Stratsim Rules!!!
After running this simulation for a few years, I have
learned to make some rules to make the simulation a good experience for
everyone. I am like the government and impose regulations that make the economy
as a whole more healthy (hopefully!). Here’s the rules:
- No team may
borrow more than $3 billion in the first week. A huge early investment can
lead to an insurmountable lead (which is really demoralizing to your
competitors).
- Marketing
expenditure cap of $200 million per car per week. Look on the
financial summary tab
and make sure your overall marketing line item spending is below $200
million per car cap. That means if you produce three vehicles, you can only
spend $600 million on marketing each week; if you produce nine cars, you can
spend $1.8 billion on marketing each week. If you spend more than that in
one week, you will have to spend less the next week. For example, if you
produce three cars, but accidentally spend $630 million in marketing one
week, I will charge you $30 million.