TBF, Mags, you have been doing a lot of the heavylifting for the quest, so this will be in good hands.
To be clear to everyone, this is just me burning out on imagination of the quest, since my muse has been hitting me over the head a lot with so many different ideas that I just can't find myself too interested in this.
I'll still hang out here, though, since this still does have a sepcial place in my heart.
I'd like to thank you all for making this a wonderful experience while it lasted.
I'd also like to thank @Magoose, @Fluffy_serpent, and @Martin Noctis for doing so much to help prepare and write this quest. I couldn't have done it without you all.
AHHHHH!!!!, I can't decide. I don't want to own a car company because I fear we'll overburden Magoose but at the same time I want to invest into the company.
It's not that I never want to spend any money, I just don't see a point on spending high amounts of money each turn just for the sake because we have 5 billion. None of the investments are critical, although I will admit that an expansion and upgrade to Sunrise studios as Orion suggested is a neat feature that I might add in a future plan if mine wins this turn.
What about the money taken to pay for employess, staff, directors, locations, etc.
That money is not just lying flat, just because Magoose does not burden us with every single small minutia, it does not mean it is not being used in some way by the rest.
Edit: Have to leave for work, I won't be able to respond for now.
What about the money taken to pay for employess, staff, directors, locations, etc.
That money is not just lying flat, just because Magoose does not burden us with every single small minutia, it does not mean it is not being used in some way by the rest.
The company had $5 Billion, which has grown based off the profits of multiple films since the last update, so assuming that everything distributed proportional to the level of work being done and a fair market value, then the only thing $200 Million (of company funds) invested back into itself, then the only thing that would be hurt would be the Christmas bonuses.
Can someone remind me why we're delaying DUNE and LOTR to '81? Like I legitimatly forgot.
Also we made a cool 500 million from Miraculous on merch only. The plan would only spend 300 million so we would be pocketing 200 million and with other productions just around the corner, who knows how much up we are. Also you gotta spend money to make money, so do not see this as 300 million we're throwing away but see it as investing so that we could make more money in the future.
When has that ever actually been factored in outside of the production we work on at the time? I don't think it has. Unless I'm horribly misremembering, I don't think upkeep is actually factored in.
When has that ever actually been factored in outside of the production we work on at the time? I don't think it has. Unless I'm horribly misremembering, I don't think upkeep is actually factored in.
Jewel's Are A Girls Best Friend:
It was a cold winter's night when Bruce O'Brian found himself locked in Debbie's Basement, sent down there to "fetch an old album of Carrie's pictures" [code: please get out of the room while I snuggle my grandchildren]. So he got lost in the basement, going over a number of artifacts unique to Debbie's Hollywood Memorabilia collection that hadn't ever been put on display, partly because she was still getting some of the royalties to old blackmail she had set up in the years long past and partly because she thought that they were unique enough that she would see no end in sight from collectors, like Bonnie and Clyde's steering wheel, the real one, or Count Orlock's coffin.
He'd been down there for some grand old time, when he came across another exception, a collection of damaged vintage items that apparently still had some measure of value. Most of it he was unable to even read the labels on, so long they had been forgotten, when his eyes fell upon an old steamer trunk tucked away in a forgotten corner. Dusty and worn, the trunk bore a label that just barely read, "Marilyn Monroe's Belongings." Curiosity soaring, he eagerly opened the trunk, expecting to find remnants of Hollywood's golden era...and found that, while true, they were a horrendous, macabre display of items covered in what could only be called disturbing. While some of it was in good enough tradition, he could only shudder to realize that much of this had been collected from Marilyn's home on the night of her death, including an almost overlooked weathered, velvet-lined box. While hesitant to take a look at anything else, something struck him as odd about the box...in fact, he would say that it's construction seemed familiar to him, some ancient memory of his own that reminded him of his nan, so when Bruce finally lifted the lid, it left him breathless at the sight before him.
Resting there on the velvet, lay a set of heavily jeweled star and badge regalia, their brilliance undimmed by the passage of time, even if chips and cracks existed in the corner where the jewels and metals met.
