WildEyes Welcome Home Guide (Initial settings and tips for new countries) (Little Upsilon)

There are many different ways to run a country, but many of you know starting out is confusing, and costly if your settings are incorrect. So, here is a guide to what to do with a new country, or your very first country..some may disagree, some may have things to add on to this, either way, it will work when you are new and want to improve your country right from the start

1: MAKE IT HOME:

On your countries homepage click on settings in the right column. first name your country, and change your government type..to however you would run it. though these settings have no effect on the country, it does set it apart from a computer controlled country. while doing this you should also add a president picture (doesnt have to be one of yourself just something unique or to go with the name of the country) and perhaps a flag.

A new country either won in war, or just starting is only a house, these will make them feel a bit more l

Addition/clarification:

When Wildeyes says "and you just make money by having them in your country and the tax off of their output. " this is not limited to the tax rate that you have just set but all CEO corps pay a percentage of their turn over to your country each month as well regardless of your tax rate. This can easily be above a billion dollars a month per corp. So setting a high tax rate only discourages the CEO to build in your country and doesnt do as much for your economy as a low tax rate with more CEOs coming in.

Point #2: Never build ANYTHING that you dont have enough workers to fully staff. Never, really; that can cause you to lose hospitals and schools. Only when you are experienced will you see how the worker numbers change each month and how you can manipulate this to maximise your building ability.

Thanks CC, on point number 2:

If you are not at 100% production (Departments>labor>change professions of some workers if they entire right column is not 0's all the way down, you do not need to build any corps until you're at 100% production..\

RIDE IT OUT! dont go on the GM rollercoaster. By that i mean, wait and see, if a vet gives you advice for settings, like 155Q for ordering for your corps, or 20 points above lower 6 to sell and 95/7 to buy STICK TO IT. only thing you might need to change is your employment setting and YOU deffintly need more then one country, 4 or 5 or more(no point in asking a fed mate, they hardly exist now adays), you need them for your worker exchanges. Everytime the Game master changes somthing, in his own words "Some changes take a while to see and some you see immediately" well how the hell does he know that the immediate changes wont effect the long term as well. What im saying is, at some point when thing get rough, seems they go back to the same setup i been using for 3 years and never once changed, i only need to work on employment now and then. I got 200T in the bank, all my CEO's are swimming in cash, and all my countries are improving(n

homer you clearly missed the point of this thread. lol this is a guide to give new players a good start to building their countries, nothing to do with the GMs.

It sorta is. My advise is just try to ride out the rough times as long as possible and to have a small empire instead of a single country. But as I was writing I started to get a litlle upset, but thats easy to do when the game keeps getting tinkered with.

Bump.

This thread is proof we need the GMs to pin certain threads to the top of the lists.

Great idea. Mining the forums for useful data is starting to seem like work.


Wildeyes, to clarify - when reducing the amount of one particular class , say nurses, when your target number is reached, do you recommend keeping the same overall number or eventually reducing the total priorities to 120? Used your system above, and am working hard to get enough corporations to house all the new workers (struggling even with the booster).

Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated.

Marshal Ney

Does this guide still apply now, or have game changes since then made it obsolete?

Yes this guide is still a great resource for new players!

Hello,

I believe the idea of mining 'old data' is really worth looking into but the this guide is out of date.

The general ideas are still good but the settings are not good anymore. Or at least not in 8 out of 10 situations.

Yeah @Letsie, still worth checking out tho.

Trying to find newer information. It's good to be back.

MNey

Careful with this guide. The numbers are dated with things like salaries, quality, and indexes.

It's a starting point. The Church Manual of Simcountry is also extremely outdated.

so is all of the information above still optimized for the current game. and ps: alot of the people that play this game have degrees in bussniess do you recommend any videos youtube videos or anything to watch to help me with the game also i need advice for ipos and wht affects them

on IPO's here's and old post by Josias

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 05:10 pm Click here to edit this post
for corporations that the market value has increased to high to IPO, (profitable corps that have 2 high a PE ratio,)

here's 2 methods... of course aside from the specifics i say, make your corp as profitable as possible

1. Set tax to 75%, this should lower you MV, once they drop, enough, turn off the tax. the corps profit will multiply by 4, for purposes of determining PE.

2. My preferred method. Give the corp an obvious name change. Then in "automated systems" at the bottom their is a list of corps. Uncheck the box in "automatically sell..." that corresponds to the corps you renamed, (makes them easier to find.) With out selling, the corp will tank, and drop in MV, like the #1 choice, but faster. then when its low enough, put the check back in the box. it will sel

so can you look at my country and tell me what i need to do

"Independent State Of Reden"

when you set strategy should i set it to follow an 200 and deacrease it buy 10 pecent

Is that on Little Upsilon? A veteran with more current playing time would be a better choice for looking at your country's indexes.

no its on GW

Two tips to get started would be to check the docs and look for the article on "welfare index". Welfare index is the key index that is tied to the success of your corps and overall country profitability. Efficiently raising it in a balanced way through other indexes, like education, health, and transportation indexes, is key to maximizing investments to grow your country.

The other thing I would say is important is to review the country and corps of other players. See what they do that works and ask the questions to learn why certain strategies work in regards to country and corporation management.

do back to work schools make more workers for you or are they just for ceos and how do disabled clinics and back to work schools work

also although this is out dated can someone make a new improved message below