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Region productivities in V1
Dear Citizens,
The raw materials in V1 will be:
Grain - needed to create food units
Oil - needed to create moving tickets
Diamonds - needed to create gifts
Iron - needed to create weapons
Wood - needed to create buildings (hospitals, houses and a new secret building)
The food, moving, gifts and weapons industries will be considered the manufacturing domain.
In the productivity formula we have a variable called 'region productivity' which is now 1 for every region. For the raw materials industry this value will be 0.1, 1 or 2.
In order to get the geo-political and economical environment in the New World closer to reality, we have divided the raw materials per Erepublik regions, keeping as close as possible a connection with real life natural resources.
For example: In the Italian regions you won't find diamonds, so the region productivity value for diamond companies will be 0.1 in all its regions. However, in South Africa there will be a couple of regions where the region productivity will be 2. Needless to say, building a diamond company in Italy wouldn’t be a very good idea.
The main benefit of the resources industries will be that a new strategic element will be added to the Erepublik regions.
The values for the different regions’ productivities can be found [a url=http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGmk9oLcxIcMhZ5pBlHDCZA]in this table[/a].
Best regards,
The Erepublik Team
The raw materials in V1 will be:
Grain - needed to create food units
Oil - needed to create moving tickets
Diamonds - needed to create gifts
Iron - needed to create weapons
Wood - needed to create buildings (hospitals, houses and a new secret building)
The food, moving, gifts and weapons industries will be considered the manufacturing domain.
In the productivity formula we have a variable called 'region productivity' which is now 1 for every region. For the raw materials industry this value will be 0.1, 1 or 2.
In order to get the geo-political and economical environment in the New World closer to reality, we have divided the raw materials per Erepublik regions, keeping as close as possible a connection with real life natural resources.
For example: In the Italian regions you won't find diamonds, so the region productivity value for diamond companies will be 0.1 in all its regions. However, in South Africa there will be a couple of regions where the region productivity will be 2. Needless to say, building a diamond company in Italy wouldn’t be a very good idea.
The main benefit of the resources industries will be that a new strategic element will be added to the Erepublik regions.
The values for the different regions’ productivities can be found [a url=http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pGmk9oLcxIcMhZ5pBlHDCZA]in this table[/a].
Best regards,
The Erepublik Team
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Cool!
cool!
woot nice
At least some reward for my country
Interesting
Good idea, I welcome this with open arms because now wars will actually have a purpose.
nice job... we can\'t wait......
mencanta! So cool!
Blablabla u guys are gettin ur heads screwed on str8 blablabla.
Are you kidding me?! Sweden doesn\'t have any 2\'s in wood and iron?! That\'s our greatest rawmaterial-exports IRL, providing huge amounts of wood and iron to Europe. Why doesn\'t we have any 2\'s if you \"want to be as close as possible\"?
Seriously, Scania (Skåne) feeds almost the whole Sweden with grain and only gets 1.0 in the game?
Also interesting that you named the regions \'Denmark\' and \'Germany\', understandable, but still.
thanks for your information xD
And I agree with Karl, wood and iron where the first thing I thought of.
Secret building isn\'t secret anymore.. everyone knows what is..
Very cool!
cool
While we\'re bitching about what our countries didn\'t get, USA has pretty much everything, except diamonds. Now, we might not have huge rainforests like South America, but we do have pretty big forests, and I\'m surprised that Detriot didn\'t get a steel boost.
Although, I can understand why you\'d want to keep a balance, so I\'m not that upset
>Secret building isn\'t secret anymore.. everyone knows what is..
What is it?
Ehmmms Diamonds for gift?????
VERY COOL!
ROFL
COOOL!!
cool
wats the new secret building ???????
You could just as well have nuked our economy. Only 1 out of 5 raw materials is ridiculous, I know that IRL we import most natural resources as well but you can\'t 100% copy our real life economy.
Take Russia and China by example, both countries are huge IRL but ingame they have the smallest userbases (especially China since the game is banned) so they\'ve obviously been conquered. However those countries got about every natural resource?
