W3C - Game News October 3, 2023

Wind farms

The way income from wind farms is showing on the financial pages is updated.
In recent days, income from windfarms served to reduce government cost. It caused problems on the income/cost of the country and in the computation of the financial index.

We have now added a line into the financial report, showing the income from wind farms separately.

Government cost does not include the income from wind farms any more.
The maintenance cost of wind farms remains part of government cost.
We might update it in the near future and show the maintenance cost of wind farms separately.
The computation of the financial index is corrected.

Wind Farm contarcts with the country where they reside

A major problem with wind farms contracts delivering their products to the country where they reside is resolved.
Due to an error, new wind farms were not delivered to the country but instead, sold on the

I don't see it listed in your notes here, but additional change noticed between 8 hours ago and now:

Base monthly production of Wind Turbines corporations has reduced from 23 to 20.

Monthly supply consumption for Wind Turbines in Wind Farm corporations has increased from 25 to 30.

To use an example of the change, I have a country with 850 Wind Farms and 27 Wind Farm corps. At 100% production the country needs 67 Wind Turbine corporations to be supply stable for Wind Turbines. This morning, with no other changes to production considered, the requirement is now 84 Wind Turbine Corporations.

I'll be the first to admit this country is a bit of an extreme situation. At the same time all of these numbers had to be mined based on in game experience rather than update notes. The notes have said for a long time that there is an attempt to help the game's perpetual issue with shortages. This update actually works t

Also seemingly minor issue that becomes larger as the player grows where the Financial Index with Wind Farms is concerned. If the intent is to have the index balance out between the cost of Wind Farms/Turbines and the expense of them, it currently is falling short.

The income generated is based on market value Electric Power without any quality considerations. That is significant when held against electric power as a cost for the government having quality considered. For example I don't know the exact monthly power consumption of hospitals, but I know I have observed a meaningful increase in Health costs as the quality of my Electric Power has increased.

Since Finance Index matters in many areas of the game, most meaningfully in being a benchmark for Game Level requirements, it should stand to reason that if Wind Farms and everything about them are going to be a part of the index it should paint the whole picture. Either have t

There are changes in corporations from day one.
these changes are very small most of the time and they will keep coming.

we have increases hiring in corporations, we have increased the profitability of corporations, many times, over and over until they more than trippled.
i do not remeber any complaints about it.

we have created huge possibilities for very high profits by the imtroduction of wind farms.
I don't remember anyone saying that these profits are overdone.

we are adding features and will keep adding features.

I don't understand what the problem is on TA.

we added one time, one game month on TA in the past hours because we suspected an error.
It was not an error but TA ended up running one extra month.

TA skipped several game months in the past weeks due to start difficulties with a world with low numbers of population.
never heard anything from anyone.

As t

Recent changes in the wind farms corporations may present an uptik in the need for raw materials but many other updates are reducing the need for such materials and as I said before, shortages are falling.
you can take one detail and draw conclusions but the numbers do not add up and the conclusion is wrong.

Building your own wind turbine corporations is probably essential and again, if you are not interested, leave that new energy market. it requires changes in your industry, economy. it requires large investments and if you think they are not profitable, do not do it.

I understand that you have to defend the work you do, dealing with criticism is an unfortunate reality that you have to deal with as a business owner. When mine started I had plenty of direct customer interaction that at times could be contentious l, which is why I try to remain relatively calm and polite with you.

A lot of your response unfortunately falls flat. Calling back on a ‘we made this change at this time and didn’t get any complaints’ is a hollow response. With so many of the changes to the game happening in the dark, there are many that I would assume people just don’t notice and chalk up to changes in country situation. I know I personally don’t realize the changes in multiple corp supply consumptions and outputs until I notice my spreadsheet that I maintain no longer adds up and I go through it finding what I have written down to compare to the games current status. Players s

Thanks for fixing the Wind Farms Contract issue.
Keep it up ^^

"Costs of maintenance

The cost of maintenance, both for government facilities and for the army have declined recently and will continue to decline with the current upgrade.
The actual cost also depends on the cost of products on the market but the long term trend is dwnward.

Shortages

Shortages continue on all worlds and many products show short supplies.
The situation is however improved and may improve further in the coming game months.
Shortages are not about to disappear but may become smaller. The process takes some time to materialize but the long term trend is for more balance on the market. "



I think your cost of defensive weapons maintenance cuts have gone too far or the corps need a re-balancing on supplies as the price cap cut has pushed them unprofitable. Defensive weapons maintenance is fairly difficult to manage due to market difficulties in their supplies which requires lots o

Every reduction in the cost of maintenance was compensated by either a reduction in the materials used, or an increase in the number of products produced each month or both.

we kept all corporations withing the earning model they had before.

there is a gradual decline in the total size. this time less than 3%.
the reason for that is that these are very very large corporations that, as we discovered, are more difficult to keep stable.
by slightly reducing the size while keeping the earning capabilities we improve their stability.
It can fluctuate but should remain very profitable.

if you have examples to the contrary, please give me the details and I will look into it.

The earning model for these corporations has an expected profit level which is nearly 2 x higher than what is expected for a high tech services corporation.
This is at full production and can decline quickly if production is reduced.