Population

Andy would you quick fooking around with corporation sizes? If nothing else at least give us some warning. Every time you do we end up with worker shortages, lose MILLIONS of population, unemployment skyrockets and income tanks. I'm getting sick of fighting it.
Look at FBC 01NH in fearless blue if you want an example.

Most of the changes are behind us.

There will be more, but smaller.

A slow shift to larger corporations with very high earnings should continue. we must limit the numbers of corporations.
It will be much slower and we will provide more information.

I am sorry for any trouble these changes caused.

I don't know how you think you are going to accomplish this. I'm seeing no changes in corporation production with the exception of one corp (Targon Missiles) which you quickly changed back to original levels.

You keep telling us you are making larger corporations which will create higher profits and require fewer corporations yet, with no production change we still require the same amount of corporations producing a product. I have heard you've upped production on TA however that does nothing for the majority of us or the majority of the products.

The changes are now taking place in the past several months and production numbers did change.
also, many corporations employ more people and that could increase their cost and reduce profits which
is not what we wanted.
To increase profits, many corporations use smaller amounts of war materials and some products
cost a bit more. This way, profits could increase.

what we will do at a slower pace will be to slightly increase production in some corporations
producing products that are in a hopeless shortage.
some corporations will hire more workers.
changes will be very limited to avoid major shocks to the markets.

I will grant it would be hard for me to keep track of a corporation using less material to make the same amount of product I generally do not track that very close. I do however know when the base production in any corporation I own increases. That has only happened with one corporation targon missiles, where there was a base production increased to 900 per month and was rapidly choked back down to 800.

You say you have to decrease the total number of corporations per world. I can only assume this is related to processing power so something has changed. This game ran for many years as it was without any issues in that respect that I was aware of with worlds that were fairly full and very active.

Now we have a minute fraction of the active players, yet we have to many corporations? We need X number of a particular product each game month. It doesn't matter how "BIG" you make the corporations, without an increase in base production we will still need the same number of corporations. In fact, due to world shortages on many things, we need even more.

My biggest problem with the entire situation is I spend months fine tuning things. You seem to wake up with some random whim and make changes which trashes all that effort and the bad part is there is no real warning and all we get is "there are to many changes to list". We aren't even told about many of them and have to figure out why our population and economy is tanking on our own.

The shocks to the market can normally be handled, fighting the destruction of our countries is getting extremely frustrating to deal with.

As I said, future tuning will be slow and the changes will be samall.
we have no processing power problems.
The servers can handle 3 times more without a problem and probably more.

We think that a smaller number of corporations per country will make it easier for
most players.
If nothing is done, the numbers will grow.

so the main changes will be;
Simultanious small increase in production, and a small increase in the number of workers.
Profitability should end up higher.

Reduction in the amount of materials used will also be small and tracking them is not
a big issue. Corporations will purchase quantities of products that will be a fraction smaller.

We will also look for corporation types that are less profitable and try to increase their profits
without any major changes.

We will keep listening to remarks/complaints about bad profitability, if accomnanied with examples:
names of corporations and the worlds where they are.

We do not think that the entire corporations model needs a lot of tuning.
we think that it is largely OK now but it tunes itself to adapt to things that take place on the market.
New products cause shifts and market manipulations take place and trigger shifts.