| Andy | Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 12:03 am 
1. Trading Pages
The product offering pages that did not make it to the previous upgrade is now improved.
2. Reducing the size of Existing Military Units
Some existing units are much larger than the new units that became smaller over the past months.
we will start reducing the size of existing units if their total size is now larger than the max size of similar new units. Example: If a unit has 1500 weapons while a new unit can have up to 1800 weapons, the unit will remain untouched. If however, the unit has 2000 weapons, it will be reduced.
The quality of the unit will remain unchanged and any surplus weapons will be returned to base and their quality will average (weighted average) with the quality of the weapons already stored in the country bases.
No changes have taken place yet but we are now able to carry out such changes from time to time. A reduction of 1% will take place within a couple of days and it will be repeated from time to time, until units size comes closer to the size of newly constructed ones.
3. Professional Officers and Soldiers Additional Info
Professional can be added to each country independent of the use of mobile military units. If no such units are available, the professionals will be integrated into the army and become part of regular units, reducing the need for workers and managers who will return to the work force.
During war, professionals who are part of regular military units can be among the dead. The number of professionals among the dead will be limited to a maximum of 10% of the number who died in the war.
When mobile units are constructed, they will have a first priority in use of professional soldiers and officers. Mobile units cannot be constructed if there are no professionals and if needed, all the professionals will leave the regular units and move to mobile units.
4. Smaller Units
More declines in the size of units and large garrisons. The cost of war will be reduced with smaller units being destroyed during war, and smaller numbers of weapons and ammunition that are needed and used. In addition, the base cost of both weapons and ammunition is reduced.
5. Space
Some products are relatively expensive to transport. To make this more efficient, The space these products occupy on a cargo shuttle or in a docking station is now reduced. It means that more products can be transported each time on a single cargo shuttle and many more products can be stored on a single docking station.
These changes will continue for some time until transport costs become more reasonable even for low cost products.
6. Quality of Supplies and the country welfare
The quality of supplies the country is purchasing is influencing the welfare index of the country. That influence was increased last week and increased again today.
7. Reduced cost
The cost of health and education will fall a bit more over time and so will the contribution of the population to health and education. The money that is spared by the population by the smaller contributions will be spent on some products that have seen weak market and will boost the corporations that are producing them.
8. Quality of Supplies in the Country
The quality of products the country is purchasing has and increased influence on the welfare of the country and in turn, an increased influence on the welfare in corporations and their production level.
Higher quality supplies in the country will increase the cost for government but a higher production levels in corporations will increase their profitability and income for the country.
The higher ordering quality will also improve the average level of requested quality in the market and bring it closer to the quality of products that are produced in corporations. We intend to continue and increase the influence of quality on the welfare even more in the future.
All the changes are slight and their effect on the corporations will take time before it can be noticed. |
