W3C - Game News August 14, 2024

World Trading

Targon, Metadium and Baradium are now trading on the world markets in the i
5 main worlds. There is not much trading to speak of for now, but when materials become available on Tiny Atlas and are transported to the 5 worlds, trading will be possible.

Immediate Trading

To make immediate trading possible, the Gamemaster is delivering the ordered products and then orders the products on the market. The products are then delivered back to the gamemaster in the following hours and the product accounting remains neutral, meaning that the GM does not add products to the market.

Many products however, are hard to recover and the immediate delivery is becoming a feature that enables deliveries that should in fact not take place. We have already stopped immediate orders for Wind Turbines and Wind Farms.

we are now stopping the immediate trading for some raw materials. These materials must be ordered and

On this topic, I have the Simcountry Notifications on for Game News, and I'm neither getting the e-mail or the in-game message.

You should be careful with natural resources, a non premium player auto assigned a quiet world can get buried as many level 1 corps require natural resources and there are extreme shortages.

There are several ways you could address this:

-Reduce the number of worlds concentrating the player base, this will also encourage greater player interaction which encourages players to play longer. Note I rarely saw corps run short of resources on White Giant, the market was in shortage but turning over fast enough, on Kiebler Blue its bad.

-Rework the corp level system to have less resource dependent corps at level 1, and more easier to supply corps there.

-Not make such a change to immediate orders, though even being able to immediately order still leaves a difficult learning curve for a new player.

Leonard,

I will have someone test it.
Thanks.

Clicks,

I am ordering many natural resources on the 5 worlds and get them. No immediate orders.
I am not checking immediately but rather the next day and it is all delivered.

I do not think new players use immediate orders.
Last time I checked click statistics they did not. it was a long time ago.

we will check the info to new players, advising them to build natural resources corporations.

New players have in most cases enough corporations.

tweaking the education is a challenge.
getting all of them to 100% hiring and production is another challenge.

Immediate orders became a way to get materials independent of market situation and especially for those who do not care about the cost.
For those who do not use immediate orders, the delivery time becomes longer.

Andy,

"we will check the info to new players, advising them to build natural resources corporations. "

They must be premium to build resource corps, while I get incentivizing them to move to premium is important, if resources are an issue within first 5 days and their economy starts collapsing they will not make the switch no matter the game master provided advice.

True. No need to push them to build corporations that require full membership.

But as I mentioned, in most cases, these countries that were C3s before, already built all they could.

But again,
I do not think immediate orders are a big issue and certainly not for beginners.

I've noticed that new corporations do not order Robotics properly in the first few months. Not sure what this about. You create a new corp, and it takes a month to get its first round of supplies, and then it never orders more Robotics. I have to go in and specifically place an immediate order to stop it from running out. Why its only robotics not sure. Maybe because it's a different amount each month as the efficiency goes up???

When taking over a country, immediate orders are absolutely necessary to right the ship. More often than not the former C3 corps are missing products and production is stopped. Given it takes two-three months to get contracts working (something I never quite understood), losing immediate orders will definitely have an impact. (maybe change the order of the calculations so that it checks for new orders to stockpile before it throws that months inventory on the market, that way it can handle the new orde

I would like to look into the robotics problem.
what is the name of the world, country and corporations where it happened?

There are high shortages of natural resources while there are so many countries with more than 100 such resources.
I really hope more players would produce these materials.

We have now increased production in some corporations to try to reduce shortages.
the strategy already had some good results.

we keep increasing the production, including some tuning in the last upgrade.
there will be more.

There is no intention to stop immediate orders all together.
most products can be ordered with immediate orders.

Andy,

Many players would develop more resource corps but they'll use their all their countries available resources, and during that time used tremendous effort building the country, and gotten their empire to a size they find bigger is not manageable, that leaves them the only option of either abandoning countries to replace them with resource heavy countries, or not make more resource corps.

Enterprise only allows resource corps until 100 corps, so most advanced players enterprises end up too large to keep building resource corps, which was the original intent, offer resources to get them profitable then move on.

This has multiple options for solutions:

Allow more enterprise resource corps

Improve game efficiency so less clicks are needed to build a nation (past few years have been the opposite of this) so people are less attached to their countries.

Have C3 nations build resource corps