Counter offers for Technology

[City Builder]

As it is right now, the AI is rather cold and sterile, it especially shows up in certain areas of the game.

What I propose is when we offer to buy technology from the AI and our offer is not high enough, instead of them just telling us that they won't sell it for that much and making us keep raising the price higher until they accept, instead they should make a counter offer like this:

Player: I offer $21,650,000 for Global West's bed technology of 180
Global West AI: I do not wish to sell my bed technology of 180 for $21,650,000 - I will however sell it to you for $28,850,000
Player: (the player can either accept the counter offer, or can input a new value such as $27,850,000) If the player accepts the deal is done. If the player counter offers on how much GWAI said it's willing to take then the AI re-evaluates the offer again and either counter offers again or sticks at the amount ($28,850,000) optionally, if the player makes 3 (or insert how ever many times you think is appropriate) offers that are below the minimum that the AI said it's willing to take in the counter offer, then the AI breaks off negotiations for a certain period of time as if they were human and getting frustrated with the other CEO making counter offers to their counter off too many times..

I believe having a system such as this would at least a little make the AI a little less AI'ish and sterile and give them a bit more personality. And if nothing else, it ends this ridiculousness of increasing our offers by 500,000 or 1,000,000 or however much players choose to enter until the AI sells the tech to them.

I have a feeling that many if not most players simply offer ridiculous amounts of money (because cash is so easy to come by in the game) in the first offer simply to avoid having to 1. keep reopening the offer window, 2. Because few if any actually enjoy upping their offer by 500k or 1M at a time until they hit the sweet spot.

So just have the AI come back at us with how much they will take, if they are willing to sell the player their tech, or have the AI come back saying something like "there is no amount of money that we will accept to sell our tech to a competitor" which would be the absolute indicator to the player that there is no need to even try to offer anything higher (basically the way it's done now), but if there is a number the AI will take, then just state it in the negotiation window after they reject our initial offering.

It would make the AI seem more human rather than this cold sterile AI that we currently have.


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Likewise, it would be nice if when the AI offers the player XXX amount to buy the players technology level, and the player refuses it would be nice if the AI would occasionally reconsider their offer and come back with a higher amount as in like true life negotiations. Certainly the AI would not actually be offering their top dollar amount initially to buy our tech, so when we refuse they would reevaluate the offer and come back with a higher amount to try to get it.

[Hyronymus]

Splendid suggestion: simple and more than welcome.

[Wesley]

Absolutely agree.

[David]

This will be implemented in the next patch.