[TESTING]2nd Gear | Cheesing The Marque System

[MasterFuzz]

Found a bug in the latest build of 2nd Gear, which allows pump and dumping new marques for copious amounts of money very early in the game.

I ran a quick experiment on both normal and hard mode:
- 1905 Start In Chicago, USA
- Took out $1m bond
- Made Marque, Built and gave a cheap Milwaukee branch to the marque. Then spun off the company with the branch and set Luxury Focus. (All done in Round 1)
- Simulated 13 months, Liquid assets grew as the spun off company's stock price as equity ballooned as they bought 190+ factories and made components and models.
- Sold off stock in spun off company just to see how much I could get:
Hard mode: Sold 98% for ~$85m
Normal mode: Sold 96% for ~$93m


What I noticed was the ability to balloon my company, Liquid Assets which gave my company more value for an IPO ($10m+) or high Bonds (especially if you sold some of your shares of the marque). Not done in this experiment, but what I had seen in my original game that the more marques you make the higher and faster it balloons your Liquid Assets, meaning higher bonds. If you sell 100% of the marques and let them eventually go under since they are not your problem anymore, it allows you to then rinse and repeat for millions upon billions.

Can do and provide more testing, just wanted to quickly type out a bug report.

[Eric.B]

Most of this bug was related to the rapid factory growth bug in another thread.

The other part was related to complaints that I was not valuing companies high enough when they're under your control.

I fixed the former, but the latter is a difficult thing to fix without building out the stock system more.

Either way, growth has been slowed down. It's not as much of an exploit now, but they can still become billion dollar companies by late 1920s if they grow well enough.