W3C - Game News Aug. 8, 2013

The range of stealth bombers

The range is increased from 10.000 to 15.000 miles. This will enable stealth fighters cover a much larger area of the world. (More than twice bigger).

The range of conventional missiles

The range of conventional missiles is 20.000 miles. Conventional missiles have a more significant role in the armies than they had before and will have an additional, auto response capability added to them in the coming weeks.

The range of conventional missiles will however be reduced from 20.000 miles to 15.000 miles. This will match the new range of stealth bombers and will prevent the unlimited operation of such missiles with their increased capabilities.

The auto response capabilities and the reduced range will be implemented in September.

Earlier Changes

Max Stock Levels

The max stock levels of corporations is increased from 60 to 120 months. This will also resolve the supply problem with some of the new types of corporations where only tiny quantities of certain products are being used. The increase is now possible because of the decline of product pricing and the reduced need for cash in corporations.

Shares in Public Corporations

Presidents can now purchase shares in all the public corporations that are located in their countries even if they do not own any shares yet.

Maps

Some operations on the big maps have been improved and made much faster. More optimizations will follow.

More changes that are expected soon:

Manual orders will be added to the transaction logs. It will make it easier to follow what has taken place and how orders have been executed.

Air lifting and the moving of units will be simplified when multiple units are involved.

Corporations will be allowed to convert into a different type within their industry group if the game level requirements are met. They will keep their quality and efficiency levels. The conversion will be immediate.

Upgrading ammunition that is stored in military bases and outside the units.

Minimum stock levels settings and auto ordering for both countries and their corporations including CEO owned corporations.

Improvement of the navy.

More improvements and the addition of voted features are also expected.

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Max Stock Levels

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What about the stock of the corp's own product? How many months can a corporation accumulate stock?

I tried to buy Stock of a corp in my country and I get the following message:

Your country can only buy shares of corporations you control.

This is the best update I've ever seen... Thanks Andy... Can you elaborate on conventional missiles though? And you said their range was 15000 but on auto response is it extended like defense helos are?

"Air lifting and the moving of units will be simplified when multiple units are involved."

Really looking forward to this update

The range of stealth bombers

The range is increased from 10.000 to 15.000 miles. This will enable stealth fighters cover a much larger area of the world. (More than twice bigger).

Air lifting and the moving of units will be simplified when multiple units are involved.

This is good,very good.

As I remember, accumulating stock in your corporations is up to 40 game months.

we will retest the feature that allows you to purchase stock in any corporation in your own country.

Auto response units are bound by their range. These are offensive weapons. It is true that defensive weapons response can be unlimited.

ok thanks for that clarification.... what situations exactly will auto response conventional batts be used? and how effective is it.... because a conventional missile is more expensive then pretty much any weapon and I cant imagine them hitting anything other then a city or base

Thanks, Andy

Also, sorry for being aggressive in the eMails .

These missiles are precise. expensive but effective. The cost was declining in recent months and will decline more.

they will be used when the country is attacked and will damage the attacking forces to reduce the offensive capacity of the attacking country.

details will follow when the capability is added.


Its OK Star Foth.

And still the Vote News from 2013 are dated to 2012...

Andy, would you please consider linking to the Votings from Home again instead to the Vote-News? Or at least make the link to the 'Public Voting' a Little bit more obvious? I dont think many People see how to get to the Votings

Or maybe when someone suggests a vote we get an message in the portal account. Not many people vote becuase they dont check and they dont know

still waiting for these updates to actually be implemented :/

Any idea whats up with the market pricing of certain products, there seemed to be a cap. Eg. oil it stays at 380.

yim, there is a max and min Price for all products and you are not totally free to do your pricings in These boundarys, meaning you can manually only sell at 2xmarket Price even if your products are Q300 and you can tell your Corps only to sell at marketprice or below even if the Price hasnt reached the Maximum boundary

Thanks Borg Queen for explaining.
Also other, you are helping a lot.

and yes, we will return the voting link to the portal page.

hey andy, why cant free members close corps above 250b value? this needs to be changed

Hey andy why are conventional missiles being used monthly? It says that I use 8 missiles per month. This never happend before so why now?

Free members:
we really want to prevent them from closing high value corporations as this can be used to destroy the economy of countries.
free accounts are easy to create and misuse.

When you have weapons, ammunition is used each month in small numbers. The more weapons you have, the more ammo it is using.
some types of ammo where not used before and instead a lot of services and military services were used. This might have been one of them. The cost is not increased as the use of these services was reduced to compensate for the cost of ammo.

Andy

Just a Question to the GM.
I've been making a lot of air force maintenance units corps and naval maintenance and noticed its little hard to gain the materials needed for the manufacturing of these corps. I know i brought up the issue of the 60 month max supply limit to you, in chat and i greatly appreciated the fix. I wanted to ask about if the GM has any plan to increase production of Stealth Bombers, Strategic Bombers, Nuclear Submarines.

The reason i bring this up is that those corps only make 1(stealth bombers make 2) units per year. Which makes it hard to supply corps because they make 1 per year which requires a lot of micromanagement to supply corps. Also They have a low point on price. I've been watching mine on FB and i only make 25B per year selling 250Q subs but the costs well exceed 30-35B depending on the supplies. Id like to ask the GM to take a look at these corps. It looks like you could double production in all these corps which wouldn't effect them to much. Plus another point
Strategic bombers- produce 1 unit per year
Stealth bombers- produce 2units per year

These are required in air force maintenance units on all world and they are ONLY made of Fearless blue.
Those production units are extremely low, Is there any chance of the GM increasing these levels?

weapons regardless of low production are often in high supply... until of course people need them and they are impossible to get..... I think a solution to both these problems would be smaller Corp worker sizes.... corps would be more profitable in peacetime and in wartime it would be possible to build many weapons producing corps to supply an army

Just to let you guys know.... I am the 40,000th message posted on the General Section.

Way to goooooooooooooooo Spacey!!!!

The new maintenance corporations are more complex and it is harder to get the materials they need.
These corporations are also very profitable.
now you suggest we make it trivial to supply them.
should we also make them much less profitable?

Thewhy

Making corporations smaller will increase the numbers of corporations world wide and make the management of corporations more difficult, and the processing longer.
Some could be made smaller as only small numbers are needed but first, as we promised before, if shortages of ammunition show up everywhere they should produce more.

also, profitability of ammo (and other) corporations is higher and even in bad times, they should be able to manage and make a smaller profit or break even.

Space
we used to clean up the messages.
there are another 200.000 in archives.

Not at all Andy. I dont think you understand what i meant. The only thing im suggesting is a very SMALL increase in production.

You've said MANY times should the markets be in the red the GM will consider increasing production.

Strategic bombers and stealth bombers can ONLY be made on FB.
Each corp can supply 4 corps with planes. Which seems like alot but in the grand scale its not.

If each world had a MINIMUM of 100corps each(which BARELY makes a DENT in the current demand) thats 500corps

that's 125 Strat bomber corps/125 Stealth bomber corps, on a bare minimum

I'm not in anyway doubting the income the new corps make at all. Im just stating the low production on bomber corps need and update.

Like i said increasing stealth bombers from 2 a year -> 4or5
and
Strategic bombers from 1 -> 2 wouldn't effect profitability or really do any harm it would make it easier for people who want these weapons to get them.

They can only be made on FB. Im just saying if the GM expects players to supply all the worlds with these units they need to see some form of increase.