Hostlile bids (White Giant)

You're absurd Keonicus. The game in general should not be affected on a mass level by free players when players actually pay to play and build corporations in a country with no president registered.

Why should a free player upset what I pay to play and they get to ruin my gameplay for free? What is to stop them from registering a country, nationalizing corporations. Then quit as most free players do re-register a country and do it all over again repeatedly.

If you are in favor of everyone playing for free where not much matters and there is no consequence for actions good or bad, I suggest you buy the game from the game masters and your wish will be granted.

Pleasing free players who won't contribute to the game as premium players do at the expense of disenfranchising players who actually pay is not a working business model.

Maybe one day simcountry will be totally free to play and there will be no benefit to pay to play. What a thought....

Really? Way to completely go overboard. I don't think I said I was for the idea of everyone playing for free or eliminating the benefits of the players who pay to play. I am against the idea of reducing the options of the Free Players even further to protect the interests of the Premium Players.

An idea I would put forward is to maybe limit the amount of times a player could cancel and re-register a country, or perhaps increase the amount of time it took to cancel and re-register (so instead of instantaneous, maybe it takes like a week). That way the player would be more inclined to take better care of his or her country because they know that they may not get a new one.

But reducing the options of the largest group of players is not a "working business model". Regardless of the fact that they don't contribute yet, they may do so in the future if they like the game enough. But it's hard to tell if you like the game if you aren't allowed to access most of it.

And besides, who's to say Premium Players don't cancel and re-register countries?

I agree with Wendy

And besides, who's to say Premium Players don't cancel and re-register countries?

You must be new to SC. The reason paying members dont do that is becuase of 1 Simple fact BECAUSE WE HAVE TO PAY 30GC PER MONTH!!!
Im not closing and opening an empire when i have to pay 30GC per month

Bidding should be a paying member option. PERIOD

Keonicus, This has nothing to do with limiting the freedoms of free players, adding to or driving away new players from the game, or protecting the bottom line of massively rich premium players.

It has to do with avoiding unintended hard feelings between players.

And, we are talking apples and oranges here.
Your speaking about nationalizing. I'm speaking about bidding on a players state corps when the owner has no interest in selling it. Hostile bidding.

...and the game will never see the new player who is driven away because he or she can't make an unwanted bid on a corps.

Scenario:

I make 5 different accounts.

I bid on about 100 corporations overall.

I take them.

I close them.

You sit there with you're cash twiddling your thumbs because you have to set them all up again.

You may be in a negative cashflow

You may need to use boosters, which means using gc.

You waste your time setting them up, injecting cash, bringing back some income... when...

I repeat.

Wonder who would get cheesed off the most, and who would be trolling.

Keonicus - I'm assuming you're a free player. Nothing wrong with that. But the problem here is that the majority of free players register, start a country, take some corps from those of us who are in it long-term, and then leave the game.

Who wins? No one. The free player doesn't care, because he doesn't play any more. But the paying player loses ... so does the free player who sticks with the game and loses some of his corps in the same way.

Corps are important. They are important to those of us who are trying to be successful virtual-businesses, they are important to those who are trying to go up levels and need so-many corps to get to the next one, they are important to those who have learned to IPO and are using their CEO corps to improve their empire FIs and they are important to those who are trying to keep their empires supplied with restricted weapons and have built corps to secure the supply chain.

A player who is in it long-term (free or paying) eventually learns this. But a player who just waltzes-in, invests nothing, tries it for a while and gives-up can cause mayhem precisely because they have nothing to lose. Free players are already limited in a whole range of ways. In the grand scheme of things, this suggestion is only a limited restriction and will make very little difference to any free player. Nothing we are suggesting will stop free players building their own corps and growing them to be profitable. But it will make a huge difference to those of us who play long-term. If the GMs take on-board our ideas and you stick with the game, you will eventually benefit from it. If you don't then, respectfully, you are one of those who won't see any results from your actions and your opinion is not really valid ...

Hugs and respect

Jo

I am new, but would it not be prudent for paid players to play separate from non-paid? why would this not be the case?

Sonneillon, that would never work......everything in this game is connected in some form or another.