Mining corporations...

Andy,

Thank you for the information, about the next discovery, coming in about a months time. I think more resource discoveries are critical, to balancing this feature long term.

32 deposits, is not a 'very large' number of resources, when you consider the time, and effort, it takes to set up a whole new country, just to extract them. And the fact that those deposits, will run out.

A premium player country has approx ~100,000,000 people, and around ~150 corporations. Having only 32 of those Corporations, be mining corporations, isn't worth taking, and setting up, a whole new country.

John,

I don't think you should do so.
I understand your difficulty while in war level 21 but then nobody else is.
Many others could and should do so while in lower war levels.
One country with 30 natural resources makes a difference.
also the purchase price for a country with 34 natural resources available, is not very high.

Your profitability is excellent anyway.
you also have the possibility to purchase natural resources corporations in many countries.
every CEO can do so.

Daniel,

32 natural resources corporations out of 150 corporations is a very large number.

There is no need for such huge numbers.

We will however consider adding a bit more product to the markets and reduce shortages a bit.

at the same time, the price could go up a bit too to make them even more profitable.

Andy,

if numbers of mining corporations will remain so low for a very long time maybe then it is worth replacing number of mining products used in other corporation to allow other production markets to grow. That would solve the problem of having too many mini markets which are very volatile and therefore not attractive for players.

Could it be possible to buy/research quality and effectivity of resource corps even when you dont have any of these types of corps?

Andy,

I agree, 32 Mining Corporations out of 150. If they were permanent, in a large number of countries, would far to many.

However, 32 mining corporations, that deplete after a couple of months. In only a handful of countries. While most nations on the planet, have 0 mining corporations. Is far too few.

The fact, that resources deplete. Means there has to be a LOT of them. To make taking a country worthwhile. Otherwise, it's a short term sugar-high, followed by closures, with no extra resources in the ground to mine, to replace the corporations that close.

The fact, that C3s, and Free-to-Play players, can't mine. Means that Premium-Players need to be able to mine, far more than they did before. In order to compensate, for the total lack of mining, in C3s, and Free-to-Play countries.

I think these two factors, are leading you to massively underestimate, how many deposits are actually required, to balance

Sorry to say this but from w3c reactions I fail to see any long time strategy to fix this situation.

Idea is great but concept and vision is tragedy.

I will just ignore this feature completely until something reasonable happens.

Dear W3C - you can do better that this.

We agree that more is needed.

I wrote elsewhere on the forum that we will allow small CEOs (<100 corporations) to build natural resources corporations in countries where these resources are available.

we will also increase the amount of resource becoming available with every new natural resource corporation you build.