Sw33t's Easy Fixe$ #1
Day 2,582, 07:27
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Published in Ireland 
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by Sweet Drinker
So we're all getting real accustomed to seeing this
and now recently we see this
Clearly Plato feels we need to expend more energy in combat.
Easy Fix: ADD Random temporary production modifiers to regions!
Sorta like them goldmines they were doing for awhile, but far more practical/interesting in employment.
Create a production modifier for each resource type then temporarily apply them to randomly selected regions throughout the globe Beyond The Sword style: "Canada has discovered a major Iron deposit in Nanavut, 20% extra WRM production bonus until it is depleted!"
The large nations ever hungry for bonuses will pursue those regions ferociously. The owners of the region will defend it ferociously. After they lose the region, ferocious RW's will be launched to deprive the occupier of that bonus. After an undisclosed period (but suitably long enough to make competing for these regions important) "The Nanavut Vein has been exhausted." Only to pop up in another part of the globe. Preventing any true regional equilibrium from forming. Players will need to constantly re-evaluate their nation's position in such a world.
It will cause interesting irrational responses in the local war/economy/media modules, but at the same time its global economic impact is easily rationalized. Making it safe to administer with global economic impact actually negligible.
Plato knows that ferocious = expensive, exciting and meaningful.
Millions of cc will be spent.
Thousands of gold will be bought.
ErepLabs will be happy.
The playerbase will be excited about Erep (they'll still complain, but they'll still BE HERE to complain!).
Everybody is happier for like a dozen methods. A single coder could handle this change. Doesn't even need to be a very experienced one.
While on its face it may seem another 'admin driven solution', it is actually a simple (RELIABLE) mechanics-level change which will promote PLAYER DRIVEN activity. Unlike the current "Don't act until you've seen this week's special" system currently employed. That is slowly pushing the entire playerbase into a mercenary mindset (fighting only when economical conditions are operating). When the entire world is mercenary, there won't be anything to actually fight for.
eLife is,
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I like it.
Will Ireland get a strategic Guinness well?
only under British occupation.
Natural whiskey-geysers are the eIrish bonus of choice.
Voted. I've been too lazy to scout global media for criticism of this "boost" to the economy, so thanks for sharing some here in Ireland. I too read it and immediately saw through Plato's plan to get more money from gold buyers.
You're proposal seems to be a more player-friendly way of retaining players and keeping the activity of the game meaningful. I'd like to hear more proposed fixes to the economy though, as i think though your idea would help keep players in the game, nut I don't think it would act much differently towards the economy than the current ideas admins are thinking up. As you said we spend more cc to fight, buy more gold, are happier and get more from our purchases, more meaning to the game in the long run, but Plato still gets richer and the game remains almost entirely war based as it's the most profitable module of the game. .
Military-experienced CPs are almost the only ones worth electing now. The rest are all boring. What can they do? What can they change? Nothing it seems. We've all figured out where the taxes need to be, the best (commune) systems for MUs, ect. The game is strictly a war game now and much is because of economic changes in the past that I wasn't around to see and have only heard about from others. So what changes to the game's economy would you suggest to make this more of a balanced game again?
but*
I think you're actually being too cynical on Economy Days.
I'm going to do it specifically in the next one.
I consider that program to be a very good omen for us players.
the new changes are easy to understand : free gold ingame to CB players.
Voted. No endorsement because you make too much cents.
good idea
Not bad.
You really are better at economics than you are at rhetoric 😛
Rhetoric is for those without substance.
Yes but going on maths alone this will fall more on big countries with a lot of regions like chile and therefore there will be less motivation to take it
o7