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Severe Country Shortages

Topics: Tiny Atlas: Severe Country Shortages

Laguna

Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 09:45 pm

I'm finishing cleaning up the shortages in my country, but I can't help but notice that some of these are out of proportion. Should have done this analysis in the very beginning, but let's see what we have left.

Product	MP	Monthly	Stock	r	Cost
Construction	494	960,157	-434,213,732	-452	-214,501,583,608
Def Weapons Maintenance	7,728	2,867	-95,817,106	-33421	-740,474,595,168
Vacation	1,956	92,086	-21,855,109	-237	-42,748,593,204
Furniture	2,033	92,208	-16,971,620	-184	-34,503,303,460
Airforce Maintenance	42,364	322,705	-13,652,774	-42	-578,386,117,736
Fruit	1,435	75,369	-12,054,966	-160	-17,298,876,210
Medical Materials	4,312	6,500	-10,759,500	-1655	-46,394,964,000
Meat Products	17,248	9,872	-10,684,763	-1082	-184,290,792,224
Gas	3,696	43,597	-10,083,040	-231	-37,266,915,840
Mobile Devices	13,706	11,775	-9,588,315	-814	-131,417,445,390
Military Services	343	183,293	-8,809,768	-48	-3,021,750,424
Sport	1,956	30,026	-7,396,126	-246	-14,466,822,456
Home Equipment	838	73,767	-7,148,574	-97	-5,990,505,012
High Tech Services	1,648	7,320	-4,260,782	-582	-7,021,768,736
Meat	10,934	16,750	-3,764,326	-225	-41,159,140,484
Other Food Products	3,172	22,497	-3,747,954	-167	-11,888,510,088
Electric Power	115,500	1,844	-3,639,058	-1973	-420,311,199,000
Rice	2,772	15,152	-3,308,745	-218	-9,171,841,140
Shows	870	7,663	-2,394,001	-312	-2,082,780,870
Assets Maintenance	81,928	527	-2,164,310	-4107	-177,317,589,680
Software	1,802	9,285	-2,161,920	-233	-3,895,779,840
Internet	1,146	42,786	-1,690,002	-39	-1,936,742,292
Off Weapons Maintenance	105,020	24,402	-1,121,980	-46	-117,830,339,600
Tea	15,184	467	-505,340	-1082	-7,673,082,560
Shoes	52,000	547	-375,977	-687	-19,550,804,000
Military Bases Maintenance	1930000	243	-346,588	-1426	-668,914,840,000
Str Weapons Maintenance	1340000	666	-115,053	-173	-154,171,020,000
Luxury Goods	197,600	140	-29,832	-213	-5,894,803,200
Navy Vessels Maintenance	818,800	1	-7,138	-7138	-5,844,594,400
Boats	1510000	9	-2,665	-296	-4,024,150,000
Jewelry	3640000	10	-1,906	-191	-6,937,840,000
Navy Missile Interceptors	854,700	8	-234	-29	-199,999,800
Navy Missiles	854,700	8	-206	-26	-176,068,200

r is the ratio between the shortage and the monthly usage. It tells you how many game months in shortage the country is when you get it.
The figure for Def Weapons Maintenance is bonkers.

I estimate I'll spend around 10T to finish this up.

Genered

Friday, October 25, 2024 - 04:08 am

So when you add country on Tiny Atlas, you get shortage material up to 10T?

Laguna

Friday, October 25, 2024 - 11:40 am

More than 10T. These are the remaining shortages I have after resolving some along the week.

If I had taken account of the shortages when I registered, I could provide a breakdown and give a more precise figure, but if you are thinking of moving to TA, I suggest to be prepared to spend at least 20T.

Genered

Friday, October 25, 2024 - 12:20 pm

Nice info thx laguna, i need to start stocking resources then.

hymy1

Saturday, October 26, 2024 - 05:34 am

I looked around before taking a country. This supply situation is very variable. I recommend spending some time on the selection. It seems Laguna may have chosen worst case.

Laguna

Saturday, October 26, 2024 - 11:02 am

Welcome to Tiny Atlas, hymy!

Genered

Saturday, October 26, 2024 - 03:38 pm

Wowww

hymy1

Saturday, October 26, 2024 - 07:37 pm

It's not as hard as I thought it'd be. Of course, I should thank all the pioneers who have forged out places before and made it better.

Andy

Sunday, October 27, 2024 - 01:00 pm

We have seen these shortages and we think that starting conditions on TA are too severe.

we have decided to make changes that will make it easier to start a country on TA.

One changes has already taken place two days ago.

The start population is increased by several millions.
we will increase it even further to 12.000.000 which is twice the previous level.

All countries have a production plant and if it is used, another production plant will be added automatically to enable the construction of more corporations.

Short term changes:

Shortages in countries will be reduced.
some materials will become available in all C3 countries.

In countries with a president:

we will look into a number of materials and in case the shortages are very large, reduce these shortages.

It will not resolve all problems but will make it more reasonable.

Shuttle transports must be set up but the number of products that are urgently needed will be reduced.

These changes will be very limited in time but will help these countries.

In C3 countries:

more shortages in C3 countries will be eliminated.
The changes will be permanent, preventing these C3 countries from falling into a very large number of severe product shortages.
The changes might be gradual and will continue for 2 or 3 days.

All these changes will take place in the coming several days.

More changes:

Setting up Metadium and baradium corporations will require game level 1.
This was already true for all education, transportation and health facilities.

We will add text to the worlds document, with more detailed advise on what should be done when you start a country on TA.
Which corporations must be built first and on how to stabilize the economy and enable fast population growth.

Andy

Sunday, October 27, 2024 - 01:12 pm

The materials situation on TA is more severe than can be concluded from the table at the top of the page.

The table shows products that are being used in the country.

It does not include materials that are used by corporations and must be transported into TA.

Some of these materials are used in large quantities in an each corporation.

these include Electric power, services, hightech services, robotics, and factory maintenance.

hymy1

Sunday, October 27, 2024 - 06:47 pm

Electric, services and HTS are used in large quantities. Direct trading clears these.

Robotics and FMU, no, you can bring a lifetime supply of that on one shuttle.

Now if you want list of things that are needed in large quantities that are a problem.

I'll start that with Stone, furniture, and Oil.

I'm sure others can add more to that list.

Laguna

Sunday, October 27, 2024 - 11:19 pm

You will burn through the Factory Maintenance and Robotics extremely fast, because the resources unique to Tiny Atlas use much higher amounts of these products.

Andy

Sunday, October 27, 2024 - 11:27 pm

A lot is already implemented.

I see declines in the shortages in C3 countries and some products in all countries.

Population is up.

We will continue to eliminate shortages of materials to allow
for a faster start for countries on TA.

Laguna

Sunday, October 27, 2024 - 11:34 pm

Thanks, Andy.

Andy

Monday, October 28, 2024 - 11:01 am

We have now implemented more functions on TA that will make it easier to
setup a country and build more quickly.

Among the new features:

- The population numbers on TA are now much higher than before.
countries will start at about 11 millions. Nearly double the previous
numbers.
- C3 countries on TA already have much lower shortages in all products.
Some of these shortages will disappear in the coming hours and many more
later today and tomorrow.
- Countries with a president on TA will also receive some products if these
products are in short supply in the country.
About 60 products will be boosted one time if numbers are very small.
If there are sufficient supplies of these products, nothing will be added.

We will place a copy of this message on another discussion on the forum
where TA features are being discussed.

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