W3C - Game news August 26, 2026

Targon Units

Targon units are now back on the list of military units you can build
An error that was introduced recently is now removed.

Sales Limits

The sale limit for products a country wants to sell is increased from 4 trillions, to 7 trillions.
Hopefully this will introduce more flexibility.

Corporation size

Many corporations became a bit larger again and use more workers.
We are doing this to reduce the increase in the number of corporations game wide.
Hopefully, it will in time reduce these numbers a bit. Very large numbers of corporations are more difficult to manage.
The corporations become more profitable in the process.

we hope that these cumulating changes will end up with smaller numbers of corporations that are producing much higher profits.

Graphs in Simcountry

We have upgraded the graphs in the entire game.

The previous graphs were created by use of an old external library. we are now using a much improved, more recently developed library.

New graphs look great!!!

Thank you Napoleon.

Next one should be the forum.

Feature Request: Country-Owned Bank

Please add a Country-Owned Bank feature to SimCountry.

The idea is to allow the government/country to own and operate its own national bank, which can provide financial services to both the population and corporations within the country.

Proposed Features
Loans to Citizens
The country-owned bank should be able to provide loans to the population.
Possible loan types:
Personal loans
Housing loans
Consumer loans
Education loans
Emergency loans
The government should be able to set interest rates and maximum loan amounts.
Loans to Corporations
The national bank should provide loans to corporations operating within the country.
Loans could be used for:
Expansion
Purchasing equipment
Increasing production
Building new facilities
Working capital
The government should be able to set corporate lending rates.
Loan Repayment System
Citizens and corporations should repay loans over a defined period.
The bank should receive interest income from these loans.
Defaulting loans could create realistic financial consequences for both the borrower and the bank.
National Bank Reserves
The government should have to provide capital/reserves to establish and operate the bank.
The bank should not be able to create unlimited loans without sufficient financial resources.
The country's financial condition could influence the bank's lending capacity.
Government Control
Since this would be a country-owned bank, the government should have control over:
Interest rates
Loan limits
Eligibility requirements
Reserve requirements
Lending priorities
Economic Impact
The feature could have a meaningful impact on the country's economy:
Increased access to credit
Increased corporate investment
Higher production
More employment
Increased economic activity
Potential improvement in the country's Finance Index and Welfare Index
Risk and Balance
To keep the feature balanced, excessive lending should carry risks.
Bad loans could reduce bank profits.
High default rates could damage the country's Finance Index.
The government should have to manage the bank responsibly.
The bank could generate profit when loans are repaid successfully.
Example

A country could establish a National Bank with $10 billion in capital.

The bank could then allocate:

$4 billion for citizen loans
$5 billion for corporate loans
$1 billion as reserves

The government could set different interest rates for citizens and corporations and monitor loan performance through the country's financial system.

This would make the economic system much deeper and give governments another meaningful way to manage their domestic economy.

I believe a Country-Owned Bank would be an excellent addition to SimCountry because it would connect government finances, population welfare, corporations, employment, production, and the Finance Index into one integrated economic system.

Feature Request: Country-Owned Bank

Please add a Country-Owned Bank feature to SimCountry.

The idea is to allow the government/country to own and operate its own national bank, which can provide financial services to both the population and corporations within the country.

Proposed Features
Loans to Citizens
The country-owned bank should be able to provide loans to the population.
Possible loan types:
Personal loans
Housing loans
Consumer loans
Education loans
Emergency loans
The government should be able to set interest rates and maximum loan amounts.
Loans to Corporations
The national bank should provide loans to corporations operating within the country.
Loans could be used for:
Expansion
Purchasing equipment
Increasing production
Building new facilities
Working capital
The government should be able to set corporate lending rates.
Loan Repayment System
Citizens and corporations should repay loans over a defined period.
The bank should receive interest income from these loans.
Defaulting loans could create realistic financial consequences for both the borrower and the bank.
National Bank Reserves
The government should have to provide capital/reserves to establish and operate the bank.
The bank should not be able to create unlimited loans without sufficient financial resources.
The country's financial condition could influence the bank's lending capacity.
Government Control
Since this would be a country-owned bank, the government should have control over:
Interest rates
Loan limits
Eligibility requirements
Reserve requirements
Lending priorities
Economic Impact
The feature could have a meaningful impact on the country's economy:
Increased access to credit
Increased corporate investment
Higher production
More employment
Increased economic activity
Potential improvement in the country's Finance Index and Welfare Index
Risk and Balance
To keep the feature balanced, excessive lending should carry risks.
Bad loans could reduce bank profits.
High default rates could damage the country's Finance Index.
The government should have to manage the bank responsibly.
The bank could generate profit when loans are repaid successfully.
Example

A country could establish a National Bank with $10 billion in capital.

The bank could then allocate:

$4 billion for citizen loans
$5 billion for corporate loans
$1 billion as reserves

The government could set different interest rates for citizens and corporations and monitor loan performance through the country's financial system.

This would make the economic system much deeper and give governments another meaningful way to manage their domestic economy.

I believe a Country-Owned Bank would be an excellent addition to SimCountry because it would connect government finances, population welfare, corporations, employment, production, and the Finance Index into one integrated economic system.

Prabhav,

While interesting, that kind of system is outside of the scope of this game.

Am I the only one that liked the old graphs?

I quite like the new ones. More information and all.
If anything, in the market price graph, the colour for the short version of the number should be changed from black to something else. It's hard to read.

I don't like the new ones, they are hard to read. Andy also changed something on the website, because now all the colors on everything (links, buttons, pictures, literally everything) is completely washed out and too bright. It's not me, because it's only happening on Simcountry.

Laguna,

where is this market price graph. Is it in the trade page where all products are listed with their market price?
I saw no problem there.
Please advise.

TheWalkingGlitch,

Which part of the grph is hard to read?

Andy also changed...", (Not me, there are others doing this...)
But I need more info.
We did not change colours but may have introduced an error.
Please give me an example of these colours on a specific page.

Changing the user interface will create some problems too and we will try to resolve everything ASAP.
we are now working on several fronts to see if the method works and where new screens will produce advantages.
The next will probably be the Forum.
we are also working on the most complex of subsystems, Everything under "corporations".
we think that if we can improve all these screens, we can probably do everything.

I am sure you will have comments.
Very important, because that subsystem will show the style of future remake of other pages.

The work is very important for Simcountry.

If completed, it will also result in an app.
Everything that will be developed after that, will be automatically implemented in the app.

It will also make new developments/features, updates, corrections etc. much simpler than before.

I just had a look in Edge and everything looked fine in the graphs as well. But I went back to Firefox and found the issue ther: the background colour of the legend box that appears on mouseover is almost the same colour as the font for the market price.

Thank you.
we will look into it.

thanks Andy

@Laguna That's exactly it, thank you for looking into it.