Re: 4.4.04 Issues
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 4:14 am
David,
I am glad to see your last post. In it you ask me quesions that I already wanted to answer anyway after another couple of days playing my last save. I did not switch to 4.4.05 yet because I wanted to finish current game.
Where did I get in my last game? I plundered all real estate property and installed all 14 mayors.
Now when I am in control of all 14 city budgets I found out one interesting thing that I want to share. Once I have started to spend all their wasted cash reserves, economy began growing. As a result, out of 45 rival companies 30 have a good profit. Other 15 are Tech companies and they have profits only after selling inventions. So their lack of profitability is just as planned.
I know only two ways of beating rivals in this game. One way is to beat them on their market and make them bancrupt. Second way is much easier. I can buy them. When economy is in constant crisis, they all suffer losses instead of getting profits. Price of their companies drops, Stock Focused companies don't invest money in their stocks and bying all the rivals becomes an easy task. When economy is on a rise, all rivals are getting profits, their price goes to infinity and beyond and the only way to buy them all is to earn more than all of them combined which is an absolutely impossible task. To be honest I was among the people who wanted more rival companies just because more profitable companies means more challenge for me to buy them all. It can even make my task impossible in 100-200 years perspective. And that is the real challenge. That's why I want AI to manage cities well (not perfect but well enough). I want rivals to grow. I want them to be unbeatable. Then I will beat them and then I will be really happy and proud of myself.
I don't know what exactly should AI managers do. mediocre AI Mayors should at least minimize their soend all their monex except for a couple of months's worth reserve. Good AI mayors should also grow 2-3 random areas to 95-99 rating polnts
Enough for now. I'll keep testing.
I always start with minimum own money and maximum competitors money and aggressiveness.
What do I see now:
0. Economy is dying.
1. Tech companies build one R&D and sit on 600m cash.
2. Diversified companies build 2-3 factories that cover all the cities because economy is dying. (and they sit on 550m of cash)
3. Retail companies build 5-10 stores, sell imported goods and buy out own stock
4. Real estate companies buy a piece of land and build nothing because there's no demand for apartments.
5. Media companies do not exist because noone advertises anything and there's no need for new media firms.
6. Stock focused companies sit on 600m of cash because there are no profitable firms to invest into.
What do i want:
0. I want economy to grow.
1. I want tech companies to count their money. I want them to build a proper amount of R&D firms to invent more. their 550m of cash is enough to cover running costs of more than one R&D center.
2. Dviersified companies, unfortunately depend on necessity index and economy health. In dying economy all except drugs are slowly dying. And first on a death row are companies specialized in Jewelry necause nesessity index for all their goods equals 10.
4. Retail companies are the only ones that act properly in dying economy.
5. I want media companies to build media forms and grow them. In my reference game they don't exist (and that's for good because now even initial media companies are suffering loss in every city).
6. Stock focused companies should buy stocks
In this case I will be the one who wishes to kill economy. But I will be unable to do it before I install my mayors in all my cities.
I am glad to see your last post. In it you ask me quesions that I already wanted to answer anyway after another couple of days playing my last save. I did not switch to 4.4.05 yet because I wanted to finish current game.
Where did I get in my last game? I plundered all real estate property and installed all 14 mayors.
Now when I am in control of all 14 city budgets I found out one interesting thing that I want to share. Once I have started to spend all their wasted cash reserves, economy began growing. As a result, out of 45 rival companies 30 have a good profit. Other 15 are Tech companies and they have profits only after selling inventions. So their lack of profitability is just as planned.
I know only two ways of beating rivals in this game. One way is to beat them on their market and make them bancrupt. Second way is much easier. I can buy them. When economy is in constant crisis, they all suffer losses instead of getting profits. Price of their companies drops, Stock Focused companies don't invest money in their stocks and bying all the rivals becomes an easy task. When economy is on a rise, all rivals are getting profits, their price goes to infinity and beyond and the only way to buy them all is to earn more than all of them combined which is an absolutely impossible task. To be honest I was among the people who wanted more rival companies just because more profitable companies means more challenge for me to buy them all. It can even make my task impossible in 100-200 years perspective. And that is the real challenge. That's why I want AI to manage cities well (not perfect but well enough). I want rivals to grow. I want them to be unbeatable. Then I will beat them and then I will be really happy and proud of myself.
I don't know what exactly should AI managers do. mediocre AI Mayors should at least minimize their soend all their monex except for a couple of months's worth reserve. Good AI mayors should also grow 2-3 random areas to 95-99 rating polnts
Enough for now. I'll keep testing.
I always start with minimum own money and maximum competitors money and aggressiveness.
What do I see now:
0. Economy is dying.
1. Tech companies build one R&D and sit on 600m cash.
2. Diversified companies build 2-3 factories that cover all the cities because economy is dying. (and they sit on 550m of cash)
3. Retail companies build 5-10 stores, sell imported goods and buy out own stock
4. Real estate companies buy a piece of land and build nothing because there's no demand for apartments.
5. Media companies do not exist because noone advertises anything and there's no need for new media firms.
6. Stock focused companies sit on 600m of cash because there are no profitable firms to invest into.
What do i want:
0. I want economy to grow.
1. I want tech companies to count their money. I want them to build a proper amount of R&D firms to invent more. their 550m of cash is enough to cover running costs of more than one R&D center.
2. Dviersified companies, unfortunately depend on necessity index and economy health. In dying economy all except drugs are slowly dying. And first on a death row are companies specialized in Jewelry necause nesessity index for all their goods equals 10.
4. Retail companies are the only ones that act properly in dying economy.
5. I want media companies to build media forms and grow them. In my reference game they don't exist (and that's for good because now even initial media companies are suffering loss in every city).
6. Stock focused companies should buy stocks
In this case I will be the one who wishes to kill economy. But I will be unable to do it before I install my mayors in all my cities.