Short answers to the questions players ask most often. If you are looking for a fuller explanation of a system rather than a specific answer, the section pages under New Features and New Content go into more depth.
Running your firms
- 🏷️How Branding WorksWhat a brand does for a product, and how one is built.
- 🛍️Changing Products at a Retail StoreReplacing what a store sells, step by step.
- 🏭Changing ManufacturingUsing Set Production when inputs can make more than one product.
- 🔒The Default "Internal Sale" StatusStop AI companies buying what your factories produce.
- 💰Lowering Executive SalariesReducing what your COO, CTO and CMO cost you.
- 🚫Non-Transferable Firm TypesWhich firms cannot be handed to a subsidiary, and why.
Subsidiary DLC
Reference: Capitalism 2 Manual
The original Capitalism 2 manual still describes most of the core simulation accurately, and is the most complete single document on how the economy works.
Additional Q&A
Q: Why is it not possible to have Tech Disruption and Product Customization enabled at the same time?
A: Tech Disruption reduces a product's tech level continuously, and it may eventually fall below the level a custom product requires — which would be confusing to the player.