W3C - Game news November 16, 2024

1. New Products added to Simcountry

Three new products are added to Simcountry, the products are Electric Cars, Electric Cars Batteries and Car Parts. The products are increasing the weight of the car industry that was until now limited.

2. Car Parts

Car parts will be used in all types of cars and trucks. Until now, there were cars and trucks. we are now adding electric cars and will soon add electric trucks.

Car Parts can be produced in all worlds. Their use is very limited at this time, to allow some time for the creation of new corporations.

3. Electric Cars Batteries

Electric Cars Batteries will be used in electric cars and later in electric trucks. The production process of Car batteries is using Silver. Each car battery, that can be used to power an electric car, will contain one KG of Silver (about 2 pounds).

4. Electric Cars

Electric cars are now part of the game. Elect

Nice.

I notice none of the new corporations use baradium. What is the plan for this product?

In addition,
many new natural resources were discovered recently and added to countries on Tiny Atlas.

Some of the discovered resources were not available on TA before.

Baradium will be used in two products that are linked to the electric car and truck industry.

The next upgrade will include these products.

Metadium is now being used in the electric car industry and it is also used in the production of Baradium.

Andy,

Demand for Silver on Little Upsilon currently (Jan 5253, game date) outstrips supply by nearly 1,000 to 1. Demand 8,573,056. Supply 8,640. With only 68 Corporations producing Silver on the planet.

Most active players don't have Silver deposits left in their countries, and as such, cannot setup new Silver mines. The shortage has gotten so severe that many corporations that use Silver can no longer produce goods.

Considering you are planning to add additional Silver demand from new products, we need an increase to the availability of Silver deposits, or an increase in how much silver each mine produces, or a reduction in how much Silver each Corporation needs to operate, otherwise the shortages will only get worse.

Little upsilon has over 3000 countries without a president.

There isn't a shortage of silver, there's an entitlement attitude.

David,

hymy is right.
you can get as much silver as you need in these Countries.

also, Tiny Atlas has Silver deposits in almost all countries.
Producing it requires smaller number of workers.

The alternative is to stay away from industries that use silver.
There are not many such industries and there are plenty of other products to produce.

Andy,

I was more concerned that the shortage of silver was going to create shortages in the goods that require it, which would create shortages of goods that use those goods as inputs, and so on, eventually causing supply indexes to fall, damaging the functionality of the whole game economy.

It hasn't cascaded that far yet, but the shortage is worsening. I wanted to bring the situation to everyone's attention before it gets out of control.

I understand your concern.

we had such situations many times before.
It never crushed the market in a serious way.

Silver has a limited use and it is already coming in from TA.

Andy,

If I can make a suggestion on a needed fix by the GM?

As a long time player one issue I have noticed over the years is that when issues like this happen it is due to "excessive buying" buy corporations because of the games mechanics.

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I encourage you to look at any of the hundreds of corporations that cannot produce because of the lack of silver.
Nearly all of them have outstanding orders for 1200-1300 units of silver.
Based that the corps only use 20 units a month, this means they are trying to purchase 65 months of supplies. This goes into a key point I will discuss below.

(Below link is an example of this over buying)
https://sim05.simcountry.com/cgi-bin/cgiw?ccorptrade&miCorpNumber=3464549

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What ends up happening is the when the game cannot buy resources, so when it hit's a low point orders more res

Everything SuperSoldier says above is true, I'm pretty sure the GM is also aware of this.

It's interesting, because in the earliest days, this didn't happen. It's something, that I'm pretty sure started after 2008. But I could be wrong.

I believe that fixing it would smooth out these wild swings in the market, but I'm not sure it's a silver bullet for all supply problems, or the ultimate problem itself.

SuperSoldierRCP,

The mechanism you are talking about helps keep markets functioning.

When there is a large shortage on the global market (many more buy orders than sell orders), the game automatically adds a percentage of that shortage for sale (making goods out of thin air to help reduce the shortage).

By having corporations keep ordering the goods they can't buy, over and over, it makes the global market imbalance appear larger, which causes market balance mechanism to create more goods.

It's counter-intuitive, but it helps the game balance itself.

Supersoldier,

We will look into repeat orders that can cumulate.
If there is a problem we will fix it but it will not diminish the shortages.

Corporation limits are 120 month supplies.

Reducing the number of months will require players to babysit the corporations with much more clicking.
It will be an effort to reduce the storage on the market but will do nothing to resolve the shortages in production.

Silver is one of the products that will be purchased by countries, many times from their own corporations and they will supply all their corporations need for silver, with a single click, up to the level of 120 months supply.
This is very efficient and reduces clicking.
This is the way players supply their corporations on TA.

The large orders for Silver are by countries that are buying the product and store it. Corporations have a limit of 120 months. Countries don't.

they purchase muc