W3C - Game news September 24

1. New War Features in Simcountry

The features as described in this document are related to the introduction of the new war levels and are limited to war levels 1 to 4.
The features will become part of Simcountry by the end of September, possibly the first days of October.

Additional features and levels will be introduced in several stages in the following weeks.

2. Initial Setting of War Levels

All countries and empires will receive an initial war level assigned to them. The initial setting depends on their war experience and the war level assignments will be limited to war levels 1 to 3.

All countries or empires that have won one war will be assigned war level 1. Countries or empires with 3 war winnings on their records will have war level 2 and countries or empires that have recorded 6 war winnings or more will be assigned war level 3.

All other countries and empires, with no war records, will ha

I just added 14 Trillion to my corps and that was in a very small ceo.

You have probably increased cash to 80B in all corporations.
this is great but not really needed.

what will happen is that less cash will move out of these corporations, some will need added cash and it will end up much lower than what you did.

We do not call on everyone to just move cash into corporations.

what about the HLW situation? did it improve from two weeks ago?

Yeah, I 'seem' to be getting things under control, and yeah on GR I have 500K HLW sitting in one of my countries that would have never happened before they would have disappeared. Kewl Fix!

I like all the updates but "You can only attack people your own war level". Ugh.

Sounds great Tom, looks like you covered all of the bases. I have a little concern about the federation aspect but I'll reserve judgment until the system is rolled out and the results can be seen.

Overall, it looks like a very well designed system and I'm looking forward to playing with it.

You can attack higher level players but not beginners. It is explained. At higher levels it is less of a problem.

We also have some concerns although we are quite confident.
we will be on top of it to see how it works and tune it if needed.

Pathetic is the only commentary worth expressing. Everything else is ludicrous.

If I recently acquired a country with a war record will this record be considered in the new war leveling? (Before the new rule change)

Tom I like this concept alot actually, but for clarification, if a person registers, wars 3 c3's as most new players try to do, then they will be level 3? That isn't quite fair to them...

Perhaps including a "war levels do not increase until after day x of your registration" or something? Though I'm sure you've already thought about that.

How about not wasting anyone's time with war levels?

Seems like an easier solution. Remember 3 secured mains, the rest no holds barred? Seems easier too.

I don't like having things changed, without having all the questions answered.

Trial and error trials are ok, but thats like shooting first, then asking questions later. Then you come to find out, you've shot an unarmed victim

How about no worthless C3 decs? Much better idea!

That's part of this Serp, once you reach a war level, you can only take c3's of that war level or above. Once the war levels progress, c3's will become VERY expensive.

Hearing you scream will be worth every penny

The War Level change is a good one...

Thanks, Tom!

I think we should choose are war level. A player fights what 6wars before level 3? At least give a player the option to upgrade. On the main page have it say (your war level) ________ Upgrade to next level (button). That way they can move to the higher levels when they're ready(keep in mind they have to win _____ amount of wars before upgrading). I"m learning the war engine i just started and I've done what 4 C3 wars so far and I'm no where near completing the basics. The first few levels should be some sort of completion and option to upgrade. If i perform 5 C3 wars I'm learning and experimenting which will benefit me more then doing 6battles and calling myself experienced. To balance this so that players cant attack presidents then hide in the lower levels, Give the option once you reach level 6 or YOU declare war on a president you become available to attacks. As a econ president i would want to experiment wit

No, no, no...

To be clear:

The goals this change sets to reach are good and desirable. Necessary, in a matter of fact.

This isn't good. This is bad. This is a pathetic attempt. I mean... look at it! You cut down a head and seven more show up in its-stead!

Honestly, I can only expect this to be removed from the game, as soon as reason prevails. This mishmash is nothing more than trouble.

Honestly, I'm not a big fan of almost any of the things they've come up with, but, in my opinion, they are working with an outdated, flawed engine. I'm pretty sure that W3C isn't willing to invest the kind of money and time that is needed for a real "fix", so we have to accept the band-aids.

This isn't a complaint, it's just a reasonable observation. Keep your expectations low. SC is past its prime. Hopefully they are working on something to changet that, but I doubt it's a very good business investment to throw more money into this.,

I'd rather see something done about the amusing 80B limit for cash withdrawal when corporations are still paying cash into your economy whenever they go over 60B.

80B is unreachable except by going public, building up over 80B and then re-privatizing.

For that matter, I'd love to see this "automatic" transfer of money to a troubled corporation not be introduced. If a corporation is in trouble, I'd rather know about it, not have it drain away resources.

Hmmm. Good Points WD.

I agree BorderC. SC is now outdated and the way it was built and is managed is hurting it big time. Only so long before I cash out my gcs. This god-for-saken level 3 country requirement forces people to play in order to cash out. (absolute BS). But whatever, only a few more days.

You do know cash out is a privilege, right, Dubletar?

The War update as described in the game news will be installed early Monday October 4.