Game Is Too Easy Even On Impossible

[PanTheGoatTV]

Being able to buy stocks just makes the game too easy for me and into an asset manager not a software company haha. Really doesn't matter what you do as long as you just pump out contracts early and then buy up the companies stocks that you can afford. Sooner or later one of them collapse and you get all the IPs and Stocks and then you just win the game haha

[apyr]

Game is just generally too easy even on impossible, we need more options to debuff ourselves with in settings but devs are aiming people who like to build fancy office than people like us who play this for economy managment.

[Personal Responsibility]

If you keep using strats that are a bit cheaty, then of course it is too easy. Just.. you know.. don't use them :-)

[apyr]

Originally posted by angk500:

If you keep using strats that are a bit cheaty, then of course it is too easy. Just.. you know.. don't use them :-)

Not using any cheats, keep your prejudges to yourself if you wanna stay professional.

[freelancer909]

Totally agree getting bankrupt assets is way over board. You get millions from a company that went bankrupt? In real life you get nothing. Bankrupt means the bank takes it all and all assets. It is not a cheat if it is in the game and your not cheating with cheat commands.

[Personal Responsibility]

Originally posted by друг:

Not using any cheats, keep your prejudges to yourself if you wanna stay professional.

I did not say you are using cheats. I said you are using strategies that are "cheaty". There are a few strats that are basically very easy money makers. Some of them definitely should be nerfed (like contracts spamming or design deal deadlines). If you feel the game is too easy, just don't use those strats and try a different approach.

[apyr]

Originally posted by angk500:

Originally posted by друг:

Not using any cheats, keep your prejudges to yourself if you wanna stay professional.

I did not say you are using cheats. I said you are using strategies that are "cheaty". There are a few strats that are basically very easy money makers. Some of them definitely should be nerfed (like contracts spamming or design deal deadlines). If you feel the game is too easy, just don't use those strats and try a different approach.

Updates after updates we are waiting for economical overhaul, but we only getting updates that pleases people whos into for this game for visual reasons, im not using cheasy strats but game is still TOO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ EASY and you are seeing threads like this since years but nothing being done. Telling people simply to ignore few mechanics of the game is ignorant approach.

[Personal Responsibility]

Originally posted by друг:

Updates after updates we are waiting for economical overhaul, but we only getting updates that pleases people whos into for this game for visual reasons, im not using cheasy strats but game is still TOO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ EASY and you are seeing threads like this since years but nothing being done. Telling people simply to ignore few mechanics of the game is ignorant approach.

1. Just to make it clear, I am not the dev, but only someone of the community helping out. I do see threads popping up every now and then asking for specific changes, but in comparison they are not that many. Especially if you take in the feedback from within the discord.
2. I am not denying that there are some things that would be nice to get an overhaul, but it makes sense that a final balancing is done when the game is feature complete, which really is not too far away anymore, since the last big thing for the game will be the campaign. A few updates we see are some feature creeps that were rather quickly to implement and enhance the quality of the game for a lot of players. Of course not all, but still greatly appreciated by most.
3. My first comment in regards of the mechanics is reffering to OP's post, who literally wrote about using a specific playstyle that is making the game indeed too easy. And yes, you can just not play like that to make the game harder. The game has a ton of ways to play, so make use of them. Also for some people it's nice they can find some achievement this way, when other things are still too hard for them when starting out. There are currently around four strategies that make it rather easy to get rich. Just.. you know.. don't use them.
4. I would appreciate it if you could please ease your tone.

[CF]

franz, the game is just too easy
maybe you should just try getting better at the game instead of being a sensible person :D

[CF]

just want to share (i dont mean to fuel the fire in this argument 😅):
a few months ago i got to 70m worth with stocks and contracts by 1983 (my 3rd year) before even releasing my first OS (which went on to make 10-15m in sales). all of this in impossible with 1 founder.

[Ingredients]

I am with everyone else here. The game is a bit too easy on vanilla. But there are some mods which can help increase the difficulty as well which I use. Still, would like to see an increase of toughness.

[Personal Responsibility]

One thing I am thinking about a lot is late game difficulty. A typical issue with tycoon games is, that as soon as you make a certain amount of money, there is basically no real difficulty around anymore. (Which is kinda the same in real life if you think about it.)
So a good question would be, is there any way to increase the difficulty in that stage in any way, but not break immersion as well.

[CF]

I think the question that should be asked is: What other challenges do large companies face in real life?

For one, nobody likes monopolistic companies, and many choose to use the products of the smaller competition or use open-source software, even if they are worse quality than the monopoly's product, all to avoid giving them more money.

Furthermore, I think that the law system isn't used well enough. In the corporate world, lawsuits are thrown around for everything (at least I think so). If your product shares many of the same features (checkboxes) as a competitor's, you could be at risk of a lawsuit. Heck, even if you share a similar enough name, you should be sued.

Coming back to the first point, and kind of including the law system again, what if the government filed anti-trust lawsuits against you, which could make your company split in pieces?

In all, I think these features really could help render the late-game a lot more enjoyable and bring extra challenge. If you had to constantly stay alert throughout the whole game and avoid being split up, the game would be a lot more engaging.

Don't really know if Kenneth will even bother adding this, but I hope we can convince him to feature creep a little bit after campaign is released.

[Sput]

One thing about the late-game I've always felt is that you tend to feel very insulated from the world as a company. What I mean by this is, in the real world you have rival companies constantly competing with one another, trying to push out better products. But in SI, it feels very much more like you're left alone to run your own company.

To use another game as an example, in Capitalism II, rival companies are run by opposing AI players. They'll try to outpace you in R&D and try to put out better products to eat into your market share. They'll aggressively ship their products to your target markets and try undercut your prices. They'll react to your own tactics and adjust accordingly. But in SI, companies feel more like a milestone - a line you can surpass rather than a living, breathing entity.

I also think this is also partly why the game tends to lose its lustre after you make your first big hit and money is no longer an issue - because you aren't really competing against anybody else - so any further growth is superficial, or for the goals that you set for yourself.

Don't get me wrong, SI is still a great game, and it's probably not realistic to have these changes implemented, especially at this point in development. But I do think it plays much more like a chill sandbox akin to The Sims than a business/management sim.

[freelancer909]

Agree with you Sput. But remember Cap Labs is really great at business but has no graphics to speak off. But it is a very good competition game with lots of different scenarios. This game has great graphics is way ahead of most games in quality of building choices. But as far as AI goes there isnt any they all go are worthless. Your alone just like you said.

[XX_Swaglord420_XX]

im going bankrupt with a lot of money in my bank and no loans, so I guess its harder now lol.