Capitalism 2 and Capitalism Lab Forum

David wrote:

3.Is it only me, or is research totally obsolute with the custimization? Invention and thats it, q7 to q19 products and in every town medium factory allready level 6 (5 manufacture units) + 4 shops each on level 7 sales units and i can not keep up with supply whilest the A.I. Is selling brand 100, q85 with tech 1500+ an overall product rating of 100+ , loacal competitors have overall ratings of 80+ and i am market leader due to the shear amount am selling at a product rating around 40-50 or even less. as the A.I. is too stupid to produce more you probably sell q1 items at good profit, didnt came to test this as i was running the 20 R&D's and started the research higher techs as 1 A.I. company got quite big.

I did not quite understand what issue specifically you wanted us to address. Could you please explain?

well in 3.0.20 even with AI's tech ranking around 1500, i could sell any product with tech 30 (thats about quality 7 to 15 on my products) and if local competitors/AI competitors ranged at overall rating of 80 and higher, i could sell this quality 7 crap at an overall product rating of 50 and less with maxing out at level 9 in every city 4 stores and a large factory.

since 3.0.22D it seems the A.I.'s picked up or i just got a lucky start but certainly A.I.'s do much less advertisemt hence not running outa cash, but once they run outa cash they still gonna destroy their companies by permanent open an R&D center to run out of cash then close same and another few firms to open up a new R&D. the A.I. is capable of doing this stupid open close multiple times per month to kill another 30 million in assets every month whilest running loss on the retails. as the A.I. seem to handle the standard situations better now, selling below overall city rating of a product does only go until you the whole demand is covered by you or A.I. companies. back in capi plus you couldnt sell anything if you went too far below city overall rating of a product.

regarding your 2nd post, i did play all kind of versions, even this king of capitalism goals, which arent really hard ;p
on my savegames you probably see that the difficulty rating is always high, usually above 300%. choosing A.I.s to moderate does drop the difficulty rating quite heavily but it seem to make the A.I. companies more compettitive.
not a fan of the unplugged game, missing too much stuff outa capi plus and the pictures / company logos are horrible in the unplugged version too ;p but i did play this all the way till i gave the modding a try. gonna start a few more games n see how its going now, but since 3.0.22D i love the compettiveness of the A.I.'s this game i am at yet, 12 companies really do make profit of up to 500m a year and the owner is buying its own stock to have majority of shares.
regarding the advanced start, thats not really any difference exept that you are bancrupt before you do anything as starting with 5 million cash (no bankloans to be taken ever) it ll be $500k less after 1 year, after 3 years you cant even open up a single 2x2 store by inverse inflation. i like the inverse inflation due to the fact that without inverse inflation prices just get too high and unrealistic. and advance start isnt really neccessary as with a $5m total cash availible at start i dont interfere in A.I.'s growth for 10-15 years as thats how long ya turn every penny until you can throw bigger stones.

well in 3.0.20 even with AI's tech ranking around 1500, i could sell any product with tech 30 (thats about quality 7 to 15 on my products) and if local competitors/AI competitors ranged at overall rating of 80 and higher, i could sell this quality 7 crap at an overall product rating of 50 and less with maxing out at level 9 in every city 4 stores and a large factory.

Will forward your above comment to the dev team.