| Andy | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 12:26 pm 
1. Uploading Icons to customize Simcountry Objects.
A new feature is now available, making it possible to upload your own icons for all objects on the Simcountry maps.
You can now add your own icons to the available ones on the map pages and choose the icon you want for each city, corporation, fortification etc. Each uploaded icon will be available, automatically, to the entire empire.
To avoid any possible confusion during war, the war maps will not be changed and will always show the standard set of icons.
2. Gold Coin Trading
Gold coin trading is now restricted to transactions between players. Obtaining gold coins from the game itself remains possible by various means. Players can win monthly awards for high ranking (the number of these awards is increasing), by improving their country economy and moving to high game levels (more game levels will be added), by winning wars against higher level C3 countries and increasing their war levels (War levels have already been added and more are under way), and they can purchase them from the gamemaster. More and new challenges will be added as new features and will include new ways to win gold coins.
The use of gold coins can be reduced by a choice of the number of empires and enterprises one keeps.
3. Higher Game awards
Game awards will be increase before May 1. The number of awards and the total number of gold coins that are awarded will increase.
4. Higher Game Level Awards
Game level awards, have been increased for many game levels and will be increased even further with the introduction of higher game levels. Details are in the game levels document.
5. Higher War Level Awards extending to all worlds
War level awards are now increased for many of the levels and very high awards are available for the new war level 9 and 10. More war levels will be added in the future and the war level awards will increase more.
War level awards on all worlds (Currently FB only) will be introduced but FB will remain the world with the highest level of awards.
6. Game levels - another update
Moving up the game levels (playing the full game including the war option), is now possible either with a very high defense and defensive indexes or by moving up the war levels. As we have announced before, he requirements for the defense indexes will in time increase and moving up the game levels will require a high war level.
The defense index requirements have now increased a little more. Reaching higher game levels remains possible by building a large army but fighting to reach a higher war level becomes a more attractive option.
More such changes in the future will phase out the defense indexes as a way to increase game levels.
Reaching higher game levels while playing the game including the war option will depend on the fighting capabilities of the country rather than its capability to purchase weapons.
7. Recent reductions in numbers
A major reduction in the numbers has taken place in the past week. Countries have seen a decline in cost that was even larger than initially expected.
Corporation revenues are reduced and mainly the sale of products above quality is now obsolete because the differences between requested and offered quality became too wide. The cost of raw materials and other cost followed with the expected delay. Currently, although profits declined with the declining numbers, even more corporations than before are profitable.
The decline is not completed yet but results seem more stable. We expect more (smaller) declines in the future.
The total value of assets declined after the change and caused some worries, including the thought that all values will dissipate entirely. This was despite repeated explanation of the process by the gamemaster of the way these changes will influence assets and pricing and the expected delays.
In the mean time, asset values recovered and shot past their values before the change. Asset values will continue to fluctuate (as they always did) and in the long run, we expect them to have a lower value in game money but a higher value in Gold coins.
All products in Simcountry cost less than before. This includes weapons and ammunition and of course all products that are used as raw materials. Countries spend less and the cost of building an army, are significantly lower. In general, the amount of game money needed to run the country, declined significantly over the last couple of months.
8. Profitability of Corporations
It seems that many players are not aware of the most important parameters that can improve the profitability of their corporations. Some reduced their raw materials quality to 100 to reduce raw materials cost but their revenues declined even more. Quality of up 160 or even 180 may increase profits.
Salary levels should be at 300 and even more but will start costing more than the advantages they bring at much higher levels.
Many players are unaware of the welfare index and its influence on the production in corporations. A low welfare index is a major factor resulting in low profits in many corporations. |
| nix001 | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 12:44 pm
Sound. I can live with those. Except........ unlike you lot I and probably most of us are not on-line alot of the time. So this 'Gold coin trading is now restricted to transactions between players.' can only cause problems if there is none for sale on the direct market and I need some NOW to allow access to my countries to go to war (to earn some). Remove the limit on request so at-least if I need a couple of GC's I can buy them regardless of the cost. This means you should also allow direct trade even with a country/enterprise thats expired.
