W3C - Game News May 15, 2012

1. Game Levels requirements and game level awards

Many changes are taking place in the requirements for game levels. Some are connected to the upcoming game level tutorial that will allow new players to move up to game level 2 very easily while explaining what needs to be done.

Other changes are aimed at making game levels differ more from one to another and in the process, increase the number of gold coins that can be obtained with each game level. Larger numbers of gold coins are now awarded for most game levels.

The cash requirement and population requirement have been increased slightly for the lower levels and more for the higher game levels.

The defensive index requirement is increasing in the process of phasing it out. Reaching higher game levels, now depends on either reaching the required war level or achieving the defensive index requirements.
The defense index level is now a separate requirement for reach

Hey, why didn't you publish that you raised the minimum population for transferring population between countries was raised again by a whole 10M from 35 to 45? Some of us actually use that feature.

Great news on the Ceo front. Been a long time coming that feature. Congrats.

Security council untied grant down from 5T to 4T and now 2T.

That just seems a mean move. As you say, there is a large fund in all Security councils coffers. 4T stilll doesn't go a long way, a newb can rack that up in debt alone quite quickly. And now only 2T? Thats just miserly and completely unnecessary.

And I have been reading all about how you wish to make it easier for new players.

Yes the CEO front was a big plus , I like the feature alot but Andy do you think you can add a page where it will show all the eligable corps that can be IPOed. This would reall help alot, any feature than takes less time to do and makes things less annoying realy help. Overall andy nice update.

The purchasing power of 2T now is much larger than 4T did when product pricing, weapons and ammunition were 3 or 4 time more expensive.
Also the contributions to the fund should decline to follow the lower income and cost in the game.
It seems that it is very hard to understand the fact that all numbers have declined. countries now spend 60B where they used to spend 300B.

Beginner countries are now doing quite good. very profitable, low cost and profitable corporations.
This is not new but has improved considerably in the past weeks.
There are very few countries making losses in all the worlds (last count was 460, an average of less than 100 per world) and nearly all of them are part of a profitable empires, and are used to build the army.

A new tutorial helps beginners to move to game level 2 very quickly and will help noobs to improve their position even further.

They also receive additional population a

I can understand that Andy.

I just dont really see why it needs to be reduced, its hardly a large amount in the grand scale of things. But the 2T is a lot of help to a newb.

Meh, I guess it wont make a lot of difference to anyone.

The rest of the announcements sound good to me.

Hmm.. why was my post deleted?

I'll ask the question again slightly rephrased in case the last one offended....
is the raising of the population restriction for population transfers a prelude to implementing the same penalty that applies to population sales? If not I would like to see this limit lowered.

Love the feature to find a country for relocating ceo's though

The CEO relocating feature is great!!

Why did my game level for my empire on KB just fall from level 7 to level 3? I qualify for everything except defense index (lots of stuff in reserves) but i am war level 4 which is high enough for game level 7. Did the settings/requirements change?

I have the exact same problem as Tom. Dropped from Game Level 6 to Game Level 1, on both Peaceful and Include Defense.

All my countries qualify for everything. This happened in the space of me watching a film and I only realized when I could no longer build a Level 5 Corp.

I've clicked to change to both Peaceful and In Defense and both say "Congratulations. It seems like you meet the requirements for Game Level 2.
You will move to Level 2 within several hours."

Hey guys,

Please check the index page and find out exactly what it says you need.
Please read the game news of today.

I don't know how to post it here without it all messing up. I have Green Ticks for everything that needs a Green Tick, and no Red X's.

Please feel free to take a look Andy, Opinio on WG.

Oh, here are my main Indexes actually. You can't tell me that based on today's changes I've gone from Game Level 6 to Game Level 1?

Population 134,078,776
Finance 155.67
Education 182.76
Employment 96.79
Health 118.97
Social Security 141.02
Transportation 157.82
Business 111.59
War Situation Index 50.00

Andy, this is ridiculous. Nothing has changed with my indexes- I have been at Level 7 for months now. Suddenly, I'm required to take my defense out of 'sleep mode' so I can remain at that level? Why can't war levels remain as an alternative to defense index
Taking my defense out of reserves will cost my economy, which is why reserves should count towards the overall index.

Overall, a good update, but a fairly redundant war level/defence index tweak if you ask me.

My game level dropped aswell from 2 to 1. I've had this message for 2 months now without change.

"Congratulations. It seems like you meet the requirements for Game Level 2.
You will move to Level 2 within several hours"

My indexes are way above whats needed.

We will check this today.

Thanks Andy.

I've only just gone up to Game Level 2, now waiting with the "Congratulations. It seems like you meet the requirements for Game Level 3.
You will move to Level 3 within several hours." message. Definitely seems like something has gone wrong.

recent changes related to the new tutorial introduced a small problem for players in game level 2 who sold their weapons and reduced the defensive index and brought it close to zero.
This problem is being solved now. Also a problem with the required level of the defense index.
The defense index is a requirement in addition to the war level. The defense index requirement is now being reduced.

both changes will be installed in the coming hour or two.

Thanks a lot for the quick resolution Andy.

Also, for Game Levels, do the system use the Value of the Leader or the Average of the Empire?

Please check the index page.
It states clearly that the average on the index in the empire counts. It even show the index in the specific country, the average and the required index for the next game level.