a fine which will balance their total budget to a normal value.
I have designed a new market interface.
I am still thinking about how to make it user friendly and more clear. I am not quite sure if this sytem is better than the previous.
Let me know what you think.
I have rewritten the turn system.
It should do the same as it did before only faster and with the extra options added (also easier to add new options later.)
This new system also records how much profit you made today. (Isn't shown anywhere yet, still thinking where to put it).
Let me know if you find out any bugs. (Miscalculations, no turn processing, etc).
I have trown in an effect that makes a little transistion when going from page to page.
Might be nice, but it could also slow down the gaming. Let me know if you think it should stay of go away :).
I have finished the court page which will fine you when being caught on any illegal actions.
Now you can only have illegal actions by running more sectors than allowed, I am going to add more possibilities to break laws later.
All of them have a small chance of getting caught, the bigger the crime, the bigger the fine. The fine will be calculated on your profits.
I have made a little change to the lay out.
Now in the rankings, inbox, outbox and forums you will see a much clearer background transistion as before.
I have also used the colo(u)r blue to make the site a little less dull :p.
I have removed the headhunter from the game.
He didn't seem to be a good idea after all.
I have added the headhunter.
He will lower your wages of the employees with 20%
I have also did a little update:
- Accountant has another image
- Production manager has another image
- You can now employ 4 employees instead of 3
I am thinking of adding some kind of environment.
There will be set an amount of "pollution" for each sector unit.
There will also be a wood (based on amount of players) which will clean the pollution.
If pollution level is too high, the governemnt will take consequences. This might be planting new threes and such, or the temporarly need to install filters or something.
What do you think?
I have added a new staff member again (yes the ideas keep coming the last days :))
The newest member is the environmental manager. He can reduce the amount of trash you produce by 50%. And he is also very cheap!
I hope you guys like him! :p
I have updated the staff page.
Changed the texts a bit and altered the picture of the advisor. Hope this suits better. :)
After the 3 new staff members I have added yesterday, I am going to add a new staff member today.
The lobbyist.
The lobbyist will fix a deal with the government which will give you a license to own maximum 4 sectors instead of 3 sectors. So you can get legal activities with even 4 sectors active!
EDIT: He has been added, hope you like him as much as the rest of the board!
I also did some "invisible" fixes :). ex: Birthdays should be calculated correctly now.
I have changed the name of coach into production manager. Sounds better.
The next thing I am planning to do is adding a few extra staff members today.
To be added today:
- Distribution manager: Lowers tax price on selling and buying goods
- Financial director: Lowers the fix costs per unit
- Human resources: Lowers the variable costs per unit
I also changed the price of the logistic manager to ?8 per warehouse per day.
From now on, you are able to activate more than 3 sectors, but you are not allowed too!
When activating more than 3 sectors, you have a certain risk, your risk depends on the amount of illegal sectors (activated sectors-3).
When you get caugt, you will be fined. The fine equals the profit of 15 turns of all your activated profitable sectors. (Because else when you would be losing money, getting fined would be a gift.)
Bugfixes today:
- Profile pages didn't work if the user didn't exist;
- Bank didn't show the correct interest rate when owning a accountant;
- Changed "bookkeeper" to "accountant" (sounds better :p);
- Altered some help pages;
- Staff won't be automaticly fired when not enough money;
- Coach price has been increased (it was just a bit to cheap).
Just a little improvement today :p.
All the users have been reset today!
Everyone has equal chances again!
Enjoy the game!
This is the top 10 of the previous round:
01 crazed
02 emmanuelgau
03 Phate
04 petscul
05 smetske
06 enesgulcek
07 pjt105
08 Great1988
09 mashi_maro
10 OmegaGold
I have made a little change to the advisor system.
Now the system reminds if the advisor box was open or closed. So it will stay open on all pages if you leave it open until you close it somewhere.
A small change, but a very handy feature :).
I also fixed a few bugs :)
I have changed the interface of the settings page. This looks much easier and more pretty.
I'm thinking of making a WAP interface for businessgame.be so it is accessible with other devices than a computer.
This would be something like
http://wap.businessgame.be or
http://businessgame.be/wap.
Do you think that there is a need for this or not? Please let me know.
