Education Today Update: New Raw Materials

Day 1,106, 15:21 • Published in USA USA • by Department of Citizen Affairs


As you may have heard, the raw materials used to create products in companies have changed. Just about everything about them, even their appearance. This here article is to update you on what's going on.

What We Have

Cattle
Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, South East of England, Tibet, Chongqing, West Bengal

Fruits
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, District of Columbia

Grain
Arkansas, California, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Alentejo

Aluminum
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont

Oil
Alaska, Louisiana, Texas

Fish
South West of England, Kerala

Deer, Iron, Saltpeter, Rubber
None

What Does It Mean

First off, the way "low" and "high" resource regions is changed. All regions now are considered "medium", and have one "rich" resource which is provided above or on the region's society page. A raw material company in a country with a rich region of that raw material will yield a 25% boost in productivity. The company having to be on the rich region is seemingly no longer required.

All of the raw materials are now in "food" or "weapons" groups. Grain, Fish, Cattle, Fruits and Deer are food resources. If a country has a rich region of one of these resources, food production companies will get a 5% boost in productivity. If they have all 5, they get a maximum 25% boost.

The weapon materials are Iron, Aluminum, Oil, Saltpeter and Rubber. They provide productivity boosts for weapons companies in the same fashion food materials do.

The absence of Stone, replacement of Titanium, and re-categorization of Oil means that Moving Tickets, House, and Constructions companies are cut from the game. How moving will work or if there will be another form of free healing to replace hospitals is yet to be disclosed.


Oh yes they di-id.

The owners of the companies in the cut industries will get the first crack at creating a company in the new industries. They also get a one-shot feature to change their company to any industry they want. Company creation in all of the new industries is currently disabled.

The ability to have more than one company in the same industry will apparently be added. The ability to move companies to different regions was also brought up as a possibility. This should cut down on people going broke after botching company creation.

Links

See our source and the admin's post about the change here.

See Vice President Gulden Draak's article about the change and our international options.

Chime in our thread on the eUS forums.

We'll update our company article soon to reflect the changes. Create companies with caution while the admin does their changes!

Until next time,


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