The fate of IGR Brokerage

[Ugohr Poof]

In light of the massive amount of trouble that Ugohr got himself into ICly on Chandrila (Alliance players will know what I mean), out of which he may or may not come out alive, I wonder whether it is best to:

1. Hand over IGR to another of my alts
2. Auction off the 85% stake Ugohr owns to another writer
3. Just let Ugohr retain ownership of the corporation until he dies
4. Sell off IGR to another author without auctioning it
5. Other (please specify)

About IGR Brokerage: it's the game's only PC-owned real estate brokerage company. Currently a tier-3 corporation, here is its corporate Marketplace page.

For Factory purposes, the locations are Elrood, Malastare, Naboo, Dulvoyinn and Coruscant.

Here's the current thread tracker for IGR going into tier-4, if anyone else is interested in making IGR grow to tier-4:

Sign a contract with three more player-run organizations, one of which must be a major faction OR a Tier-V+ company.

• Coruscant: Please, take my money! (IGR Brokerage signs a contract with tier-6 Silk Holdings to assist in the allocation of prefabricated housing to Coruscant's refugees)
• Husking Corn (IGR Brokerage signs a contract with Merr-Sonn Agriculture for the sale of land on Tieos)
• Second Contact (IGR Brokerage signs a contract to provide Galactic Multi-Listing Service coverage to the Kathol Outback on a provisional basis; posts # 98, 102, 104, 108, 112)

Make an additional four mass-production products. (Since IGR Brokerage is a service company, Codex entries will be used instead)

• IGR Naboo office
• IGR Elrood office
• IGR Coruscant office
• IGR Arcadia-N-30 office

Complete four miscellaneous threads.

• Perfume in a Pizza Hutt Palace (IGR opens a location on Dulvoyinn)
• Turnkey Solution (IGR launches its turnkey construction service jointly with Jaii Builds)
• WIP
• WIP

Complete a project of sizeable proportions. (100+ posts)

• WIP

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If another writer is interested to buy IGR off me, or, if the end, it ends up auctioned, you may change the major project if so you wish. I would prefer to have the new owner have a commitment to real estate and to see the company remain active and to grow as well. However, whatever major project you have in mind must have 100+ posts in it, over one or several threads.

85% of a tier-3 company will easily cost a character hundreds of millions of credits, however.

P.S.: Just in case the Alliance's verdict is that I cannot keep IGR as a writer (which, unlike Ugohr being simply unable to own IGR as a character, would make it that much more difficult for the company to keep going) but that no writer with sufficient commitment to real estate could be found, my preference would go towards a Jedi or an Alliance character.

 

[Krayn]

I may be interested in purchase...
[member="Ugohr Poof"]

 

[Ugohr Poof]

The final decision will be made once the whole Chandrila situation has been sorted out.

 

[Ellie Mors]

P.S.: Just in case the Alliance's verdict is that I cannot keep IGR as a writer (which, unlike Uoghr being simply unable to own IGR as a character, would make it that much more difficult for the company to keep going) but that no writer with sufficient commitment to real estate could be found, my preference would go towards a Jedi or an Alliance character.

Nobody can restrict you, as a writer, from owning a company that you submitted unless you gave that company to someone else.

 

[Ellie Mors]

But I would auction off the shares in a stock market sort of deal, in that people may bid for X% of the 85% with a credit-to-share ratio being the deciding factor in how much said person gets if they try to buy out the 85% as a whole.

i.e; 4 people are involved in the auction, 85% total is up for grabs.

• Person A offers 2 million credits for all 85% (example, not actually gauging worth here)
• Person B offers 800,000 credits for 20%
• Person C offers 500k for 10%
• Person D offers 14 million for 60%.

From there you would relate how much credits were offered and how much shares they were requesting their bid go towards. Then divvy it up and give whoever got the majority the ownership of the company with others as shareholders.

But that's just my idea

 

[Jorus Merrill]

To my mind, the coolest things to do would be to run the company from prison or to donate the stock and have Ugohr recommit to the part of the Jedi Code that forbids getting rich.

 

[Ugohr Poof]

[member="Jorus Merrill"] Let's not forget that all the RP threads I started with Ugohr since the troubles on Chandrila happened were set on Chandrila: no Jedi missions, no military missions either. I just assumed that said troubles would have forced Ugohr into some sort of pre-trial house arrest that precludes military or Jedi missions on his part and Ugohr's lightsabers are held as bail. Just mostly real estate things. As a realtor Ugohr never attempted to gouge anyone.

You're probably also familiar with Jedi-owned/run Corellia Digital ([member="Sor-Jan Xantha"] is the Jedi owning or running the company) because the Kathol Outback's communications infrastructure was that corporation's doing. Here, unlike the canonical incarnation, Jedi can own businesses as any other character.

FU-specific prisons (as I could expect Ugohr to be imprisoned in) are usually maximum security, without the Force or any other means of communication there would be no realistic way for him to still do real estate business from that kind of prison cell. Plus I do not expect the wardens to have much of a knowledge of real estate as a business.

 

[Cathul Thuku]

[member="Lily Kuhn"] [member="Jorus Merrill"]

If I truly don't trust another writer to take good care of the corporation, I see two probable ways to maintain control since I am allowed to keep the corporation as a writer:

1. Ugohr only allows visitors for real estate business (if the Alliance allows Ugohr to keep IGR in the end)
2. The government of Azure could buy the remaining 85% at the trial's conclusion (if the Alliance asks Ugohr to sell off the 85%, in which case Cathul would own the entire thing in Ugohr's stead, as opposed to 15%, but Ugohr would still pocket a couple hundred millions unless conditions are attached for the use of the proceeds - Cathul has considerable control over Clan Lok's investment portfolio ICly)

Finding writers willing to take good care of an arms company or a shipyard is a lot easier in comparison.