Robotics

Being this is required for most corporations how is this going to work?

Cause it looks like a shortage is coming

You'll have to build corps and find a supply of baradium.

So any corp that uses robotics to operate will not get it and have would have to build a robotic corp and find supply of Baradium?

Not necessarily. Robotics isn't at a critical point yet, but without influx of Baradium the corps producing Robotics won't produce anything. The challenge of that is that Baradium is only sourced from the Tiny Atlas world and then has to be shuttled to the other worlds and manually sold by the producer either directly or on the open market. So the 'automatic' resupply of the materials Robotics needs now requires at least some manual input, which means relying on other players to keep the market supplied with manual sales. The potential struggle is more with Robotics corporations themselves than the other general corps that utilize Robotics (which is all of them). Using the Fearless Blue world for example, last month Robotics supply was 18m against 58m demand, so the general fulfilment time on orders for Robotics is just under 4 months right now (less than an actual day).

robotics corporations are using about 2 kg of Baradium per game month.

There are several players delivering it.
I just saw an over supply of 30000-50000 kg of Baradium on FB and WG.
A Baradium corporation on TA produces about 700 kg per game month, enough to supply 350 robotics corporations.
All countries and enterprises on TA can set up Baradium corporations.
Baradium sells for 28.000.000 per Kg. a baradium corporation can make a turnover of
700 x 12 x 28.000.000 = 235 Billion per game year.

There are 1650 robotics corporations on WG.

It does not look like there is any danger that robotics corporations are about to fall over for lack of Baradium.

More probable, there will be a long term oversupply of Baradium because even with an increasing use of baradium, 20-40 Baradium corporation can deliver enough for all the robotices we need.

It seems to me that everyone is unaware of what silver is doing.
Silver is used in electric car batteries.

currently only a tiny percentage of cars are electric.
the percentage will increase.

These batteris do not live for ever and their numbers will grow.

Silver is available in all the worlds and on TA.
We expect major shortages.

I can supply KB with Baradium and Metadium for (real) months to come.
Given Targon is produced at a loss, I'm not supplying that.

Thanks for the information!!

It's not so much we are unaware silver is a problem, most of us are in no position to do much about it as we've depleted all the silver deposits in our countries.

There are many countries, C3s, with a lot of Silver on all worlds.

Maybe add/replace a country and you will have silver for a very long time.

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There are many countries, C3s, with a lot of Silver on all worlds.

Maybe add/replace a country and you will have silver for a very long time."

There are these things called "Rebels" so adding a country long term isn't a good option

Replacing a country really isn't much of an option either.

I could of course take a C3 with silver deposits long enough to build silver corps and transfer them to my Enterprise before dropping the country, since my enterprises are well past the 100 corp limit in which the game even allows them to build mining corps.

That pretty much leaves the easiest route being taking a country with existing silver corps from someone (most likely) or a C3, buying the corp with my enterprise, then stripping the country before dropping.

Yes I know there are ways for me to get silver when it comes right down to it.

In the real world we fight over oil, in Simcountry we'll be fighting over silver soon.

You could remove the 100 corp limit on CEO's building mining corps, or get a massive influx of actual players and there wouldn't be any more issues

Yankee,

You described several ways to resolve the Silver problem.
good for players to read. Not sure everyone knows.

Geting more players is the best.

we are working on it.

we think in fact, that improvements to the user interface will help.
This was always a problem.
How to get more players in.

we think that a more modern user interface can help.

we now have new methods to improve the user interface more quickly.

The graphs were a first experiment.
The forums, coming soon, is a second one.
The maps, very complex is on going but will take some time.

we are also working on the landing page.

The corporations section is quite far. We used it to see if the new method can be applied to very complex and long pages.

Yikes I should stock up on Baradium.