Rebalancing the Free Market

stannis

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Hey folks, have been playing AC since its release and last year got the Vista-compatible re-release (AC is still easily worth double the asking price).

One thing that has always bugged me about the Social Engineering system, though, is the undue bias against the Free Market. I can understand how it might negatively affect both Police and Planet, but does it really need to affect them so much? -3 Police, -5 Planet? Ridiculously unfair compared to the other economic options (Planned Economies, in real life, usually work out far worse than capitalist ones, even in the environmental sense).

Has anyone made a mod re-balancing this bias somewhat to make Free Market less of an onerous choice? If not, how would I mod the values myself? Thanks for any advice.
 
Hi stannis,

You might want to check out this recent thread for a discussion about rebalancing Free Market. Also, you might want to look at the following threads from the Apolyton archives, in which Free Market is discussed:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7183
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7421
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7725
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7917
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23362
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23649
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29099
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79144
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=88651
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=92791

Reading those threads might give you some ideas.

Finally, if you're asking how to change Free Market, open the file alpha(x).txt and find the #SOCIO section. That's where the Free Market settings are stored.

Please post again if you have more questions.

Petek
 
Your answer was very comprehensive and I have no more questions! Thank you Petek.
 
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