Late Game

Hi, new to forums here.

Just a thought on the late game, particularly on games bigger than 1v1 I do find it does become a bit unvaried in it's race to make money. I know there are different strats but when someone is snowballing it can just be waiting for them to get you, (I've also won this way not just a sore loser hah).

I just think there need to be a few more options for the late game, so you can out think an opponent who is out ahead in terms of resources, obviously someone who has made a lot of money deserves to be in the lead to win, but if there were some more ways to catch up. My idea would be on reaching level 5 it unlocks new abilities for the special buildings that allow new strats.

Hacker Lab - For a balanced sum you can hack the value of another players stock downwards or your own upwards. Obviously could be very overpowered, but maybe if it was temporary, or expensive it could be a nice way to defend yourself or buy another player when prices have all crashed or something

Research Lab - Opens up 'secret research' that allows you to do a research on every black market item, for an upfront cost, from now on a black market item is half price for you. This would allow you to late game when black market is prohibitively expensive for everyone allows you to use it more.

Engineering Lab I have no idea tbh.

Pleasure Dome: A boost to income from this, more of a boost for the lower your debt rating - a nice boost if you have huge debt issues but pull yourself to level 5 and can save you from a death spiral

- Obviously huge huge balance implications, i just feel these could give you more ways to fight back in the late game and open up new strats. People feel free to completely disagree that this is an issue

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Hi Tiresias42,

Thanks for your feedback and ideas. We do want the end-game to be more interactive, especially in a 1v1 situation. I'll let Soren know about your ideas.

Thank you again!

-Scott-

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The pleasure dome income is ambiguous and the interface lies to you about how much it produces, that needs to be fixed otherwise I think it is fine. The hacker array imo needs a completely new type of use. I personally don't think that there need to be catch up mechanics. As it stands equally matched 1v1 opponents can go toe to toe in a variety of ways, and an algorithm that tries to determine who is ahead is liable to be abused against its own purpose.

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and an algorithm that tries to determine who is ahead is liable to be abused against its own purpose.

There is an algorithm already... it is the stock price.

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yes but stock price isn't all used that much to determine who is and is not ahead.

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Well, it might get too chaotic with too many options. In late game it's the winner's game to lose.... it's mostly strategic.... if you are losing there is little chance to fight back....

The other part of all this is that this game is fast-paced and fairly "simple"... I think a much more slow/sophisticated/complex game could pull off more varied late game strategy stuff, but not sure about this one.

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