Mike1 giekas How are new startups supposed to overcome this one in order to be able to catch up with established powers?
Buy points to pump qualification, buy points get an enterprise from state market auction it and use the money to buy lab equipment and available top tech, buy points for lab innovations in laboratory to speed up lab works. Beware, no innovations available for labs size 6. Study the last 3 tech levels to avoid a penalty of missing previous self-invented tech-levels for the next level
What I meant was, slowing development rates, like qualification growth (and, I thought, tech research speed) puts new people at double disadvantage, or even at exponential disadvantage:
- I've read that on Vera and Olga realms there are several 'free' people who started their companies from day one of the realm and were able to keep up with the 'investors' up to this day.
- I believe that people who start a year or so after the realm kicks off (like myself) can still keep up as long as the jump from under Q30 into Q30+ is not too big. Now it seems to me that this train has already left - no chances to compete in Q30+ tenders means no chances to offset qualification growth slowdown, means no chances to prevent company stagnation.
- What then will happen with people who start now and won't even be able to reach Q30?
They will have to pay just to keep on moving forward, before they can pay some more just to slow the rate at which tops are getting away from them, before they can pay...
For a game that positions itself as competition of smarts to suggest that the only way is to buy your success, well, it's disappointing
(I wanted to say 'cheap', but it definitely isn't) |