I strongly believe that A TOWN owes its success to its residents. Therefore, Shareholders (and others with vested) of a town can and SHOULD ONLY be prosper when its residents prosper AS WELL.

Which is the basic fundamental belief i have exercised in every single town whose policies i have written or formulated or given inputs to. I sink or swim (die or live) if the residents sink or swim. I proper, if they prosper.

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Dividend payouts will adopt, a steady, but at increasing amount. In other words, a constant amount, yearly. But, gradually increasing as town expands and residents do well and prosper.

Example: 20 mil for 4 years, 30 mil on the 5th to 10th year, 40mil on 11th to 14th. (bigger amounts as town and its residents do better and better).

as opposed to having 100m this year, 0 dividend next year for 3 years in consecutive row.

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The implications:

1. We are avoiding assholes manipulating stock prices that will hurt RESIDENTS AND Small to mid-scale shareholders.

Poorly run town, capital smuggling, and other factors will try to be minimized to do their harms in order for A FEW assholes profiting short term while leaving nasty after-affects to good residents and other shareholders, in other words, YOU.

2. If you are TRULY have good intention towards the town, and at the same time, protecting your investment and making profit in the process;

THIS is GOOD for you.
BECAUSE, the capital is not going anywhere. You (shareholders) might see different timing in how they are released. But, within say, 10 to 20 years in game time, you WILL earn the same amount of income.

3. Actually MORE income, since you minimize the bad factors comming into play. And having well-off residents who do well, means your income PIE is getting bigger. Would you rather have 50% of 3inch diameter pizza, or a slice of 400 inch diameter pizza?

Hence, if you have put sizable investment (owning high number of shares), or even small investment, or if you are in it for the long run; You have less risk of your investment go bust, and more chance to gain.

4. On the other side of the fence, Xi'an residents deserve to have that piece of mind, and be taken care off. They shouldn't be treated like an old cow, milked until the dying last breath to fatten asshole shareholders. Some of the town capitals should be returned back to the residents, in the form of Events, better facilities, and everything else that make their playing life... easier and more pleasurable. Which in turn, bring in even more profit towards the town. All these, requires Town Capital to be present.

5. Should, more towns adopt similar way of thinking that their success owe to the residents, and NOT by a person manipulating dividend price so they can earn a quickie on stocks, make others life miserable, sending alts to do crap (they still can, but that will be a waste of their time), increase players should also be seen (more customers for you, if you are pd-ing, for example). More profit for NDOORS so they can (and better be) give us more updates and bug fixes (although i think NDOORS have been a piece of SHIT, in terms of dealing with abuses/bugs/updates, encouraning more ppl to abuse because they can get away with things).

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Win-win situation for everyone (except for the few manipulators who put alt in town to creat a mess and gain on top of others' misery, or stock players.... they can go to hell and here, watch me, i just gave "you" THE middle finger)

Pharis/Shari

K i understand now what you mean!

our plans are going along well. the shareholders will experience the maximum benefit on a constant basis, oh yes.