I get the idea, and sounds reasonable. probably dropping overhead cost, along with increased efficiency might be the net effect if they are some kind of ERP services. But since all the fixed cost of a firm is abstract in current game, it would be like making these costs "visible". For instance instead of mail rooms full of staff to sort through mails before the internet, we upgrade to e-mail services and all the firms in the company with access to it can eliminate their fixed cost related to the old mail room.therealevan wrote:Sort of, but all it's really trying to replicate is the ability for a firm to outsource it's required IT overhead (Basically IaaS). Advertising will still exist obviously, but the data center usage will simply increase various metrics to the firm.eleaza wrote:So you are essentially saying it's like a "advertising unit", but instead of increasing brand, it affects the linked unit efficiency?
But how about services that required other services to function? how do we link that? And usually these internet services are using a constant subscription type payment. Which isn't very compatible with the "unit of product" goods in current game mechanism.
It will even be more awkward, if an Internet company doesn't get paid directly by their services, but from other revenue source completely. Like Google, their service is entire for the public for free, but paid by advertisement firms so to speak.
The only problem here is that since services of services are many, if we added too many Digital age unit inside a firm, we will run out of 3x3 squares very quickly. Perhaps we need some sort of building that acted like department center for Internet services, and integrate all the possible services there before hand, and all the other regular firms just linked one of their unit to IT department buildings to get the benefit?
