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[New Economic Module] Customization Points
Dear citizens,
You have in front of your eyes the 5th and last “technical” Insider dedicated to the new economic module. In a few days we'll provide a final article regarding the new economy module that will summarize all previous Insiders. After that we'll move on to the military Insiders. Oh, and what a different experience it will be! The economic module has been rewritten up to 70% and we can still recognize some products, ideas, and places. On the other hand the military module will be 100% new! Redesigned from the ground up! Please have a little more patience until we publish the Military Overview article, and you'll understand what we mean!
But today we are going to talk about Customization Points. In the rest of the article we'll use the abbreviation “CP”. In one of our previous articles we said that CPs will push the product qualities concept one step forward. This doesn't mean that CPs will completely replace the qualities. For example, you will still work in a company of a certain quality level, or rather customization level, and hence lose wellness according to that level. Instead of having five quality levels, companies will have five customization levels.
Since company owners use the CP to customize their products, players will no longer search for just “Q3 food” but for food that will restore a certain minimum amount of health or happiness.
Here are some rules:
1. A new company starts at Customization Level 1 with 30, 40, or 50 CP to spend, depending on the kind of product produced.
2. In order to complete product customization company owners have to spend all CP.
3. Company owners have to upgrade or downgrade the customization level to be able to change the product customization.
The cost of creating and upgrading companies is the same regardless the industry but the avaiblabe CPs differ, because we also need to take into consideration the number of product components:
- for products like food consisting of 2 components, the company starts with 30 CPs and receives 30 CPs for each upgrade. On these products company owners can spend a maximum of 150 CPs.
- for products like houses made from 3 components, the company starts with 40 CPs and receives 40 CPs for each upgrade. On these products company owners can spend a maximum of 200 CPs.
- for products like tanks consisting of 4 components, the company starts with 50 CPs and receives 50 CPs for each upgrade. On these products company owners can spend a maximum of 250 CPs.
But how many Customization Points can you spend on a single component? The answer is 100. This means that you can never have a product that has all its attributes maxed out. On the other hand, some attributes require a minimum amount of CPs; like durability for example, you can't leave this at zero CP.
We said that the prices are still the ones that you are used to (20 GOLD to create company + 20 GOLD to upgrade to Q2 + 50 GOLD for Q3 and so on). But one thing does actually change: you'll not be able to create a new company with just 20 GOLD. You'll need another 20 GOLD at your disposal, which is automatically transferred into the account of your new company. This assures that your business has a good start, with enough money for raw materials, salaries and other expenses.
One more addition: the “dissolve company” button. This button instantly and completely "deletes" your company. Of course, it also refunds you, according to the currently existing rule (you'll get half of your invested GOLD back). This way we want to prevent high numbers of Q1 “ghost” companies, because a General Manager can decide to completely "delete" his company, not just downgrading it until Q1, as it is now.
Let's say you decide to upgrade your company, but you have lots of products in stock. What can you do? Right now you'd need to either upgrade (and lose all the existing stock) or put the products on sale and wait ... and wait ... and wait. Well, you will be able to put the current stock on sale and still upgrade your company. What you won't be able do is to remove the old products from the market place. Actually, you can do that, but your company would just lose them, just like as if you would have tried to upgrade the company while the products were in stock. So, when you'll want to upgrade, put on sale your old products (you can adjust their price anytime) and start doing business with the new ones!
OK, that's it for today,
Regards
Previous Insiders in the series:
- The New Economic Module – an overview
- The New Economic Module – Time Management
- The New Economic Module – Professions
- The New Economic Module – Products
You have in front of your eyes the 5th and last “technical” Insider dedicated to the new economic module. In a few days we'll provide a final article regarding the new economy module that will summarize all previous Insiders. After that we'll move on to the military Insiders. Oh, and what a different experience it will be! The economic module has been rewritten up to 70% and we can still recognize some products, ideas, and places. On the other hand the military module will be 100% new! Redesigned from the ground up! Please have a little more patience until we publish the Military Overview article, and you'll understand what we mean!
But today we are going to talk about Customization Points. In the rest of the article we'll use the abbreviation “CP”. In one of our previous articles we said that CPs will push the product qualities concept one step forward. This doesn't mean that CPs will completely replace the qualities. For example, you will still work in a company of a certain quality level, or rather customization level, and hence lose wellness according to that level. Instead of having five quality levels, companies will have five customization levels.
Since company owners use the CP to customize their products, players will no longer search for just “Q3 food” but for food that will restore a certain minimum amount of health or happiness.