Rusia got a 2 in EVERY sector...
Double Cool
So Belfast now has oil fields?
That will make things interesting...
ehm...we want iron in calabria!
study please.
Great idea! This will encourage imports/exports !!
If those stats shall be implemented you must also take a look and count in the amount of companies that are in the region. Otherwise it will be unrealistic and unfair to many countries.
What was the source that the admin used upon determining what countries get the various resources?
i quote jazar
lol
austria with wood in only one region?
and grain in finland??????
ahahahah
you are jocking us.
who did this list, Santa Klaus?
wikipedia
By the way, this will affect a lot of companies and smaller countries.
A large number of companies will now need to import their resources and especially smaller countries with less resources and smaller companies will get a hard time. Other countries with larger companies and more resources will be able to get cheaper resources and this will enable them to make their products cheaper (other companies will need to raise the prices) and more.
Sounds like a great idea. Only one thing: Norway has a lot of grain production and little wood, this would be opposite in real life (only 3% of Norway is suitable for farming, but we have a hell of a lot of woods).
And oh yeah, Russia suddenly became worth a LOT for us
Jamtland Harjedalen and Lappland Sameland should have 2 Iron.
cool
The distribution of resources is pretty ridicolous sorry.
If u give grain to north of europe, a lot of regions should have more iron, wood and oil.
then i can speak for Italy for example. We have Alps and other montains chain, and only 2 regions have woods?
Sardinia and Tuscany are rich of copper and iron
I hope admins will review this list
I agree with Jazar. It\'s strange that these resources are not equally distributed. The Netherlands has natural gas and a lot of trade. Natural gas is somewhat the same as oil since it is used for the same purpose, so we could use oil also.
What about some countries in Afrika? Just strip them when they don\'t have any productivities? If you want to make it real then the Netherlands gets productivity of all sections, because the trading-agreements in real life.
Just remove the connection to real-life and keep this a game. Now some countries are stripped and can only survive on the kindness of others.
Im hesitant to call this a success. The established larger countries with militaries are going to gobble up any remaining smaller countries with resources and then these former smaller countries are going to be a battleground upon which the larger countries will squabble over for our resources.
There\'s no counter balance or offset to ensure these smaller countries even remain in the game.
While this could be a great idea, it does nothing to address the issue that starting an unprovoked war has absolutely zero consequences such as sanctions, boycotting of goods, etc. Its only going to encourage further war and less diplomatic interaction and formation.
This will take the economy to a new level.
mmmh funny,
I didn\'t know that in Austria and Slovenia there is a desert and in Finland and Norway they have grain.
Do they make pasta too?^^
sorry admins, but this list is retarded.
Innsbruck is plenty of wood.
This the most interesting article and the biggest disappointment I ever read in erepublik. I guess you cannot satisfy everyone but it will end with worldwars.
//Mjau
This breeds all kind of oppertunities. If i was owning a weapons company I would start making some contacts in countries that do have a lot of iron. Possible even establish an SO abroad that runs a mining company and distributes the raw resources against cost price. Just an idea...
@Admin/The Erepublik team: Is this list final or will it change until the V1 is released? The list REALLY lack some RL facts if it now shall be based on IRL, and I strongly suggest that you should look it over. An official statment if this list is final or not would be much appreciated to give answers to the eNations governments\'.
Thanks
Karl Holm, finance minister of eSweden
very bad list, the netherlands only have grain... how are we supposed to fight against other countrys with no iron?
yeah sure import.... and then? we dont have anythin to export so we will get bankrupt...
maybe its a idea to start the worldbank in erepublik...
wow....
Wow, epic fail at making this resemble RL resources in any possible way shape or form.
Yeah, give virtually every single country a great grain producing region, or 5 in admin land, (USA). Oh and of course, the UK has only one level 2 region which is in grain AND it\'s in London...!?? How many farms do you honestly believe are in London!? and since when was England the main provider of oil in the UK, that\'s Scotland..
Not happy, one bit.
Oh and nice work giving the USA basically everything, biased much?
