Create a competitor?

[Kristo]

I wish to see a script in the game, that give you ability to create a competitor for your Custom game. I don't mean to create it completely, but reasonably close enough. You should be able to use your competitors in your games, depending of whatever you wanna see them in action or just to challange yourself in playing against them. So, you open the script, get to the "new competitor" and choose several things to discribe the way it acts in the game. Like whether it'll invest in given companies or try to dominate farming sector and so on.

I prefer to use real-life corporations and create their respective CapitalismLab simulated corporations, so i can play against them. Also - we all can share our scrips of corporations. Like if someone made a sweet realistic Toyota-like corporation or IBM-like corporation.

I will give you 2 examples:

MotoCorp
(an automobile corporation)

Company color: Red/White
Owner: John Doe
Owner expertise: manufactoring, retail
Starting capital: $25,000,000 and a small factory
Level of aggressiveness: moderate
Level of financial discipline: high
Difficulty level: 50-60%

Preferable industry: Automobile (cars and motors)
Secondary industry: Land buyer, stock investment, media-related
Preferable firms: automobile outlets, factories, hq, possibly some raw material firm

R & D policy: research only needed for own products or none if better ones are available
Selling of technology: no
Stock investment: Only in 2 or 3 corporations
Bank loans: rarely, when needed
Issuing new shares strategy: no
Brand strategy: Unique brands

Usage of imported/competitors' semi-products: rarely
Usage of own semi-products: much

or

Doe-Capital Corp.
(a holding corporation)

Company color: Blue/Black
Owner: Jane Doe
Owner expertise: stock investment, r'n'd
Starting capital: $50,000,000 and a HQ
Level of aggressiveness: low
Level of financial discipline: low
Difficulty level: 25%

Preferable industry: Stock investment, R'n'D,
Secondary industry: raw material production
Preferable firms: r'n'd centers, HQ, mines, oil wells, logging camps

R & D policy: research a lot
Selling of technology: yes
Stock investment: in every possible competitor
Bank loans: moderate
Issuing new shares strategy: yes, often
Brand strategy: Single brand

Usage of imported/competitors' semi-products: no
Usage of own semi-products: no

ps: add some things you wanna see in the script options, i probably forget a lot of them.

[Steve]

I have proposed something similar: http://www.capitalismlab.com/forum/view ... =21&t=1274

I go even further in which you can define the behavior using a programming language.
It allows you to craft the AI and code what it should do in case of an event:
- when a new competitor occurs
- when a new mine is discovered
- when a factory is not making enough money for X months
- etc.