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Choosing this function will result in finding corporations that produce this product in the common market and setting up contracts for delivery of this product.
Choosing this function will result in finding corporations that produce this product in your own country and setting up contracts for delivery of this product.
Choosing this function will result in finding corporations that produce this product in your own country and in the common market and setting up contracts for delivery of this product.
Choosing this function will result in finding corporations that will deliver raw materials your corporation needs. These corporations will be looked for in corporations located in all members of your common market. There will be no contracts with corporations in your own country or on the international market.
Choosing this function will result in finding corporations that will deliver raw materials your corporation needs. These corporations will be looked for only in your own country or enterprise. There will be no contracts with corporations in the common market or outside the common market.
Choosing this function will result in finding corporations that will deliver raw materials your corporation needs. These corporations will be looked for in your own country or enterprise and in corporations located in all members of your common market. There will be no contracts with corporations on the international market.
Choosing this function will result in finding corporations that will deliver raw materials your corporation needs. These corporations will be looked for in corporations located in all members of your common market. There will be no contracts with corporations in your own country or on the international market. This function will apply to all the corporations.
Choosing this function will result in finding corporations that will deliver raw materials your corporation needs. These corporations will be looked for only in your own country or enterprise. There will be no contracts with corporations in the common market or outside the common market. This function will apply to all the corporations
Choosing this function will result in finding corporations that will deliver raw materials your corporation needs. These corporations will be looked for in your own country or enterprise and in corporations located in all members of your common market. There will be no contracts with corporations on the international market. This function will apply to all the corporations.
These columns allow you to decide per product what the contracting strategy of the country will be. A products can be either skipped which means that no contracts will be closed or all contracts for a products can be cancelled or several other alternatives of closing contracts for the product, either on the local market (own corporations) or with common market partners or both.
When you bid Gold Coins for a population transfer, you can specify in which country you want these people. In case you have an empire, this is a relevant question as you can have transfers into any of the countries in the empire (if the country has more than 100 millions in population, a transfer will not be possible).
This shows the volume of contracts for raw materials for your corporations that are closed with other corporations in your common market. If your corporations already accepted some contracts with corporations in your common market, for delivery of raw materials they need in their production process, the total amount of money that is involved in these contracts is shown here and also the percentage of the total of raw materials they need.
This is the percentage of the production for which a sale contract has been signed already. Ideally, this number will be 100% and the full production will be sold every month.
This shows the total of contracts for raw materials for your corporations. It includes local market contracts, common market contracts and contracts with other corporations, outside your common and local markets.
This shows the volume of contracts for raw materials for your corporations that are closed with corporations on the international market, outside your country or your common market. If your corporations already accepted some contracts with corporations on the international market, for delivery of raw materials they need in their production process, the total amount of money that is involved in these contracts is shown here and also the percentage of the total of raw materials they need.
This shows the volume of contracts for raw materials for your corporations that are closed with other corporations in your own country. If your corporations already accepted some contracts with local corporations, for delivery of raw materials they need in their production process, the total amount of money that is involved in these contracts is shown here and also the percentage of the total of raw materials they need.
The materials account was in the past used to represent cost made for materials (consumption products) used by the population. If the material account is negative, it means that the compensation by the population to the cost of these consumption products was insufficient and government is adding more money to reduce the negative total of the materials account. The material account is not used any more and any contributions by the government are only used to recover past cost. When the material account is closed to zero, it will be removed.
These are students in the second education level. They are 21 to 24 years old. This group will deliver the highest level of professionals and is important for the Industry, hospitals and high tech development.
We recommend that this number of workers, managers and executives should be available. It will allow growth to continue. If the numbers are smaller, look into your education priorities and make corrections.
Your Air Transport Units can use airports that are yours, are owned by a country in your empire, are owned by a federation member or are owned by a president that has granted permission to your units.
Ammunition has a quality that depends on the production process and on the upgrading process that has taken place after the ammunition became a part of the unit. Quality can be upgraded to high levels and the average quality of all the ammunition in the unit is a major factor in the fighting level of the unit and the capability of the ammunition to destroy targets.
Ammunition has a quality that depends on the production process and on the upgrading process that has taken place after the ammunition became a part of the unit. Quality can be upgraded to high levels and the average quality of all the ammunition in the unit is a major factor in the fighting level of the unit and the capability of the ammunition to destroy targets.
This is used to set the requested quality level. Choosing this option, the quality of the products will depend on what is available on the market at the time of trading.
An Asset package can consist of Gold Coins or Game Money and will in the future also include other assets like countries, enterprises and corporations. An asset package is created to allow for trading Simcountry assets outside the game.
The assets of a country include the cash the country has, the value of all state owned corporations and the value of the shares the country owns in its public corporations. Debts are subtracted from the total and given loans are added.
The assets index is a measure for the value of assets in the country. The index can be very high in very rich countries. The index depends on the value in cash plus the value of all the loans given to others, less the sum of the loans taken by the country. The index is increased by the value of all the corporations owned by the country.
Automatic cash transfers take place when corporations have too much or too little cash. Excess cash is then transferred to the owner. The owner of a state or national corporation is the state and the cash is paid to the state and shows here. If the corporation is short of cash, automatic cash transfers could be activated, moving cash from the owner to the corporation.
A player might not to log in for some time. If the country is attacked the automatic defense will be triggered and protect the country as good as possible with the available weapons. The player will receive a message and can set up war notifications.
