Make a monopoly penalty

[Mega Corp]

It is very easy to win the game by creating a monopoly. Can there be a fine imposed on a player who creates a monopoly?

Monopoly examples:
- Owning all the forests and only selling to own company
- Buying up all the media companies
- Controlling all the Chemicals and charging the sky for it
- Buying over 50% of all the stocks

[ariesas]

I think you can not own all the media companies in the game, because as soon as you buy them, new ones appear. Actually I love this aspect of the game and it is one of the strategies to get the monopolies as fast as possible. Enlight could balance this aspect by adding anti trust laws : if you get the monopoly, you pay the fines, or you can not set the price as high as you want because government doesn't let you. But the best way to make monopoly difficult to achieve could be more raw materialis (like timber) locations appearing on the map after one player gains a monopoly and more media companies appearing on the map. This is the way it works in real life, if monopoly charges too high, soon there are new competition or new technologies develop.

[David]

Please see this thread for the improvements to address the monopoly exploitation on natural resources:

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