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James the Fair
All worlds
19 Oct 2014 18:20Link
New idea for the Common market
I think if you are a member of a common market, a 'private trading income' for your country should now be introduced to the game to reflect the amount of private trading there is between your citizens in your country and all the other member countries that are in that common market. The 'private trading' income would be shown in the 'profit and loss' section in the financial index page. This I thought, would give a boost to all countries in the game and would benefit everybody, particularly the small population countries. Especially at a time when earning large amounts of cash from C3 wars is going to be a thing of the past. My idea would work like this....
Each 1M population generates 1B SC$ per game month for example
If the total population of 10 countries in a common market totals at 300M, this means that a total private trading income would total at 300B SC$ per game month
I think if you are a member of a common market, a 'private trading income' for your country should now be introduced to the game to reflect the amount of private trading there is between your citizens in your country and all the other member countries that are in that common market. The 'private trading' income would be shown in the 'profit and loss' section in the financial index page. This I thought, would give a boost to all countries in the game and would benefit everybody, particularly the small population countries. Especially at a time when earning large amounts of cash from C3 wars is going to be a thing of the past. My idea would work like this....
Each 1M population generates 1B SC$ per game month for example
If the total population of 10 countries in a common market totals at 300M, this means that a total private trading income would total at 300B SC$ per game month
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Aries
All worlds
19 Oct 2014 18:59Link
The common market change is a problem for several reasons.
1. It is essentially free money. Given the stance by the GM on this, see the change in interest payments in IFs, this could be a deal-breaker all its own.
2. It is a whole lot of free money and it makes the rich richer. I already have a common market consisting only of my countries on LU. If I mirrored the setup on FB I would earn $1.6 Trillion/month in additional income between those two worlds. This would essentially double my, already significant, country income.
Note: I would have no incentive to invite anyone to my common market that has a population of less than my average.
See Battlegrounds. I think it is a much more valid successor to unlimited C3 raiding.
On the secured mode change, I would leave it how it is now. It is an important tool to prevent elimination, on non-war worlds, when you are small. Those same players cannot afford an expe
1. It is essentially free money. Given the stance by the GM on this, see the change in interest payments in IFs, this could be a deal-breaker all its own.
2. It is a whole lot of free money and it makes the rich richer. I already have a common market consisting only of my countries on LU. If I mirrored the setup on FB I would earn $1.6 Trillion/month in additional income between those two worlds. This would essentially double my, already significant, country income.
Note: I would have no incentive to invite anyone to my common market that has a population of less than my average.
See Battlegrounds. I think it is a much more valid successor to unlimited C3 raiding.
On the secured mode change, I would leave it how it is now. It is an important tool to prevent elimination, on non-war worlds, when you are small. Those same players cannot afford an expe
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James the Fair
All worlds
20 Oct 2014 15:47Link
Well actually my 2 ideas were really meant to support each other in a way where the income from the common market would pay for the protection bill.
However I see nothing wrong with receiving of what you call "free money" that is in a way supposed to represent the amount of private trading there is between your citizens and theirs. But I do see your point since indeed it would make the rich grow even richer, which will create an even more serious problem than what it is now. Unless the GMs of course might decide to put a maximum cash limit on all countries in the game which could balance things out a bit.
My idea of secured mode, is to make it fit in more realistically into the game, besides being magically protected by literally nobody.
However I see nothing wrong with receiving of what you call "free money" that is in a way supposed to represent the amount of private trading there is between your citizens and theirs. But I do see your point since indeed it would make the rich grow even richer, which will create an even more serious problem than what it is now. Unless the GMs of course might decide to put a maximum cash limit on all countries in the game which could balance things out a bit.
My idea of secured mode, is to make it fit in more realistically into the game, besides being magically protected by literally nobody.
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jacksonz_24
All worlds
04 Feb 2015 22:54Link
i kind of like the idea
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Jonni Gil
All worlds
10 Feb 2015 16:02Link
I tend to agree with aries.
Collecting data about the common market is a good idea. we do some of it and there is an index measuring the percentage of trade in such contracts but it is not a very important one.
It will be a lot of work to improve the function and we probably have many ideas on our suggestions list that will improve Simcountry even more.
Secured mode should stay as it is.
It is a very important feature for players and they want to be 100% sure it is always there.
I would not like to make them pay for it.
Collecting data about the common market is a good idea. we do some of it and there is an index measuring the percentage of trade in such contracts but it is not a very important one.
It will be a lot of work to improve the function and we probably have many ideas on our suggestions list that will improve Simcountry even more.
Secured mode should stay as it is.
It is a very important feature for players and they want to be 100% sure it is always there.
I would not like to make them pay for it.