Hiring levels in corporations can be set automatically. The level depends on the success of the corporation in selling its products and the settings of the production level for the following months. The hiring level will increase if the corporation is successful and tries to increase production. The hiring level is limited to less than 10% change per game month. It will always be a number (percentage) between 0 and 100%.
It is possible to set a target for salaries in corporations. Salaries can change by several percentage points per game month but you may want to set the salaries in some corporation to 200 while the current value is 110. Instead of manually increasing the salaries by several points each game month, it is possible to set a target salary per corporation and the changes will gradually take place each game month until they reach the target level. Set the targets for all corporations and click the "Set Salary Changes" button that follows the last corporation on the page. It is also possible to set a target for all corporations at once. The function is at the bottom of the page.
It is possible to make the ordering of efficiency upgrades automatic. In that case, upgrades will be ordered and when they are delivered, more upgrades will be ordered and the process will continue automatically until the corporation has reached the maximum upgrade level of 100 or the automatic function has been turned off. As upgrades come at a very high cost, the automatic procedure may lead to new loans and even bankruptcy. If you want to upgrade all corporations automatically, you can use the function at the bottom of the page that sets this feature for all corporations.
It is possible to make the ordering of quality upgrades automatic. In that case, upgrades will be ordered and when they are delivered, more upgrades will be ordered and the process will continue automatically until the corporation has reached the maximum upgrade level of 100 or the automatic function has been turned off. As upgrades come at a very high cost, the automatic procedure may lead to new loans and even bankruptcy. If you want to upgrade all corporations automatically, you can use the function at the bottom of the page that sets this feature for all corporations.
The auto box, if checked, allows the system to decide on the production level in the corporation in the next month. The level depends on the sale of products in the past month and on the success of the corporation in selling all it products. The actual production level is also shown and it depends on the previous level (production levels cannot change very fast as it is not realistic in real corporations), it also depends on the availability of workers and raw materials that are needed in the production process.
If this option is chosen, salaries in corporations will be updated automatically, depending on how the corporation is doing. If the corporations is making losses, salaries will decline. If it is profitable or if workers are very hard to get, salaries will increase.
This is the number of salary boosters that are available now. Salary boosters can be used to change salaries by 20% in a game month instead of 5% which is the standard change limit per game month.
This is a special booster that will boost a single corporation to the maximum available upgrading level. State corporations, private corporations and public corporations with a level of ownership of up to 25% have different top levels upgrading. The booster will increase the level to the max possible, depending on the type of the corporation.
This is the number of upgrades that are available now and can be used to boost your corporation. Each upgrade will boost the corporation up one point. It can be used for efficiency upgrading or for quality upgrading. Higher quality and efficiency will improve the corporation's sale price for its products and reduce the cost of labor.
This is the average age of people in the country. It depends mainly on the health system. Life expectancy and average age will decline if the health system is failing.
This is the average percentage of hiring in the corporations. If all corporations hire at 100% capacity, the average will be 100. A high average shows that the corporations in the enterprise are doing well.
This is the average value of a home in the country. Homes are being built all the time and the value of existing homes is increasing in time. This of course if the economy is growing and people have the money to buy new homes. If the economy is in bad shape, value of homes may decline. The home building business is under developed in the game and more features will be added in the future. The cost of housing which is paid by each family is collected each month and invested in construction. It means that we assume that the cost paid for mortgage in the country is about the same as the investment in new construction and maintenance of the existing homes.
This is the average of the price earning ration for all the corporations owned by the enterprise. A low price earning ratio shows that corporations are making a good profit. If the average for the enterprise is low, it means that the enterprise is thriving. Watch the graph for average price earning ration and try to get it lower by working on the quality and sales of your enterprises.
This is the average production level in all the corporations in the enterprise. It depends on the availability of materials and workers in the corporations and also on the productivity levels.
This is a measure for the productivity of a corporation. All corporation start with a productivity index of 100. If you upgrade the efficiency of the corporation, it will become more effective. Efficiency meant that it will make the same product quantity and quality but will use a smaller number of people. It will use more high tech services and more high tech executives. The workforce will however be reduced.
This is the average quality of the products made by the corporations in the enterprise. The higher the quality, the easier it will be to sell the products on the market and receive a good price.
This is the average salary paid to workers in the enterprise. If corporations are doing well and make profits, salaries increase and workers are happy. Salaries should not be too high but a nice increase in time is a good sign.
This is the average salary of workers across all the corporations in the enterprise. It is a good measure of the level of salaries. If the enterprise is making a profit, salaries will increase.
This is the average price of all shares in all the corporations owned by the enterprise. Share prices go up if the corporations are successful and the average is a good measure of how the enterprise is doing. Good profits will lead to higher share prices.
This is the average use of production facilities in the enterprise in the last month. If all the corporations in the enterprise work at full capacity, the utilization level is 100%. When the utilization level is at 80%, it means that many corporations work under their full capacity and production may increase if they succeed in selling their products or hire all the workers they need.
This is the average level of welfare in the corporations of the enterprise. The welfare depends on the salary levels but also on many other factors in the country where the corporations reside. Different corporations reside in different countries and the welfare of their workers depends on the conditions in these countries.
This is the amount of money that is calculated as an award to the winners. The first prize is higher than all others, followed by several second level awards and more lower level awards. The amount of the awards and the number of awards to be paid, may depend on the number of players but was recently fixed on most worlds. The more people who play, the larger the number of awards. Awards will be paid once a month or otherwise as published on the site.