W3C - Game News Oct. 22, 2019

Natural Resources

A new system is introduced to manage natural resources in all countries.

A description of the feature is placed on the forum and on the Nat. Resources page.

The page link is placed under the Indexes button on the header of the country page.

One of the functions, allowing you to find countries where a specific resource can be found, is under construction and will be added within one week.

In the first hours, existing raw materials corporations will show an error message, warning that the corporation will close for lack of resources.

This message is wrong and will disappear after another month is processed. This will be at about 11 am EST.

All corporations have now an added data block showing the remaining resource the corporation can mine.
The data block is only relevant for natural resource producing corporations and shows the remaining product.

The data block is also showing on all other corporations, showing zero remaining product. This data block is not relevant for non natural resources corporations and will be removed later this week.

Purchasing Countries

The price for purchasing a country without a president is reduced from 300 gold coins to 30 gold coins.
We have announced this several weeks ago.

Fearless BLue the war world

FB is intended to be a war world. We are protecting new players on FB from war for an initial period but as it stands now, players in war levels 0-2 remain protected.

We will change this and move every player on FB to war level 3 after an initial period of 60 days.

This change will take place in the first days of November.

Players on FB, have chosen for a war world, They now have another two weeks to check their army and prepare for an eventual war.

Temporary war protection remains possible, also on FB.
It is not a long term solution but can be used in periods when you are not available to play the war game.

The cost of the army

More reductions in the price of many weapons and ammunition will reduce the cost of the army and the cost of war.
This happened before, several times and has gradually reduced the cost of war by 50% or more.

I just looked and I still need to pay 300gc's for a country. Maybe I just need to wait a bit longer.

Overal these are some huge changes. Lowering the lvl on FB is a good step although I do hope that in time there will be 0 protection on the war world.

Amazing work - all three updates!!

oops.
the 300 to 30 GC change will be there in minutes.

Thank you Lord.

It is now 30 gold coins.

If you do it, also check how many GCs were subtracted from your account.

how weapons price decreses influence the corps making them ? did you increase outputs ? lower supply requirements ? other reduction in costs to offset output product prices decrease?

Relax vladian. You might be right but some things take time and change is always difficult.

wow

you lowered the cost of weapons by 30%

most of the weapon corps now make losses at full upgrade

all this changes really should come with free product change for those corps, in any other product not just inside the class

A country on FB was registered around October 15, before this change

This means it will get war level 3 around December 15 ? Or those 2 months only start ticking for new countries ?

We have a test for corp profitability and when we reduce the price of weapons, we make other changes that reduce the cost of production and sometimes increase output.

The test must show about the same profitability as before.

Also, don't forget, these weapons corporations produce a large profit, nearly as high as other corporations but use 50% of the man power.
It allows you to build many more corporations.

Don't jump to conclusions.
we are into it for years and can make sure corporations remain profitable.

most weapons remained unchanged or changed about 5% as always before.
Some nuke prices might have fallen lower.

you know that strategic corps you were puzzled why there are shortages when they are so profitable?

after today is not worth to have them, outside of your own countries, as a CEO

The reason why there are shortages for strategics is because C3s were not allowed to build them. They are now.

there are still shortages

the problem is that their max selling prices (the prices at which they sell now as there are still huge shortage) got hit by a -30% minimum today

CUTE picture, my lord!!! :-D

i'm really struggling now to find a use for CEO outside being an accesory to own countries

you have to go minus hundreds of trillions before even seeing some profit

strategic - no way after today
weapons - lol
mining - nope
food - lol
industry - wait a real month before you see some +0.3B per month profit per corp, after each corp eated 500B in negative with upgrades and running loss
high tech - small profits, huge babysitting

for now im alone complaining because im one of the few to start a CEO in the past month but wait after all old ceo's oil corp will get closed :D

except 1 or 2 CEO on GR , all the rest took -25% to -40% a drop in profits in the last 2 ticks.

the few ones that make profit now are the ones who have half of their corps as oil. all the rest are on 0 or negative.

i would sell all my corps in CEO and close it but i can't even IPO them from 196 corps only 1 can be IPO )). thats at average 190 or so quality.

Vladian.

My ceo earns me roughly 300B-600B per day. Sure there are some bad days, markets tend to fluctuate. But that is business. Just to be clear, I have a mid size ceo. There are ceos that are more then 3 times mine.

And that is not including any buying and selling of goods that I do manually. My ceos are also free storage space for my weapons.

whats your CEO name on which world ?

My main ceo on LU is: Lets inc A

in the past 12 months you made on average 180B profit from 650 corps fully upgraded. thats less profit than a 100 million people country that runs on auto versus tons of hours of work and hundred of trillions invested in that CEO

im not even sure the net cash is positive out of your CEO, i also make "profit" but the CEO never generated any cash, i have to feed it with outside cash

i will stop building new corps, move all the corps inside my countries, and watch what happens if i dont transfer any cash to my CEO for 1 week. maybe miracles happen :D

Please look a bit better.

Just this month I extracted a lot of money from my corporations.

You do know that the total profit number that you have been looking at is not the way to earn money with a ceo right?

How about this. Next game month take a look at those numbers again. I bought several corporations so that caused a negative cash flow.
Next month (or whenever you want) I will not buy any new corporations. So that you can see what I extract under normal circumstances.

I look at the profit per month graph, isnt it there where i should look ?

Perhaps this is not the right thread for this, we are posting quite a lot. If you want more info about how to run a ceo feel free to message me.
There are multiple ways to run a ceo. But most people tend to run a relatively low profit payment and extract their money manual from their corporations.

I make most of my money from CEOs. Only two of my 4 CEOs are oil heavy. The other two are very profitable without huge oil.

I just want to add though that on a profit per corporation basis, CEOs make much less than countries. This is due to country resources used fee. If you build in your own countries you can mitigate some of that loss as the money stays in house. But profit is profit and I’ll take whatever I can get even if it requires twice as many corps. Plus with ceo you can store weapons for free. I also do a lot of cross world trade, but you can do that with countries too so it’s not an exclusive ceo benefit.

Just thought I should post this if it hasn't been noticed yet, but the game news tab on the side of the main screens has not been updated. That's where I looked first this morning when I saw the changes in game.