Fellow BusinessGame players,
I'll be in Paris for a few days with my girlfriend.
I'll be back on Wednessday/Thursday.
Don't be alarmed if I don't come online :p.
The mods will take it from here for this week ;)
Regards,
KingIsulgard
The update has been done. I'm ready one hour faster than planned :p.
Turns are being calculated again, but now with new input and output values.
I hope this will make the game more fair.
The input/output values of every production unit will be undergoing changes today. This will happen between 12h and 14h business time (3 hours away from this post). During that time, there will be no production turns.
Please understand that we change these values in order to get a more balanced economy. For example, it was impossible to loose money on most of the products, even on the very worst scenario.
Consider this change as a fresh challenge in the game. It breaks the routine a little ;)
Again, thank you for your patience.
Please be advised that important changes will happen in the game during the following days.
In a first step, the market prices will slowly adapt to new minima and maxima.
When all prices are within their limits, the input and output values of every production unit will change as well. There is no specific time when this will happen, not yet. These changes will affect profits and losses, as well as storage needs.
Please also remember that there will be a reset, the current date for that is september the 1st. We implement these changes before the reset, to see where we have improved and where we have not. This allows for some more tweaking before the reset.
I thank you for your patience and hope you continue to enjoy playing businessgame.be
The rules and privacy policy have been altered!
Read them before you continue playing. If you do not agree, please refrain of playing the game.
The random market situations are now ready.
The system is done and is working as you have noticed.
In time I'll add more different stories.
I'm rewriting the market system. Don't worry if the indicators are incorrect.
I have changed the market taxes for transactions from 1% to 5%.
I'm busy with writing some news stories which will be put in the newspapers at random moments. This are mostly natural events which are not controlled by humans.
These events will affect the market prices. In a further version, they might even affect your company!
Here is an example of what could possibly happen:
[i]There was a big storm last night and many of the roads got flooded which makes it impossible for the suppliers to deliver their goods to the market.
The government is trying to do all they can to make the suppliers deliver their goods. A team has been sent for help, but they were not in
time to get the goods on the market for today.
As a result, the prices of all the goods have risen.[/i]
I have added some images to the tutorial, to make it a bit more attractive :).
I have also smoothen up the tutorial version for people who are not logged in. (Also with images).
I have updated the tutorial for the registered members. When you click on the tutorial button while logged in, you will get a small window on top of your screen that will help you navigate the site.
The tutorial for new members will be updated soon.
I hope this will increase the user-friendly of the site.
Hi all,
I've been a moderator for quiete a while now, but only the first 2 weeks of beeing a moderator, I actually had the time to do something.
Then i had some troubles with the neaghbours (or something simmilar) and my child was taken in at the hospital. Well, this game could get stolen from me.
After a month, i finally had time for this game again, but...
I applyed for a job at Asus, to work there at the German support centre.
I'm Dutch, but my German language (Grown up with 2 languages, English is not one of them as you notice :P) and my Computer knowledge was enough to accept me.
Since then i work 40 hours a week, have 4 hours a day to spend on my wife an child, and no time for the game.
In the weekend i spend my time translating websites from Dutch/English to German, and i get paid quiete well, so i don't have any time left to spend as an moderator.
That's why i'm resigning.
I will still keep my account, and check in once in a while. I hope one of you has the spare time and is relliable, and would apply as an moderator.
I wish you all fun playing the game, if you have questions, you can always contact me in the future, reply could take a week or 2, so it's no use, but the offer is standing.
Have fun, and good luck all! :)
Greetings
Alexander
There is a new poll.
Join the discussion about the "Upkeep" option
here and tell us what you think.
I have added taxes to the market.
From now on there will be charged 1% taxes on each trade you make.
I hope this step will be another step to reality :).
I have slightly changed the bank page.
It now represents a contract you have to fill in. The actual system didn't change, but I think it is just cooler this way :).
Let me know what you think, this way I can think about getting the game more visualised. (Maybe you just like the text-system, or do you want more images?)
You now receive cash on businessgame (?100.00 for each vote) for voting. You can vote once a day on each site.
You need to be logged in to receive your cash!
Voting can be done
here.
I have updated the staff system.
Instead of rehiring them each day, you will keep them untill you fire them.
