Less Financial Competitor Information

[Zlot]

Current issue:

There is just too much financial information available on all of the Competitors. This gives too much information on their current (real time!) performance, and therefore the player can very easily identify what runs well and what doesn't. Also it's unrealistic to have all this information available.



I think there is a two-level approach in order to make Financial Information more realistic:

1st level (should be quick win): Users can only see Updated Financial Results from publicly listed companies every quarter. Private companies only update their results every year. This also gives the private companies another real life advantage: They can hide their profits for a longer time without the competitors awareness.

2nd level (probably more sophisticated): You can subscribe to quarterly / yearly financial updates from your competitors to always have the information available of how they are doing. Also, the stock market should react on big jumps in profit / loss after quarterly announcements. The stock market algorithm should have a certain expectation of company growth based on the past performances, and if this gets over / underachieved the market heavily reacts.



What do you think?

[saffgee]

This is a good idea and opens the door to industrial espionage, independent "analysts" that could work for you and other such semi-legal and illegal skulduggery....

[Enfrijolada]

I love it

[colonel_truman]

Great ideas!

[stuguy909]

I think a quarterly update on the stock ticker's corporate earnings should be a good start. It's daily right now, which is crazy cheat mode for a savvy player. Going to a four month interval is more in line with how companies submit quarterly earnings / losses.