The star, adorned with sparkling diamonds and vibrant emeralds, exuded an aura of regal magnificence. The badge, with its intricate patterns and ornate gemstones, spoke of a rich heritage and grandeur. Bruce's heart swelled at the sight, as slowly, horrifically, he realized the historical and cultural significance of these jewels. They were the missing pieces of Ireland's regalia, lost to time and circumstance. Horrifyingly, numerous connections flitted their way through his mind, recontextualizing many of the events that Carrie had in great and disturbing detail shared with him, because unwittingly or not he had unwittingly stumbled upon a treasure that had captivated historians and treasure hunters for the last few generations.
Dread pooled in his stomach, as slowly turned up the steps to have a talk with his mother-in-law about the discovery of the Irish Crown Jewels, believed to be lost forever, having found an unexpected resting place amidst Marilyn Monroe's effects, with a single, crumpled note that they had been given to her by one of her...admirers (his money was on one of the Kennedy boys). Marilyn, captivated by their beauty and unaware of their true significance, had kept them as her own, treating them as cherished mementos of that time.
As soon as he crested the stairs, he turned to Debbie and in a shaken voice asked her, box still in hand, "Did you know what these are?"
Her look of surprise told him everything he needed to know. A/N: Bruce only has a faint memory of his grandmother having a similar plain box, and I figure Debbie started collecting Marilyn's affects because it's incredibly fucked up how many of Marilyn's things were decidedly stolen from her after her death by raving fans, paparazzi and ex-lovers, and Debbie was doing her best to collect them all to return them to Marilyn's estate.
Also [this is probably an urban legend but I like the story], there's tale of how whoever returns the Irish Crown Jewels to the Irish government (Republic of Ireland), is automatically given Irish citizenship for its safe return.
It's not that I never want to spend any money, I just don't see a point on spending high amounts of money each turn just for the sake because we have 5 billion. None of the investments are critical, although I will admit that an expansion and upgrade to Sunrise studios as Orion suggested is a neat feature that I might add in a future plan if mine wins this turn.
I do plan on big stuff with the budget. Mainly purchasing companies such as Hanna-Barbera or Marvel as well as greatly expanding production of movies and shows. Not to mention a theme park or creating LucasArts. As for personal wealth, I want to save that up so next year we can invest half a billion dollars in AIDS research. Although we could just donate to charity through Lucasfilms.
Well, while I am a little frustrated about how adverse you seem to be to making big investments despite having money, or taking networking actions to prepare those big investments I have to admit that I am not keen on the investments of Orion´s plan... And getting all the actions on Midnight Dinner done seems much more critical than those investments...
[X] Plan Moonlight Movie
The Treaty of Stockholm signified an end to the Soviet-Romanian War on January 12th of 1980. The negotiations for the treaty took place in Stockholm with negotiations between Romania and the Soviet Union overseen by a tribunal of Sweden, Switzerland and Finland.
Territory
Romania had sought the pursuit of a restoration of its borders in 1937 under the Kingdom of Romania sans its territories lost to Bulgaria. The Soviets had been willing to concede to the loss of the Moldavian Socialist Republic as it was an ethnically Romanian majority and was not one of the founding states of the Soviet Union. The Romanian-Soviet border was agreed to be at the Dneister river at the East to act as a strong defensive barrier for both sides, with the Soviet Union conceding territory that composed of the Ismail and Cetatea Alba counties from Ukraine.
