cfusion wrote:I noticed during a recent game that at certain times the game limits the cost you can charge for an item regardless of favorable scores.

eg: You may have a product at 35 and the best in the city is 25, but the cost is much higher, and demand will fall to 0.

Questionable, but ok, I understand elasticity of demand....not everyone buys $1,000 video consoles.

The problem came in when I hired the computer as operations manager.

He raised prices. Suddenly, my sales of several electronics products that I dominated were all falling to 0! (City wide sales also declined).

My company then nearly went bankrupt from the sea of red before I realized what was going on.

I reloaded the older game and lowered prices (now I was probably ~30 or more higher than city standard). Demand increased again.

If demand falls at a certain price point, the AI really should know better...or is this just a simple bug?

Todd

matejfore wrote:I noticed that to. It's irritating and should be fixed before the release. I also think that my COO is an idiot. I'm producing all of my retail goods myself (internal sail is on), so he should know not to raise prices too high. It' s also true that local quality is around 30 and my products are pure 100. I think is has some thing to do with that.
The easiest way to fix this would be a slider or + - value, on the COO behavior setting of % to go over the local price.

cfusion wrote:I noticed during a recent game that at certain times the game limits the cost you can charge for an item regardless of favorable scores.

eg: You may have a product at 35 and the best in the city is 25, but the cost is much higher, and demand will fall to 0.

Questionable, but ok, I understand elasticity of demand....not everyone buys $1,000 video consoles.

The problem came in when I hired the computer as operations manager.

He raised prices. Suddenly, my sales of several electronics products that I dominated were all falling to 0! (City wide sales also declined).

My company then nearly went bankrupt from the sea of red before I realized what was going on.

I reloaded the older game and lowered prices (now I was probably ~30 or more higher than city standard). Demand increased again.

If demand falls at a certain price point, the AI really should know better...or is this just a simple bug?

Todd

matejfore wrote:I I'm producing all of my retail goods myself (internal sail is on), so he should know not to raise prices too high.