Player guide
Raising Capital
Calculate the likely investor offer and the ownership you surrender to receive it.
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What courting investors does
The founder offers between 1% and 15% of the company in exchange for investment. The action costs 50 Energy, requires a current CEO, and cannot sell more ownership than the founder still has.
What improves the offer
The CEO’s average across all ten skills, the county’s base donation level, and the local fundraiser market multiplier determine the result. Because all ten skills are averaged, a balanced CEO is more useful here than a specialist with several very low skills.
Market exhaustion
A successful investor action reduces the local fundraiser multiplier by 0.25, with a floor of zero. Repeated fundraising in an exhausted market therefore produces less capital unless the market recovers through the broader economy.
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.
Investor amount
Rule
[(CEO ten-skill average ÷ 100) × county base donation × fundraiser multiplier ÷ 5] × equity fraction.
- Equity fraction is the percentage sold written as a decimal: 10% is 0.10.
- The final amount is rounded to whole dollars.
- Founder ownership falls by exactly the percentage sold.
Worked example
A CEO averaging 60 in a county with a $10,000,000 base and a 1.5 market multiplier creates a $9,000,000 base. Selling 10% yields $180,000 after the divide-by-five equity calculation.
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