A major point of contention that lasted until the New Year was the territory comprising of the former Romanian counties which had been ethnically Ukrainian in majority. These lands which had been in the historical Bukovina and Northern Bessarabia regions had been argued to be historically core Romanian territories that had democratically pursued unity with Romania after World War I and that the Ukrainian population had settled there thanks to Polish and Russian Imperialism. The Soviets countered that these territories held natural Ukrainian majorities, that they had joined Romania through illegal governments that excluded the majority population of Ukrainians, Russians and Jews, and that keeping onto them was proper compensation for Romania's allegiance with the Axis in World War II. Romania countered that their involvement with the Axis was only due to Russia stealing Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia. The debate was settled when arbitration awarded Romania the territories which composed of partial annexations of counties that had been left in the majority of Romania, thus territory belonging to the Radauti, Hotin and Dorohoi counties. The Storojinet and Cernauti counties remained as part of Ukraine, thus balancing Romanian losses from World War II with two counties to the Soviet Union and two to Romania. Both nations would in the treaty recognize the new state of the border and drop claims to each other.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Due to the Romanian genocide, Romania had been adamant in its right to self defense through the creation and deployment of weapons of mass destruction. In Romania's belief, the treaties which prohibited and regulated its production were as useless as toilet paper as the Soviet Union who had already been a signatory of the Biological Weapons Convention had unleashed its stockpile on Romania. The Soviet Union refused to pay reparations for the Genocide, stating that Romania would need to trade land or military restrictions for such, and it refused to participate in any enforcement mechanisms to ensure the erasure of its biological weapons stockpile. While Romania voluntarily added onto the treaty that it would participate in the Biological Weapons Convention due to the hatred of bioweapons, it refused to make any limitations on nuclear and chemical weapons. A nuclear program had already been underway in 1978 months before the Revolution and it was estimated that Romania could obtain nuclear weapons without foreign assistance in the mid 1980s. Romanian Marshal Ioan Ioanita was famously quoted as saying, "What use do we have for plagues when your average Romanian can kill more Russians than any single bacteria?". Romanian nuclear policy under all future governments would be the active maintenance of a domestic arsenal, regardless of any future membership within NATO. Romania thus in one of its first diplomatic acts in the Cease fire withdrew from the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
NATO membership and Romanian diplomacy
Knowing that it had little to enforce major concessions against Romania due to its poor performance and the dire domestic state of the Union, the primary aim of the Soviet diplomats in negotiations was the Finlandlization of Romania into a neutral state, Soviet-aligned or at least a true neutral. This ran counter to Romanian aims with future NATO membership being a non-negotiable point, the Romanian delegation under Foreign Minister Manescu actually walking out of negotiations numerous times as a show of seriousness and at one point nearly prevented from leaving just as they were about to board a plane home. While technically neither party could force NATO to accept or reject Romanian entry in the treaty, popular sentiment throughout the alliance had been high for membership with many political candidates such as Ronald Reagan making Romanian entry a key plank to their platforms. The Soviets then began to shift towards openness of Romanian entry so long as there were demilitarized zones on the borders, a ban on nuclear sharing and arms limitations, to which Romania stubbornly refused.
It was over this point that treaty talks nearly broke down several times, and it was only due to the direct intervention of Brezhnev that the Soviet delegation remained, as securing a treaty was critical to save the spiraling domestic situation through foreign aid. All that would result on the treaty was a clause stating, "Romania is recognized as an independent state with full sovereignty and freedom to pursue diplomacy as it wishes".
Bulgarian Transit and Trade
A major issue which had been created by Romania's departure from the Warsaw Pact and its active state of war with the Soviet Union was the geographical and economic isolation of Bulgaria. The Soviet satellite which had been the most loyal of the Warsaw Pact and most orthodox in practice of Stalinism, had prior to the war had an economy reliant on trade with the Soviet Union and Romania with 80% of Bulgarian trade going through the two nations. At the start of the conflict, Romania had voluntarily destroyed all domestic roads and railroads leading to Bulgaria and even during periods where the Soviet Union held territory bordering Romania, trade was nonexistent due to military security and Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhikov was forced to maintain a quarantine of Romania to stop the spread of Soviet bioweapons. By 1980, the Bulgarian economy was in a state of great depression with 30% unemployment and discontent against the Zhikov regime was rising. This was a situation that the Soviet government wished to crush while Romania wanted to encourage the dissent to grow.
No matter how the peace process underwent, the National Salvation Front had sworn to never again conduct trade with the Soviet Union, which included the transit of Soviet people and goods to Bulgaria. While Bulgaria could hypothetically rely on its other neighboring countries, both Greece and Turkey wished nothing to do with Bulgaria due to exposure of plots to incite conflicts between the two by Bulgaria and the poor treatment of Turkish Bulgarians, while Bulgaria's relationship with Yugoslaviahad always been frosty due to the Macedonia issue and now Yugoslavia was an American partner.
