Is the game to easy ? (money)

[thoreson9]

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Maybe if you change the ship price instead of the freight rates, it would be more realistic. I can buy a two year old 450 m ship for 50 million, and sometime drive cargo worth 500.000 dollar. So maybe if the ship cost 300 million dollars people wouldnt be able to by for example 10 heavy duty at one time. And maybe it would look a little weired if i have a jahre viking and get 1.000.000 dollar for transporting a full ship load 15.000 miles.
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[rdklein]

yes indeed we will increas the ship prices up more to the real one, we still keep checking ship prices, for new and used, buts very hard to get real data.

[lmfdabo]

But if you are going to use the real price for the ships, then you have to use the real price for the cargos and fuel also. I think you will only paint yourself in to a corner to get everything as lifelike as possible.

I think it could be easier to have some sort of relation between the prices on the cargo and the ships. Because it wouldn't matter if a ship would cost $500 or $5 000 000 if the cargos would have the same range. Example: if the ship cost $500 the cargo could be wort $100 to transport, but if the ship costs $5 000 000 the same cargo would be worth $1 000 000 to transport. This is just an example.

You don't have to have real life prices because the ships may get the wrong price relation to each other, but this is your decision.

It could be nice with real life prices but be carefull not to ruin the game.
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[rdklein]

We will carefully move them to real if possible (why shoudl we use 12.34 EUR for a cargo ship ???)

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I agree on the ratio.

But it just feels better if you just earned
20.000.000 $$ instead of 200.000 $$
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Die Welt die wir geschaffen haben ist das Resulat einer überholten Denkweise

Probleme die daraus entstehen können nicht mit der gleichen Denkweise gelöst werden

-Einstein-

[lmfdabo]

That is true, my example was just to show that it doesn't matter what the ship costs as long as it's compareble to the cargos and other costs.

But as you say it's more realistik to have the ship costing $20 million instead of $200 000. Or what the ships now costs today (hardly $20 mill though).
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[harisson]

game is not to hard to play, you have to follow some basic common sense and have a bit of luck (as always) and it 's not to hard to make it big.

thinking how to complicate things a little bit more: in starting money (5 mil$ and some change) 5 mil should be stated as a credit that you pick up at bank and can't get a new one until this one is fully repaid. that should slow game a little bit and make it a bit harder to be a billionare in 2 years.


your comments???

regards.
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harisson

[Jabby]

I totally agree with Harisson, your starting money should be a loan/credit from the bank and you have to pay interest over it. Only I would suggest that if your status and your total assets are high enough you surely can raise this loan/credit.
And since this topic is is the game to easy maybe it's an idea to lower the loan/credit amount whether you start in beginner mode or expert mode

Comments please!
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[rdklein]

yes that sounds interesting

[harisson]

o.k. i was a bit too restrict about getting additional credits. it really should depend on your status and progress in the game. and i'm pretty sure that bank wouldn't give me any credit at status 3-10 with existing 5mil credit.