Slovenia got grain 1 in all regions but nothing else? atleast maribor and murska sobota should have grain 2 maribor and kranj should have wood 2 its not rly fair we get only grain 1 in every region :x
Squiddy is right.
With this change, eR will be a disaster. Thanks to the admins giving all the power to three countries. Thanks to the admins breaking all the work done.
nice...need some extra effort to hold the imperialist..
why does belfast get the oil rockall is closer to ireland.
@Artemlvanov, you should export manufactured goods to survive. This new feature is very interesting.
PD. Give back the mayors
how come the original indonesia region doesn\'t have iron at all........... geezz... admin .. do little research please.....
One step closer to reality! I like it! Maybe you could create a stock market too!
portugal -> WORLD\'s biggest export on cork oak.
oak is trees, tree is wood, but no 2 on wood...
madeira island is just a big piece of nothing?
also let me give you some basic english - portuguese lessons:
lesson 1:
madeira=wood
madeira island = WOOD ISLAND1!!!!!!!eleven!! thus I(although no one) propose madeira to have 2 in wood
just an image to show:
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1283688-Madeira_Laurissilva_forest-Madeira_Island.jpg
Sounds good... would love to know how the distribution was decided, but in any case this is going to get quite interesting. Now there\'s a reason to do stuff.
@Kano: When you only have grain then you don\'t have anything to export. Every country already has grain-productivity.
lol
Iran does not have any diamonds (correct)
Iran has LOTS of Iron mines. Should atleast have 2 on those than 1.
Iran has around ~15% forest area in the whole country, deserve atleast 1 or 2.
Only me having party for my new Diamond Mine.
Ary, Sweden is have more when 50% on the Nation covered by Wood! And Smaland? Un-holy Dio, I can\'t walk 200 M without going in to a Forrest.
This was badly maid, Yeah!
Yeah apparently we don\'t have a single mine in the UK *cough* Wales & Scotland *cough* and no real oil well either *cough* North Sea *cough* and the only wood we have available in the entire country is a small forest in Newcastle....!?
What kind of drugs have you admins been taking? Or did someone just change all the wiki material deposit facts, just before you read them all?
and...Indonesia?the largest forest in the world? got only 1 wood?
Great news, really like that new feature
pharaoh revival: My ass, heard of amazonas?
Well its quite unbalanced based with RL, but as its a game it seems likee verythings needs balance wtf?
This must be a joke, only grain and only 1 pff. Btw this info only came out now. And some rumanian guys said they started the war to get more raw materials. This is *khm* for me.
>In order to get the geo-political and economical environment in the New World closer to reality, we have divided the raw materials per Erepublik regions, keeping as close as possible a connection with real life natural resources.
I guess that connection have not close enough huh admin?
Wonderful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden#Economy
\"Sweden is an export-oriented market economy featuring a modern distribution system, excellent internal and external communications, and a skilled labour force. TIMBER, hydropower, and IRON ORE constitute the resource base of an economy heavily oriented toward foreign trade.\"
heard of Kalimantan then?
Anyway, Bazti is right..the challenge is how to gain other resources, have a business deal or another imperialism era...its the scarcity theory.
Pharaoh Revival: Yes, but Amazonas is indeed bigger.
But I am happy with 2 diamond for me part.
Sweden doesn\'t have any 2\'s in Wood and Iron!? Have you ever been to Lappland!?
Honestly I think the idea of reflecting IRL resourses was a terrible idea, it\'s a game - you must think about game balace.
@Admin, upon further reading, i would asume everywhere that doesnt have a number is 0.1. Does this mean that you could in theory say MINE in that area, but it would have an efficentcy thats 1/10th of the normal amount?
If so this would be a little better than OMG NO RESOURCES, however it should rise then to 0.5....
Come on! Portugal doesn\'t have any 2 in Wood. We export lots of these in RL. And we should have more iron in other regions.
Game Balance = Give 3 countries everything?
This is good news for South Africa , some buyers already contacted me for diamonds !
Africa the power !
zocky
president of South Africa
hi!
why doen\'t Portugal have any 2 in wood, for instance?
we are a rich natural resources country... so, how come we have so litle resources in our country???
Finland should also have a 2 in Wood. Finland is a great wood exporter, almost as big as Sweden.
Swedish Iron companies are among the largest in the world SSAB, LKAB. With iron mines in Lappland.
Most of the country is....
Great work, but there are still maaany vaules to change, they\'re just are unfair.
And there are many things to make gifts from, I\'m not sure that was a good idea to choose only diamonds. What about other jewelry, amber, flowers, vodka
Użgorod / Uzhhorod in Poland? Ha, you used a bit old map
You do realise that we are NOT a small forgotten part of Spain, right???
not on this game and even less in RL...
FUNCHAL IS IN THE MADEIRA ISLAND. MADEIRA IN ENGLISH MEANS WOOD! JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION LOL.
Cookie0 | Sep 23, 2008 11:41
FUNCHAL IS IN THE MADEIRA ISLAND. MADEIRA IN ENGLISH MEANS WOOD! JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION LOL.
well said!
cool
Iron in v1, I called that from a mile away.
Heard at admin meeting: \"Hey lets put all this twos out in nowhere and watch them fight for it.\"
All Hail South Africas Might, Oh forgot this would be enough for indonesia to capture the last terrioties.
Uau, thanks for screwing up Portugal again
In case you haven\'t noticed here\'s some info: WE ARE NOT GOING DOWN! BRING IT ON!
balance anyone?
hmmm i really cant wait..
Squiddy
>>>Game Balance = Give 3 countries everything?
No, but give every nation one comparative advantage each. That would increase trade and diplomacy.
This way some countries have nothing and others everything, which is totally unbalanced. For a game it really surprizes me that it is like this, whould did the developers think would happen?
In all games you strive after game balance, if one nation gets a gold mine the other one get a wood source. That way you create trade and balance. If one nation got both the mine and the wood source and the other nation gets nothing then you have created unbalance and you wont have trade between them.
All those Resources in Australia. Independence will have it\'s rewards.
v1
All original RL countries should have a 2 in at least one Region in atleast one Raw Material, that would create Comparative Advantages and create Trade. It\'s so easy.
Take note that the chart doesn\'t list region bonuses for manufacturing. I hope the manufacture bonuses will balance out the injustices in resource bonuses.
Very Imbalanced !
Scadens, where do you have the information that it will even be such a manufacturing bonus system? I have only heard of raw materials in regions and I guess that\'s what we are - with great disappointment - looking at.
V1 is not fair. We need V2.
Yeah I haven\'t heard of a manufacturing bonus either. I hope there isn\'t one because that\'s stupid otherwise.
Misho you have it spot on with the trade examples.
@Admins
In case you want to add realism in Brazil you should modify the following
1) Center-West Region should have 0 Diamond because we have lots of semi precious stones in the regions but no diamonds
2) Southeast region should have 2 IRON because of Minas Gerais
3) North region should have 2 Diamond because Rondonia (Reserva Indigena Roosevelt) has one of the largest diamond reserves in the world but it is illegal to extract those diamonds because it is indigenous land protected by federal law
4) Center-West Region should have 2 GRAIN because it is the second largest producer of grain in Brazil (only behind the southeast region)
5) North Region should have 1 oil since Petrobras maintains a very large amount of oil reserves in the regions
6) Southeast region should have 2 OIL because of the Bacia de Santos, Bacia Jupiter, and all the oil reserves in the coast of Rio de Janeiro plus the pre-salt reserves recently found that extends from the southeast coast to the northeast coast.
I know Brazil already has much more resources them most countries but if you do want to reflect real life you will need to make those changes.
1) Vale do Rio Doce has the largest Iron reserves in the world (IRON)
2) The pre-salt oil pootz brazil side by side with the OPEP members (OIL)
3) Roosevelt is one of the largest diamonds deposits in the world that have not been explored (DIAMOND)
4) We feed the WORLD (GRAIN)
5) Amazon, Pine plantations in the south, Mata Atlantica, etc. (WOOD)
I am sorry to say this but Brazil rulez... and we have 2 in everything