Media Firms

Digital Age DLC for Capitalism Lab
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Media Firms

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Hello !

Been thinking about the media firms as of late for the Digital Age DLC.

Could we create companies that have say Tv firm, which then is able to bid for rights, ie football, racing etc. This would attract subscribers who would pay a monthly fee. Obviously the better the rights you could get, say for example you managed to get the exclusive rights to the champions league, then you could set your monthly subscriptions accordingly. Equally, as its a bidding process, you would only know what the winning bid was when someone won it (your or a competitior). The more money invested the more channels could be offered

Also these media firms could be a triple play, ie offer broadband, mobile phone just like traditional providers do now. Phone companies could bid for spectrum to offer better phones. The better phones could be bought from either a competitor or R&D`d.

Broadband could be by way of expensive satelites (dsl), or, if you could get an overlay you could lay the city with fibre optic which would be pricey. Actually, cable could be offered by way of placing street cabinets that give a radius of coverage.

Newspapers could offer online like they do now, generating advertising revenues based on news/sport/quality etc.


Just some thoughts
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These are interesting ideas. But would need more details from the gameplay mechanism and implementation point of view in order to evaluate their feasibility.
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Interms of the TV company,

Factorys would need to build set to boxes, so you could have say CCD/CPU, plastic, Hard Drive to build a set top box.
TV company then has to buy the set top boxes for its customers.

Interms of customer fee, you could have a price for the monthly subscription say 0 > 250 $ . IF this is set too high, and you dont have the content see below, then people wouldnt join.

We allready have a monthly fee for content slider, but you could add an events button for upcoming events to bid for (Sports events or live Music events as an example) as well as a channels button with the channels button so you could add more channels to your company (at a cost depending on the channel) and thus hopefully charge more of a subscription. (Events and channels could be made up from a database and events could also have a time , say like the world cup once every four years etc)
You could even have a seperate selling price just for an event you have purchased (Like I have to pay £30 just to get the Ryder cup for 4days).

Scale wise would be affected by population,unemployment (demand would drop the more unemployment due to not having the money for the monthly fee), but also coverage. You would have coverage by adding street cabinets (if a cable provider)(you could also have to manufacture these cabinets with steel, plastic, cpu, psu) (this could be just a one square building effectivly) or you would have to pay for a satelite to be launched by a company. (Heck this could be a one click button if you had the 100m to do it) or you could even expand that out and have a rocket pad as a building and a factory to build a satelite ( A factory could only make one satelite at a time as youd need all spaces bar 1 of each MFT and SALES units to purchase all the components needed.
Your launch pad (shop) could also sell this function to anyone in game with the funds.

So now you have your coverage sorted for customers you could also offer hi speed internet access again at a monthly fee. This could be done by way of internet service provider building.

Interms of the phone companies, someone made a good post somewhere with refference to bidding for the spectrum, 3G,4G at auctions. The better the spectrum the better the phone that could use it. So for example basic phones would only be available to those with basic spectrum, more expensive phones to be build would only become available to you if you owned say 3g spectrum for 3g phones. As this would be a bidding process , your competitor may get the exclusive access to this and be able to sell more expensive phones that you couldnt. Your phone companies would effectively buy the phones then sell them. They could also have a monthly subscription fee depending on what spectrum phone they have that would bring in income.

After say 25 years, the spectrum would then become available to all.

Some thoughts
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Further on this you could add in "churn"...

Based on your content quality rating and price, your customer churn could go up or down and this would effect your revenue/profit.

Cost of sale wouldnt really change so youd want to be keeping the content quality levels up otherwise you would have a whole load of cost and a lot less revenue.

Much the same could be for standalone mobile phone companies. They would buy the differrent phones from you / competitors then sell them at $xxx each and then the customer could be paying a monthly fee based on the type of phone....3G...4G....etc

R&D would be the way to go for differrent phones. Look at all the different phones over the years, alot of research / components for different phones could be R&D`d over the years.
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I actually think that the phone companies could be not to complex to do

R&D for new phones like you have now for the different "G" levels, phone companies buy these phones from you or AI.

They then like the internet sales company could have a tab for monthly fee based on level of "G" phone (+/- button like we have for price to set this)
You could then have a tab for the shop, so the shop like the internet sales company can sell the differrent phones.
You can have an advertising slider for the brand to increase the phone companies loyalty

Cost wise could be similar to the internet sales company again , cost could be defined also by number of users (you may need more staff) ?
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