Here are some rules:
1. A new company starts at Customization Level 1 with 30, 40, or 50 CP to spend, depending on the kind of product produced.
2. In order to complete product customization company owners have to spend all CP.
3. Company owners have to upgrade or downgrade the customization level to be able to change the product customization.
The cost of creating and upgrading companies is the same regardless the industry but the avaiblabe CPs differ, because we also need to take into consideration the number of product components:
- for products like food consisting of 2 components, the company starts with 30 CPs and receives 30 CPs for each upgrade. On these products company owners can spend a maximum of 150 CPs.
- for products like houses made from 3 components, the company starts with 40 CPs and receives 40 CPs for each upgrade. On these products company owners can spend a maximum of 200 CPs.
- for products like tanks consisting of 4 components, the company starts with 50 CPs and receives 50 CPs for each upgrade. On these products company owners can spend a maximum of 250 CPs.
But how many Customization Points can you spend on a single component? The answer is 100. This means that you can never have a product that has all its attributes maxed out. On the other hand, some attributes require a minimum amount of CPs; like durability for example, you can't leave this at zero CP.
We said that the prices are still the ones that you are used to (20 GOLD to create company + 20 GOLD to upgrade to Q2 + 50 GOLD for Q3 and so on). But one thing does actually change: you'll not be able to create a new company with just 20 GOLD. You'll need another 20 GOLD at your disposal, which is automatically transferred into the account of your new company. This assures that your business has a good start, with enough money for raw materials, salaries and other expenses.
One more addition: the “dissolve company” button. This button instantly and completely "deletes" your company. Of course, it also refunds you, according to the currently existing rule (you'll get half of your invested GOLD back). This way we want to prevent high numbers of Q1 “ghost” companies, because a General Manager can decide to completely "delete" his company, not just downgrading it until Q1, as it is now.
Let's say you decide to upgrade your company, but you have lots of products in stock. What can you do? Right now you'd need to either upgrade (and lose all the existing stock) or put the products on sale and wait ... and wait ... and wait. Well, you will be able to put the current stock on sale and still upgrade your company. What you won't be able do is to remove the old products from the market place. Actually, you can do that, but your company would just lose them, just like as if you would have tried to upgrade the company while the products were in stock. So, when you'll want to upgrade, put on sale your old products (you can adjust their price anytime) and start doing business with the new ones!
OK, that's it for today,
Regards
Previous Insiders in the series:
- The New Economic Module – an overview
- The New Economic Module – Time Management
- The New Economic Module – Professions
- The New Economic Module – Products
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Nice. : )
That's cool!
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HI ADMINS
good stuff for once
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CP?
CP on mah eRepublik OMG
interesting, looks good so far. only thing i dont kike is the fact that companys now require you to have 40 gold at hand, i mean yeah, your only realy spending 20 gold, the rest goes into your company to ensure you have a good start, but surely the ammount of money the company owner decides to go into buisiness with is his/her desicion, what if id rather go in with only 10 gold for materials because im tired of waiting?
what??? 40 gold for a q1 company??? i mean, sure, i can withdraw some of the money, but than i will have to pay the tax and lose some of it...
What happens with (land)companies, which will not exist in next module?
nice job
I like the customization point concept.
Nice, i like it
This I like.
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More Complex
What about facebook integration:D
I like the delete business option and also the higher cost of starting and running companies
Ok
Good
meh
So wats the trasfer rate from old companys to this new version
give the gold back!
so, how will you transfer the old companies into the new ones? Do you get some CP to choose how to customate?
And what will our gifts, iron, wood and diamonds companies become ? And our stocks ? Will the new module change them into golds ?
What's missing in all Insiders describing new economic modules are formulas.... for production, how exactly customizations affect citizen properties like happiness, health, damage, strength etc...
How can we judge things without knowing exactly how it affects things?
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Add new countries!!!
I like the delete business option and also the higher cost of starting and running companies [x2]
Good news in general. This way, not every average noob would be able to ru(i)n a company and harm all the other entrepreneurs.
So, you <b>must</b> have +20 gold to create a company, but you need the local currency to actually start the business. An interesting situation, if I e.g. have 20 gold + 500 of the local currency, I have to convert some of the currency into gold to make a company, and then convert the gold back to currency to be able to actually use it.
Also, some people can support their companies from their own wages. Start a company with 20 gold + add 3 gold worth of currency, and add 0,5 gold each day afterwards. Yes, it is possible, and yes, some people actually do that.
viva iran
Give us this module as soonest is possible
40 gold for a company? :S
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"But one thing does actually change: you'll not be able to create a new company with just 20 GOLD. You'll need another 20 GOLD at your disposal, which is automatically transferred into the account of your new company."
