W3C - Game News - August 21

Defense weapons

The base price of many defense weapons is now reduced a bit.
The real price depends on the market but the maximum price follows the decline of the base price.

Space product pricing is also declining.

Also the space industry pricing is reduced a bit. This will also reduce the chash problem in these corporations although the decline is small.
We will introduce further reductions in the coming months.

Shuttle components are now traded on the world markets.

The trading of shuttle components is opened on the markets on all the worlds.
The space industry requires many corporations to support one that produced cargo shuttles.
Trading these components on the market will make it a little easier.

Nuclear weapons pricing is reduced

This reduction too, will make it easier to build and finance such corporations.
The introduction of Strategic weapons maintenance pro

The appears to be a new cap of country cash, set at $1000 Trillion. If you had more than that in your country, your funds were lost. If this happened to you, check your asset history to get an idea of lost funds and email the gamemaster, as I have.

I appreciate the reduction of cities. Is a 10-15% decline enough for large countries? Large countries have hundreds of cities, each presenting a target for strategic weapons. Players who wish or must leave game protections on FB might find this new environment unsettling and the duty of providing for their own defense immense.

On the population purchase change, I don't mind the current change but what is the thinking behind it? How low may that number go? Also, is there any plans to change natural population growth? My initial thoughts are that the idea is that the world is setup in a way to discourage one player to have a large number of countries. This is enforced through several malice s

Jonni,

Thank you very much, this is greatly welcomed news and I for one love the changes! Thanks for keeping us in the loop and I look forward to the changes to the war game

We indeed forgot to mention that change in the max cash.
We did not think there are individual countries with such high cash amounts.

One player mailed us, others are welcome but:

we have the previous numbers.
we will return the lost cash but this is a one time fix.

we request you to move cash to the game account and reduce amounts in the countries to under 1000T.
seems like a non problem for most.

The population growth process (or decline) is unchanged.
The max of 300M is now harder to reach and we would like to take it even lower.

We think that a smaller number of cities will make it easier for everyone. small countries will also see smaller numbers of cities but it will probably not decline under 20 cities of each type.

if you see something weird please let us know.

We expect another update next week, possibly with the first war related update.

The increase

More details were not mentions:

A small change in the computation of the health and education indexes (will also apply later to some other indexes), make them decline a bit in countries where their values are very high.

The decline is small.

We have also introduced reductions to absurd numbers of hospitals, schools, universities and such if the index value is at levels that cause damage to the country.

Having the university index at a level of 4000 while the school indexes are at 200 costs a lot of money and has no positive effect on anything.

Andy,

A recommendation to the GM if I may?

Lately its shown that the GM wants robotics to become an important product in the game in terms of corporation efficiency.
However, if you look on the worlds even the highest value corporations show very little or negative profits when producing them. I had several of them but they where money pits either costing me money or making far less then other corporations.
It seems that its nothing to do with sales price or the production levels but the overall consumption of products. Most corporations the cost of raw materials sits at about 50% of the total cost to produce the goods(others being salaries, ect). If you look they all sit at 80% or higher which is the reason I believe the corporations make such little money. If anything I would suggest a reduction of the goods needed to produce them.
Just a though something like 10% would reduce costs by a few billion per year making

These corporations should be very profitable.
They have a large turnover and should make profits comparable to electric motors or Displays.

I will look into it.

The larger the corporations, the more they benefit from upgrades.

cargo shuttle corporations, the largest, are losers without upgrades and make very large profits when fully upgraded.

Thanks for these updates. Regarding the reduction of the amount of cities, how about counties and towns? You can reduce clutter even further by decreasing the amount of counties and towns. It would be very helpful to consolidate some of their population.

All types of cities, towns and counties are included in the process.
All of them will reduce 10-15% in this round.

This is in fact ongoing right now, at a slow pace.