| Teddy Bear | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 08:31 am 
I have noticed that my profits are declining, quite rapidly on all worlds.
This is particularly noticeable in my CEO's as corp values have been dropping rapidly.
On FB my country's profits have fallen to about 10% of their previous value. In both my CEO's profits have halved.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Could this be related to the salary change for C3 corps affecting worldwide production?
Seems to me that they have made it even harder for new players to get going if I cant even make enough money with my CEO for it to sustain itself.
Teddy |
| sbroccoli | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 08:53 am
There is currently a massive decline in prices for very many products.
61 of the almost 100 non-military products have seen a period of 5 months or longer where prices have left the precious sawtooth pattern and simply declined. For some products it's been almost a year with falling prices.
The peculiar thing is that in most cases the supply/demand situation is not significantly different.
So what leads to this market crash is so far an open question. And as you know, we never get any honest answers to such questions. |
| SweetPea | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 09:07 am
I am unsure of why, but I have a few theories.
My ceo profits have all but dried up following the change to c3s having their corps pay 300 salaries.
As a result of paying these higher salaries of 310 to compete, it appears my profits are near or under 0. My profit graphs show a sustained decline since raising ,y own salaries. But there was an unusually large drop deeper than the falling trend line in the last game month or two.
My initial guess is that corps are now paying higher salaries, and higher supply costs as the increased demand causes some products to increase in price. This may be a temporary effect or a permanent one, I cannot call it.
My strongest idea of what is at work here is supply costs increasing as not only c3s corps' but also many ceos and countries increasing demand along with the salaries being raised. |
| Crafty | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 12:41 pm
Y'all know it's down to adjustments being made by the engineers.
Why the surprise? We have seen this several, if not lots, of times in the last year. Ride it out, the game will adjust and as soon as it does things are likely to change again.
It's the nature of the beast. |
| SweetPea | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 12:50 pm
This one feels a bit more extreme in this case. And yeah, just roll with it huh? Lol. |
| Teddy Bear | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 01:49 pm
I would be happy to ride it out, but all my countries have ran out of spare cash.
I will have to start taking on loans just to cover my CEO's Automatic Transfers.
Plus, with my countries not making as much money it will be that much harder to recover.
Please look into this... |
| Laguna | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 03:14 pm
Does anyone remember a famous episode from Seinfeld called the The Soup Nazi? Well, no profits for you! |
| Teddy Bear | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 07:58 pm
Showing your age Laguna :P |
| Drew | Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 05:50 am
I'm doing great, hmmm.... |
| Andy | Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 02:31 pm
There was a slight decline in the base price of products as part of the on going, long term decline in all amounts in the game.
This was announced and discussed countless times on the forum and in game news.
the decline always manifests itself at the start, followed by a first correction after several game months.
More corrections follow because the raw materials on stock in corporations are used up and cheaper materials are being bought with a decline in the cost during production.
Currently, cost is declining and profits percentages will end up at the same level or higher.
with declining cost, the percentage of profit in countries is increasing.
also, the cost of the army continues to decline, ammunition and weapons are cheaper by at least 5%.
we have announced this type of changes several times before but the frequency of the changes and the percentages are much smaller.
The values of corporations are very high, especially in enterprises.
Other costs in corporations decline too and their profitability is improving.
Profitability has improved a lot in the past months and we have not received or seen any message about it from any player.
Current profitability remains far above the level of 3 months ago.
as to new players; countries start in an excellent position with a profitable economy and the improvement continues.
The need for new players boost is declining.
We will increase the number of gifts for new players and prolong the period they receive these gifts.
There are more changes to be expected that will make Simcountry easier for beginners. |
| SweetPea | Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 04:12 pm
After checking the CEO I use as a baseline, it appears as if profits are returning to normal levels or are on the rise.
Anyone else confirming this? |
| Crafty | Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 07:54 pm
Quote:Profitability has improved a lot in the past months and we have not received or seen any message about it from any player.
Andy Andy Andy. I posted several days ago that my CEO profits were improving greatly |
| Teddy Bear | Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 09:33 pm
Thank You very much Andy
@Crafty - You were right, wait it out.
@Wendy - Yes, seems to be stabilizing again, thank goodness.
Appreciate you all having a look into this. 
Peace and cookies
Teddy |
| Kiss_of_Death | Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 10:47 pm
omg i loooooooooooooooooove Seinfeld!!!! and yes, laguna, i know that episode well!!!
And if anyone says i'm showing my age.....well i'll add ya to my list!!!! |
| maclean | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 03:02 am
Andy: I seem to have been remiss in my thanx for the tweaks that allow greater enterprise profit. Thanx! |
