Enjoy (White Giant)

What do you enjoy doing in this game?

Watching my enemies economy fail after getting through their nuke defences

How about you Maestro2000? Apart from making profit ;)

Profits...I enjoy

For me the most interesting thing that I do is giving new names to my countries and corporations ;_;

well that and reading the occasional forum drama...

I'm glad I could be of help Kitsune

Post completely loony nonsense on the forum.

Is the forum drama representing a better part of enjoyment for members a good or bad thing? Is there more room for entertainment IN THE GAME?

Game? What are you talking about? The game is a lie!

CONSPIRACY!!!

guess you people enjoy this message board...

Having players' intelligence insulted when major unannounced, undocumented game changes take place.

The process goes something like this:

1. Player(s) notice something seriously askew that is impacting their performance.

2. Smart player(s) track down and isolate the issue and experiment to determine precisely what is going on.

3. Player(s) post their finding in the forums and start a minor uproar as their discoveries are verified bu others.

This is when the fun starts....

4. W3C starts getting emails about the problem and eventually enters the forums to deny any such changes and point out irrevelancies that imply the player(s) are incompentent idiots.

5. Player(s) respond with documented evidence that conclusively demonstrate the validity of their observations with increasing expressions of frustration.

6. 4 and 5 are repeated with increasingl

Setting up well-organized and well-prepared defense.

I enjoyed organized world wars. I always seem to miss them though the last one I sort of participated was the Monkey war...

I enjoy cyber-sex with BorderC.

Crafty, i'm jealous. That's why i was sneaking up on you. i thought we were an item.

What do you enjoy?

Linebacker six
nice description. slightly one sided.

When players discover that their income is increasing and they make a lot of money.
Then what? you forgot to describe the protocol.

We, like you, make mistakes.
we made many and probably more because we try to have short cycles and react/move quickly.

there might have been cases where a change ended with disagreement about the reasons and results.

in all cases however, when we made an error and found out, with or without help from players, we said so and fixed it quickly.
I know all these cases and how we all here participated.
We have experienced it as a great ride and some bumps and don't forget, it's a game!

I enjoy reading Tom's replays on the board.

mmmmmm... BorderC

Tom is good people. W3C should put him in charge of everything, instead of using him as a human shield when they screw up.

@ Victor, I think my last world war was also the monkey war. yeah, the monkeys didn't like me......

What I truly enjoy, Tom, is the people who play SC.

That would include you folks at W3C. You provide some of the best entertainment.

What continually gets my goat, however, is your, W3C, reactions to player issues.

Of course mistakes are going to happen. Mistakes are not, nor ever have been, the issue.

What is the issue is your, W3C, apparent tendency, at times, to obuscate and not simply make your intentions clear to players when you are tinkering with game mechanics.

My first post was inspired by memories of the fiasco created by the 296 quality cap.

However, let us examine this latest situation arising from your, W3C, tinkering with the Enterprise Tax.

To begin, you, W3C, have made it abundantly clear over the years that levels of money and military are unrealistically high in relation to population, and that you would be gradually reducing them both by assorted means for the forsee

Thanks for your views on our communications.

Tax issues, financial services, corporate size and profitability are all part of the central economic mechanism in Simcountry which is being tuned and re-tuned with the evolution of the game.

Enterprise profitability, country income from enterprises, new players economies etc. are under review from time to time and we may decide to tune the model.

The formulas are very complex and sometimes hard to see if an error was made because the visible effects of the change are in most cases gradual.

when an error is made, we fix it immediately when it is understood. Sometimes it is not obvious.

in the process, it might seem like we are hiding something and the initial reaction on the forum might be wrong.

for example: The recent change in pensions as it is clear now, DID have an influence on the tax income, it took me some digging into our sources to find out.