Hi purifier

Thats how it works
The production level is

Your tech/maximum level (Which starts off as 100, but later is the maximum level of all competitors including tech disruption)

When someone has a tech level much higher than yours, your R&D is much more effective too. This is to simulate "reverse engineering".
I believe this was in the original Capitalism 2 aswell

Hmmm no idea what i'm supposed to make of this.
Challenge game 6, i want to get into production and retailing of Portable Media Players. I bought the 139 tech lvl from another company, notice (in the picture below) how high Thunder Corp's tech is!!!
Since they are also the only one producing them i think i have a fair change of cutting into their profits
So i started a factory and got the recources linked up (recource qualities are: elec-comp. 81, glass 72 and plastic 80)
Notice in the same picture how low my production quality is... only 13 while tech lvl is at 139 (which normaly is somewhat high already) and the low raw material quality... which doesnt compare with the qualities of the input components.

So whats going on here ? is it this low due to the +700 tech lvl of Thunder ? or is it a bug ?

*edit: another strange thing is that when i place Port. media player in my R&D centre it will upgrade the tech lvl by 58 !!! in just 1 year (with 5 R&D units attached)