What say you Andy?  |
| Lord Lee | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 01:04 pm
Regarding the game news of restrictions of gold coins: Does this mean direct trading of gold coins will end? |
| Homerdome | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 02:50 am
Basicly what your saying is that even though I have lots of game cash, and lets say I have already did everything that could earn me more GC's and I have 5 empires to support, I would need to bring out my plastic and renew my membership even though hypothetically I have 2 months left just to get GC's to pay for my extra empires?
"Gold coin trading is now restricted to transactions between players"
Nobody will be willing to sell now, but i gusse you figured that out.
"The use of gold coins can be reduced by a choice of the number of empires and enterprises one keeps"
Seriously? After months or even years on building multi empires on several planets, people will be reluctant to sell or give them up. BUT are being forced to do so if they have no options left.
Why? And how is this good for the people that play Simcountry? |
| Quetzalcoatl | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 03:36 am
+1 on all updates except that of gold coins, i do like the custom map objects. |
| Quetzalcoatl | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 03:40 am
How do I upload my own objects?
1. Uploading Icons to customize Simcountry Objects.
A new feature is now available, making it possible to upload your own icons for all objects on the Simcountry maps. |
| Scarlet | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 04:01 am
Country Top Menu:
Map >> Change Icons on Map
On this page... |
| Quetzalcoatl | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 04:29 am
Thanks scarlet but i do not see where I can upload my own objects.
Also Homerdome ^ what you said above is what I have been trying to get premium players to see for the past week. Crafty has called it spam but I was not SPAMing I was trying to get the issue across and now it seems finally some people get what this means. For the life of me no one wants to sell their gold coins, I have even offered 90B for them but still no one wants to sell. I even offered a solution, where the gold coins price limitations are removed. With the GM out of the market this has caused a hoarding of go coins because no longer will peaceful empires or enterprises will be able to get gold coins except by rewards but once this is over than what. The answer is simple pull out your credit card like you said. I offered a solution that gold coins price limitations be removed so that players can sell their gold coins for how much or how little they want to. Crafty I have already requested gold coins like you said which was your solution in both forums and chats but no one wants to depart with their gold coins. |
| Quetzalcoatl | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 04:39 am
Crafty if you thought I was SPAMing just wait when more premium players request gold coins and other premium players do not give them up. |
| maclean | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 08:36 am
So let me get this straight: gold coins will still be necessary to function in the game; gold coins will be traded between players, but only creatively, thru unofficial channels. The direct trade page will still cap the open market trade at79B/coin. If this is so, I can foresee the day when players would rather pay more in RL cash to each other than to the GM, just on principal. |
| Sunny | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 09:30 pm
I'm sick of seeing Wl become harder, and produce less cash.
I remember WL 6 giving out 10T. Wl7 @ 12T etc etc.
Now, they added stealth wings to wl7, we get hit up to our arses and 8T for our effort.
Pretty sure that once we get around WL15, WL7 will be twice as hard, and eventually reward us with 2T. I bet they'll be nuking us and we'll be EXPECTED to defend ourselves from them ><
A bright future for the war game it seems. |
| Quetzalcoatl | Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 09:42 pm
I just got to war lv 6 and only got 6T for it, i though it was more like sunny said, it was only 6T, that is not enough to cover the costs of of future wars and takes up most of the cost of the war just on ammo. |
| nix001 | Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 03:27 pm
where are you Q? FB is where you want to war to raise cash and gold. |
| nix001 | Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 04:15 pm
Sorry, forgot. Sooooo much going on. Peace. |
| Quetzalcoatl | Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 06:21 pm
Nix I am on FB, and war lv 6 is just 6 T |
| Quetzalcoatl | Friday, April 27, 2012 - 05:36 am
Dude it's $4 dollars a month you probably spend more on energy drinks in a given month. Do not be so cheap. |
