David wrote:
I suppose that you can keep playing the game beyond the goal deadline. Then you may send me your game and I will test it on my side.
VICTORY!! Within the goal deadline too (By the skin of my teeth- 4 months)
It was hard since I only have 5 years to turn the company around and get it "back into the black/green" (depending on which country you are from)
Heres a save game too
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23145017/MATH_010.zip
The save is about 1 month after the win though because I have it on max speed
I was having a problem with the game though. When I save it, Capitalism "stops responding". However to solve it, I just have to right-click in the game window
So a summary of my game
*The tech AI (I had 5 in this game) again were not successful at all and pretty much had to abandon their R&D centers and turn to something else- However they did research some techs to very high levels. Socks reached 1559 and at one stage canned soup was 1300 (but dropped back down to 715 due to tech disrupution)
*Real Estate AI are holding ground (none are going bust) but are not earning very much money. They seem to build alot of apartments but very few community buildings to supplement them. Also I VERY rarely ever see them build any commercial buildings. So I think they need some inprovement
*There were 2 stock AI, which sat dead in the water. Never brought any stocks and just did nothing. A waste of time. THEY NEED TO BE FIXED!!
*I noticed some AI buying out or building media firms, so that was encouraging
*The retail/all AI were again the best.
The best AI this time was Thundercorp- Their income was all farms and factories- overall, retail lost money for them (They made lots of money from chocolate bars and icecreams)
Globallink was also good and actually made some good money with retail
*The AI needs to focus on more research for their most profitable lines. Eg- Platnium Hammer was making lots of money with desktop computers- but their tech level was only 56!!
(Bluespade did this well with TVs and camcorders though- with both techs around 200).Some of the other AI did so too
*What I really enjoyed this time around though was competition- earlier (Dfficulty level 3-6), the AI had never competed with me. This time around I had 5 competitors for my expertise of airconditioners at one stage. However once my technology and brand developed, I was selling air conditioners for $500-700, whilst Bluespade was selling them for $78 to keep up with me... SERIOUSLY?!?!?! How can he possibly make money selling them for $78!!!
*Its good to see the AI branching out to many sectors and selling lots of good in lots of different areas, but before they do (Or once they do),they NEED to research that area, otherwise their margins are extremely thin (Or negative) even with a good brand (Which suffers once negative loyalty sets in)
*By 20 years, the local's tech level for developed goods was 1. This made them quite easy pushovers