On Christmas Eve a potential brekathrough on the Bulgarian issue when Romania presented an offer of building a railway to transport goods from Odessa to Varna, but in return the Soviet Union could not place any military units in Bulgaria. While traditionally Bulgaria had been lacking in a Soviet presence due to its loyalty, in the war the Soviet Union had deployed 100,000 men to Bulgaria for fear of a revolution as well as to place a deterrence against NATO. With Bulgaria isolated and economic conditions collapsing, it was believed that a revolution could soon take place. Viewing the loss of Bulgaria as too great a risk without Soviet enforcement, the Soviets rejected this idea although Bulgaria still kept the offer as an option for open negotiations. As an alternative, an agreement was made to demilitarize the Danube river with no military watercraft to patrol south of the Hungarian border and for Romania to take responsibility for demining the Danube. Military vehicles and weaponry were prohibited from being sent down the Danube along this demilitarized corridor but ships bound for Bulgaria would be toll free. Romania also agreed to solely lift its anti-Communist embargo for Bulgaria, although sanctions were placed on the sale of industrial machinery, chemicals, weaponry and fossil fuels.
The lack of a land connection to the Soviet Union severely cut trade with the Warsaw Pact to where Bulgaria only had 20% of its trade with the Eastern Bloc in 1980. To make up for the disparity, Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov pursued greater trade relations with Greece and Turkey and forged peace with Yugoslavia by recognizing the existence of the Macedonian nationality, an action which made Zhirkov appear weak to the Bulgarian public. In spite of these actions, the Bulgarian economy would remain in depression with widespread unemployment, poverty and discontent.
Prisoners, Refugees and Population Transfer
Both sides would exchange prisoners by February 28th save for Soviet prisoners who chose to defect. A major issue was those of refugees as 200,000-400,000 Romanians had fled to Bulgaria, Hungary and the Soviet Union, mainly composing of Securitate members and hardliners of the Communist party. In return, outside of residents of newly conquered territory, 300,000-500,000 Ukrainians fled to Romania to escape the Soviet Union. Viewing said refugees as undesirable citizens, both Romania and the Soviet Union agreed to a recognition of immigration for each other's citizens who had fled during the war but strict border patrols would be placed by both sides to prevent illegal migration during the cease fire. Citizens of newly conquered territories would be allowed to return to the Soviet Union This mechanism would be in place until March 31st where after any refugees would be considered citizens of their respective residences. In addition during said time frame, Romania allowed the option of immigration to the Warsaw Pact as a means of culling domestic Communists. Only 14,000 Romanians would pursue immigration while 190,000 Romanians returned to Romania under pardon. 62,000 Soviets would migrate in a return to the Soviet Union.
However, during the transfer process, the Soviet Union would forcibly deport all Romanian-speaking residents of Ukraine to Romania. Such a move caused 74,000 Romanian Soviets to forcibly immigrate to their ancestral homeland. Romanian refugees who stayed in the Soviet Union were moved outside of Ukraine, mainly to Central Asia and Siberia.
Language defense
In spite of its ethnic cleansing of Romanians, the Soviet Union had demanded that Romania defend the free practice of language and culture belonging to Russians and Ukrainians within Romania. The Soviets viewed this as both a legitimate obligation to the two largest ethnic groups within their state and as a method of keeping Romania divided long-term and open to reconquest of its Eastern territories through the precedence of its expansion in World War II. While Romania affirmed that its constitution and laws prohibited discrimination on race and ethnicity, it would concede to the passage of a Civil Rights law for Ukrainian speakers due to the high minority of Ukrainians created by its expansion and the hopes of expanding into historical Moldavian and Bukovina lands in Ukraine in a future war. While in peacetime ethnic Russians would be discriminated against in Bulgaria, ethnic Ukrainians would by and large assimilate due to their perceived status as a subject state of the Russian-dominated Soviet Union.