To prevent cheating, the employee will only be fired at the end of the day.
I hope this little change will slightly improve the game ;).
I have found out the bug that caused the empty mails to be sent.
I have fixed this error, let me know if it still happens.
I hope I didn't anger to many of you people :s.
For some mysterious reason, my server sends blank mails to all users.
That should be fixed now, if the message is empty no mail will be sent.
I hope that will do the trick, otherwise I'll have to check all me codes to know how this happens.
So let's pray :p.
I have finished the staff section. Let me know if everything works ok.
I hope you like it.
More improvements on this section will follow soon. (Better advise, and more information about what they actually do.)
If you have a suggestion to add to the staff list, let me know.
I am also thinking of a marketeer or something, he will make all prices of goods 10% cheaper. (This is handy when you want to make a huge stock in one day.)
I started working on the "Staff" option today.
I hope to finish it this weekend!
Hi all,
The site is back operational. All turns are calculated and forums should be working fine again.
Have fun!
If you encounter any bugs, please notify me asap in the forum "Bugs"
Regards,
KingIsulgard
PS: Due to a stupid mistake the turns were calculated each quarter the first day, this is back to normal (half hour turns).
The site has been transferred!
All changes that has been made before the transfer and after the back up are lost!
So if you created your account this week, you might have to register again!
I am transferring this server from a windows server to a linux server. It might take a while and the site might be offline.
Don't worry, it is all to give you a better service and gameplay.
Please note: The latest changes are probably not saved anymore!
Hi all,
I have been writing and editing some help files today. I think that the help files about the [[business strategies]] might be the most useful. I am not quite done with the work but there is already a basic information page about it.
Tell me if I need to post more of that kind of information.
Regards,
KingIsulgard
Businessgame.be now also has a facebook page :p.
You can view it
here.
Become a fan and spread the word!!! :)
After my examinations I will program the panel "Team" or "Staff" or something likewise.
This option will extend the possibilities of businessgame in a great way. You will be able to improve your production, get some great hints or get better prices for your goods.
Here are some options I already had in mind:
You can hire a:
- Spy: When hired a spy you will be able to see in the users profile what things he owns and has been activated.
- Advisor: You already got kind of an example in game, this guy will give you advise
- Analyst: Will tell you what the next price changes are expected to be
- Bookkeeper: He will calculate the profits for all sectors (like the spreadsheet some of the members already made themselves :p)
- Lawyer: Can fix lower intrest rate at bank :)
- Stock manager: Lowers warehouse cost per turn with 25%
- Production manager: Increases production of all units with 5%
- Market manager: Can fix better market prices for you (not sure yet about this option, might give some troubles)
To keep it fair, I will put a limit on this too (like maximum 3 sectors active) you might maximum activate 2 of these guys a day or something. Otherwise the top players can simply activate them all and gain huge profit, than there is nothing strategic about it.
What do you think? And do you have some ideas yourselves?
I think the turns are calculating again. please let me know :)
The updaters should be fixed now, I am working on the MySQL errors right now. (However they are still a mystery.)
I start to get them too, never happened before. When did this error starts to come up for you guys? This might help me finding out what the cause might be.
There seems to be some problems with the site. Like errors and updates don't work.
I think they are updating the system or something.
More news will follow soon.
I changed the PHP version from version 4.4.7 to 5.2.5. I am not sure what the consequences will be. There might be some errors and bugs.
Please notify me as soon as you notice some.
I have made some changes to the [[BB Code]]. Not the syntax but the output it generates. This is especially for the images since they were to big sometimes. Images will be resized now.
I hope this will keep the forum clean.
The forum is now completely ready. You can write replies and edit them. Quote other users or write your own topics.
BB Code is also [b]activated[/b]!
The forum is now online.
You can already read and reply to posts. But you can't post your own topics yet. This will be fixed during the weekend.
You don't need to warn me about any bugs in the forum yet, most of the time I am already aware of them but I simply didn't had the time to fix that part yet.
Anyway, I hope you like the work I've done so far.
Regards,
KingIsulgard
The bank system is now ready. To make it a bit challenging I have set intrest to 25%. There is also a daily intrest to push you to pay it back as fast as possible.
I hope you like it.
