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If they transfer all of their money to the personal account, the game is softlocked

When more coins are added, the pile doesn't seem to go taller, the new coins merge into the pile and are gone?

is this normal?

Add instruction line:

• estimate how much profit you will make in the coming year, you will pay your b-tax based on this amount

Profit = money you earn in the company. Sales - cost
Income = money you receive, including company profits and salary, interests received, allowance from spouse/parents...etc

In our case profit and income is the same, as it's the only source of income. Better use "profit" so it is more focused on that "company" aspect

could be because I set the price high, but it could come as a confusion that the game has stopped, maybe it would help if it's a bit faster?

Purpose: encourage players to deposit their earnings into their personal account
Reach xx kr: unlock X

• Reach 5000 Kr. to unlock machines (maybe make machines cheaper like 8000 kr)
• Reach 10000 to allow more over drafting, account can go up to minus 3000
• Reach 15000 to unlock automation
  etc

Comment from Miguel:

• coin area takes up too much space, panels look crowded
• make the left and right panel a bit bigger to where the top panel icon start and where the tax stops

I feel like the game is too slow after the VAT, I know you can speed it up, but maybe it should be in the medium speed at least? Just an idea and a guess :) What do you think

• Impose surcharge for overdue tax

Miguel thought the 5000 to unlock machines meant money in the company account, could a step by step tutorial work?

• could you force the player to transfer money to personal account early on?
• Maybe a quest? Make a transfer to your personal account (say just 1000 kr.) before you can
  • Change price: Price changing is not essential right at the beginning so we can block this feature
  • Change time : make time go faster, i like this because players should increase time only when they understand the game, and making a transfer show that the player has learned
  • Machines
  • Overdraft
  • Accountant

1. Minor issue: when you click settle, the number in the accounts didn't update, could be confusing
2. Major issue: no more game after year end xDD, no more notification, b-tax...etc. timeline is empty, also the numbers don't seem to reset, it accumulates last year's sales and profit.

• you can still pay VAT, but no reporting

Maybe we could describe it in the tutorial too?

too effective

Step 1: Prompt " Year 1 is over, go to year end report"
Step 2: Tax evaluation: report your financial performance to the tax bureau to evaluate the actual tax incurred in the previous year

• Profit and loss
  • Sales - Cost = Profit
• Balance sheet ( can be done later)
  • Debit side: Bank ( company acc balance), Machines (cost of machine net of VAT)
  • Credit side: Capital ( Opening capital + Profit - transfers to personal account)
• Submit

Step 3 : Tax being calculated

• Estimated profit , tax paid
• Actual profit , tax payable
• Tax refund/ payable
• Settle payment

Step 4: Re-estimating profit : please update your profit estimate for the coming year

Step 5: Capital: adjust how much your investment in the company would be for the coming year

Step: 6 Ready to start the new year!

• Machine at 10000 is maybe too high, I got my first machine in May in the second year
• It is common in clicker game that the machine increase in price the more you buy
  • Maybe 5000 for the first one, 7000 for the second one...etc?

The demand should drop more rapidly at a higher price, for game balance purpose

I guess you should still be allowed to pay tax, buy if you are allowed to produce when the game is paused you can produce a shit load and not worried about the game, and it kind of go against the time logic?

• Produce : press to produce product for selling
• Company account: this is the money you invested in the company as capital, you produce and buy upgrades and pay tax out of this account
• Personal account: this is the money you own privately, when you reach certain amount you can unlock upgrades. The more money you have here the more coins you will have!
• Pay B-skat: it's a monthly prepayment for b-tax based on you expected income, regardless of how much you actually earned
• Report VAT: Report to the tax bureau how much goods and service tax you should pay, base on how much you sold throughout the quarter and how much you paid in cost to produce the products
• Quests: Save enough money in your personal account to unlock upgrades
• Time: (After the first VAT payment. notify player) : now you are done with the basics, the game will run in normal speed. if you want to change the speed of the game, you can use this widget

It would be easier for players to relate the event with the icon on the timeline

• Change "machine" to "automation" (fancy!)
• Hide the option to purchase machine in the first month
• Make it more expensive as well (10000), otherwise players get rich too fast

It is 0 anyway, and it is irrelevant, because the company does not exist in that period, I think removing it will be less confusing

Can we introduce the different information one by one, or at least let players check the information again after the game has started?

• 5000 Machine, add more explaination : Machine with help you produce automatically , each machine makes 1 unit per day
• 7500 Price
• 10000 Increase demand by 10%
• 12500 Clicks produce 2 units
• 15000 Machine productivity increase 50%
• 17500 Increase demand by 10%
• 20000 Cost reduce by 10%

• Can upgrade to extent the overdraft amount

So people know that something has happened, after they transfer enough money