Dear all, 18EA is going to include mergers, a major factor in East Anglian railways. Ignorant as I am about other 18xx games which involve this sort of thing,...
... From: "Mike Hutton" <Mike.Hutton@...> To: <18xx@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 5:13 AM Subject: [18xx] Mergers in a new design ... ...
... But different games focus on different things. 1826 clearlly takes place mostly in the 20th century, whereas other games are much more 19th century. I...
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... From: <mcvmcv@...> To: <18xx@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [18xx] Mergers in a new design ... Er...have you...
... I have and I do, but there are few other games that have E and TGV trains, while 1826 does. Especially with its emphasis on the late game, 1826 has a much...
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... From: <mcvmcv@...> To: <18xx@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [18xx] Mergers in a new design ... Um...I'm just...
... ... Thanks for your input and advice. FWIW capitalisation will be 100%, and the choice of par prices pretty wide (54 to 100). ... Anglian ... granularity,...
... From: Mike Hutton To: 18xx@yahoogroups.com Sent: 7/1/2005 5:13:37 AM Subject: [18xx] Mergers in a new design Dear all, 18EA is going to include mergers, a...
... Can an already merged company (ie is the product of a previous merger) merge with yet another company? Can that other company also be an already merged...
Greetings all! Very interesting discussion on mergers and such going on here and I am reading those with a keen eye. I like the sound of Mr. Berger's 1831 ...
... From: "Mike Hutton" <Mike.Hutton@...> To: <18xx@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: [18xx] Re: Mergers in a new design...
Railway companies in England needed an Act of Parliament to form, and approval from Parliament to merge. This was not automatic, it was usually given for "end...
... Securities Group case, where James J. Hill controlled three separate railroads using a holding company, but was prevented by the courts from actually...
... <snip> ... <snip> Must the second company have operated at all? If not, then forming a company purely for the purposes of merging it with an old one,...
... 1890's map is about 50 miles (80km) on a side and five minor and eight major companies are squeezed in. That's of the same order of size as East Anglia. ...
... There's an old saw to the effect that it's dull to repeat the mistakes of others, so much better to make new and interesting ones of one's own. Much ...
... The 1848 rule for the price after a merger is that it's the highest value on the top row (or in the left column) of the stock market less than the sum of ...
... But it's a very easy calculation to determine whether A's treasury is at least five times B's stock price, and both the treasury and stock price can be ...
... From: To: 18xx@yahoogroups.com Sent: 7/2/2005 6:14:21 AM Subject: Re: [18xx] Mergers in a new design ... But it's a very easy calculation to determine...
... From: <Maisnestce@...> To: <18xx@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 6:14 AM Subject: Re: [18xx] Mergers in a new design ... No doubt. My...
... No, but read on... ... your ... One of the dynamics of 1860 and hence 18EA is that if you sell a trainless company's shares you only get half price for...
I sent him a couple of emails recently, and his web site seems to be down at the moment... I was wondering whether he might be moving or something......
... In a merger, corporations pool their resources, so that the net result is an entity more or less equal to the sum of its parts. In a takeover, one ...
But a takeover can be "paid for" in shares, which comes to the same effect as a merger in terms of pooling of resources of the two corporations involved, but...
... In Real Life, sure. But 18xx corporations can't print more shares ad libitum. In 1831, the shares of the other corporation must be paid for from cash. In...