Hey Kristof and DRJOSJAIF (sorry, forgot your name and can’t be bothered to check. Sorry! 
) its great to see you guys working on it. I’ll definitely use it in my Game Dev Tycoon experience.
If you put @ before their name it will mention them 
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CompetitorMod is now available on steam workshop.
@Stian Thx We’ll check that out! Will take a while because we’re gonna change the whole system.
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The plugin API is available at http://www.gdtmp.tk/pluginjs
It shouldn’t be too hard, because you just add a receiver to your code to set competitor 1 to what the plugin says.
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Seems there is a bug in the workshop version. Just started a new game, clicked on CompetitorMod:
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Thats weird :s I’ll check right away! Thanks for the heads up patrick!
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Ow yeah that button shouldn’t be there yet.
I was testing something My bad! 
Thx Patrick
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Should be fixed now could someone check please?
right click anywhere and see if there is an competitorMod entry in the menu.
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Works.
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thanks! 
I don’t know if anyone ever noticed that but there is an easy exploit:
Buy low competitor for X money, merge with their company and win X money + their fans and their RP.
That makes no sense.
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Kind of makes sense. Microsoft buys Nokia for a cheap price. Microsoft gets all their research, maybe not all fans but some, but the money part doesnt make sense.
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Maybe add legal issues like a 10 - 20% chance of not being able to buy the company at the time.
Percentage should increase after every purchase of a company. Even higher if the company merges.
Oh and also some form of tax maybe when merging?
Maybe something that could be implimented through the election mod, @Stian
Then they would have to release a competitor APi
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It would make a lot of sense though to add more challenge to the game.
Ex. If a communist person takes charge, you get very little benefits from merging and a higher chance of not being able to buy the company.
Honestly, politics doesn’t go well with this mod. You should give that suggestion to like the election mod I believe its called.
Yeah I’m talking about a collab between the 2.
Politics does go very well with this mod… There’s taxes, a lot of paperwork and legal issues that normally have to be addressed and taken care of before one company can buy or merge with another…
Maybe not as a requirement, but I think it would be neat if these 2 mods can be played both separately, and together.
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I would need Kristof to create an API first 
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haha
Maybe In the future @DzjengisKhan & me have are hands full at the moment… We’ve got al lotttttt of stuff todo
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This mod is an amazing idea. I have a few ideas that may or may not have been suggested already.
IMMERSION: (Imo this should be one of the most important aspects of the mod)
- Notifications of upcoming games from the competitors
- Notifications of competitor best seller hits and total failure games
- Notifications of competitors making new game engines and their approximated cost
- Notifications of competitor best seller sequels announced
- Showing results of all you and competitors G3 participants
GAMEPLAY EFFECTS:
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After a few hit games in the same genre an competitor company will “specialize” in that genre and it will be slightly harder for you to get a good rating in that genre while it will be slightly/much easier for that competitor to do that.
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Special events
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I don’t think there should be much difference in gameplay, no “Sabotage” stuff etc. I mean it doesn’t really happen irl either and would be rather superficial addition to the game.
Anyway, what I think would be important is a lot of news and headlines about the competitors and not so much new gameplay elements. Just the fact it would feel like competing against others.
Just my suggestions though.