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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:18 am 
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hi if i can enterpere GW epic tactics it would seems that thay are trying to kill epic of but i have a selution we are gone a make a trust were we put some money (allot) and bye GW stocks and get a seet in GWs board and veto that desision.
Basicly bye influens and if we all but some money in it should bee a peace of cake

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:35 pm 
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Market capitalization for GW is ~95 million GBP.

Controlling interest in a coporation is usually in the 10-20% range.  ~3-5% is needed just for serious influence.  (That's US market figures, but I assume Britain is similar).  Not to mention GW is only traded in the UK, so you have additional expenses involved in purchasing overseas securities.

So, sure, if you have 3 or 4 million pounds sterling lying about, go for it.  ???

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:03 pm 
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Umm yeah just one share is going for ?2.86 so it would take some serious money to get any sort of controlling interest.  (as nealhunt said around ?3-4 mill before you get noticed and around ?20-25 mill before your allowed a say)

Even if you do have that sort of money, some company's are run in a way that investors aren't allowed a say until they own over 50% of the company.  

Good idea though sort of like the fans buy back at football clubs recently in the UK.

Be easier to buy the IP of any old models / games you wanted and forge / rerelease them yourself.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:33 pm 
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Can you imagine if we got together to buy enough influence-shifting shares at GW?  Everytime we'd open our mouth share-holder meetings, every other share-holder will be muttering under their breath 'here we go, let's do more Epic, geez...' ??? :p :laugh:


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:59 pm 
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Can you imagine if we got together to buy enough influence-shifting shares at GW? ?Everytime we'd open our mouth share-holder meetings, every other share-holder will be muttering under their breath 'here we go, let's do more Epic, geez...' ??? :p :laugh:

Even worse would be having to fill out a bunch of Securities and Exchange forms (or the UK equivalent) if we wanted to discuss things like we do on the EpiComms (and heaven forbid the use of sarcasm), lest our comments unduly affect the price of the stock. We'd probably have to give a 60 day notice before the disclosure of any opinion.


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Quote (semajnollissor @ 28 April 2006 (16:59))
(and heaven forbid the use of sarcasm)

...or irony.  :D

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:33 pm 
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Ok, so all of us here contribute money to form a small investment corperation. So to get the funds together and we tap everybody world wide who plays Epic-A to contribute. Which, of course, means they will have a controlling intrest in our little corperation here.

So we end up with a corperation, let's call it Armageddon Investments, which has a couple thousand share holders (If we are lucky) who are contributing funds to a corperation whose sole goal is to prevent GW from axing Epic-A.

Obviously all the thousands of share holders of Armageddon Investments aren't going to be dashing off to the Uk and flood into GWs share holders meeting (Now being held at Wembly Stadium, tickets five bucks at the gate) to cast their 0.0000000000000000001% vote to save Epic-A.

So that means we would have to appoint a CEO to represent us, and pay him/her for lobbying GW on our behalf. Now we don't want this person to be ripping us off so we are going to need to appoint a CFO and a SVP to make sure the funds invested are spent properly.

Now anybody with the letters C-E-O after their name on the door are too far above the mainstream to actually go into the board room and speak for us with GW so they are going to have to have a Corperate Spokeperson that will do that for them so they can remain behind their big desk and keep all of us investors happy telling all that they are doing on our behalf.

Of course that Coperate Spokesperson is going to need a Speech Writer to make sure that the opinion he/she is bringing to the meeting with GW is clear, concise and to the point, so that Epic-A doesn't end up on the trash heap.

But then again that Coperate Spokesperson themselves is going to have to be careful what they write, so to protect Armegeddon Investments from a possible failure in proper, lawful, communication we will need to assign the corperation a lawyer. Heck we are going to need one to set up the corperation in the first place so we might as well keep the one that did it and give him this job.

Now we all know that it is really the secretaries that run the offices in business, so each of the above are going to need at least one to keep them orgainized and to type up all the important paperwork. This of course means we will need to hire someone to run the seceratary pool, shouldn't have much trouble finding someone.

Now all of this means that we will have to get pens, desks, paper, etc. so we are going to have to hire some office boys to run all of this around to the important people and their secretaries, along with carrying out mail deliveries within the structure of the corperation. Of course they are going to need a boss to run there section also, but those shoes are easily filled.

Well, with all of these employees there is now no doubt that Armageddon Investments is going to need to either hire an accounting service to do the payroll, or do it internally. Well as outsourcing is pretty popular in the executive world we will outsource payroll/accounting and we will rent our computers so we don't need to hire our own people to take care of them.

It just might work :oops:

Hey I will volunteer to become the company SVP, any other takers :laugh:

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:21 pm 
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I'm sure Jaldon can coover all he positions :)
Still unsure if getting a few quid from every Epic player will be enough or not!

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I'm sure; it wouldn't be enough. We would probably need a few thousand quid from every epic player for GW to notice.

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Ok, so all of us here contribute money to form a small investment corperation. So to get the funds together and we tap everybody world wide who plays Epic-A to contribute. Which, of course, means they will have a controlling intrest in our little corperation here.

Or, that exact same amount of money could be spent on actual Epic minis - leading to the company learning how popular it is with huge sales outstripping the three core systems combined, and us getting new toys! Everyones a winner. ?:blues:

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:17 am 
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Quote (nealhunt @ 28 April 2006 (10:35))
Market capitalization for GW is ~95 million GBP.

Controlling interest in a coporation is usually in the 10-20% range. ?~3-5% is needed just for serious influence. ?(That's US market figures, but I assume Britain is similar). ?Not to mention GW is only traded in the UK, so you have additional expenses involved in purchasing overseas securities.

So, sure, if you have 3 or 4 million pounds sterling lying about, go for it. ????

Hi!

With thier decreasing profit reports one would have to be insane....  :;):

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Quote (nealhunt @ 28 April 2006 (07:35))
So, sure, if you have 3 or 4 million pounds sterling lying about, go for it. ????

I'll jump right on it.  :D

Oh wait  ???

:o0

I don't have that kind of money period, let alone not being used.  :laugh:

Oh well.  :cool:

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With thier decreasing profit reports one would have to be insane.... ?:;):

And the people runing it now aren't?  ???

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Quote (nealhunt @ 28 April 2006 (10:35))
Market capitalization for GW is ~95 million GBP.

Controlling interest in a coporation is usually in the 10-20% range.  ~3-5% is needed just for serious influence.  (That's US market figures, but I assume Britain is similar).  Not to mention GW is only traded in the UK, so you have additional expenses involved in purchasing overseas securities.

So, sure, if you have 3 or 4 million pounds sterling lying about, go for it.  ???

Hi!

With thier decreasing profit reports one would have to be insane....  :;):

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One would assume that if we took it over, that would also be on the priority list.

As long as we're playing fantasy, I get to play how I want.  :p

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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:47 pm 
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we cut downsize the struckture a bit by using danish "fondas" law in that case we only need a silisetor we trust and i can esey find somebudy i trust with my life (and i dont trust peaple wery esaylly and espesialy loyers) but i know some buddy i can wautch for the hole point is that money is the only power there works on a coroporation and if you want power over GW the only way is stocks and a lot and if we just used 20% of what we are spening on ebay on a yaer it wold be a lot of money very quicly and money spent on ebay cant be noticed at GW the other option is to bay all epic figures GW has but that dosent help pepple that are playing nid or just old series figs like me so we are back to squere one and the fond option

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