W3C - Production Plants

Production plants are part of Simcountry from the start but the way they function is probably not well understood.

To setup a corporation, the country where the corporation is built, needs a production plant.

If the country has some on stock, one of them will be used. If there are none, one is ordered automatically.

If there is a shortage of production plants on the market, the ordered production plant may not be delivered. If the shortage in the country is small, 1 or 2 production plants missing, the corporation will be built anyway. If there is a larger shortage, corporation building in the country will stop, pending the delivery of the production plants on order.

Some players are asking us and wonder why the corporations they try to setup are not built, the reason is: lack of production plants.

With enterprises, the situation can be more complex.

When an enterprise is trying to build a corporation in

Thanks for putting that up there. As anyone would suggest. If your world has a shortage of production plants and you plan to increase your country size, it would be smart to manually buy production plants in bulk so that your country has a lasting supply. Even if they're very expensive, you'll need them for your country. Especially if you plan to buy/add population to your country and need lots of corporations to employ them.

Also to add you can not transport plants through space.

Time to build more plants while the demand still exists..

One strategy with production plants is simply to buy low and sell high. A trader could buy them cheap when there are surpluses that depress their price. Then sell them for almost twice the purchase price when shortages raise their price. But it's a very tricky market because surpluses can last for several real months. I believe trading production plants is more profitable than owning production plant corps.

I'm very fond of production plants. A long time ago I was running a racket trying to control the production plant market. I got outed and berated on the forum, and got dragged to the brink of war over the dispute. Good times.

Anyway, trading production plants is a regular rodeo. Only professional cowboys should dare participate. Hold on tight to your saddle.

Let's make Simcountry great again!™

Perfect name, Madoff

Intersting to see the change in production plants available after this thread was started - at least as far as Golden Rainbow is concerned.