01-14-2014, 09:52 AM
Since 1.12 is mainly focused on a tutorial system, I'll be spending more time writing than programming the next few days. As such I've started out on things that require some simulations. Which means AI stuff. While the game plays it self I write the manual.
So the first thing I hit was the stock price evaluations. I started with this because it seems like an easy way to "game" the game...
The old evaluation formula only took into account the construction cost of factories and branches. This has been changed to include number of production lines and a base line cost per branch and dealership!
That means you shouldn't be able to buy a company for a million bucks and get 3 factories.
Also profit margins used to play heavily in the old formula. It's been greatly reduced in this build.
Now for some realism. By 1924 Ford was the first company to hit $1 billion in market cap. As of right now, with the current eval formula we have 2 companies over $1 billion, 1 of which is over $2billion... Of course there is still a lot less competition in the game.
On the other end, I don't see a single company with a market cap under $10million.
I'm now going to play with the AI pricing somewhat. And work on page 4 of the manual
So the first thing I hit was the stock price evaluations. I started with this because it seems like an easy way to "game" the game...
The old evaluation formula only took into account the construction cost of factories and branches. This has been changed to include number of production lines and a base line cost per branch and dealership!
That means you shouldn't be able to buy a company for a million bucks and get 3 factories.
Also profit margins used to play heavily in the old formula. It's been greatly reduced in this build.
Now for some realism. By 1924 Ford was the first company to hit $1 billion in market cap. As of right now, with the current eval formula we have 2 companies over $1 billion, 1 of which is over $2billion... Of course there is still a lot less competition in the game.
On the other end, I don't see a single company with a market cap under $10million.
I'm now going to play with the AI pricing somewhat. And work on page 4 of the manual
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski