Plato says we are backwards people, part 3. Airports, Hotels and Railroads!

Day 459, 10:59 Published in Romania Sweden by Misho
Plato says we are backwards people, part 3. Presenting Transportations and Infrastructure.

This time article published in Romania again, since other countries can't VOTE them up properly😁

This is the third article in a series of articles, it is what you could call a suggestion to the game developers to implement a few things, like an Education system, Airports, Harbours, Railroads, Battle ships, Air craft carriers, Submarines and Tanks and how it could actually be done with few changes and work within the current game mechanics. First out was Industries, presented in the first part followed by an Education system presented in the second part.

This time we shall listen to what Plato has to say about Transportation and Infrastructure!




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Plato: Misho, can you hear me?
Misho: What!?
Plato: It’s me Misho, Plato, speaking inside your head. Don’t be afraid, I’m using telepathic.
Misho: You are kidding right?
Plato: No, I promise. This is the latest shit. Not even Shadow Ducks can listen to this conversation!
Misho: Scary, is telepathic the next thing for the New World?
Plato: Misho, I’m sorry but I must teach you how to crawl before I can teach you how to walk. Telepathic is like advance dancing with a lady as beautiful as BetaMjau or Malika Ela without getting your hand palms wet.
Misho: Okay, I understand, I will never master telepathic.. what will you talk about instead?

Plato: Tuff-tuff, tuff-tuff, PHEW! PHEW! I R O N H O R S E S !
Misho: You mean trains?
Plato: YES! Transportation systems and infrastructures!
Misho: Okay, go ahead and preach old man!

Plato: In eRepublik we don’t use the oceans. Queen rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves..

..to bad there are no waves to rule in eRepublik! Take the world map and create regions also in the oceans! Countries with borders should have territorial waters closest to their shores while the more distant water is made as international water.


Plato tells the admin to look at the eRepublik blue print.

With an easy-implemented system we will start using the oceans for transportations and conflicts! Raw materials and produced goods must be transported in order to be able to be sold. It’s a fact in real life and a great source of making eRepublik a much more fun game!

For example, your friend Kape is the manager of Ziggyzags old Akelius Lyxvillor. He has some 50 Q4 houses in stock. Now he just buy an export license to USA and anyone in USA can buy the house instantly. Thus making the prices very similar all over the world.

This is how it could be done instead! When a company buys an export licence to a country it can’t just place 100 products on that market instantly. They must be transported there!

Misho: Great, Kape will hate me if I print this in an article.
Plato: No, Kape is wise he will see the point with the system!
Misho: No he ain't no he won't but okay, continue!
Plato: Companies can transport things on trucks, railroads or ships.

Two new industries will be neede😛

Vehicles
Shipyards

And two new ’features’

Airports
Harbours

Misho: Protest you moron, admin can't even implement Citizenship, they will never do this.
Plato: Shut up and listen. Punk!

I will start telling you about Airports, since that is the only systems where companies can’t transport goods!


Use the Airport, but only if you are naked!?

To build an airport works the same way as fighting a war but with construction working skills instead of weapons! The congress vote yes to build an Airport and then the presidents office start a building quite the same way as a war is started!

With these exceptions: The presidents office sets salaries for the construction just like companies places job-offers and instead of strength, weapons and soldiers doing the work it’s workers in action.

The Wall (of course in game called the Construction and with a nice picture of an Airport) starts at 2 000 points and is finished when the workers have built it up to 4 000 points. Then the country has built an Airport.

Other groups can just like in war, join the other side of the wall and tear it down! Call it sabotage – and when the construction goes under 2 000 points it stops working. Just like in real life a group of terrorists can stop all the activity on an Airport if they strike against it.

Misho: This is crazy, it will cost way too much to build this. And what happens if the terrorist groups manage to smack the Airport wall down to zero and below?
Plato: If it goes below zero – it’s destroyed.

These way countries can conduct cold wars against each other’s. It should not be possible to see who are working on the ’wrong side’! Or perhaps it should..?

Misho: Okay, that could be a fun feature, a kind of construction war, or airport terrorism. But again, it will be too expensive.
Plato: Hmm, each country starts out with one Airport at 4 500 points in their capital city for free to make the transportation system working more smoothly right from the start. Starting the construction of a new Airport should cost about 200 gold, the big cost is the workers constructing it.
Misho: Okay, that should work I guess. But what does this Airport do then?
Plato: Using the Airport works like this!

Only citizens and organizations can use airports as transportation systems, not goods.

The current Moving Ticket companies shall change names to Travel Companies. A Moving Ticket company located in Sweden for example is changed to a travel company. If it has export licenses these are transformed into Destinations instead and if you want to fly from Sweden to Germany you must buy a moving ticket from a company that has Germany in its destinations. Destinations always work both ways. All air travels and air transports are instant.

Misho: Wow, kind of cool actually, but again way to expensive you must lover the costs.
But will this destination system work so that I can chose which region to land in or do I have to choose a region with an Airport to land in?
Plato: You can only chose to land in a region with an Airport, I am sure this will provide interesting scenarios in the future!
Misho: You said something about goods?
Plato: When an organization account or you as a citizen travels you travel without any goods, you leave not only your house behind but also all your food, weapons, gifts and so on. When you enter the plane your inventory slots must be empty!

Moving Tickets are not considered Items and should be placed on a separate item place.

Misho: Shit, can I still wear my clothes?
Plato: Misho, you are a naked wood doll, you do the math!
Misho: So I have to donate my things via Organization accounts to be able to fit in a plane, that’s a stupid idea Plato.
Plato: Donations only works between citizens located in the same region. Yes, we will have a boom of new Organization accounts for storage things.

Also 'a move all inventories Y/N button' should be implemented in order to save the people from going insane while using the drag and drop system for the one hundred and first time.

Misho: But this will not make it possible for me to travel to a conflict on the other side of the planet with my 50 Q5 weapons and fight instantly, and when out of weapons donate some more from my Or accounts around the world. This is shit Plato, what’s the point!?
Plato: This will make waging grand wars far from home a much more complex thing than just ordering 200 soldiers to move and fight.
Misho: No shit Sherlock!
Plato: Calm down will you! The citizens will adopt the system will work smoothly and feel natural after a while.
Misho: International legionnaires will have Organization accounts all over the world, working together I guess..
Plato: For the average soldier it will be just as easy as before, just follow orders, buy a Moving ticket and go to the designated destination, pick up the weapons and equipments and fight!
Misho: Pick up the weapons, which weapons!?
Plato: Please, let me continue!

For the generals on the other hand.. oh, my.. They must make sure the soldiers can be adequately supplied and equipped for large-scale combat by already sending the goods either by air, land or by shipping! In game this will work as a defense bonus since the home country will have a shorter way from its weapon factories to the soldiers in the front.

More about transports later!

Misho: Okay, that will add more planning and stuff to war and definitely be a huge defence bonus for the home country. But when I travel as a civilian I will enter the new country literally buck-naked. Fun for me perhaps but I will scare the ladies!
Plato: Hehe, well, when visiting a new country you need some place to stay – either you buy a house there or you check in on a hotel!
Misho: Hotel for the win!
Plato: Now you sound like Hador, grow up!
Misho: Sorry, got a bit exited, continue!


One night in Paris, Hilton style..?

Plato: 10 houses of the same quality level can be transformed to a Hotel. If you have 10 houses of the same quality level in you inventory slot the button ’Create a Hotel’ appears. If accepted a Hotel is created where the inventory slot with the 10 houses are located with the same Q level as the houses had.

A new hotel has always 8 rooms; the owner of the hotel sets the daily prize on each room. A Q1 hotel gives the guest 1 wellness per day while a Q5 gives 5 wellness per day. A citizen can only live in a hotel the first 10 days she visit a new country until she must buy a house to get a roof over her head.

Misho: Cool, so basically Q1 Hotels can be considered as tent camps for refugees making them stay a live and Q5 Hotels are quite fancy facilities.
Plato: Yes, kind of.
Misho: Okay, so when it comes to getting food, guns and so on the phrase buy local will have a new meaning. I kind of like it to be honest, if it continues, as it does not all products on all markets will have the same price. Kind of dull, this could add some varieties.
Plato: Not to mention realism!
Misho: How about transporting goods then?
Plato: Okay, goods transports

Goods are all Raw materials and all end products, Weapons, Food, Gifts, Houses, defense systems, Hospitals and so on except Moving Tickets and Passports.

Goods can be transported on Roads, Railroads or by ships on the ocean.

Misho: This sounds complex as hell..
Plato: You worry too much, it will work smoothly. New company owners will start to produce and sell on the local markets without worrying about the complexity of exporting markets. Once they feel they need more challenges they will start look into exporting things. eRepublik needs more middle and end game content!
Misho: Sounds like you have thought about this.. I’ll give it a chance.
Plato: I will start to present Railroads.


Solid constructions Plato says?
Frozen4 could take this one out with a Mutiny Kick!

The Presidential office can, after a successful voting procedure in the congress, decide to start construct a railroad in a region. If so the presidential office sets salaries just as explained in the case of building an Airport, this time the construction starts at 500 points and is completed at 1000 points.

Once built it can’t be sabotaged as an Airport can. The railway system is a much more solid system and can only be sabotaged by war measurements.

When two regions bordering each other in the same country and both having railroads they are considered to be connected. All goods transported between connected regions are done instantly and without any costs. Citizens in connected regions also benefits the Hospital with the Highest Q-level in the connected regions.

So in a country where all regions are connected with railroads all citizens in all regions can use a Q5 hospital even if the country only has one!

Misho: This is the first time you have suggested something that will actually save some money, all regions wont be desperate for expensive Q5 Hospitals now and the Congress election system can work better.
Plato: Well, companies with Craftsmen and Business and Administrators will increase the production a little bit, Medicine Doctors will raise the wellness and soldiers trained in Military Tactics will be more cost efficient, don’t forget all that!
Misho: Right, and the New World seem to grow steadily for every day so we should have people enough to build more things like Airports and Rail roads I guess. How does Railroads work internationally?
Plato: Regions bordering each other with railroads but located in different countries doesn’t automatically work as instant transportation system without first being accepted by the congress in respective country.

How ever the Hospital doesn’t work across nation borders. Railroads can be built across countries territorial waters but of course not over international waters. You can’t take the train from New York to Liverpool.

Misho: But from Dover to Calais?
Plato: Yes, if admin decides that the English Channel is territorial waters and if both the French and the British congress accepts it so yes.
Misho: You have been using the phrase Presidential Office instead of simple President, is that some other idea you have?
Plato: Yes, but I won’t explain that now. I’ll do it later on, perhaps you can write a future article about it.
Misho: You also said Passport, I guess that is linked to some kind of Citizenship idea?
Plato: Yes, Implementing citizenship is vital to make the New World working properly. I understand you have already suggested some ideas to the game developers on that issue.
Misho: Indeed I have, they literally asked me to do it so who am I to turn such a request down?
Plato: I would like to continue here and explain the naval transporting system, that is really the big thing with this new transportation and infrastructures but I don’t have the time right now I’m afraid.
Misho: Yes, starting out with Queen Rule Britannia like that without mentioning the Navy is kind of a disappointment I say.
Plato: I can understand that, but the Naval system is a bit too much to explain now. I haven’t even covered vehicles and roads. This conversation has already made me late for afternoon tea.
Misho: You mean killing a Vampire on World of Warcaft with Socrates?
Plato: Misho I’ve heard you drank a banana-flavoured beer.
Misho: Changing subject now are we?
Plato: That is girl beer Misho, Bic deWille lost all his previous respect for you, so did Algaroth and Bertil Gurkvatten also.
Misho: Okay, get out of my head now and do what ever you say you are late to do!
Plato: I will.
Misho: Thanks, and goodbye until next time. I'm looking forward to hear more about the Naval system.
Misho: Still there..?

Misho: Hello..?
Misho: God I hate this.

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Don't miss the new article series in the Onion,

Platon says we are back wards people, part 1:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/plato-says-we-are-backwards-people-part-1--732841/1/20

Platon says we are back wards people, part 2: Education system
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/plato-says-we-are-backwards-people-part-2-education-system--733564/1/20
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