W3C - Tiny Atlas & other features

The financial index might reach a very high level.
we never tested this situation and there is a limit to the number of wind farms you can have.

we do expect that a large number of wind farms will result in a major decline of costs and a major improvement of the financials of the country.

The market price of electric power is high due to shortages.
the price might decline but wind farms will remain very profitable.

It will make sense for everyone to buy maximum wind farms in every country possible then once the changes are in. Anyone with any spare cash will do this (or should).

I see the finance index becoming the "windfarm" index (lol!) in this instance as there is no downside once the investment is in. Even at low electric power prices, you will be able to pay for all government costs and more with maximum wind farms, and having a great finance index as a result boosts score and welfare index. Why would you not do this?

There will be no downsides to infinite investment here with extreme profits and benefits. If the changes go through as you describe, I will absolutely be buying maximum in every country of every size.

I bring this up because I am not entirely sure you intended for this. If so - I didn't know you loved wind farms so much!

I'm not sure, the cost of maintaining a large army / navy will eat up your surplus cash. I imagine if a country was in such a position without at the minimum a large def army, they would become a prime target. Perhaps the answer would be allowing wind farms to become a target in war. Thus needing to have a garrison for def purposes.
Rob

95%+ of players are completely safe under war levels or secured mode on White Giant, Tiny Atlas, Kebir Blue, Golden Rainbow, and Little Upsilon. Asset risk isn't even something that has occurred as a possibility during gameplay for these players.

Having many many wind farms creates enormous cash - but currently there are some drawbacks. Having a balance of any sort, or a drawback of any sort can help keep things a little bit balanced. If the drawbacks are completely removed, there's no reason to not create enormous cash.

Like, what if you added literally hundreds of billions in profit per game month to each country with no side effects? What kind of defenses and additional military could you afford then? Why would you not do that? You could also simply turn your news bar off - even though the profits do not show anyways right now. How would anyone know? Can you tell how many I have right now?

Finally, on Fearless Blue, EVERYONE is a target - good economy or not. The only ways to be safe are to have good diplomacy or to have a big army - and massive cash boosts would allow anyone the ability to afford that. NOT doing that seems like a horrible choice.

I do not disagree with your post at all. unfortunately I need to be somewhere shortly. I will voice my thoughts later.
Rob

I've got 4 countries with 1k WF, and 4 with 300. 300 makes the countries more than pay for anything i want to, reasonably do.

Why not make a limit. 300 windfarms as a base max. +100 per war level. i.e. if you are wl8 you can max out 1100 wf in each of your countries, on that world.

That way, the 3 WL2 1k WF countries i have on WG, would be limited to 500 instead. And if i want to replace them on another world, my LU WL4 countries would be limited to 700 each

The change has taken place with the upgrade we installed last night.
government cost is now decreased by the income from wind farms.

My country on TA has a negative government cost. This will probably be the only way to turn that country on TA into profit.

I don't know yet what happened in other countries.

I agree with Josias that there should be some limit to the numbers of wind farms.
We agreed to increase the limit to encourage the building of more but the incentive is now excellent.

There will be some limit but we will hopefully see many wind farms and a move from the current way of producing electric power into wind farms.

Next we need this energy accounting page so that we will be able to see how energy is produced and used in each country.