W3C - Game News Oct. 5

1. Direct Trading - Service Oriented Products

The direct Trading feature is extended with the trading of all service oriented products.

This group of products was until today only traded on all world markets. The group includes some of the most important products in Simcountry, including Services, High Tech Services and Electric power.

These products cannot be put into a cargo shuttle to be shipped away. Buying these products means in fact, that you are contracting the services to be delivered to your countries or corporations.

They also include sport, recreation, vacation, air transport, etc.

The addition of these products to the direct trading market includes the following functions:

1. You can instantly move products from any of your countries or enterprises to the portal and store these products on your account.
2. You can instantly move products from your account to any of your countries and en

Electric power and air transport are not listed on the direct market today. Will this be coming soon?

Thanks for alerting us. will be fixed tomorrow.

Direct trading:

Will Water maint, Traintrack maint and road maint be added?

How about adding home equipment?

How about adding production plants? (A big ticket item)

How about adding agricultural products?


Hey, I can wish, Can't I?

apparently the update caused a salary slash bug
please fix soon

It seams to me that the five worlds are becoming increasingly integrated, the virtual walls that kept them apart are being brought down. On the face of it there is nothing wrong with this, however Little Upsilon runs at twice the speed of every other world, meaning that any inter-world markets are distorted giving Little Upsilon a disproportionate importance in relation to the other worlds.

Has anyone thought about this and are there any plans in the works to solve this problem or does the gamemaster simply not care.

LU is not the only world on a 6 spin basis.

Perhaps now all worlds should be on a 6 spin basis.

Really? What other world is on a 6 spin basis?

kb=6
fb=6
wg=4
lu=6

gr ?

I like this direct trading board.

I haven't used it yet except for moving products between countries I own.

I'd like it even better if all offers were listed in gamemoney. Then I'd offer trades there.

gr=4

Let's take a look at the first deal on the new direct market board.

10,000,000 units of Cable TV offered by the player Corporate Partner. The price .13GC

So if one GC = 140 billion

then .13 GC = 18.20 billion

18.20billion divided by 10,000,000 units = 1,820 per unit

These units are selling for 1,092 on GR world. That's the highest price of all five worlds as of 5 minutes ago.

Did I do the math right?

Will the average player go through this exercise?

Or

Will they just ignore the direct market section all together because they don't want to do the math?

Me, I want a fast answer. I want to look at the price and make a quick decision. This is a game and not real life. Speed is what I need.

This is part of the problem with space trade. The price isn't listed at a price that's easy to understand by the average player so most ignore the market altogether....me included.

List prices in gamemoney and more people will participate. We can sell the money later on the direct market.

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Speed.

Here is another offer listed:

50,000,000 service units for .67GC

Let's do the math

140 billion * .67 = 93.8 billion

93.8billion divided by 50 million = 1,876 per unit

Did I do this one right?

The highest price for service in the game now is 1,084 on LU world.

Something i wanted to bring up

A player and i where in the chat and we came up with an idea. Right now we can view how much are assets a nation has. Total military assets ECT. any chance we get a total break down

Total military assets - 100T

Offensive forces - 30T
Defensive forces - 65T
strategic forces - 5T

Something like that if you base all your weapons @ base (not market) think it might help the game. Knowing you have 10T in assests is nice but knowing how much in each area would help with planning ect