by eleaza » Mon Mar 13, 2017 7:11 am
aarondmsu wrote:
That's fine if you are sure you want to be the only retailer of your products from the start. But let's say you start as a wholesaler, then decide to change strategy and go into retailing your own product and want to be the only distributor of your product. The purchasers who were already purchasing from you are seemingly grandfathered in. You can't get rid of them (other than by the pricing them out trick).
I vaguely remember a long time ago I read someone proposing contract mechanism, so players can break the link at will or something. Not quite remember what's the exacting suggestion.
However it sounds like a viable solution for a quasi-contract mechanism, where if human player wish to cut off a link, is considered as a form of breaching contract thus players can pay the AI/downstream firm for a total fee and be done with it. And it can be universal to human player's own downstream firm as well, since you pay yourself the end result is still the same. (although it sounds quite weird to "break contract with yourself", but if a new term in individual firm accounting income statement need to include such "expenses in fee", then we need to treat human owned firm the same as AI firm regardless, and I wonder whether as human firm linking to AI source will require the mechanism of having "tender offer" to ask players to leave AI's strained supply alone with a paying fee offer?)
[quote="aarondmsu"][quote="David"]FYI: Set the default "Internal Sale" status
http://www.capitalismlab.com/set-the-default-internal-sale-status.html[/quote]
That's fine if you are sure you want to be the only retailer of your products from the start. But let's say you start as a wholesaler, then decide to change strategy and go into retailing your own product and want to be the only distributor of your product. The purchasers who were already purchasing from you are seemingly grandfathered in. You can't get rid of them (other than by the pricing them out trick).[/quote]
I vaguely remember a long time ago I read someone proposing contract mechanism, so players can break the link at will or something. Not quite remember what's the exacting suggestion.
However it sounds like a viable solution for a quasi-contract mechanism, where if human player wish to cut off a link, is considered as a form of breaching contract thus players can pay the AI/downstream firm for a total fee and be done with it. And it can be universal to human player's own downstream firm as well, since you pay yourself the end result is still the same. (although it sounds quite weird to "break contract with yourself", but if a new term in individual firm accounting income statement need to include such "expenses in fee", then we need to treat human owned firm the same as AI firm regardless, and I wonder whether as human firm linking to AI source will require the mechanism of having "tender offer" to ask players to leave AI's strained supply alone with a paying fee offer?)