Game Changes: The Economic Aspect

Day 1,300, 09:43 • Published in USA Switzerland • by Kishvier

As you will hear from most folks right now, we've been hearing a great deal of complaining about the state of the economy now that the Administrators implemented their latest changes. I'm here to give you a break down of what has happened, and what it means for both producers, and consumers.



Firstly, we can take a look at the 'Town Hall' building that has been created. The 'Town Hall' gives a citizen the ability to consume more food per day, the higher level it is. Now this wouldn't be a very bad thing to add in for the economy, except that in order to upgrade it, you must spend a great deal more money, and must create more companies (I need a Q2 Weapons company to upgrade to a Q5 Town Hall), leading to further overproduction in the economy.

Now, speaking about overproduction, lets take a look at the average production of citizen's now that the changes have occurred. Fishery companies are running at a 100% bonus to production for every citizen, and Aluminum companies are running a 45% production bonus, leading to a very productive economy. Add to this, that the worker skill has been removed, leading to a general increase in the average productivity of a citizen, and you get a highly over produced economy in the realm of Raw Materials.



To break this down mathematically, the cost changes of materials are as follows:

Material | Day 1,296 | Day 1,300 | Percent Change
Food RAW | $0.18 USD | $0.10 USD|-44%
Weapon RAW|$0.20 USD | $0.14 USD|-30%
Q1 Food | $0.54 USD | $0.12 USD |-88%
Q5 Weapon|$15.30 USD|$11.65 USD |-24%
Q5 House|$2702.70 USD| $3245 USD|-17%

Monetary Market Rate
Day 1,296 | Day 1,300 | Percent Change
$362 USD | $349 USD | -4%

Now obviously, this doesn't look good for the producer. The amount of money you are making now, compared to what you were making, is not following the changes in the Monetary Market, leading to less money for its value, for producers, and now that the Administrators have made us all producers (If we want!), the Food Market is dying.



On the Consumer end, this is looking a bit better. With nearly every price dropping faster than the Monetary Market rate, you are getting much more for your money! The only problem with this is the falling rate of pay for most, the current Job Market offer is around $40 USD, which means that the level between pay and what you can buy is leveling out, but folks with USD's stashed up are having a great time.



So, all in all, this hasn't been a great time for economics. At first the changes favored the consumers, but this has shrunk greatly in the last day or two, and producers have been shot in the leg. Everyone needs to re-adjust their spending's, and try to increase the demand on the market, in order to stop the prices from tanking any further. I expect that the Food Market will improve in the next few days, or the Food Raw Materials Market will tank. I don't know, so we'll have to wait and see.

Stay strong America,

-Kishi