| Andy | Monday, December 9, 2024 - 11:16 am 
1. Electric Trucks
Electric Trucks are added as a new product to Simcountry. Electric trucks will be used in the same way trucks are used but initially in very small numbers to allow time for the industry to build corporations and produce these trucks.
Within several weeks, electric trucks will be used in small numbers by the industry but also in the army. The numbers used will increase in time.
The production process of electric trucks requires Targon and Baradium. These rare metals are produced on Tiny Atlas only and are sold in all worlds.
2. Electric cars are now used
Electric cars are now in use in all countries. Only a small percentage of the cars that are used are electric but their percentage will increase in time.
This means that all countries will start ordering electric cars and with only a small number of corporations producing them, there might be shortages.
3. Wind Energy
The max quality of wind energy is increased. Wind energy quality counts and its quality is taken into account when the price is computed. This means that the income of countries from wind energy can increase, as long as they have wind turbines that are needed for the maintenance of their wind farms.
4. Shuttle Maintenance Units
Shuttle maintenance units will be phased out. The product is used to prolong the life of cargo shuttles and they wear down more slowly. However, not many players are using them. Space transports can take place without the product and many players do not know how to use them or what exactly they do.
Starting with this upgrade, shuttle maintenance units remain usable by it will not be possible to start new corporations and the existing corporations become smaller and employ a smaller number of workers.
Future upgrades will slowly reduce the production levels of cargo maintenance corporations and at some point in the future they will become obsolete.
Existing upgrade products remain usable.
5. Reduced army size and defense cost in C3 countries.
The size of the army in C3 countries is reduced a bit and many garrisons are eliminated. We have seen that C3 countries have relatively high defense costs while the army is not used. The reduction will help C3 countries, also when they become active countries, to be more profitable.
When declaring war against a C3 country, the army of that country is brought to a certain level. That function is not changed and fighting a war with a C3 country will remain unchanged.
6. Shortage of High Level Workers
Another update will increase the availability of High Level Workers and reduce the need to manually convert workers. Such changes took place several times before and the shortages of HLWs are smaller than before. This change might contribute to a better balance between workers groups.
7. Game Levels Update
We continue to make small updates to the conditions needed for countries to move to higher game levels. Small changes were introduced to the required population numbers and cash levels.
These changes are required because many countries have much higher population levels and cash levels than what was common in past periods.. |
| Seth Kush | Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 01:41 pm
I like the updates, thanks |
| Daniel Iceling | Tuesday, December 17, 2024 - 05:57 am
Andy,
Thank you for the updates, and more importantly, communicating to us about them.
On electric Trucks, I'd recommend against making them an input for industry. Anything that needs to be brought in from Tiny Atlas is likely to have frequent shortages on global markets, with supply entirely dependent on when the few players that have functional countries there, log in to do the manual transactions.
If electric trucks are an input to industry, it will very likely cause shortages that stop corporations from producing products. This would be a significant risk to the stability of Simcountry's economy. |
| Andy | Tuesday, December 17, 2024 - 01:43 pm
We do not plan any addition of these trucks to the industry yet and will wait for some corporations to start producing them.
electric cars are now used by the population and countries have shortages.
there are now quite some corporations producing electric cars and we also
see sales of electric cars on some markets.
the numbers will remain small and also, when we start using the electric trucks, numbers will be very small and they must be available on the markets. |
