Awesome Suggestion

Step 1:
Make everything capable of being traded through virtual assets... everything: countries, enterprises, cargo shuttles, military products, non-military products, GC, SC$, and corporations.

Step 2:
Eliminate the "buy and sell" for the direct trade account (for GC, SC$, all products), eliminate direct trading within worlds, eliminate the cash market trading for countries/enterprises, eliminate space markets as they exist.

Step 3:
Just make a single giant space station that products must be placed into to be packaged into a virtual asset and where products are spawned when claimed as a virtual asset. Cargo shuttles can be used to transport to and from.

Reason:
To create a "free market" that can be used/abused in the context of the game for expanding and exploiting trade possibilities. Automatic transactions and price controls are lame... where's the concern over whether to trust the person you're trading with? Where's the curiosity over whether something is a good deal or not?

In short, make trading about interacting with other players and paying attention to the game. Make it about trust, cheating, favors, discounts, extortion, and gifts.

great suggestions

mine would be:
1. have one currency for all the worlds
2. allow c3 countries to be taken over by players who want them
3. real time cashflow of the nation, if a country or enterprise is in the negative for say 6 earth months, then the player loose that entity. rationale is that you're not trying if you're losing money for that long, or you don't care about the game, so let someone who does be the owner. this is reality, that if you loose too much money then you won't have a business.
4. if the number of countries is not fixed in each world, make this fixed. so no more country to claim if you're not hurry. this should make the owned countries more valuable, if they are developed well. so players can sell well developed countries.
5. just charge a flat rate of $1 per real month (earth month) per empire (per world), instead of the current 30 GC per month (equivalent to $3 at the gm exchange rate of 360 gc per $36 USD). player can trade their simcountry currency/money earned to USD or vise versa at the gm exchange or with other players. keep it simple, just make the gm exchange rate of say at $1 USD per say 1B simcountry currency (gc or SC$), instead of the current confusing rate of $40 USD per 90B SC$.
6. give out security council fund, automatically to players in the negative, for the first 6 earth months when they start. the current process involves too much favoritism among the players. or at least give players a credit line with the security council money at a interest rate of say 1% of outstanding balance per earth month.
7. give owners/players more money to play the game, it's no fun logging in every day finding out you cannot buy this or that, or build this or that because you are in the negative.
8. create more trust among players in the game. for me at the moment, i have no idea if i buy something from a player i would get it; for example, i seen many countries for sale and i would like to say pay $50 USD for say 10 developed countries from another player, but how do i know for sure that after i paypal him/her, that i will get a virtual key that allow those countries to be turn over to me. it seems that the gm has no control over this?
9. make the maps bigger and better. they're hurting my eyes looking at this tiny maps when i want to know something or move something.
10. i would probably buy at least 100 countries in each world if the price is $1 USD per country. make it so that you can choose to run many countries in direction places/continents or combine the ones that border each other as one big country. i often wonder how those owning say 50 or more countries have to go through the pages of each country to set their parameters. it's time consuming? the documentation mentioned that each country is about the size of a USA state, so allow the player to operate the countries he/she own to operate them as state.

Get your own thread, buddy.

sharing is caring

besides, it's on the same subject as yours. so let's keep them together.

That's an interesting concept Scarlet.

But....Would the community miss their daily 2000 clicks??

Rick, the clicks would be replaced by haggling. ;)

Come on Scarlet, you know the possible abuse of this system would be rife.

Please keep in mind: allowing the possibility for someone to lie, cheat, and steal is part of the point of the suggestion. The idea is to promote/force the cultivation of reliable and trustworthy trading partners.

Unless you are referring to something else...

Very Utopian, but you aint gonna get everyone playing by the moral rules all the time. Not long ago we saw one player steal a complete country from their 'best friend' on SC.

Sorry, I cant devine the subtlety or innocence of your last comment.

"the possibility for someone to lie, cheat, and steal is part of the point of the suggestion."

that's just evil intention, pre-meditation to do evil should not be encouraged whether in life or in sc?

encouraging people to learn from each other, respect each other, and improve each other, etc all the positive things in life should be the way to a happy life and worthwhile relationships with others

Crafty: Are you serious? Who would do that?

Unbelievable!!

Lol

BUMP.

The ability to con other players should be permitted by game mechanics. It is up to the players whether it should be condoned or condemned by the player community.

Virtual assets needs to come back.

BUMP.

Keep in mind, the core mechanic is basically implementing a means to "gift" assets to another player. The other parts are an overview of how that feature can be used.

What the hell's goin on out Their, You kids get offa dat Lawn.

hostile bidding is allowed in the game mechanics and players refrain from it because of pressure from the world community

Hey good suggestions, but I still disagree with, make your own price. Insanely dumb idea, we've been there, and done that. As Andy said, its been done before, but it was just terrible. So let's put that aside, but other than that, good suggestions, Scarlet.

Everyone cry's and complains about hostile bidding *cough cough* TheWhy *cough cough* or even bidding they think is hostile even though it's not *Cough cough* NICO *cough cough*

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