Reparations
Both sides would attempt to claim reparations for a variety of reasons throughout the conflict. The Soviets due to Romania's no-prisoner policy, destruction of Ukrainian land, usage of Soviet facilities and gear, death of Soviet civilians, and a lump sum purchase for its newly annexed territories. Romania in return sought reparations for the Romanian genocide and for Romania's economic exploitation under the Socialist Republic. After many days of deliberation, reparations would be rewarded with payments to the families of Soviet embassy personnel and Soviet civilians whose lives were lost before December 7th of 1978 and for Romania to hold a debt of $300 million with 2% interest for its annexed territories. In return, the Soviet Union would commit $500 million to the WHO for aid in cleaning Romania of its biological weapons strains.
Black Sea
Both Romania and the Soviet Union would affirm their dedication to the Montreux Convention.
Well, while I am a little frustrated about how adverse you seem to be to making big investments despite having money, or taking networking actions to prepare those big investments I have to admit that I am not keen on the investments of Orion´s plan... And getting all the actions on Midnight Dinner done seems much more critical than those investments...
It's not like I'm averse to making big investments. I just don't see the need, Magoose hasn't presented us with the right opportunities, and I don't want to make big business moves on the turn we're acting in, directing and producing a movie along with Carrie giving birth to the twins next turn.
To show everyone I'm not some penny pincher, here's all the big stuff I want to use money on in the near future:
Found LucasArts
Buy Apple stock when it goes public
Create Lucas land
Buy Hanna-Barbera
Buy Marvel
Buy Charlton if we can't get Marvel
Invest in Romania and help with recovery
Invest in Eastern European states after end of Cold War
Speedrun AIDS treatment with massive surge of investment
Help Cuban refugees
Greatly expand our production lineup
Buy MGM
Fund TV Shows
Political lobbying
Prop up the USFL
Buy a book publishing company
Dominate Los Angeles Real Estate
Support business in Hell's Kitchen
All of these stuff belong to entertainment and aren't wild investments like Irish auto manufacturing. I just don't want Bruce to enter into a completly different field and fly out to Ireland to manage everything when he's got a movie going on, is raising his family and he's gonna create Kung Fu Kid later in the year.
For 90% of those instances (actually might be higher than that), all of those issues occurred within the United States, as we move towards globalization and gathering films from further abroad, I think it's highly likely that those rolls soon won't be enough and I'm trying to preempt that.
The current Lucasfilms Legal stats gives us a +30 to all court battles and a reroll. This applies to all cases foreign and domestic. I don't see why we have to expand Legal to deal with foreign operations since presumably there would be a section of Legal that deals with international law and we specifically made Legal after the Toho debacle and haven't had any major battles, foreign or domestic since then.
You do realize a big motivation for the European office is so that it largely automates the gathering of European films for distribution instead of us needing to purposefully go out and look for them every turn, right? Beyond that, it opens an entirely new market to us that doesn't even have a dedicated television and film service, netting us additional income?
When did Magoose ever say that pursuing this will make pursuing European films not cost an action? It's not like we have a dire need anyways since in Lucasfilms' seven year existence, we've only ever distributed two European films, Home Comes the Hero and Excalibur, the latter of which hasn't even come out yet. Mainland Europe only really produces a couple of iconic and super profitable films per decade and it's stuff that qualifies for the action economy, and ever since we've been upgraded to 12 actions we usually have 3 to 4 free slots per turn. That's not even mentioning how the internet will make this obsolete when we can just arrange for negotiations over video conference and emails.
Also making the Irish branch a production facility seems very wasteful when we haven't even utilized all of the Lucasfilms lot. The Irish film industry at this point makes less than 10 films a decade. You're not gonna get any profitability from leasing production space to the Irish film studios or make shows for Irish television. It would be better for the Irish economy and film industry to just fund more Lucasfilms projects that are filmed in Ireland like Dead Man's Gold.
I can accept the other three business adventures but Lucasfilms Ireland is just a money sink to support Ireland which can be better done investing in existing businesses.