That is definitely bad idea.
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Good thing I don't plan to open a company any time soon.
PAKISTAN REBORN!
Add Macedonia
Yeay for deleting companies!
cant wait for 2020 for all this stuff to be implemented.
can't wait for V2, guys, looks awesome
viva iranian
Really cool I must admit!
Nice. Voted. ;]
Still waiting....
eRep will not be eRep anymore
what about raw industry?
will we be able to customize our products?
Don't worry you will still be able to buy existing Q1 companies if you don't want to spend 40g to start a new one. It will actually be good, less companies will be created.
Mr. Llondru was here
tl;dr
In your last articled u said that the wellness stuff for newbies i mean starting the game with wellness 100 is already live , but it's not live yet . why didn't u carry it out ?
"You'll need another 20 GOLD at your disposal, which is automatically transferred into the account of your new company"
good one!!
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so, what happens with wood/diamond/gift companies?
chipichí
"Dissolve Company" is a great idea.
No vote, unsub, rep... eted
go fun your selvs...
I assume that after the "delete" button there will be a "are you really sure" button, to prevent accidents?
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vamos, que teneis la picha hecha un lio
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minimun level (14 or 15) to open a company please!!
no me borreis el comentario admin...
nice ...
no change for raw sector ???
i like it
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Sounds interesting,but probably a mess in the first few days
We wont playing sims...
Oh noes!
Teh Secomony is comin'!
Step on
You'll need another 20 GOLD at your disposal, which is automatically transferred into the account of your new company.
it's the stupidest thing I ever heard. 20 gold?! 20?! 5 gold is enough. GOLD?! are we going to pay salaries in GOLD? or either buy raws for gold?
I DON'T CARE ANY MORE
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"You'll need another 20 GOLD at your disposal, which is automatically transferred into the account of your new company". This is the death of q1 companies, everybody will upgrade their on the very first day...
This is the technical insider? and where are formulas? how can i decide how to use my CPs if i don't know the effect that this action will have?
what abaout my q5 house? In the new ecomonic modul can I customize my house or it will be in fixed CP-s?
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That (deletion of company option) will definitly help in this current recession where we have too many Q1 companies and not as many interests for the products.
Your house will rot!
"This is the technical insider? and where are formulas? how can i decide how to use my CPs if i don't know the effect that this action will have?"
As you slide left-right increasing or decreasing CPs for a given component, you can see exactly how this is going to translate in the final product's attribute and effects, that is it tells you how much wellness that food will offer, or whatever attribute. So you don't need to know the formula,for now..it will be user-friendly
it sucks, new modul is way too complicated
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It's stupid. CP are something strange and artificial. Why don't you rely just on economy? Cost of making better component should rise with some power of quality which would go to the perfection but would never reach it. Then some quality/price balance would have to be found, but with no upper limit.
It's also stupid that I have to upgrade company spending oh-my-god gold amount just to fine-tune my product. One could not to follow changing consumer preferences. Will the product after upgrade be customized completely anew or only new CPs will be available to use?
Any production needs tools. There will still be no tools. We couldn't trade components. Wouldn't it be fine to run specialized company that makes only roofs?
I don't like it. I hoped you will do something fine. It will be definitely more complicated but not as fine.
Have you ever seen the first 'Settlers'? I loved it.
This article's news is so much nicer than the previous ones. Good work.
On the other hand the military module will be 100% new! Redesigned from the ground up!
So that means no more Lana!?!
CP points sounds interesting...
As i am still a beginner in this game, i think that 40 gold to start up a company is too much. As it means that i will have to wait for a long time to get that amount of money. Personally, i will not buy gold with real money for a game nor will i try to get a loan. Dont get me wrong, i like the CP idea, however, please make it a easier for beginners to start in the business world.
Thanks
1st hundred!
what will happen with diamonds companies?
Did you HAVE to call them CP? lol
No more Lana?
Woot woot
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Q1 should cost 50G at least so it can provide decent business and stabilize demand/supply. Every newcomer can open a Q1 after a few weeks now and start ruining business for others. Imagine if anyone could open a basic bakery for 100$ IRL...
Awesome, and to keep it fair existing companies are credited with 20 gold too... right?
Other than that fact this seems awesome.
capito niente
Nice, for a change.
Most glorious.
Isn't it easier just to put some pictures in the article? Or are you also having problems with attaching images in the articles, getting only "obrazek" instead of image, or perhaps not getting text when image is in article?
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