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[Obsolete] Custom Difficulty Settings
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Kyrun  [developer] Feb 16, 2023 @ 3:52pm
Experimenting with Settings
I did two runs with the following settings:

Starting funds: $1M
Max skill points: 5
Max spec points: +115%
Design phase speed bonus: +300%
Alpha phase speed bonus: +100%

Start 1971, 1 day per month

I chose these settings so we can test with the fastest speed.

1 Founder with maxed out skills/specs, and 50% creativity (Ordinary)
Capacitor, Watch, Neat Freak
Work hours: 8am - 4pm

Run 1 (Easy)
Creativity impact on sales: Low: 0
Marketing boost window: 2y 8m
Initial market recognition importance: Low (0.004)
Effect of market recognition on sales: Low (0.50)
Average AI intellgience: -50%

Created an antivirus with 76% interest (6% wasted) after analyzing market targeting
+File encryption
+File scanner
+Application scanner (★★)
Using existing framework.
Consumer reach: 1.4M

Publisher handled marketing. Started Feb 1971, launch Sept 1971.

Design phase:
2 iterations (Feb)

Alpha phase:
Completed 98% (Mar - Apr)
Reviewed (Creativity 4.2, System 7.6)
Iterated design again
Completed 100% (May - July)
Reviewed (Creativity 4.2, System 9.2)

Beta phase:
Fixed 86 bugs (July - Sept)

Final followers before launch: 237
Launched Sept (end of day)

Release:
QA: ★★★★
Bugs: ★★★
Marketing: ★

Quality: Great
Creativity: Ordinary
Day 1: sold 9517 units (I printed 10000, product ran out, but the next day's sales were slightly higher)

Run 2 (Hard)
Creativity impact on sales: High: 2.0
Marketing boost window: 8m
Initial market recognition importance: High (0.0001)
Effect of market recognition on sales: High (1.00)
Average AI intellgience: +50%

Created an antivirus with 82% interest (0% wasted) after analyzing market targeting
+File encryption
+File scanner
+Application scanner (★★)
Using existing framework.
Consumer reach: 1.76M

Publisher handled marketing. Started Feb 1971, launch Sept 1971.

Design phase:
2 iterations (Feb)

Alpha phase:
Completed 98% (Feb- Apr)
Reviewed (Creativity 4.2, System 7.7)
Iterated design again
Completed 100% (May - June)
Reviewed (Creativity 4.2, System 9.2)

Beta phase:
Fixed 147 bugs (July - Sept)

Final followers before launch: 118
Launched Sept (end of day)

Release:
QA: ★★★★
Bugs: ★★★★
Marketing: ★

Quality: Great
Creativity: Ordinary
Day 1: sold 57 units
Last edited by Kyrun; Feb 16, 2023 @ 3:53pm