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Question. My Country Zephyros on KB has good indexes except for employment. Employment is at 63% and all other indexes are well above 100%. When I check some of the corporations that are under performing it says lack of workers. Do I need to increase population to fix this? My pop. stands at 54 million and there are 68 corporations. I have had this issue come up in some of my other countries too from time to time. Any help grateful. Thanks.

Michael: Your population is high enough but you are missing some key professionals leaving many of your possible workers unemployed. As of this writing, 9 million workers are seeking employment. Increasing pop by purchasing it would make matters worse, as purchased pop tends to look like existing pop in demographics and skills.

It appears you started to take action by changing your education priorities. I see you are training more high tech engineers, which you dearly need. Make sure you take the time to understand your employment page, which is the best tool to identify areas of need and direct your education priorities in the right place. Also, seek to increase your education index a bit, as it will allow you to train professions more quickly and is holding back your welfare index, as it is low relative to other indexes.

When you get a chance, check the docs under Game Features and Indexes and check the calculation for the Welfare Index. That index is very important for the success of your country. Some adjustments in your country can both improve your income and save on costs in areas where you are overspending.

Good luck with your country and let me know if you get stuck somewhere.

cya tomorrow!

I've been all over the threads in the documentation this forum and I cannot find anything relevant to just exactly how you trade across worlds.

I'm trying to figure out just exactly what is required and decide if I want to expand to other worlds.

Can you point me to relevant game docs???

Yankee: As a general rule, the docs will tell you what is possible but won't outline a strategy. For example, the mechanics of moving stuff across space is there but it won't tell you for what reasons you may wish to do this. So, I will point out the easiest, and less well-known method, to trade across multiple worlds and touch on the obvious way.

The first way, and easiest, is through direct trade. Using the function "exchange products with countries and enterprises" you can move any 16 products instantly to your account and back again to any entity you own. You can obviously sell these for coins in the direct trade area or simply move those products again to any world that may offer a better market price for such products. All of this can be done without owning a single shuttle.

The other way is using the space game. Getting into it for premium members is actually quite inexpensive, with a small fleet of shuttles available on direct trade for just a few coins. Small fortunes can be had checking the markets of worlds you reside on and purchasing things on sale to hold for awhile or transport to a more profitable destination. For some time, I made quite a bit of money purchasing selenium where it can be made and transporting it to worlds where it could not be produced.

That is all for today. Going to head to my Dad's and watch the Superbowl. Not particularly vested in either team, I am a Bengals fan, but I would rather see the Falcons win.

cya tomorrow!

I have answered questions elsewhere on the forum today. Feel free to bring more questions here. It is likely the question you have is on other players' minds as well.

I would like to thank the GMs for their increased attention to the game these last few weeks. I am hopeful some key game issued will be addressed soon. I will still hang around this thread to answer your game questions

Hello again all, because I am a benevolent ruler to my people I lowered all taxes and increased pay to 500. Almost instantly I saw a massive increase in owned houses. Although I have no idea what a mortgage is, I assume it's bad I'm trying to find a way to pay it off since it keeps going up. Any ideas?

The housing and mortgage market in your country is nothing but a mechanism for determining the consumer demand for construction in your country. As far as what a mortgage is, google is your friend.

Me to glad to see even small updates being done to enhance the game!

We will try to fix some problems and remove some limitations. There are many items on our wish list, votes items we want to look into etc.

Hey Aries,
Let's say someone is trying to expand their ammo stockpiles and they make 10 corps through their enterprise for each ammo type they want to produce. Is it worth building your own corps and contracting the product to yourself (which would mean smaller increments over time) or should one just say screw it and buy them like normal in mass quantities? Is the corp profit you get back after buying the ammo from your own corporations really worth your time?

It depends on the market whether it is worth producing your own ammo. I would recommend not making the decision based on your need for it. If you need a lot or a constant supply of ammo, I have found it best to be located on multiple worlds and be patient and wait for deals. The exception is weapons or ammo which may not be available on the open market.

Ok, which worlds would you suggest I look towards, if there is a best one, when choosing the first one to go to?

Simple question: why does my weapons in my reserves sometimes dissapear?

As in, why am I losing some weapons in my reserves overtime.

-T. Wo

Part of maintenance for weapons are small fractions of weapons. This happens extremely slowly.

I believe Jonni is referring to this article in game news:

"104. Ammunition Shortages [ top ]

To prevent and also repair ammunition numbers from going negative, a new function is introduced that exchanges a small number of weapons, for a larger number of ammunition pieces for the same weapon. The sale of the weapon and the purchase of the ammunition happen as one action, with no cash transactions involved. The country has the same amount of cash before and after the exchange.

Exchanges will continue as long as the ammunition numbers in the country remain negative. and will stop immediately when the shortage disappears.
It is easy to prevent shortages. There are shortage notifications you can set and you will be notified either by mail or by a twitter message.

Purchasing the ammunition you need is essential when you try to keep your army operational. Make sure these purchases take place on time, set up these alerts and correct the shortages."

So, if you are running short of ammo, your weapons can be consumed to meet the daily use maintenance requirement of ammo.

Hey, any update on an offer for me to assist in updating game docs with the info in game news?

This is true too but does not take place a lot at all. Very few cases.

The maintenance of all weapons, including the on going training of the army, does use ammunition and from time to time, a weapon is destroyed.

The numbers, also in this case, are small.

Greetings Aries.
I created an asset maintenance corp in Freedonia on GR, but am baffled as to how I resupply my "space center" requirement. I have 2 space centers, but when I get to the trade with corps. page, it only has "buy" for an option. I read the documentation but it does not seem to cover that. Any insight from you or others (Wicked Lady, Psycho Honey,Yankee et al) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your insight.

I find making my own ammo has great benefits. Provides security and allows me to control the pricing somewhat.

nvm...situation resolved

Another simple question: which one is better, WG or LU?

How to suspend contracts? or buying supply so corp wont produce, increase spending space for population?

WG is better.

Aries i purchased shares and i have not acuired them yet and i made the purchase almost a week ago