Hi ! After more or less 75h of gameplay (love this game and the potentials) here some ideas that crossed my mind.
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Rivality lack some ingenuity and is somewhat pale (it’s an alpha so no surprising)
How about some more “directs” actions like disrupting business more openly (press scandal? offensive marketing? disrupt/steal delivery or stocks in rival’s shop? etc.). Or any other methods or means to directly influence their business?
I particularly dislike the german woman from the first zone Ingrid Schneider, she played with her price to suffocate my early business, but that’s all. When i was richer, i tried stealing all her qualified employees, but even so the game was paused, she recruited instantly replacement, so no really any means to influence her business. All in all, some more actions to disrupt, steal/bother would be great, especially since some NPCs enjoy trashtalking and looking down on us :') -
Here comes the second idea, how about a “back to previous window” key shortcut ?
For example, when you try to clic on negotiate for a rival employee, it send you on the bizphone and you must go redo all the way to select the business you previously selected. Its quite small, but on the long run it’s a little frustating/tiring. -
Myemployees app : it’s quite well done, but when you start having 300+ employees, it could be comfortable to have a more advanced filter at disposal. Like selecting only the employees from “Shop 1”. Not always having the full list of your employees.
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It could be great to have a more convenient Storehouse Bizman Screen. Having the date and detail of the next delivery, having maybe the future dispatch from inventory to stores. In the long run, it can simplify the organisation of all the goods. I feel the storehouse screen is a little lacking. It could be cool to have maybe the possibility to command and manage your partnership with import directly on the screen. Once again it’s just a feeling, but on the long run, you end up navigating often between screens and those are some examples of unecessary back and forth.
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In the “planning” of the shop, it could be convenient to have a filter more advances than just “hiding cleaning officers”, when you start managing huge shop, it could gain some time, especially since i can’t seem to understand how the “auto fill” of the planning is functionning ? Every time it leave blank some of the opening times and posts, even thought i can fill it completely manually (but again, with huge shop it takes lots of time).
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Is there some default limitations ? It seems some shop automatically make 0$ on sunday and sometimes on saturday for some shops (jeweller, lawyer office…) even thought it is open. I can’t seem to know why? But i didn’t find any information about this in the F1 menu or in searching.
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Employees demands and needs : Maybe in the building it could be convenient to have a button that lead us or shine the workstation of an employee. Example : Tom wants a phone, whatever it is. Goes to Tom’s status windows, clic on “button” (a button “workplace” ? “Workstation” …?) and that lead the camera or auto select the workstation of Tom so that we can add the phone, the computer screen, or whatever privilege he asks
Once again a convenient option on the long run, when we start having M1 building, or having a company HQ or lawyer office with 50+ Employees, it’s often hazarduous to look for the right workstation. Well, i saw some futures updates speaking of reworking the “interior designer” UI, so maybe it will be solved one way or another.
I think i share all my thoughts 
Just so you know it’s a really fun and well made alpha regardless ! It’s the first time i like a game so much as participate in an alpha suggestion topic, but as i really liked startup company, i see so much more potential in big ambitions.
Sorry in advance if some sentences are lacking, english is not my native language. Hope having helped, and i’ll share more of my future ideas if more come !
If you guys have some more ideas about rivality addon, don’t hesitate to share !
I need to go back beat Ingrid Schneider :')