CES DLC Issues Review
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2017 11:41 am
Hi All,
I have played several games in CES including a 120 years run without any actions.
All the games were started with 10 cities with max population script (a bit edited for my purposes and max difficulty)
Here's the list of issues I have encountered.
1. Number of competitors. It is set to 50 by script but I have never seen more than 30 of them. In most cases there is about 15-20 competitors. (I have seen a post that this issue is resolved in the latest patch but I have seen the same problem in the empty run on latest patch)
2. No company specialization. All rival companies start as diversified.
3. CBD. In CES I have to start with Commercial buildings because of smaller cities. After a couple of starts I have found out that CBD changes its position after day 1. Also it is not an information center building anymore.
3.1 By the way Map Generator became worse. I have seen a lot of cities without Information Center building, with Stock Exchange in the field on the outskirts of a city. I don't even mention things like 5 Grade Schools or other civic buildings next to each other.
3.2 City Map Seed mentioned here: http://www.capitalismlab.com/script---c ... -seed.html is not working anymore. Unfortunately right now when map generatior creates such ridiculous maps this function becomes important.
4. Central bank is run by Inflation Hawks only. together with Mayors tendency to accumulate ridiculous smount of money it puts economy in permanent deflation and almost permanent recession.
5. Mayor's position is permanent. if your party member wins the race the only way to leave office is to bankrupt the city.(the other way is to increase taxes and lower subsidies but it is counterproductive)
5.1 Mayors never use Universities. A research project that was started by a player will run forever. Even when my party member leaves the office.
6. Political Parties. In most cases I have only 3 out of 63 AI players in my party. Even when it was started on day 1. Other parties are overcrowded.
I have played several games in CES including a 120 years run without any actions.
All the games were started with 10 cities with max population script (a bit edited for my purposes and max difficulty)
Here's the list of issues I have encountered.
1. Number of competitors. It is set to 50 by script but I have never seen more than 30 of them. In most cases there is about 15-20 competitors. (I have seen a post that this issue is resolved in the latest patch but I have seen the same problem in the empty run on latest patch)
2. No company specialization. All rival companies start as diversified.
3. CBD. In CES I have to start with Commercial buildings because of smaller cities. After a couple of starts I have found out that CBD changes its position after day 1. Also it is not an information center building anymore.
3.1 By the way Map Generator became worse. I have seen a lot of cities without Information Center building, with Stock Exchange in the field on the outskirts of a city. I don't even mention things like 5 Grade Schools or other civic buildings next to each other.
3.2 City Map Seed mentioned here: http://www.capitalismlab.com/script---c ... -seed.html is not working anymore. Unfortunately right now when map generatior creates such ridiculous maps this function becomes important.
4. Central bank is run by Inflation Hawks only. together with Mayors tendency to accumulate ridiculous smount of money it puts economy in permanent deflation and almost permanent recession.
5. Mayor's position is permanent. if your party member wins the race the only way to leave office is to bankrupt the city.(the other way is to increase taxes and lower subsidies but it is counterproductive)
5.1 Mayors never use Universities. A research project that was started by a player will run forever. Even when my party member leaves the office.
6. Political Parties. In most cases I have only 3 out of 63 AI players in my party. Even when it was started on day 1. Other parties are overcrowded.