W3C - Game Extention - Proposal

Far away from the current five planets, a new, tiny planet was discovered. It is now called Tiny Maori.

The planet is deserted for many years. There are no inhabitants.

There are several hundreds countries, no people, no corporations, nothing.
The only one item in each country is a Space Center.

The planet has 3 natural resources, rare metals, that are not available on the current planets. Countries have only one of the three resources but there are no corporations that can produce these rare metals from the available resources.

Initially, these three rare metals will be used for the production of several types of ammunition.
One is a very powerful attack missile, another is an extremely effective defence missile.
Production will probably take place on one of the current worlds.

These ammunitions with the associated weapons will be very useful in war.

More special natural resources and more use cases may be found later and added.

Possible also more planets with their own resources.

A new population function will make it possible to move up to 200.000 people to the new planet each month.
There will be no other functions that can move people/exchange people or move any products.
Money can be moved around by the direct trading functions for cash transfers.
Everything that might be needed for the survival of the population or to build facilities, or corporations on Tiny Maori will have to be delivered by cargo shuttles, by anyone who wants to develop a country, or an industry on that planet.

Large shortages of food or any other essential products will cause population losses to the point of full destruction.

Shuttles will travel long distances and need maintenance/fuel materials to make the long distance trips.

Space fighters are optional, with a capability to disrupt shuttle flights but the option may remain unused.

Local education on Tiny Maori, health and other functions will be needed if any industry is to be built and sustained on the planet.

Markets will probably not function. direct sales might be used.

wars can take place but will require some more logistics.

transports will be costly and may take some time.

Gold coins are only required when purchasing a country and when keeping a country or an empire running, in the same way this is done on the other worlds.
The cost of countries will be low as all countries have exactly one natural resource.

Conquering countries is also an option.

OOh snap

I have to say that I like this idea a lot.

sounds interesting but i wont be participating, im too new for this

Sounds like a completely fresh idea, I like it

Why do you call it a proposal?

It is not written in stone.
we want to hear from players.

it is an idea.
it is not very difficult to do.
Players were looking for something new.
I had things in mind in the general direction but not worked out into many details.

So it was written today and put here as a possibility, an idea, or a proposal.

Good idea I like it. 1 question why the name Tiny Maori? Haha As a Maori myself I'm intrigued

Maori is used as a name in astronomy.

I hope it is not offensive in any way.
The name is also a suggestion.
Any ideas are welcome.

Kebir Blue, the first world is from Arabic. Kebir is large.

Sounds good. Will there be SOL awards?

I like it.

Great idea. I like it.

SOL?
maybe Soul.

Need to think about it.

I like the idea,

I sat down last night and wrote an entire suggestion. I'll post it later for your consideration.

Thank you.

we will look into all suggestions.

Our reactions depend mainly on:

1. Is the suggested feature a major addition to Simcountry and will make it much more enjoyable.
2. How much work is required.

The suggestion we have made is in all details within the current scope of capabilities.
As a result, it does not require many months of development efforts.

Any suggestion that is outside the scope, will fall dead if it requires a major development effort.

We have MANY fantastic ideas that are unfortunately waiting for resources.

I love this idea! This sounds like something that would be really fun for an enterprise oriented player like me.

I think this is also a very good and fresh idea.

I'd totally be behind this idea.

Thank you for the responses.

I will soon create a work plan for the developers.
it will result in more details and I will place here an update of the plan.

we will also get a better idea on the changes that are needed to make this possible.

If space fighter are to be implemented, it will require an extension to the war game.

Many parts of Simcountry are table driven and extensions not always require substantial additions of code.

We are doing more design and preparation work and think that the extension can be realized quite quickly.
The space fighters and possible war features may wait for a second phase and realized if there is sufficient interest.

we think that the new world might have some more countries, but will remain very small.

we will probably have only 100 to 200 countries with a space center which means that only these countries can land cargo shuttles and able to receive delivery of materials.

A player could purchase or conquer another country, move materials and people to that country and later build a space center or anything else.

we will add a space station or more than one, close to and somewhere between the current planets and the new one, to allow for storage of maintenance units for the cargo shuttles to make the long trips and possible other materials players may want to store closer to the new planet.

We will publish more info and create a more detailed documentation, also explaining how far this new planet is and what it takes to get a cargo shuttle go there and back.
The number of products of many types that fit on a cargo shuttle, next to the materials needed for the trip and quantities of various products needed for the population will be explained.

The consumption page we have in each country has a lot of information on quantities of food and other materials that are consumed by the population.

Currently, severe shortages of food and materials are having a negative effect on the welfare index of countries but such shortages, should in fact have a major impact on the wellbeing, health and death rates of the population.

More details will follow.

Looking forward to the published documents, this sounds like a great idea, but not easily accomplished. I'm hopeful that this will stimulate presidents to work with each other in order to gain a lasting alliance in a new world.
Rob

Race to get there first anyone?

Any islands are hereby claimed by the Kingdom of Batavia.

As is only natural.

Might not be a bad time to invest in the space industry.

This raises a question why same principles could not be applied across all the worlds, it should not be difficult to make some products limited per certain world.

That's a brilliant idea.

I think they've tried that already Mndz. Per the documentation you can only mine Selenium on WG and GR.