Firefox Founders: "We want to make money..." 10184

billwg

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Ever heard of the game Railroad Tycoon (for the PC)? It's like running a model railway, but with the added twist of having to deliver cargos and getting paid for them; along with competing railroads controlled by the computer. You're effectively running a railway business and have to make a profit, or the investors get unhappy and could fire you, and end the game. I would say that it's also partly a market place simulation, so the game's designers would have looked at business practices, etc, and tried to be faithful to what happens. Let me quote you a bit from the manual:

"Rate Wars "...Your railroad may be the target of a rate war attack from a competing railroad, or you may use the rate war as a means of weakening a rival. To win a rate war you must understand what is going on and how best to proceed. "A rate war is triggered when you either build track into a comepbreastor's station or a competing railroad lays track into one of your stations...Until the rate war is concluded,..all revenues for delivering cargo here are halved... "The winner of a rate war is decided by the local city council of the town where the war is underway...the first railroad to gat at least a 66% vote majority is declared the winner." "The votes in a rate war are directly tied to the amount of cargos delivered to, and taken from, the contested station... "If a competing railroad loses a rate war, all of its track leading out of the station is torn up.... "If you win a rate war, the station becomes wholly yours...For the next fiscal period all cargo delivery revenues are twice the normal rate. Having shamelessly acceeded to the town's every wish to win the rate war, you are now in the happy position of giving them a lesson in monopoly economics."

Now, perhaps you may like to re-read that, but subsbreastuting "market place", etc for "station", and, say, browser or OS, etc, for cargos. How does it read now?