The Reason for price controls and GM providing products (Little Upsilon)

I'm going to explain why the gamemaster has to regulate prices and on occasion provide products in the short term when there are extreme shortages.

Many people ask why SimCountry has these regulations and the real world does not but the real world functions without them so surely it would be more realistic to get rid of them, here is why...

The reason is the Players, think about how the real economy works and how the SimCountry economy works. Companies in the real world are very responsive to market forces, if there is an oversupply of what they produce and its not profitable at that time they will lower production till the oversupply has been used up. Also if the price of an input good involved goes higher they don't just wear the cost, they put up prices, if they can't sell for the higher price they reduce production they don't just operate at a loss. This reduction in production then relieves the upward pressure on the

I don't think so.

The game provides a nice lesson in the downside of price regulation, if you are willing to accept it.

This could all be true until the GM manipulates products into such surplus that corps go bankrupt....like what recently happened with medical materials and supplies.

the system does counter oversupply
during surplus companies will close and in shortage companies will be produced
we much rather have a c3 close than ours

I'm not going to start micromanaging my corporations until they give me better controls.

Earlier I decided to reduce hiring and production in Water Maintenance corporations on LU since the market is at rock bottom. It involved me copying and pasting "10" into 100 different boxes.

That's not something I want to do very often (or ever again).

There are of course automated controls but they usually do strange things.