Initial cash levels of competitors - doesn't look right

[GnoSiS]

I just tried to start a game today and I'm not sure if this was how it always was.

I had moderate startup capital settings both for me and for my competitors. I thought we would be on the same levels, but I did expect variation non the less.

So in my save, Mr. Bailey Hallock starts with 14M in cash, 1 Jan 1990,
and on the next day, (2nd of Jan) he becomes CEO of Pristine Essence, a totally privately held company, with 581M in Cash!!! And of course he proceeds and sets up telecoms in all cities

His valuation now is 595M after a single simulated day. If I remember correctly, persons would start with their own capital, and use that as an initial investment vehicle in a corporation, either public or private.
I see that the game behaves differently, and adds huge amount of wealth to the initial corporations. This looks excessive to me, especially if competitors were meant to have any semblance of relevance or balance with the player. I mean this is x12 my mere 50M and i understand the need for challenge, but this was not set up as a challenging game.

Setting Very High for me and the competitor capital, lands me with 250M and the highest competitor starts with 50M plus 760M in start up cash in the corp. Hardly "very high" compared to the 560M of Medium
On excessive the picture is almost the same!.

Additionally I had set the setting for private companies at 0%. In all cases i got 6-7 privately held corporations with around 300-600M in private cash. These results with these settings look like a bug. Not sure if this was really intended. Even on startup capital = very low for competitors I get a few with over 500M in cash in their corporations.

I do understand the need of a "final boss" and for a spectrum of investor capital, but I didn't expect this, and there's really no way to customize the game setup??

I'm playing latest release with all DLCs.

[standardplayer]

The high startup capital firms are usually the telecom and software focused firms that are part of Digital Age DLC because of what it requires to get to profitability.

It is kind of ridiculous how the Telecom Company Starts out with $500+ Million in Equity and software companies start with significantly more capital than the other companies. Even though I know it takes a lot of capital to build Telecom firms/infrastructure and software companies.

Maybe they need to at least start with the Public or "Venture Capital" Firms Owning 50%-60% of the Company even if they are private companies because the owners of telecom and tech companies should not start with a large ownership advantage over other companies. Maybe telecom should also start out with a little debt of say 20% of Assets or $100 Million in Debt. That way when the telecom or tech company goes public the founder/owner would Own 30%-40% like founders of big tech companies like google, etc. not 80%.

Tech Founders do not usually start with 100% ownership of their companies they have the skills but they need the capital so they have to give up some control.

Created another Post to Describe a Potential Solution to this Issue:
http://www.enlight.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 396#p26396

[GnoSiS]

I'm aware of the digital DLC startups that get injected in the game.

But it seems this was done the wrong way for the settings I chose. Yes, let's have private corps with 100M that's enough to set up telecoms in 3 cities.

It doesn't have to be a single company to cover all the cities
it doesn't have to be fully private owned
it doesn't need 700M
it doesn't make sense with the setup settings. At least options should be there to manage the setup.

with these initial conditions, a 50M starting capital player would need aeons to catch up, unless he immediately starts competing with them, at great expense and at great length - not fun if you wish to play telecoms.
I'm also seeing corps with large capital going for retail and other non digital DLC endeavors, perhaps they are seeding themselves and will pick up digital DLC activities after some years? Not sure.

[standardplayer]

I'm aware of the digital DLC startups that get injected in the game.

But it seems this was done the wrong way for the settings I chose. Yes, let's have private corps with 100M that's enough to set up telecoms in 3 cities.

It doesn't have to be a single company to cover all the cities
it doesn't have to be fully private owned
it doesn't need 700M
it doesn't make sense with the setup settings. At least options should be there to manage the setup.

with these initial conditions, a 50M starting capital player would need aeons to catch up, unless he immediately starts competing with them, at great expense and at great length - not fun if you wish to play telecoms.
I'm also seeing corps with large capital going for retail and other non digital DLC endeavors, perhaps they are seeding themselves and will pick up digital DLC activities after some years? Not sure.

Did you have a chance to look at this Post to Describe a Potential Solution to this Issue:
http://www.enlight.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5786