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Marshal Ney
All worlds
25 May 2012 16:55Link
Well I thought I was doing good in my enterprise. Turned out the enterprise was doing good by screwing over all my corporations.
What do quality upgrades do for my corporation?
Now a country has consumption. And if the product quality is high, it affects the welfare of the country, bringing good things for the President. Benefit to the CEO - nil (unless of course all his products are delivered via direct contracts or a variety thereof to the countries in which the corporations he runs are located. Then he would benefit at one remove.)
If the end products of all country consumption articles were separated out of the production process for all other corporations - that might actually be an attractive option. But they aren't. Even bread factors into another corporation (albeit one that also is only used by a country). And Military services and supplies are serviced and contracted to by other corporations.
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What do quality upgrades do for my corporation?
Now a country has consumption. And if the product quality is high, it affects the welfare of the country, bringing good things for the President. Benefit to the CEO - nil (unless of course all his products are delivered via direct contracts or a variety thereof to the countries in which the corporations he runs are located. Then he would benefit at one remove.)
If the end products of all country consumption articles were separated out of the production process for all other corporations - that might actually be an attractive option. But they aren't. Even bread factors into another corporation (albeit one that also is only used by a country). And Military services and supplies are serviced and contracted to by other corporations.
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Scarlet
All worlds
28 May 2012 07:12Link
No, you should think of it in game terms.
Quality upgrades increase the corporation quality, which increases the sale price of products the corporation sells. So these are good for CEOs.
Buy low quality goods from the market and sell high quality goods to the market. I think the GMs been walking around telling people 170 Q supply quality, which under the old formula (not sure if its changed), yields final product Q of maybe 135... whereas if you had 225 Q for the corp from Q upgrades would be about 300 Q final product Q... it's actually less than a (300/135) factor increase in revenue, but even so, that's at least doubling revenue. I mean the numbers might've changed, but the purpose of Q upgrades is to increase the Q and thus corp revenue.
Also, don't treat it as a real market. It's not. Quality in converted, shortages are filled, and surpluses are purchased by game mechanics to keep everythin
Quality upgrades increase the corporation quality, which increases the sale price of products the corporation sells. So these are good for CEOs.
Buy low quality goods from the market and sell high quality goods to the market. I think the GMs been walking around telling people 170 Q supply quality, which under the old formula (not sure if its changed), yields final product Q of maybe 135... whereas if you had 225 Q for the corp from Q upgrades would be about 300 Q final product Q... it's actually less than a (300/135) factor increase in revenue, but even so, that's at least doubling revenue. I mean the numbers might've changed, but the purpose of Q upgrades is to increase the Q and thus corp revenue.
Also, don't treat it as a real market. It's not. Quality in converted, shortages are filled, and surpluses are purchased by game mechanics to keep everythin
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Marshal Ney
All worlds
01 Jun 2012 17:21Link
Many thanks Lady. I continue to sing your praises in FED mail.
The quality conversion - that's what I was missing in the main.
Product quality in country welfare. Working on increasing that in revenue neutral ways.
Hoping to break 120 welfare index soon. Seems like I can run a country much better than an Enterprise.
Hopefully I can get up to a decent war level soon, and use the proceeds in direct transfer to shore up my enterprise.
The quality conversion - that's what I was missing in the main.
Product quality in country welfare. Working on increasing that in revenue neutral ways.
Hoping to break 120 welfare index soon. Seems like I can run a country much better than an Enterprise. Hopefully I can get up to a decent war level soon, and use the proceeds in direct transfer to shore up my enterprise.