W3C - Game News April 17

- Remote Depots can now harbor mobile military units.
- Cargo shuttles can now land in remote depots you own in any country.
- Cargo shuttles can load and unload military supplies, weapons and ammunition in depots where they land.
- Cargo shuttles can unload all types of mobile military units in depots where they land.
- Cargo shuttles can load all types of mobile units in depots where they land, provided these units are complete and undamaged. These units must be close (up to 25 miles) to the depot.
- Mobile units in a remote depot can be dismantled into the depot.
- Mobile supply units have been added as a new type mobile military unit.
- Awards have been updated with the experience of the March awards to give more players a shot at a high award. It will take high award winners a little longer to fully recover their score.
- Golden Rainbow world now runs 6 times every day.
- More systems are upgraded. Slow down during processing is now less likely. More and massive upgrades will continue in the coming weeks.
- The White Giant world is now 3 times faster than before and could run 8 - 10 game months every day. The pace will be increased from 4 to 6 game months per day in the coming weeks. The difference in the pace of the worlds is a problem when communication between the worlds is involved. Moving WG to 6 game months per day will bring all the worlds to the same pace.

When I joined this game I picked Wg because it was only running 2 per day, then you increased it to 3. I do not know about the rest but I would rather you didn't bump up the rate...

It was 3 times per day from the start. The servers hardly made it on time.

then 4 times and we have always explained that the number of game months each day depended on the performance of the servers.

Hey Andy, if you say you changed the Awards, would you plz tell us what you changed?

And btw, there are still unsolved problems from last months Awards, plz have a look at the Thread you made for the feedback

Wow that is pretty cool for the White to have an increased month pace. Thank GameMaster, you definitely know how to run a game, I believe it will be a great upgrade into White Giant, thanks for helping to run this game, you do an amazing job at it.

Andy

I dont know if its just me, but im trying to war and the game wont let me send units to a nation. I dropped a RDU, waited over 48hours and its still a depot and wont let me sent ground units over the game is blocking me from doing so.

Im i missing something or is this a bug? Its reallying annoying becuase im trying to move up the WL and not being able to land ground units is a very big problem.

any info would help.
Please look @ the war in Melchior on LU

Ok, from my observation: The CEOs have a reduced regain in score of 5/RL-Day instead of the 7/RL-Day as before, but I cant distinguish what the Regain-Speed is for Empires now as all the Score-Lowered Empires show no more Score-Jumps each day but a progressivly decreasing in Score-Regaining. Anyone can confirm that and have a clue about the Empire-Scores?

And btw: First Place Score regaining is now up to 200 RL-Days for the 5 Score/Day for 1000 Points 1.Place reduction, instead of the 142 Days before so guess thats what Andy meant when he said it takes 'a little longer'.

Andy, what about the 'missions' you meantioned when GC Trading was GM-ized? How's progress going on in that?

Andy could you add soldiers and officers on direct trade ?

Someone chain Gamemaster Corporations on LU to the ground, because it is the 3rd ranked enterprise.

It is interfering with the awards.

@Laguna

As someone who sits as #6 ceo at the moment, that is kind of annoying :p.

Today:

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4 RoboCop Level 2 Gamemaster Corpor... 3614 image 691.13 USD<!-/Quote-!>

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Good news on the rewards thing: I actually got the 5th place prize even though I'm in 6th now. HOWEVER, over this past weekend and into monday and I managed to sneak into 5th before Aries passed me again so I guess it might just be that I lucked out on when they took scores. Still, Robocop's score needs a permanent nerf.

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Andy, what about the 'missions' you meantioned when GC Trading was GM-ized? How's progress going on in that? -BQ<!-/Quote-!>

that has struck me as more of a distraction. they offered that, (semi-confrontationally) as an option to partially replace the GC market. And challenged us to offer ideas, and support. However, the fact that they offered it for discussion, in place of the GC market, but didn't actually discuss, or offer any clue as to what they where thinking, i can be confident that it was just a method to distract us from complaining about loosing a keystone game feature.

i think that you mess up something with Score

my country on LU was on 3 place and i get 125 gold but later my score was increased for 100 points

i notice that score was increased for all other players in top 10 too

Here is my score:

https://sim05.simcountry.com/cgi-bin/cgi2nova?SN_ADDRESS=wwwCountry&SN_METHOD=w3graph&miTable=cntrhist&miKey=701&miColumn=vCmainScore


As i figure out you said that you will lower score of countries who get rewards so that other people could get rewards too

PS

Ty for 500 gold from awards (i earn 4. awards )

I still don't understand why enterprises get a far less award but the same score penalty.

Missions are not a replacement for anything that is connected to gold coins but missions will deliver all kinds of goodies to people who complete them.
we did ask for ideas and did not receive any but that might change.

there are some smaller features, fixes and improvements we are currently working on.
Missions will be a large project and work is in fact already in progress.

W3C - Gold Coins in Simcountry

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Fun is good.
Playing is more fun than sitting there, watching your countries make a profit each month and shout if it goes down a bit.

There will be more playing, and the mission game will add continous functionality with missions going on 24/7.

Any suggestions as to what kind of missions will be fun are welcome.
Please spend your precious time to make useful suggestion we can all enjoy.

Missions will be taken care of by mission vehicles/or units, that will move freely but not cross water without transportation.

what they do, or discover unerway, what kind of rewards, surprises, gold coins and special capability certificates is partially defined but a lot can be added.

so be constructive and come up with some ideas.

Advanced missions will have more capabilities, will be attacked underway to inherit their troves or missions and the missions might be aggressive in nature.

Everything is open.

