Capitalism 2 and Capitalism Lab Forum

David wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 11:00 am

I'm trying to resell Software product from my subsidiary compny into retail stores for my OS (Lindows). The subsidiary and no other retailer is selling the software product(s) for the OS (Lindows) but I'm still getting locked into a retail price agreement when it shouldn't be possible due to there's no MSRP due to the product not being available in the retail market.

What's the firm description of your retail store that is forced to have a price agreement on Lindows? I will check it for you.

Purchase the Animation software from Tata for Lindows > Input into a Warehouse > Place it into a computer retail store in any market where no one is selling Animation Software from Tata for Lindows and a retail price agreement will be in effect.

FWIW, I tried to load V2-1-4-19-WILL_001.zip but the savegame is using the old v11.26 of the RealWorld Mod which is unavailable to download and is 1 year late on current v11.32 version.
I do not know if the Mod messes with the supply chain, though...

Berbe wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:34 pm FWIW, I tried to load V2-1-4-19-WILL_001.zip but the savegame is using the old v11.26 of the RealWorld Mod which is unavailable to download and is 1 year late on current v11.32 version.
I do not know if the Mod messes with the supply chain, though...

On the Google Drive you the circled (in screen capture) should be the 11.26 RealWorld Mod.

David, I have indeed been able to independently reproduce the problem.

I set up a new warehouse in Kirby, buying the 3D modeling software from a Tata factory in Haena.
I then started retailing the product from my warehouse in a Kirby computer store, and it ended up like this: I guess the problem here is the collision between the 'classic' view on products (a single product being ever presented in a product details pane) and the new one introducing the ability of splitting a 'product' into several ones.
Thus, while having different softwares, the game seems to detect that Tata is already selling its own Animation software product in this town, thus applying a Price Agreement logic on it. The source of this agreement in the original factory in Haena.

I traced the source of the price agreement to a warehouse that is doing e-commerce. The price is fixed to the e-commerce price set by the warehouse - see the attached screenshots.

David wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:28 am I traced the source of the price agreement to a warehouse that is doing e-commerce. The price is fixed to the e-commerce price set by the warehouse - see the attached screenshots.

That's ridiculous. Many suppliers IRL have a price agreement for online (no undercutting) but different policy for retail. The MSRP for ecommerce obviously isn't gonna to be profitable in a retail environment as such the game (feature request/improvement) should treat these two different environments differently.

You may set up a poll seeking other users' opinions on this. If there are enough users who think the same, it will help convince the dev team to change it.

David wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:28 amThe price is fixed to the e-commerce price set by the warehouse - see the attached screenshots.

Is not it rather the Tata factory which is fixing the price to the WMGP buildings? By the way, your screenshots merely show factory & general store, no warehouse.

In the screenshot I provided, you could see two different named items for the (now meta?) product called Animation Software in Kirby where I located my experiment.
Since WMGP waw the only company selling Tata 3D Max Studio v4 - Lindows OS product, it would have been logical no price agreement were to be in effect. The only Tata product inside that (meta?) Animation Software was Cinema 4d v73 - Volkswagen OS.

I am getting a little confused because the thing which is new is to have several products underneath Animation Software, which was previously, in the 'classic' way of dealing with them from Capitalism II & Capitalism Lab, the smallest granularity in terms of products.
I suppose that buggy behaviour comes from Price Agreement still following the old principle of product indivisibility.

Are you using the latest version already?

Also be aware that I'm selling Desktop computers in eCommerce via the warehouse but also at different prices (based on supply/demand) in the retail stores in each different market. I think it would be unrealistic to have a global price agreement.