Suggestions for the GM

get rid of free player country limit
get rid of limit on number of corps an enterprise can have in a single country (you can bypass it anyways but still its dumb)
no war levels
stop messing with market prices it limits the potential of corporations that have deficits but doesnt really help corps with surpluses ethier and it makes the game less realistic obviously
dare i say trains?

@dixon,
the game doc is no where even close to as good as those guides by the players, such as wildeyes, scarlet, etc

i may have to develop the intellect to play this game then, my american university education seems to be useless.

in this game, you (player) run everything so you can't blamed on anyone else.

perhaps this game needs a how to convert free players to premium players, i've yet to see the incentives in that

guides like wildeyes tells you EXACTLY what to do. That's no fun at all.

Trains? TRAINS?

You say TRAINS!

Heresy Gunther. You should sacrifice 3 virgin goats to the Sim gods.

All aboard the train craze! Tchoo tchoooo!

yea there is plenty of ingame doc to get a decent grasp on whats going on. You can get some holes filled in by just asking a vet. Then yea if you just want to know step by step use Wildeyes' guide, but thats not too fun.

Bring back unilateral aid from player to player

Trains....man, that brings back memories, lol.

this game is costing to much to do anything with and the GM and others are making a LOT of real money on a game that needs to be more interesting and less expensive. Also this GC deal is ridiculous you cant do anything without gc maybe a player doesnt want to "War" or attack another country, maybe he wants to aquire it through other means but thats impossible because you have to have the BLAME GC to do anything! no wonder people are leaving and spending money. when my term is up im gone to for the second time but wont be returning. So everyone take this post however you see fit

The number of premium members in Simcountry is growing. You just joined and I wonder where you have this knowledge from. Many older players come back too.

I do not know many games that have people play for so long.

We get many comments on the low price of Simcountry. Most games cost $ 10 to $ 30 per month.

Gold coins:

You can exchange game money into gold coins. (If you have game money to spare), and you pay now less than you used to pay in the past.

Although some think it is impossible, they probably did not try.
We however, see the facts every day.

Thousands of gold coins are sold on that market every day for game money.

The largest owners of game money have increased their holdings of gold coins by many many thousands. This happened in the past weeks.

If you have game money, just offer it on the market and request gold coins. It may take several days but even offers to purchase 1000 gold coins are being fulfilled.

I suggest giving me free money. With my face on the observe. Because of reasons.

Also, weren't we supposed to be allowed to make gadgets for our account's Portal and country page? When is that coming?

@andy,
if....."The number of premium members in Simcountry is growing.".... then why is that many of the countries around me which use to have presidents have turn green shaded then now white (no shade)?

sc is a great game, provided you can figure out how to have fun in the game

also why is that players are selling their very well developed countries for much less than the c3 that gm is selling? should this be the reverse, so that players will devote their times and resources to develop their countries or want to own more countries? also if players can sell their well developed countries at high prices, then won't more players want to own countries and there would be less c3 in every world. then any players wanting country would need to be on waiting list for a country to become available for ownership? countries in sc would be a scarcity, which would increase their value? basic economics?

gc is always available from the gm, but i'm not seeing a lot of players-to-players transactions or posts.

and it's not fun when your country has negative cashflow in this game, 'cause you can't buy things other than twigging things to improve your situation.

Laguna,

The free money is of course underway.

We have more on our wish list than we can possibly do.
We are concentrating on improvements of the war game and on making it easier for new players to start.

we will eventually get there.

xiong

The number of countries with president is now 13125. Used to be less. This number is easy to increase by more marketing but, this is not the number of players and not the number of premium players.
The price of the countries is decided by the players. We have put some minimum numbers but you decide if you want to buy or not.

We are not in the GC market on the direct trading but others are and thousands of gold coins are traded every day even if you do not see it.

As to your cash flow, it was very positive when you started and you received a lot of extra money and population.
nearly all countries in the game are profitable, most of the unprofitable ones are part of empires where some are profitable and some not because they have a very large army.

most free players like you, have one or two countries and they manage to keep them profitable. The free game does have its limits.

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How very true. It was always realised that this is the case but much more so now. I have reduced some armies substantially and the difference is astounding ( to me who was used to supporting one or two war slaves ). I still wont leave myself totally exposed but large reductions are definitely the way to go nowadays.

I dont know if this good really, or not. I used to love chucking large amounts, and I mean large, of money away on a good war. Guess its proportional now but the fun doesnt seem to be there. I reckon it will be back eventually, just wish it didnt take so long!

The better your countries are, the larger army you can sustain. This was always true. very large armies sucked away all the workers and the economy went down.

Also, large empires can decide which countries make money and which ones fight the wars.

Profitability will remain or increase and the cost of the army keeps declining. It went down a lot recently and the price of many weapons and ammo keeps declining.

We think that countries will be able to maintain their military capabilities at a lower cost.

Yep, like I suggested, its proportional to as before. Lower costs along with lower income. If I had done something about it earlier it probably wouldnt have been an issue to me, but it got to a point where I was bled of over one Quadrillion of sc cash! Significant changes to everything, especially military, have made a large difference to my account.

So thanks Andy, I just hope you allow us to keep up with the changes and everything will be fine.

Most of the changes are behind us.
some more to come but mainly fine tuning. The cost of some weapons, ammo, cost of war compared to country revenue etc. the relative power of expensive weapons and ammo, losses etc.
more testing and computing. some of it happened already and some more tuning is needed.

I come by the knowledge I stated before because some years ago I was a premium paying member for about 2 yrs then RL happened and I had to leave. I just cam back a while ago and got a 3 month premium again and have found out that there has been so many changes that the game is not worth playing much anymore. If you want to make it a war game then do so take away all the peaceful aspects and make it a total war game. Which seems to be the focus right now. Membership ends next month after that wont be extending its just not worth it because their are so many better free games out.

I am going to prove that the GC market is stagnant: no one is selling GC for 79B each. I have an offer to buy GC on the direct market. I will be giving updates on what happens. This farce must end, one way or another!
I will need some kind of proof that "thousands of GC are being legitimately traded every day" before I can believe it. As Mulder says, I WANT to believe...

Typo. should read 70B, of course. and if I am wrong, I will eat crow here in the forum.

Suggestion: Stop deleting posts which are critical of certain aspects of the game.

Upgrade the forum and chat service. There are lots of really good ones out there now. Ours are kind of 1990s.

This. ^

Space trading. Great idea in principle. The trouble is it's just so damn boring

click ... call up a shuttle

click ... manage cargo space

click ... select item

click ... load / offload maximum (assuming you only want to move one thing ... otherwise, more clicks)

click ... flight plan

scroll ... find where you want to send it to

click ... send it there

click ... schedule flight

click ... close that window and move onto the next shuttle

and repeat for however many shuttles you have. Then, if you have fewer than 50 shuttles and you're moving stuff between planets, wait ten minutes for them to arrive at the other planet and start again.

9 actions (minimum) per shuttle ... to transfer what? 100 weapons, or 1,000 ammo. To transfer anything worth transferring takes hundreds or thousands of clicks. However many shuttles you have.

This just gives an advantage to those players who care about having loads of weapons more than they care about the hours of their lives they have 'wasted' clicking. And we all know who they are >: (

PLEASE GMs ... give us a feature to automate shuttles. "Go to space centre W, pick up product X and transfer it to space station Y. Repeat until Z products have been transferred". At least, that way, those of us who have a life will be on an equal footing with those of us who don't.

Hugs and respect

Jo

Jo,

That automated function is in the game for a year or so.