Andy, John Galt, Lord Mndz,
My biggest problem with the game levels, are that the requirements they have to meet them don't actually lead to making a good nation.
1) Peaceful levels 5 and above require two nations and a CEO. If a player doesn't want to manage multiple countries, and a CEO, they are locked to level 4 maximum no matter how great their nation becomes. It's a hard lock preventing players making "better" rather than "more" countries.
2) The government index requirements, and financial index requirements are high. But there is no Consumption Quality index requirement at all. This means that the only way to reach high levels, is to purposefully over-inflate your indexes to unreasonable levels, and afford it by buying rock bottom quality government products. This causes shortages across markets, and a mis-match between the quality demanded, and the quality of goods produced.
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The high game levels earn you many gold coins and are not needed when you build corporations.
The lower game levels, up to 6 are easy to reach and require some knowledge to achieve the index levels.
These players get an advantage and are able to build some types of corporations others cannot.
you can perfectly live with lower game level and be profitable.
There are different players, different objectives and multiple kinds of advantages, depending on your choice.
the natural materials added another way, independent of game levels.
and btw, not everyone does everything to be able to build an army.
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Anthony King
All worlds
just like me, i cant even build an army so i play peaceful mode.
As I play on FB i suppose that building army and supporting it is my main objective. Maybe i am not the best president for my people but at least they are more or less safe.
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Daniel Iceling
All worlds
Andy,
Game level 4 is easy to reach. Game level 6 is locked behind a requirement to build an empire. Something I have no interest in doing. It would just require me to log in to multiple nations every day, and repeat the exact same processes that I already do with my current one. That would make the game tedious instead of interesting.
That is why even though I even though I meet all the index requirements for game level 9. I'm permanently Game level 4. No empire building = permanent lock on building all Corps in levels 5-6. Which in turn is why the Space industry suffers such extreme long term shortages. Only players that want to build empires are allowed to open them.
Currently there are only 9 players on LU that meet the level 5-6 requirements, and only 5 non GM players that are Game level 6. Not all of them are interested in building and managing space products. So only a handful of players, have to supply the entire shu