Something seems very odd, starting in the year 1980 on hard, companies are ONLY producing CMS and Office software. There are no other avialable products. so if i were to create a game or any other software that is reliant on an OS, i can't because there aren't any.


Not sure if this is how you intended it to be, but idk. I have a mixed feeling about this! I guess this will make starting in the year 1980 on hard very easy, as when you make a fresh software all the ppl are going to buy your software because there aren't any other options avialable for them to buy

That is an interesting thing you discovered. I have just found out where it comes from. Did the two available categories with the products date back to release from 1970 - 1979?

If yes, the game seems to be starting from 1970, although I removed everything before 1980.
This behaviour is not intended and I have to change the remaining 2 categories as well.

The thing is what you personally want: Do you want to start with existing products or do you want to start from the scratch, like every other company did at some point and compete with them on the same level?

I can of course change the existing and competing companies for every category, to let them make more releases and harder difficulty if wanted?
But they all need a minimum amount of time to develop the product, so they won't release it one month after starting.

starting with the current state of the game (all the categories aren;'t produced in the 1980) will make it super easy because whatever you create 1st will be a great hit among fans whether it is a good or a bad software.

for example, i created a basic OS before any other companies and it is starting to make me millions from the start (on hard)


so the logical thing to do is even starting from the 1980, all categories should have companies that make their relative software and are avialable to compete with you from the start.

Changed that in accordance with the rest. The only problem that occured to me is (since this came up only in A10, I think it is a vanilla game bug), that the expected interest rate will reach 100%, before you select all available features, if there are too many in general.

As an example: you can select over 50 Features for a whole Software. After selecting 35-40 of it, you reach 100%, even if it was calculated correctly in small % steps before.

I will report that to the game dev, if that is a bug or where that behaviour comes from.

Has this 100% interest bug been fixed yet? I've noticed that if I select all the features available for an OS in 1980 (or my edited 1970, which has even less features available), 100% interest is generated. I've been trying to fight against that in my version of the mod, but it doesn't seem to ever go away.