The technology is close to ready, now the mission definitions. fill in the data. The servers will have to be upgraded before we go live with many simulatanous missions. -Andy<!-/Quote-!>

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well tell us more about missions, it sounds like we can gain GC amoung other things, and that we can repeat them? sounds allot like an updated version of C3 raiding, with maybe less conquest oriented goals. like when cuntry resources are introduced, obtaining an Oil resource might provide like 50 professional soldiers, 50 tons of oil, 10 gc, and amybe 1T cash, in addition to controlling the oil resource?

something like that? -josias<!-/Quote-!>

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Missions are not a replacement for anything that is connected to gold coins but missions will deliver all kinds of goodies to people who complete them.
we did ask for ideas and did not receive any but that might change. -Andy<!-/Quote-!>

Andy, this game feature is vague, and was offered as semi-replacement feature. Clarification is needed, inorder to understand what kind of flavor you want to provide.

W3C tendency to half explain things, is at fault, in relation to receiving feed back. Although, i'd be more convinced that you didn't really want feed back, you just wanted to push back with an undefined feature. Which would suggest that you are removing a feature, to add a feature. How ever, we are still waiting for tons of promised features...

honestly, W3C, you guys have a tenancy to promise things you haven't thought out, to half explain your intentions, and then argue with your customer base as a means to divert us from holding you to your promised features.

josias
aka orbiter

missions are not vage. They are just not part of the game yet.

There is no need to publish any details right now.

when we are close to the first release of the missions, we will publish the documentation.
The same as with the mobile units and the documentation is very detailed.

It seems that people do not like to help with new functions, they like to hate them.

Why start this now? we can wait until they are done.
There will be a lot of time to do just that when they become part of the game.

because, Andy, during the discussion about GC, you brought it up, and asked for feed back.

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Any suggestions as to what kind of missions will be fun are welcome.
Please spend your precious time to make useful suggestion we can all enjoy. -Andy<!-/Quote-!>

thats something you did. to calm down the situation, w/o any intention to actually provide any information.

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It seems that people do not like to help with new functions, they like to hate them. -Andy<!-/Quote-!>

Andy, its clear that you where really trying to bait and distract us from the main issue. but you couldn't even measure up to your half, that is, an actual discussion. rather, you pushed it out their, with no intention to living up to what you say. hoping to diminishing the fall out of removing a keystone feature.

Andy, listen to me very carefully.

many players will eventually loose things that they have literally spent years building.

we deserve more than the run around.

I aksed for ideas on missions and none showed up.

distraction?
Long time players like to complain about all the new features so we asked them to participate.
We tried to start a discussion, not specify what the plan is, just asked for others to come up with ideas and ..... nothing happened.

we are now largely beyond that point, but ideas remain welcome.

It has nothing to do with gold coins.

Well, thanks for not deleting, or banning me, first off. I'm stunned, to tell the truth, in a pleasant way.

But the actual discussion, again thanks, but you are digging yourself a pit.

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We tried to start a discussion, not specify what the plan is, just asked for others to come up with ideas and ..... nothing happened. -Andy<!-/Quote-!>

from W3C - Gold Coins in Simcountry

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Andy, about missions:
In my impression the really only missions that would fit in the game are missions like: Get your Welfare index up to 135 for 6 months or conquer country xxx in the next 6 months and the like.
Indiana-Jones style missions like: Set up a Science-Trek to explore the Maja-Treasures on Continent xxx would be not really fitting in my opinion as it would be watering the concept of empire and enterprise managing but acceptable. -BQ<!-/Quote-!>

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Suggestion: missions involving research and technology. A flu pandemic rages throughout a world or continent or subcontinent and whoever invests enough to develop the vaccine is rewarded with coins and/or cash and/or exclusive right to build corporations that produce and distribute highly valuable vaccine. -bigsatanloaf<!-/Quote-!>

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These missions: They are going to need special units right, what are we going to need to buy these units? GC? to possibly gain GC from these missions one is going to need GC to invest. OK, a few of us can probably afford that, I just spent many GC on mobile units, but the new player? -Crafty<!-/Quote-!>

Andy, including my statement, that makes 4 statement/questions, from 4 different players, that where blown off.

And you continue to say you received NO feedback. It just simply isn't true.

you even stated that you didn't specify anything. and it would be clear by each responce that we are looking for more info. your refusal to provide that, and your denial of our comments, in relation to a feature you asked for feed back on, is atrocious.

stop giving us the run around.

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distraction?
Long time players like to complain about all the new features so we asked them to participate. -Andy<!-/Quote-!>

how are we suppose to react, when you make it clear your not interested in what we say? not only that, you are vague. and refuse to provide more detail.

just the statement "missions," certainly carry a jist of what you meant. But their are many ways to interpret that! leaving it like that, is vague, and blowing of every comment, only furthers what you said...

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It seems that people do not like to help with new functions, they like to hate them.-Andy<!-/Quote-!>

how are we suppose to get behind it? when you don't give us enough info on it? and blow off everything we say?

this was presented as something to discuss instead of the removal of the GC market. So yes, a distraction. which, i'd be ok with, if you'd hold up to your end, and actually discuss the feature, instead of deigning what any one says.

don't you get, that by treating us like this, it only makes things worse!

Well I'm mostly concerned about where my birthday present is from Andrew......my adopted son. I just knew I would have a 200 gc deposit in my account!!!! lol :P

Now there is an idea, Andrew. GC gifts at players' birthdays. See how nice I am. I'm willing to share the gold. Also, half price GC sales!!! Ooooooooh the ideas I possess!!!

Love you all!

I want scantily clad women in the pop ups not some damn advice on how to run my country.... ITS A DICTATORSHIP FOR CHRISTS SAKE its not supposed to have good pay and employment and social security.... and you act like you care about my gaming experiance Andy Pasha pasha