Who says I picked them for money? I picked Irish car firms for public relations reasons, and the potential for one of our companies developing hybrid and electric vehicles for commercial use.
According to Wikipedia, GAC Ireland and TMC Costin haven't even been created yet and the Shamrock Car has not been made for 20 years and during its time was noted to be a very shitty and flawed car.
What about the money taken to pay for employess, staff, directors, locations, etc.
That money is not just lying flat, just because Magoose does not burden us with every single small minutia, it does not mean it is not being used in some way by the rest.
Edit: Have to leave for work, I won't be able to respond for now.
Seems like everybody missed it, but right before the January turn, I noticed that the Lucasfilms warchest went down from 5 to 4 billion. So we have one billion annual operating costs and are just about to create our own tv channel and create at least a dozen shows along with who knows how many movies we are funding this year. We definitely have hidden costs.
We were gonna make Dune this year but then Magoose for some reason rolled on if Francis felt ready to do that, and the roll came out with a no so Francis is doing Dead Man's Gold as a warmup.
If you promise to add Sunrise expansion in this turn or the next turn and if you promise to follow your investment list you gave then I'll change my vote.
It's not like I'm averse to making big investments. I just don't see the need, Magoose hasn't presented us with the right opportunities, and I don't want to make big business moves on the turn we're acting in, directing and producing a movie along with Carrie giving birth to the twins next turn.
To show everyone I'm not some penny pincher, here's all the big stuff I want to use money on in the near future:
Found LucasArts
Buy Apple stock when it goes public
Create Lucas land
Buy Hanna-Barbera
Buy Marvel
Buy Charlton if we can't get Hanna-Barbera
Invest in Romania and help with recovery
Invest in Eastern European states after end of Cold War
Speedrun AIDS treatment with massive surge of investment
Help Cuban refugees
Greatly expand our production lineup
Buy MGM
Fund TV Shows
Political lobbying
Prop up the USFL
Buy a book publishing company
Dominate Los Angeles Real Estate
Support business in Hell's Kitchen
All of these stuff belong to entertainment and aren't wild investments like Irish auto manufacturing. I just don't want Bruce to enter into a completly different field and fly out to Ireland to manage everything when he's got a movie going on, is raising his family and he's gonna create Kung Fu Kid later in the year.
I'm sorry, but you cannot claim to not be a pennypincher based on potential future purchases when in the past you have systematically shot down most, if not all, large purchases, without so much as discussing such a purchasing list in depth.
In fact, I distinctly remember attempting on multiple occasions to create alternate revenue streams that would have contributed or lessened the effects of what's in this list, everything from creating an area for low income housing to the FEAST center, which would have aiding in combating homelessness to help protect the worst affected by several diseases that include AIDS and would have also covered the Real Estate issue (for the former). You also shot down the Gym on more than one occasion because of the name and the fact it was originally supposed to be a subsidiary of Lucasfilm, which would have directly boosted our production numbers by giving the company a direct pipeline of competent workers, but on the basis that "Bruce deserved his own project" you decided to remove that foundational aspect.
[EDIT: We also specifically got all that land for development and then sat on it for a near half-decade, and then continue to sit on it after finding out about the oil.]
The current Lucasfilms Legal stats gives us a +30 to all court battles and a reroll. This applies to all cases foreign and domestic. I don't see why we have to expand Legal to deal with foreign operations since presumably there would be a section of Legal that deals with international law and we specifically made Legal after the Toho debacle and haven't had any major battles, foreign or domestic since then.
Again, globalization complicates everything, so it would not surprise me to not only see the DC rise in the coming decades but enemy rolls as well, so again, point of this was to future proof for that eventuality.
It's not like we have a dire need anyways since in Lucasfilms' seven year existence, we've only ever distributed two European films, Home Comes the Hero and Excalibur, the latter of which hasn't even come out yet. Mainland Europe only really produces a couple of iconic and super profitable films per decade and it's stuff that qualifies for the action economy, and ever since we've been upgraded to 12 actions we usually have 3 to 4 free slots per turn. That's not even mentioning how the internet will make this obsolete when we can just arrange for negotiations over video conference and emails.
