Being honest

Day 3,144, 15:28 Published in Romania Romania by Nicolae Crefelean
eDay 3089
Company Productivity

The productivity of a Company will be computed as the sum of Country productivity bonus and a percentage of the productivity bonus of the Region where the Company is located. Regions will be affected by a pollution factor that is based on the number of “works” done in the Region in the previous day.
Basic formula : productivity_bonus = country_productivity_bonus + % of region_productivity_bonus - pollution


eDay 3140
Productivity bonus

The Productivity Bonus for an industry is calculated as such:
Productivity Bonus = Country Productivity Bonus + Region Productivity Bonus + Player Booster - Region Pollution Factor

Pollution Factor is calculated based on the number of goods of the same type that were produced in the region compared to the overall average production for that type of goods. The factor varies between 0 and 25%. The more goods are produced in the region, the higher the pollution will be. Each product type/quality pair will have its own pollution.

All raw Factories will share the same pollution for their respective industry (Example: Fishery, Grain, Farm and all other Food Raw Materials will share the same Pollution Factor).


eDay 3141
We apologize, but we're not gonna destroy the economy because "in your opinion we should". Pollution by industry and quality was a clarification (and an update) to the "works".

Having high quality factories polluted by Work as Manager in Q1 land/production companies is a far more detrimental scenario that, to be honest, we never took into consideration.



Plato, if you want to be completely honest, you should restart the Resource Wars with the new rules on the table. Being honest about not taking something into consideration is good, but it still makes a huge difference on how the new Resource Wars was planned and executed.

Even with all the details we have today it's hard to efficiently allocate the resources because each country administration would have to know the real numbers of active companies by industry and quality, which is not public information. But changing something as important as the pollution factor AFTER the event was finished, is not fair.

Let's look at the difference between the first statement and the second one. And please correct me if I'm wrong.

Statement 1: number of "works" done in the Region in the previous day
This means there would be one pollution factor for everything (all industries) in a region, only based on the number of "works" each day.

Statement 2: number of goods of the same type + raw Factories will share the same pollution for their respective industry
This means there will be 8 types of pollution in each of the weapons and food industries, and it will not depend on the number of works, but the number of produced goods.

The difference is significant. Sure, the pollution factor varies between 0-25%, so it doesn't COMPLETELY mess the production, whatever happens, but when you allocate resources based on the first statement you naturally want to split the resources so they don't raise the pollution. The first information did not mention pollution by industry, nor pollution by quality, nor the separation of the pollution generated by the Raw Materials.

So yes, Plato "saved the economy" by splitting the pollution, but it should be obvious to everyone that whatever they had in mind and whatever they overlooked, the resource allocations would've been done differently if the current information would've been known. Sure, placing as many bonuses as possible in as few regions as possible is like placing all your eggs in one basket. It's risky. But I bet there are powerful countries which would take that risk because it's worth it in the long run.

Airstrikes are not cheap, so even if some countries would get trolled by having their high-bonus regions, the others would have a break. So placing many bonuses behind bordering regions is the best strategy at the moment. Yes, by the new rules Romania is one of the countries which have an advantage (I don't know about others). I'm sure other countries would've changed their allocation strategies, which is why the "rules update" sucks.

So what's going to happen? We'll just move on like nothing happened? Why not restart the Resource Wars based on the current rules? It will still be fun, but it will also be honest this time.


Being honest: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2603936