This is an interesting but somewhat tricky to replicate bug. I have a telecom business running, it generates a nice profit and has a few hundred thousand customers.
Anyway, it is really strange. I have attached two savegames: One where I have the telecom company before I raise the price:
And one after I do it:
But you can follow the steps above and see for yourself.
But I'm greedy, let's rip our customers off by charging $30. Oh no, my customers left, how could this have possibility happened ? Expected behaviour, no-one wants to pay those stupidly high prices even if I am a monopoly.
Anyway I become less greedy and set my prices down. When I do so the market share creeps back up:
Which is fine but- here is where it gets weird. It stalls at a certain level as it goes back up, even if I run it for a long while it is clear that the old customers are refusing to ever come back:
Maybe that is intended? They are so fed up they will never go back perhaps? Maybe but it seems odd they would do this when I am a monopoly provider. Though I don't think the game ever really intended a human player to have a telecom monopoly normally (as there was always an AI player that would normally jump in and supply the telecom service).Telecom Customers refuse to come back after price discount
- David
- Community and Marketing Manager at Enlight
- Posts: 9754
- Joined: Sat Jul 03, 2010 1:42 pm
- Has thanked: 41 times
- Been thanked: 122 times
Re: Telecom Customers refuse to come back after price discount
I loaded your savegame and ran it for some time. The user base did grow again for telecom, albeit very slowly, which I think makes sense given the circumstance. So it is not a bug but the way telecom is simulated.
- Attachments
-
- telecom.png (161.44 KiB) Viewed 736 times
- Stylesjl
- Mod Expert
- Posts: 554
- Joined: Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:01 am
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Has thanked: 34 times
- Been thanked: 36 times
Re: Telecom Customers refuse to come back after price discount
I'm not sure if that is right though: I have noticed that it grows very slowly but this seems to be in line with the population growth. If you get a political party and stop all immigrants (stopping pop growth) you will notice that it does not rise at all.
I have a savegame where I did this. I took control of the government and blocked all immigrants - no change at all even when running for several years.
I have a savegame where I did this. I took control of the government and blocked all immigrants - no change at all even when running for several years.