Also making the Irish branch a production facility seems very wasteful when we haven't even utilized all of the Lucasfilms lot. The Irish film industry at this point makes less than 10 films a decade. You're not gonna get any profitability from leasing production space to the Irish film studios or make shows for Irish television. It would be better for the Irish economy and film industry to just fund more Lucasfilms projects that are filmed in Ireland like Dead Man's Gold.
I can accept the other three business adventures but Lucasfilms Ireland is just a money sink to support Ireland which can be better done investing in existing businesses.
In the text of the vote itself, something you keep glossing over to the point of ridiculousness, it literally says this is meant to be built up as an entertainment center. It's not meant to be profitable right away, this is meant to be built up into Europe's Bollywood and gain national goodwill.
--[X] Lucasfilm Europe: Emerald Campus [$75 Million]: Lucasfilm plans to expand its presence into Europe, with the best place to start in your mind is in the home country, Ireland. The Lucasfilm Europe Campus is set to be established in Galway [which, given Dublin's current urban congestion, gives the company room for expansion], serving as an office space, for production and legal, and feature state-of-the-art facilities for film production, post-production, and visual effects. By leveraging Ireland's talent pool and utilizing the country's favorable tax environment [read: tax haven], Lucasfilm aims to acquire and distribute European films and television while contributing to Ireland's entertainment industry and economic growth. The campus will foster collaboration, host industry events, and provide opportunities for local talent, positioning Ireland as a thriving hub for creative industries.
According to Wikipedia, GAC Ireland and TMC Costin haven't even been created yet and the Shamrock Car has not been made for 20 years and during its time was noted to be a very shitty and flawed car.
GAC Ireland the company exists, having been built up over the past few years due to a breakdown in negotiations with Leyland Motors, with its first bus being sent out in November...if this was OTL, the construction of such would have started much earlier (probably around now), but given the current state with Romania in Quest, all of its production would have greatly accelerated, and from a basic reading of TMC Costin, it reads as if the family was already working on custom cars before they formed the company, so again, it wouldn't surprise me they saw the way the wind was blowing and also accelerated their plans.
[EDIT2: Not only that, but you've also completely ignored this fascinating bit from the character sheet, that I'm willing to bet will help with all of this.
Irish: You are a son of the Emerald Isle and a child of Britiania. (Certain rolls are open to you which may be restricted to you otherwise if you were an American)
It's not like I'm averse to making big investments. I just don't see the need, Magoose hasn't presented us with the right opportunities, and I don't want to make big business moves on the turn we're acting in, directing and producing a movie along with Carrie giving birth to the twins next turn.
To show everyone I'm not some penny pincher, here's all the big stuff I want to use money on in the near future:
Found LucasArts
Buy Apple stock when it goes public
Create Lucas land
Buy Hanna-Barbera
Buy Marvel
Buy Charlton if we can't get Hanna-Barbera
Invest in Romania and help with recovery
Invest in Eastern European states after end of Cold War
Speedrun AIDS treatment with massive surge of investment
Help Cuban refugees
Greatly expand our production lineup
Buy MGM
Fund TV Shows
Political lobbying
Prop up the USFL
Buy a book publishing company
Dominate Los Angeles Real Estate
Support business in Hell's Kitchen
All of these stuff belong to entertainment and aren't wild investments like Irish auto manufacturing. I just don't want Bruce to enter into a completly different field and fly out to Ireland to manage everything when he's got a movie going on, is raising his family and he's gonna create Kung Fu Kid later in the year.
Ok, most of this stuff of this seems great... But if we want to get those investments going we should use a couple of actions per turn for networking so that we can set up things right...
Besides that, I have a few things that I would add, like starting MMA, buying Madhouse and KyoAni, and creating Blockbuster...
If you promise to add Sunrise expansion in this turn or the next turn and if you promise to follow your investment list you gave then I'll change my vote.
