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« on: January 18, 2020, 12:52:24 PM »
A lot of good points brought up here. As I said I love this game. I do think that the colony economy system could be a little more refined. When you purchase an industry building that produces goods there is a maintenance cost. That should represent paying of employees. There could also be a maintenance cost in supplies which represents the material used in maintaining all the machinery. On top of maintenance any material used by the factory will have to be purchased, this would be a separate cost. The resulting product would be owned by you. It could be automatically exported which if fully exported should generate enough income to produce an overall profit. If you chose (a check box) to not export the products, they would be stockpiled at your warehouse. This could be used if you wanted to keep the products for vertical integration, so your factory that uses those products in it's production doesn't have to buy them on the open market. This would make the factory run at a loss but the up line factory should generate enough profit to make up for it, if it's products are sold. If you choose to stockpile them for your own use, it should be a way of getting cheaper products, the costs being the source material, plus maintenance. This is a realistic design, and wouldn't be that hard to implement, and a lot less abstract than the current system.