The new resource/raw-material system

Day 1,106, 06:41 • Published in Austria Austria • by PrinceOfAustria





Dear fellow citizen
If you’re active on the IRC and the Forums, you will have noticed there is some trouble going on about new resources.
The cause for this is an article by the admins that is well able to change the course of the new world.
I’m not an expert in this, but I’ll try to explain to you what those changes are, and what they mean for the world, the alliances, any our country, Austria.





Let’s start with the basics;
Soon, every region in the eWorld will have a so called ‘resource’ or a raw material. A resource is a kind of ‘booster’, but not used for production.

A resource will boost the country’s production of either food (fruits, deer, fish and cattle) or weapon (aluminum, saltpeter, rubber) by 5% for each different resource available in the country (so 3x deer still gives you only 5😵
Let’s say a country has fruits, deer, and rubber. This makes 110% food & 105% weapon production.

=Important= the 100% I'm using here are what used to be 50% (='medium' region)

What stays are the raw materials, which still are the only things you need to produce your goods.
We will have grain, iron and oil. Every country will be able to produce those.
Countries that have a raw-region will get a 25% boost on the production of those. Additionally, every raw material will boost the production of either food (grain) or weapons (oil, iron) by another 5%.

Important: A resource or raw material region influences companies in the whole country. However, if a region is lost, the country loses its bonus, too. This means that, superficially viewed, it doesn't matter where in your country you place your company. You can get +25% for your grain company in Little Poland, even though the region with +25% grain is Great Poland. Got it?

This is a bit complex, so let’s look at an example;
I’ll take a ‘virtual’ country, let’s call it Erepublic.
Erepublic has fruits, deer, aluminum and iron.
The production rate of Erepublic will be as following:

Food … 110% (100% + 5% fruits + 5% deer)
Weapons … 110% (100% + 5% iron + 5% aluminum)
Grain … 100%
Oil … 100%
Iron … 125% (100% + ‘high iron’ 25😵

You can check the resources of your country here


What does this mean for the New World?


Erepublik - soon the new new world?


Basically, it means there no longer are a few highly important regions.
There will be regions that are averagely important (the resource ones) and some that will be slightly more important (raws). Also, keep in mind every country only needs each kind of resource or raw once. This means a region that might not be of any interest for China might be of high interest for Russia, for instance. This adds a lot more complexity and strategy to the game, which might bring lots of fun in it. Basically, it makes conquering new regions & imperialism more interesting.
I'm sure we will see lots of land swaps & rentals from almost all countries in order to get the maximum boost for their production.
The downside of this is that some countries that used to have a raw might now no longer have it, making thousands of raw-companies useless.
Keep in mind, if you have a raw region, this boosts your production by 25%, which means you can sell for only 75% of what other countries can, with the same gain. 5% more production is a LOT. I personally would prefer +2-3% for resources and +7% for raws.


What do they mean for the Alliances?
As you can read here, many people complain, that Phoenix lost many of their important raws. It’s a matter of fact that many countries lost their economical base, and it too is a matter of fact that Phoenix did lose a considerable amount of raw-regions.
How this will influence battles all over the world, and the balancing between PHX & EDEN is yet to be seen. Who knows, maybe admins will add slight changes to this distribution.


What does this mean for eAustria?



The above picture shows Austria with its new resource regions.
Regarding all original regions, we have Deer (2x) & Fruits (3x) (important for food) and aluminum (3x) (important for weapons). Remarkably, we don’t have any raw materials now.
Our production thus looks like this:

Foo😛 110%
Weapons: 105%
Grain: 100%
Oil: 100%
Iron: 100%

To be perfectly honest, this is bad for us. We have lots of grain companies in Lower Austria which now no longer are of any real use for us, as other countries can produce 25% more for the same price. This will be a very tough situation for our next president (hopefully me). We will have to think about renting regions, swapping regions and so on. A good thing might be to rent Lower Austria to a country with grain, so we can profit from our grain companies there.


I hope I could give you a little insight, if you got questions ask them in the comments.

Greets,
PrinceOfAustria