'-poly' inventions - bug or WAD?

[G-Klav]

I have found a bug - or at least I think it's a bug...

After you've researched the 'Market Structure' tech, you can get one of three inventions: 'monopoly structure', 'oligopoly structure' or 'polypoly structure'.
Well these affects, as you all know, the costs of new factories and of expanding factories.
The problem is, that they also affect the price of colonial buildings, meaning that if you get the polypoly, you'll end up with a colonial fortress costing just £3,500 - or worse: If you get monopoly structure, the colonial fortress will cost £14,000 (plus double amounts of leadership and the goods needed).

Is this a bug or WAD?


Secondly, right now these inventions gives the following bonuses/penalties:

Monopoly Structure: new factories (and colonial buildings) +100% costs
expanding factories -25% costs

Oligopoly Structure: new factories (and colonial buildings) +25% costs
expanding factories -10% costs

Polypoly Structure: new factories (and colonial buildings) -25% costs
expanding factories +10% costs

I think these inventions could be a bit more balanced. Right now, the worst you can get is monopoly, since expanding factories are cheap enough without it.
For example, it could look like this:

Monopoly Structure: new factories +50% costs
expanding factories -50-75% costs

Oligopoly Structure: new factories +20-30% costs
expanding factories -25% costs

Polypoly Structure: new factories -25-30% costs
expanding factories +75-100% costs

What do you think?

 

[unmerged(19936)]

I think it's WAD, but a bit unbalanced. Your new suggestions are good, but I think being able to choose which is even better. Right now if you get monopoly as a small power it just kills your chance of industrializing and claiming colonies, not so much a problem with UK which has plenty of money.

Anyway, in the meantime, here's a solution:

Does monopoly bother people that much? I don't really care which one I get and it mostly seems to be monopoly. Anyway, here is an event Rafiki posted a while back:

event = {
	id = 352
	random = no
	invention = yes

	picture = marketfunctionality

	trigger = {
		technology = 3302
	}

	name = "CHange in corporate structure"
	desc = "As our economy grows, the structure of our nation's corporations changes, into:"
	style = 0

	date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1850 }
	offset = 60 # Check for trigger conditions every 60 days
	deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1860 }

	action_a = {
		name = "Polypoly!" 
		command = { type = factory_cost_mod value = -25 }
		command = { type = capacity_cost_mod value = 10 }
	}

	action_b = {
		name = "Oligopoly!"
		command = { type = factory_cost_mod value = 25 }
		command = { type = capacity_cost_mod value = -10 }
	}

	action_c = {
		name = "Monopoly!"
		command = { type = factory_cost_mod value = 100 }
		command = { type = capacity_cost_mod value = -25 }
	}
}

Replace invention 352 in /db/tech/commerce_inventions.txt with that event and delete 353 and 354.

Use it only for good