Newest Company Patch

"Changed inactive employee effectiveness to decrease to 0% over 10 days after the first day of inactivity"


Never knew about this patch until now but feel like its going to effect alot more of the lower end company's than the higher end. I feel like companies were already broken and only a handful of different types were appealing. With this update its makes it harder even more so for the lower end companies, and I can see alot more people giving up on alot of different company types as they can no longer rely on the effectiveness of what there inactive employee base brought

I can see some reasoning for the change but it seems a bit of a short time IMO. What if the employee is going on a two week vacation or will be away a couple of weeks for work?
It did always seem weird that some companies could keep their incomes (and stars) up even though the entire company, employees and director, had been gone for months but 10 days?

I do think it needed some change yes, but its was quite drastic, 10 days of inactivity then 0 effectiveness, to be honest there should be scale, after 10 days its 80% after 30 days goes down to 60% and so on, I dont think it should be at 0% at all

Just glanced through the Law firms, found at least 10 with 0 income today, at least 1 is an 8*, well for now. Of course that isn't counting the 0* firms.
That is a pretty high percentage when we didn't have many law firms to begin with.
I am so glad my firm made 10* last week, I imagine once all the inactive companies are deleted it may be harder to star up due to percentages. Not just law firms of course, all companies.

I feel this is an answer to high companies with inactive players staying on top.

Companies are over saturated and there employee pool could do with an increase. I don’t think this is the bad decision a lot of directors are making it out to be.

This is a hefty bit of writing but just my 2 cents, feel free to disagree.
I don't see what the issue was running at the reduced efficiency they already had employed for the inactives honestly, a company full of actives is going to outperform it anyway so that argument doesn't really make sense, you'll gain stars and popularity and be happy and successful and a lot quicker than it takes most companies that aren't overly active.

As someone with the 2nd oldest gas station, nearly 10 years since I started it, this hit me hard. The benefits you gain from this company, it's profits and amount I can pay with overheads is not enticing for decent active players and I'm sure this is the same for several other company types so I needed to keep the inactives I had who were on 60%. Sorry for utilising inactive players the same way Torn does by using them as meat for missions?

I see how this may reduce the amount of companies so the ones left may have a higher density of active player but to me this is only going to make many companies more stale for at least for a long time in the short term while people like me decide if they have to give up and sell out. Really I was just holding out after so long because I've committed so much time to it and was also hoping they would bring in some merits since I can't access the job related ones outside of companies.

Perhaps a rework for all the really non appealing companies like gas stations before employing such a hard hitting patch (sure, a daily molotov is nice but really a drop in the pond and this wasn't even the benefit when I started). Went from nearly 3 mil to 850k daily income, quite drastic. Feel free to disagree with me, there are some logical reasons for a few changes but I'm not sure this is the best way to do it. Call me butthurt and ask why I don't just sell but after such a long time you get kind of attached, I'm sure people can understand that.

Everyone sell your Tvs!!! The sky is falling !!!

do u mean that as a pun to the fact that sky^^ will go on a meltdown soon

Fart

I've always been in the practice of replacing inactive employees so this doesn't really affect my company. The only difference I suppose is that I have a smaller window to do it before they really hurt company income

your in a high end company though, new one at that so its easy for u to attract people with more pay/new company specials, lower end companies rely on the effectiveness of inactive players as they cant attract people

I can't remember which newsletter it was, but a recent one stated that Gas Stations and some other businesses (Zoo as well maybe?) would be getting new company specials to make them more enticing. You have no need to worry. :)

I could start a pub and fill it with noobs happy to work for 10k daily.

Put the work in. You'll be surprised

There are many company types that suffer severely because of the lack of enticing perks or potential money makers. Torn companies types currently are either amazing or almost useless. The companies that are so weak these days like the nightclub, Zoo's, lingerie store, music store, restaurant and so on, struggle to find anyone willing to work for them without paying much more than what the employees actually earn them. A lot of these companies also require a fair amount of stats to have a good efficiency, making finding new employees more difficult. After all, what person would join a weak company that requires 6k stats when there is a sweet store available. Many of these weak companies also have been promised new perks ages ago. Crime 2.0 was supposed to help some of these struggling companies out a little, but it has been more than 450 days since that announcement and they still don't have their perk.

The benefits of the update are that some companies will be removed from the higher star positions, but at what cost? Most of those directors either don't play, barely make any money because of the company type they run or simply can't find willing staff with enough stats. Torn always has been interesting to me because you are free to play however you wish to play, you can make your own road. But it seems that this update pushes the meta-game narrative. IMO they should have waited with this change until after companies received their new perks or got balanced to attract more players or lower required stat costs.

Yeah i agree with this, I feel it will hit the less popular companies harder, as they wont be able to rely on the inactives to keep them from hemorrhaging money and closing shop, not being able to compete with AN's/SS/Grocery or TV networks or Logistics. The ones without a big pay or special draw i feel will suffer the most, probably a good thing for tv networks though. Employees are about to get even more leverage.

Yes, I agree. This will certainly make it tougher on lower end companies that dont have the appeal that many look for. I recently bought a Pub, and am trying to replace inactive workers and its not easy. Many just dont understand that ALL companies cant pay the big money, its more about the perks if your willing to get to them. This should be interesting, and frustrating as well....

yes, we have reason to worry

there are quite a few types of companies that have Unavailable Specials due to them being Crimes 2.0 related... so people have waited for those specials a long time and will continue to wait

some types of Companies have Specials that just don't make sense, are too expensive for the benefit or are so 'niche' to be next to useless

some Companies profit-to-startup costs or profit-to-operating costs ratios are seriously imbalanced


since the Newsletter nothing has changed for the 'unpopular and/or unprofitable' Companies.... just this recent, some would say knee-jerk, change as well as a change to a Detective Agency special

it same as the old system for first 5 inactive days. In the old system, it was after 1-day inactivity productivity drops 10% each day and stops at 50% now it doesn`t stop and goes down till 0. what you offer is way better what it was in the old system.