Player guide
Company Operations
Understand daily revenue, CEO and board effects, margins, costs, taxes, and company scale.
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The daily company loop
Each asset earns revenue from its competitive share. The company combines asset results, determines an operating margin from leadership and age, subtracts operating costs and applicable leadership payroll, then taxes positive pre-tax profit.
Leadership matters most through finance
The CEO score uses all ten skills, but Financial Acumen carries 35% of the weight. Leadership and Analytical Ability carry 15% each. A board can add as many as 15 score points, depending on member quality and how many of six useful seats are filled.
Growth changes efficiency
New companies receive a temporary revenue multiplier and margin bonus that fade over 90 days. Smaller asset bases also receive a revenue multiplier, while very large companies face a margin drag. Growth can still raise total profit, but revenue does not translate to profit at a constant rate.
Mechanics
How results are calculated
These rules come from the game calculation. Live market values and event-specific settings can still change the final result where noted.
Effective CEO score
Rule
Weighted CEO skills + board boost, capped from 0 to 100.
- CEO weights: Financial Acumen 35%; Leadership 15%; Analytical Ability 15%; Creativity 8%; Communication 6%; Networking 6%; Resilience 5%; Technical Proficiency 4%; Charisma 3%; Performance 3%.
- Board boost = 15 × board average skill fraction × filled-seat fraction, with at most six members counted.
Worked example
Six board members averaging 80 add 12 points. Three members averaging 80 add 6 points.
Operating margin
Rule
10% base + up to 16% from the square root of CEO effectiveness + startup bonus − scale drag, clamped to 5%–34%.
- The startup margin bonus begins at 12 percentage points and fades to zero by day 90.
- Scale drag rises with size and reaches 7 percentage points at a $500,000,000 asset base.
- Taxes apply only after revenue and operating costs produce positive pre-tax profit.
Startup revenue multiplier
Rule
Approximately ×3.0 at founding, ×2.5 at day 14, ×1.8 at day 45, and ×1.0 at day 90 and later.
- The multiplier transitions between those milestones rather than dropping all at once.
- Company age is therefore material when comparing otherwise similar companies.
Reference tables
| Skill | Weight |
|---|---|
| Financial Acumen | 35% |
| Leadership | 15% |
| Analytical Ability | 15% |
| Creativity | 8% |
| Communication | 6% |
| Networking | 6% |
| Resilience | 5% |
| Technical Proficiency | 4% |
| Charisma | 3% |
| Performance | 3% |
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