Suggestions around small businesses
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2020 3:06 pm
Hello!
Some suggestions for people who like to start really small and enjoy things like in the Real World Mod script where you start with just 1 million...
Let's face such a scenario where you have one million. Almost the only thing you can do is to invest in stocks and hope you get up to 3-4 million. But how crazy would it be in real life to invest all your money on the stock market? You even can't pick smaller amounts of stocks, as the smallest are around a million, so you go all in. Not very realistic.
So I thought why not having some possibilities to run small businesses? I think it would be really cool if you could rent an office in one of the commercial buildings and run a small internet or software company (Digital Age DLC) there. It could be a multi-functional firm where you can place manage+programming units, marketing and tech research units and normal R&D, and setup some smaller internet businesses. Maybe this should be restricted to 4 units with each a smaller efficency than the normal units in the usual firms.
Each commercial building could also have room for one or two smaller shops for rent, again with much reduced capacities and efficiency and also restricted to 4 units for purchasing, sales, marketing or private labeling.
If you think more about it maybe there would also be room for renting some space for small production, like old warehouses.
A problem would be that the AI maybe would occupy these places even if they are big, so there should be a mechanism to protect those places, e.g. that this is not really efficient for bigger AI and they simply do not rent these places.
For all real estate strategists there also could be the possibility to build all those bigger store types like supermarket, disount mega store and so on, but only as a real estate for rent, so the Ai could set up their stores there but would not own it. On the other hand such places for rent would also give new opportunities for the human players at the beginning.
Some suggestions for people who like to start really small and enjoy things like in the Real World Mod script where you start with just 1 million...
Let's face such a scenario where you have one million. Almost the only thing you can do is to invest in stocks and hope you get up to 3-4 million. But how crazy would it be in real life to invest all your money on the stock market? You even can't pick smaller amounts of stocks, as the smallest are around a million, so you go all in. Not very realistic.
So I thought why not having some possibilities to run small businesses? I think it would be really cool if you could rent an office in one of the commercial buildings and run a small internet or software company (Digital Age DLC) there. It could be a multi-functional firm where you can place manage+programming units, marketing and tech research units and normal R&D, and setup some smaller internet businesses. Maybe this should be restricted to 4 units with each a smaller efficency than the normal units in the usual firms.
Each commercial building could also have room for one or two smaller shops for rent, again with much reduced capacities and efficiency and also restricted to 4 units for purchasing, sales, marketing or private labeling.
If you think more about it maybe there would also be room for renting some space for small production, like old warehouses.
A problem would be that the AI maybe would occupy these places even if they are big, so there should be a mechanism to protect those places, e.g. that this is not really efficient for bigger AI and they simply do not rent these places.
For all real estate strategists there also could be the possibility to build all those bigger store types like supermarket, disount mega store and so on, but only as a real estate for rent, so the Ai could set up their stores there but would not own it. On the other hand such places for rent would also give new opportunities for the human players at the beginning.
