W3C - Gamenews Nov. 2

Yes, I also agree with Crafty. It build corps of extremely unprofitable products, making you lose billions each game month.

Might I add, for premium members or members who have played for more than 6 months, I can add money to slaves when they need it, so i dont need the game adding corps, reducing salaries or not purchasing things my country needs. My countries should be allowed to run a debt providing I add cash when required.

I've been playing this game for over 4 years and I dont need my empires to be treated as if I am a newer player.

Thanks crafty and Andy. Turned off that option and my preferences stayed as I had set.

Also agree with crafty regarding the auto options, they now seem to do more harm then good. However if these options did not exist when I first started playing I have no doubt that I would have lost billions due to the simple fact that I didn't have a clue how the game worked.

The auto features in general do "what they say on the tin" and help new players concentrate on learning what options are available and allow plenty of room for player settings to improve on the automatic ones as they are learnt, but if there is one feature that needs to be amended for new players it is the auto build corps. I turned off this option very soon after starting playing when I realised the game did not check unemployment levels before building them. Surely this is an essential check for any business startup?

If you know what you do, or you do not like what automation does, turn it off and do it yourself.

if you are not sure, or you are a beginner, the automation will keep you out of trouble and make sure your economy is OK. not flying but OK.

it fixes your education, builds corporations producing products that are in short supply, fixes taxes and salaries, sets quality levels and the country becomes profitable.

mainly, make sure you are not short of cash because in that case, automation will be turned on and stay on and you cannot turn it off.

we will correct the requirements for the defense indexes for the levels that require war level 8.

once war level 8 is implemented, the defense index requirements will continue to increase.

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6. Exchanging Cash into Gold Coins

Exchanging game money into gold coins is now only possible if all the countries and enterprises in the account are cash positive. Available cash should be moved to countries with shortages before it is used to purchase gold coins.

After moving cash into the countries, it can take up to 6 hours before all data is updated and the exchange of game money into gold coins will be enabled again. <!-/Quote-!>

Andy can you help me understand why this process is so difficult?

If the game can instantly read that my country or corps have debt and prevent an exchange, why it cannot or does not honor the trade once I pay off the debt.

I'm not sure if this was an intended improvement, because it is just like the old system that I assume was in place before that news came out.

I had a significant amount of debt. I added all the cash to my countries on all worlds. I then paid off each and every loan in each country. I went to exchange the coins, but the game said I had debt in Countries on GR and in Countries on FB. So with all the loans paid off, I waited.

I log on today to make an exchange, and now it says I have debt in some corps on FB, which I just now paid off. My problem is that this message about the debt in a few corps in my ceo was not in the prevention message a few hours ago. Why is that. 8 hours just turned into 16, and that is if the model doesn't have a surprise for me when I try again.

Is there a way to allow the game to make good on all debt and pay it off directly from the exchange screen so this process can go through smoothly. Or is there something to prevent that from being implemented?

If that cannot be done, can we use the same system that reads the loans and prevent an exchange work the same way in the opposite direction, so that

1. I will get the second problem message a bit faster than 8 hours, which prolongs the entire issue.

or

2. When I go and pay off the debt, the same system then recognizes the paid off debt and allows the exchange instead.

Is this possible to make so, or don't you agree?

Thanks Andy

Hugs and respect

Jo

I just tried it again, after paying off the Corp debts on FB and now it says this.


"One or more countries on Little Upsilon are in debt."

I don't have any countries in debt on LU.

Angels Temple 1,462.34B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 531.09B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 1102 image new leader
BodySnatcher 1,491.86B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 1222 image new leader
Destinys Temple 1,284.89B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 1020 image new leader
Doom Temple 839.61B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 301.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 1012 image new leader
Far Trondelog 1,632.41B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 1253 image new leader
* Inannas Temple 4,730.69B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 775.70B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 976 image
Peace 1,778.33B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 23.07B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 896 image new leader
Serenities 1,741.69B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 38.97B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 587 image new leader
Trondelog Minor 1,091.63B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 1508 image new leader
Union Temple 969.78B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 380.32B SC$ 0.00B SC$ 1213 image new leader

Success.

It finally recognized the ordeal. I hope one of the suggestions above can be implemented to put this issue to rest completely.

My suggestions is as far cash and debt goes is this: If the account has a cash balance great enough to eliminate the debt in that account's countries and enterprises, then don't worry about it. Why all this nitpicky focus on debt like it is always this bad evil thing. It is natural and normal and to be expected from time to time.

That said, I am going to back to LU and count my trillions in negative cash.