Iron Resource Threatened, Prices to Rise Again?
Gnilraps
Saturday Edition
Day 1,215 of the New World
New "Trade Routes" Rules Threaten Iron Access
According to yesterday's White House Press Release, a major change in International Economics is coming in just 4 days. In a nutshell, access to a particular regions' resource must be connected to a country via "trade routes".
It appears that any region owned by a country must be connected by adjoining owned regions or else the resource bonus is not available to those living in the non-adjoined regions.
There is a discussion in the forum about this. The forum discussion, however, has centered around complaints and suggestions to Admin. These suggestions likely have little chance at being followed.
Here is why this is important. Our access to Iron, one of 5 valuable resources for manufacturing weapons (a resource that provides a 5% bonus in production) is currently only available to eUSA because we hold the Southeast of Ireland region.
The way 16 Shells reads the pending rules change, starting on day 1,219 the eUSA iron industry will suffer a 5% reduction in weapons production (*edit)and will suffer a 25% reduction in iron production because Southeast of Ireland is not adjacent to any other eUSA held region.
It is imperative that conversation regarding this rules change shift from complaints and suggestions to deaf wigs, and instead focus on strategies for rescuing our Iron bonus.
The easiest solution seems to be to swap a couple regions with eCanada. The Shannon region is adjacent to Southeast of Ireland, but contains Canada's only Fruits resource. eUSA could easily give back to Canada a fruits state (Pennsylvania) which would replace the loss of Shannon. But what is to gain for Canada who holds all the cards in this. They could easily ask for Minnesota, a grain state, so that they gain a resource in exchange for helping us retain iron.
However, our MPP with eCanada does not expire until 10 days after the new trade routes rules go into effect.
The better option seems to be to swap Ireland's Cork and Kerry region (her only cattle region) with Maine (e.g.) giving Ireland new access to aluminum. But this would certainly upset Ireland's entire food industry for a gain in their (not significant) weapons industry. If I am Ireland I want more.
Why has no public discussion begun on this important topic?
It seems a short-term increase in the cost of iron is once again on the horizon.
16 Shells recommends that any citizen involved in the iron trade attend the White House Press Conference scheduled for 18:30 eRep time tonight (day 1,215) at #whitehouse.public.
Meanwhile, let's see some more substantive discussion at the forum.
-Gnilraps
16 Shells
Comments
Can't plug shells without iron
The other option is to get Cork and Kerry from Ireland. Why bother with Canada at all?
@ CcC Iskender Buyuk CcC: Same problem as with Shannon. Ireland loses cattle altogether.
And I just transformed one of my grain companies to an iron company!
Sorry, but you have some misinformation. Loosing a raw resource (Iron, Grain, or Oil) is horrible, because those resoruces do not have 5%. If you have one of these resources they give you a 25% raw bonus, if you don't have them you have no bonus at all. : /
@Paladin Sutera: I will double check. I think you get 5% each for 5 resources. In the case of weapons it is rubber, saltpeter, iron, oil, and alluminum. We currently have 4. So we currently gain a 20% bonus to production.
Anyone else? I think I have this right.
Hail SPAIN
Forget canada
@Gnilraps: I thought like you but apparently Paladin Sutera is right (unless Plato impose another change reagarding resource bonuses)
"If country has a region with iron as recourse, all iron companies located in that country will get +25% bonus to their productivity"
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Raw_materials
Raw materials (oil, iron, grain, and stone) are separate from resources like rubber and deer.
does not answer the question of trade routes. remember rules are changing.
Ireland is much more vulnerable to hostile RWs than Canada...
And yes, Iron gives also 25% productivity bonus to iron company, not just 5% to weapon companies
Or we can completely leave Ireland and ask our new allies in the UK if we could rent Wales. They have excess iron regions and Wales happens to border directly with a handful of our states.
^That
i know canada wants a grain region
Wales is a good idea. But whatever we do, we should do quickly.
We have had Canada inside us before, even with the MPP issue, this seems like the best long term solution.
I have Iron to sell, PM me.