Or if you have average or lower rating, then it costs A LOT too.DaleStan wrote:Idea on that one:
The cost of exclusive rights is linked to your rating.
It will also reduce your rating to x% of it's original value, where x is 0 if you are the only company that LA has rated, otherwise, it's some function of the rating of the highest rating granted to a company other than yours.
So if there are three companies in a town,
A (90%)
B (50%)
C (30%)
It would cost A $1.1M to purchase exclusive rights, and its rating would drop to 67.5%.
B would pay $2M, and its rating would drop to 27.5%.
C would pay $3.3M, and its rating would drop to 16.5%.
This uses cost=1M/rating, and newrating=rating*(1-bestcompetitor/2). It might work better to use newrating=rating*(1-bestcompetitor*(1-rating)). This would reduce the ratings to 85.5%, 27.5%, and 11.1%
The monetary costs are probably too low, but other than that, is this reasonable/workable?
The theory is that cities that like you will let exclusive rights go cheaply, and cities that don't will jack up the price. Also, if $FOO_CORP comes along and says "we'd like to transport here", and the city has to say "No, $BAR_CORP has exclusive rights now", then the city won't like $BAR_CORP as well, because they've lost services. However, if $BAR_CORP is doing an excellent job, and $FOO_CORP has no history or a bad history, then $BAR_CORP won't be penalized as badly as if $FOO_CORP has a history of providing good service to this town.
In other words, you have to work alittle bit for it to be cheap.
