| Andy | Tuesday, August 27, 2024 - 06:30 pm 
1. The maintenance of Wind Farms
As mentioned and announced several times in the past weeks and months, wind farms that are not fully maintained will deliver less electric power than fully maintained wind farms.
The functions is now active although at a low level. Max reduction is less than 20% and this only happens when the shortages of wind turbines are extreme.
With extreme shortages, the number of wind farms in the country will start to decline and 2 to 10 wind farms will be dismantled each game month, for lack of maintenance during a prolonged period.
The function will be tuned up with the following game updates.
2. Silver
Silver will become more important. The new type of EV batteries will use Silver, in small quantities, but the numbers of future EV cars will substantially increase the use of Silver.
3. New Natural Resources - Nickel & Titanium
New natural resources will be added to Tiny Atlas in the coming days and weeks. Both metals will be used (as in the real world) in the production of EV battery chargers and in EV batteries; also Power domes that will be used for the storage of electric power will use these metals. The two new metals will be added in the coming two weeks.
4. Transporting Goods to Tiny Atlas Will Become Easier
The current upgrade will reduce the space needed for some products on a cargo shuttle. It means that a cargo shuttle will be able to move more products with each mission.
However, with more new products being introduced on Tiny Atlas, we are considering an easier way to transport products. Producing more Natural resources on TA will require more products to be transported to TA to make it possible to produce these natural resources and support the population needed to work in these corporations.
We are considering an easier way to specify which products you want to move to TA from a specific Space Center and automatically initiate multiple transfers.
It will take some time to develop and introduce such a function into Simcountry. When done, it will help reduce the number of details involved in the transports.
5. Unreadable Messages
A problem with some game messages is resolved. The messages were printed in white on a white background.
6. Retained Products in Corporations
Corporations can retain some products and prevent them from being offered on the market. A recent error (last May), made it possible to retain unlimited amounts of products.
This too should be possible but not in the corporations that can bankrupt if they do not sell their products. Products can be stored in countries and enterprises. There are no limits.
We have now fixed this error and corporations will be able to retain 15 months of production. If they have more, 10% of the stored product will be sold on the market until the remaining products decline to less than 15 month of production.
7. Corporations Document
The document describing many of the Simcountry products is extended with details on production, hiring and the raw materials used in the production process. More work is needed to add more products to the document and complete the detailed descriptions.
8. Graph Descriptions
We have added more descriptions to graphs, that were missing in many pages. There might be some we missed but not many.
9. City Maps
City maps are now restored. The maps disappeared during a recent problem with our portal.
10. Electric Power
Electric power production in Oil/Gas EP corporations and in Nuclear power stations, increased some more. The cost is lower and the profitability of these corporations remains at the same level.
This ongoing tuning of these corporations will hopefully reduce the structural, huge shortages of electric power in all the worlds |
| Leonard238146 | Tuesday, August 27, 2024 - 07:39 pm
Thanks for all the fixes.
In the corporations page,
For the Air force Maintenance, the supplies table is listing 0 as the input for several goods. I understand this is because the resources used monthly are between 0 and 1. Could we please improve these to show two decimal places?
On another note,
In the Game News page, item #10 ate into a bit of HTML code and destroyed the header for August 21, 2024.
Quote:This ongoing tuning of these corporations will hopefully reduce the structural, huge shortages of electric power in all the worlds. header toc=date] August 21, 2024
I also didn't get the flashing icon, next to the Game News button on the left menu, saying there's new game news. RSS feed is working fine tho. |
| Andy | Tuesday, August 27, 2024 - 07:50 pm
You are quick.
we have seen it too.
The numbers are indeed fractions.
we will have it printed with more precision.
Several maintenance products have that same problem. |
| cafecafegames | Tuesday, August 27, 2024 - 08:14 pm
Andy, I think you've a floating point situation with the common market score.
Example: White Giant - Republica Cafetera
Common Market Score added to your Country Score: 489.0300000000002 |
| Andy | Tuesday, August 27, 2024 - 08:55 pm
Funny.
we normally limit the number of digits, depending on the variable.
this is weird. |
| dylan21227 | Sunday, September 1, 2024 - 02:38 pm
andy please stop messing with the markets on wg your playing hell on my economy |
| Laguna | Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 11:59 am
We are getting EVs before Trains? If only I could tell Manny to see him flip. |
| James Folsom | Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 09:52 pm
So Does the the Laguna return? I saw you over on the Wiki, your planning to stay for a bit it seems.
I'm guessing since your dropping Manny's name, this is actually you? How longs it been?
I left in 2009, peeked in ~2014. I'm on my 2024 decadal drive by as we speak.
Welcome back, maybe we can cooperate on some things, since it's really quite here now.
-hymy- |
| Laguna | Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 01:54 am
Hallo! I'm making an effort to return to the game, and convince some to come along. The latter hasn't been easy, but I'll keep on pushing.
I'm unsure when I stopped playing. Looking about looks like 2013, but I don't remember playing past 2010. Sign me up for a decadal drive by too.
If you left in 2009, then we played together for some years. And your name does ring a bell, but I don't remember much. I do remember the IRC crowd though: Yankee, Claws, Genie... the Jozi Chats. Even to this day I'm unsure how to spell his name.
I'll be happy to help with anything. |
| hymy1 | Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 04:16 am
I think I just heckled from the sidelines most of the time we overlapped.
My best days must have been 2001 to 2005. |
| Johanas Bilderberg | Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 03:38 pm
Manny loved his trains. |
| Andy | Friday, September 13, 2024 - 03:57 pm
I feared this was coming when I saw the shoes question.
we have train tracks.
I assume there are trains using them.
everybody goes by train.
no cost. Its free!
It reminds me of the Saudi prince who went to MIT and dad gave him 3 Rolls Royce cars.
after some time he wrote to his dad:
I don't need these cars.
everybody goes to school by train.
It was quiet for a week, then his father answered:
I have sent you 250 million dollars.
buy yourself a train and go to school like everyone. |
| Andy | Friday, September 13, 2024 - 03:58 pm
We will also find out where the pictures have gone. |
| Laguna | Friday, September 13, 2024 - 06:59 pm
hahahahaha! |