Kirk Kerkorian has no interest in making movies. He's just a casino magnate who bought MGM for the branding. I want to buy MGM primarily to get their library and thus add it to VHS sales and streaming if we decide to make a platform years later. Plus MGM made most of Debbie's movies so it's nice to keep those within the family.
I'm sorry, but you cannot claim to not be a pennypincher based on potential future purchases when in the past you have systematically shot down most, if not all, large purchases, without so much as discussing such a purchasing list in depth.
In fact, I distinctly remember attempting on multiple occasions to create alternate revenue streams that would have contributed or lessened the effects of what's in this list, everything from creating an area for low income housing to the FEAST center, which would have aiding in combating homelessness to help protect the worst affected by several diseases that include AIDS and would have also covered the Real Estate issue (for the former). You also shot down the Gym on more than one occasion because of the name and the fact it was originally supposed to be a subsidiary of Lucasfilm, which would have directly boosted our production numbers by giving the company a direct pipeline of competent workers, but on the basis that "Bruce deserved his own project" you decided to remove that foundational aspect.
I tend to play it safe with money and be conservative until we have a fat checkbook to spend on. It's my personality and a combination of how I was raised and my current financial situation so I don't do spending sprees. Literally when I play Monopoly I build up my money and then start buying and trading like crazy.
FEAST at the time seemed really overambitious when Bruce had a hell of a lot less money and still needed to Empire build Lucasfilms to its current state. AIDS hasn't been created yet and no matter how effective FEAST is it's not going to eliminate povertyas you envision. There were others besides me who were against the Gym and my biggest draw was that you were trying to make it back then a Star Wars themed recreational center which would have conflicted with the serious stuff and after school things.
Although I will concede that reading your stuff and thinking about it, if we're just giving the money to existing Irish car companies and creating a conglomerate between them instead of acting as full time CEO I can get down behind it. @Magoose If Orion's car action is chosen will Bruce mostly be acting as the money man and the existing auto people will handle the bulk of design, production and distribution? At the very least these people aren't in legal and personal hell like Delorian.
Replacing Celebrity fan with it. If Magoose says that we're just the money guy for Irish cars I'll replace Cam Jensen with it.
Orion I know I disagree with you a lot, but this just comes from personal preference and not anything personal. You do come up with some great ideas like Sunrise expansion, FEAST and the Gym, it just takes me a while to be convinced.
FEAST at the time seemed really overambitious when Bruce had a hell of a lot less money and still needed to Empire build Lucasfilms to its current state. AIDS hasn't been created yet and no matter how effective FEAST is it's not going to eliminate povertyas you envision. There were others besides me who were against the Gym and my biggest draw was that you were trying to make it back then a Star Wars themed recreational center which would have conflicted with the serious stuff and after school things.
It's not meant to eliminate poverty, it was meant to help alleviate conditions for the destitute by providing them a cot, a set of skills and a networking opportunity in line with Bruce's Catholic Guilt.
Although I will concede that reading your stuff and thinking about it, if we're just giving the money to existing Irish car companies and creating a conglomerate between them instead of acting as full time CEO I can get down behind it. @Magoose If Orion's car action is chosen will Bruce mostly be acting as the money man and the existing auto people will handle the bulk of design, production and distribution? At the very least these people aren't in legal and personal hell like Delorian.
This was what I was going for yeah, with maybe once or twice a year Bruce coming down to check out the production lines and see what concepts might be produced.
This was what I was going for yeah, with maybe once or twice a year Bruce coming down to check out the production lines and see what concepts might be produced.
Okay fair. That was entirely on me because it read more like Bruce playing Henry Ford and building something from the ground up rather than figuratively guest starring on Irish Shark Tank.
Unless Magoose says we have to be personally invested, I replaced the Cam Jensen action with that. I guess it would probably be better for a few more of the books to come out and Bruce and Mary to bond over it than to buy the book rights immediately after release.
Kirk Kerkorian has no interest in making movies. He's just a casino magnate who bought MGM for the branding. I want to buy MGM primarily to get their library and thus add it to VHS sales and streaming if we decide to make a platform years later. Plus MGM made most of Debbie's movies so it's nice to keep those within the family.
