[krisoft]

I don't really understand what makes subsequent clip factories more expensive. In the first stage, yeah I understand why production units were getting more expensive. Some puny human was shortchanging me, that's why. That's why I enslaved them. But what in-game explanation is there for making the factories more and more expensive later?

[voidmain]

Supply curves are a real phenomenon, even for us paperclip maximizers. For example: you built the first factory in the most convenient spot, out of the best possible materials. You have to ship materials farther, build more transportation and energy infrastructure, build more protection against environmental hazards, etc to build the billionth factory. And you have run out of the best materials, so you have to use more expensive substitutes.

[akvadrako]

Maybe you need to buy more land or pay more for the resources you are making scarce.

[foxhop]

entropy