Patent Cards

Patent Cards increase the profits of 1 or all businesses by a certain percentage, depending on the level. They have diminishing returns, meaning that each level of the same card adds a smaller bonus than the last. Individual business cards and all profit cards apply multiplicatively with each other, but additively with themselves. For example, if you have a 10x bonus for all businesses from 1 all profit card and a 5x bonus from another all profit card, the total bonus is 15x, but if you have a 10x bonus for all profits and a 5x bonus to one business, all other profits will be multiplied by 10, but that specific business will get a 50x bonus!

Triple cards increase the profit of 2 businesses, (1 of them can be for all profits.) and reduce the cost for buying more of 1 or all businesses. The discount from different triple cards always apply multiplicatively with each other. For example, if you have 5 cards that reduce the cost of a business by 50%, the total bonus will not be 83.333% (5/6) off, it will be 96.875% off.

It is important to get as many patent cards as possible, as everything is balanced with them in mind. If you neglect them, your progress will be very slow in the later areas and the starting prices of businesses will be crazy high.




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