Spent most of the morning playing the game, and most of the evening tweaking.
Harder just got a whole lot Harder and easy well, it's like candyland and teddy bears. OK maybe it's not that easy. But it's easier.
A lot of focus went into 1950 and 1980. I found that most of the numbers in 1950 were great. Historically accurate with the times. 1980, not so much. Factories were able to produce way too many vehicles, and the sales numbers were about 3 times too high. I'm not done with 1980s, but we're making progress.
So what did I do?
Double speed for arrow keys on keyboard in the designer.
Increased 1950 starting money for easy.
Factory costs 25% higher on Hard Mode.
Factory costs 35% lower on Easy Mode.
Car design and unit costs 10% less on Easy.
Car design and unit costs 15% higher on Hard.
Lower tech costs for factories.
Increased factory baseline costs.
Increased factory speed/quality costs.
Increased low Infrastructure costs.
Decreased baseline number of production lines.
Increase number of production lines tech gives you.
Some more testing will go into these numbers tomorrow. As well as lowering 1980s and beyond's sales.
As of right now using Zurich as a metric in 1986 in normal. Max factory costs dropped from 25billion to 6.8billion. Max Lines dropped from 141 to 71. Minimum cost to build went from 7million with 25 lines or so to 81million with 16 lines.
+25% costs for hard, -35% costs for easy....
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