Capitalism 2 and Capitalism Lab Forum

This is an interesting but somewhat tricky to replicate bug. I have a telecom business running, it generates a nice profit and has a few hundred thousand customers. But I'm greedy, let's rip our customers off by charging $30. Oh no, my customers left, how could this have possibility happened ? Expected behaviour, no-one wants to pay those stupidly high prices even if I am a monopoly. Anyway I become less greedy and set my prices down. When I do so the market share creeps back up: Which is fine but- here is where it gets weird. It stalls at a certain level as it goes back up, even if I run it for a long while it is clear that the old customers are refusing to ever come back: Maybe that is intended? They are so fed up they will never go back perhaps? Maybe but it seems odd they would do this when I am a monopoly provider. Though I don't think the game ever really intended a human player to have a telecom monopoly normally (as there was always an AI player that would normally jump in and supply the telecom service).

Anyway, it is really strange. I have attached two savegames: One where I have the telecom company before I raise the price: And one after I do it: But you can follow the steps above and see for yourself.

I loaded your savegame and ran it for some time. The user base did grow again for telecom, albeit very slowly, which I think makes sense given the circumstance. So it is not a bug but the way telecom is simulated.

I'm not sure if that is right though: I have noticed that it grows very slowly but this seems to be in line with the population growth. If you get a political party and stop all immigrants (stopping pop growth) you will notice that it does not rise at all.

I have a savegame where I did this. I took control of the government and blocked all immigrants - no change at all even when running for several years.