W3C - Game News Nov. 25

1. Auto Response Units in your Army

Countries can setup auto response units as part of their army. There are currently two types of auto response units: Stealth Bomber Wings and Mobile Conventional Missiles Units. These units can be used both as active units in attacking your enemy during war and as auto response units that will react to attacks on your country.

The configuration feature for these units is now improved. For both types, you can decide what exactly these units will attack in case they are automatically triggered. You can decide on a sequence of possible targets. The units will try to attack the first target in this sequence. If there is anything it can attack it will execute the attack. If no such targets exist or the weapons of the auto response unit have no effect on that target, the auto response unit will move to the next priority in the sequence and try the same.

All the possible targets are shown when the uni

Andy, would you be so kind and have a look at my thread in Problems section about the forced closure of public corps and tell us your thoughts about this? Thanks in advance

Hi Andy,

I know you are looking at many things, but the profitability of these new mining firms, even fairly well upgraded seem to be out of reach.

I've a 172Q/129E lead firm that is still wildly in the red. The price is going up slowly, but not at a rate that makes profits seem to be on the horizon. There are shortages of lead where this plant is on WG, so I might think that the prices could go up much faster?

Thanks for any checking, tweaking in advance.

+ 1 on both of the above messages. Also include mobile devices and batteries about no profitability.

+1 for perival about the price changes. Wouldn't it benefit the markets and corps if prices change relatively to how far in surplus/demand a product is. Lets say a product is produced by 1bil units per month and there is a surplus of 10bil (1000% months production) units on the market. Shouldnt the price fall faster in that case then if the surplus is merly 1mil(0,1%)? So factoring in the Percentage of surplus/shortage compared to monthly production when the price changes could help on that.

It appears that I was looking at numbers generated from a large several months of sales when I earlier reported profits. My mobile devices test corp is now producing at quality 240 with upgrades at 218 and losing money.

They will put a ceiling on the prices. You just have to wait and see. Fair market? No.

These corporations will produce a profit.
otherwise, I would expect players to dump them for more profitable ones.

Trading without a ceiling will cause prices to go up so high, many other corporations will bankrupt.
You would expect people to start corporations to produce high priced products and by doing so, stabilizing the markets but it does not happen.
hence the ceiling.

If we see this happening in the future, the ceiling could of course be dropped.

Andy, my suggestions isn't about changing the price limits. It's about that it should make a difference if a product is merely in surplus/shortage or if there is severe surplus/shortage. As of now it doesn't matter if, for example, Service is 1B in shortage or only 1. The price change just as fast/slow. So factoring in the % of the monthly production that a product is in surplus/shortage would make the price changes way more realistic.

We think that a price change of 3% 6 times a day is a lot.
very fast price changes will undermine corporations using such products.

also very fast price declines are not welcome.

the pace is quite fast but it gives you some time to decide if it is a real problem and if so, how to solve it.