I'd love to hear what other people think about this. I have noticed that most of the top corps have formed 3 corps and transferred most, if not all, of the funds from two of their corps to fund the third. Because of the fact that each new corp founded spawns hundreds of thousands of dollars out of mid air it gives these corps a massive advantage over the rest of the field. At least to me it feels rather unfair that its a possible strategy, and it basically forces other directors to do the same thing if they wish to be competitive.

I know it is mentioned in a few tooltips that this strategy will be somehow punished. It would be nice to know a little more about that.
Also, in my opinion if each corp is going to be given a certain amount of money at the start of each season some percentage of that money should have to be spent on the corp itself rather than being transferred to other corps.

I wasn't going to say exactly how this strategy can hurt people who do this.. but this was definitely a concern I had from the beginning when I implemented it.. so I tried to add in some safe guards..

Here are a few things that are already set in place to help try to mitigate the money shuffling:
- corps that are not active in the season will not get money the next season, and may also be taxed at the end of the season causing the director to lose money
- directors that have more than a specified set amount of money will not get money the next season because they will have enough to fund their corps
- if a corps takes out a loan and ends up with a lot of money, they will have to repay that loan for several seasons until it is paid off. If they are ever unable to pay their debts they will go bankrupt and will have to go inactive for the next season and their money will reset

I am also planning on adding a gas fee starting next season, which would be based on the miles between each show.. so if you have 10 shows all over the country 3000 miles apart between each show, you will have to pay a lot more in gas than if you do 10 shows in a more logical path.

I'm also thinking about trying to find a way programatically to not let users transfer money from corps directly to the organization.. I think I have a fairly simple solution for that which will be implemented next season.

Doing the corps money transfer does give a user more money up front - however it does also come with potentials risks in future seasons.. but I'm hoping with these upcoming changes that it will persuade people to not do that. I'm also open to suggestions!

That all seems very fair.

I'm excited to see how all that actually pans out.