Iron Resource Threatened, Prices to Rise Again?

Day 1,215, 08:10 • Published in USA USA • by Gnilraps


Saturday Edition
Day 1,215 of the New World

New "Trade Routes" Rules Threaten Iron Access

According to yesterday's White House Press Release, a major change in International Economics is coming in just 4 days. In a nutshell, access to a particular regions' resource must be connected to a country via "trade routes".

It appears that any region owned by a country must be connected by adjoining owned regions or else the resource bonus is not available to those living in the non-adjoined regions.

There is a discussion in the forum about this. The forum discussion, however, has centered around complaints and suggestions to Admin. These suggestions likely have little chance at being followed.

Here is why this is important. Our access to Iron, one of 5 valuable resources for manufacturing weapons (a resource that provides a 5% bonus in production) is currently only available to eUSA because we hold the Southeast of Ireland region.

The way 16 Shells reads the pending rules change, starting on day 1,219 the eUSA iron industry will suffer a 5% reduction in weapons production (*edit)and will suffer a 25% reduction in iron production because Southeast of Ireland is not adjacent to any other eUSA held region.

It is imperative that conversation regarding this rules change shift from complaints and suggestions to deaf wigs, and instead focus on strategies for rescuing our Iron bonus.

The easiest solution seems to be to swap a couple regions with eCanada. The Shannon region is adjacent to Southeast of Ireland, but contains Canada's only Fruits resource. eUSA could easily give back to Canada a fruits state (Pennsylvania) which would replace the loss of Shannon. But what is to gain for Canada who holds all the cards in this. They could easily ask for Minnesota, a grain state, so that they gain a resource in exchange for helping us retain iron.

However, our MPP with eCanada does not expire until 10 days after the new trade routes rules go into effect.

The better option seems to be to swap Ireland's Cork and Kerry region (her only cattle region) with Maine (e.g.) giving Ireland new access to aluminum. But this would certainly upset Ireland's entire food industry for a gain in their (not significant) weapons industry. If I am Ireland I want more.

Why has no public discussion begun on this important topic?

It seems a short-term increase in the cost of iron is once again on the horizon.

16 Shells recommends that any citizen involved in the iron trade attend the White House Press Conference scheduled for 18:30 eRep time tonight (day 1,215) at #whitehouse.public.

Meanwhile, let's see some more substantive discussion at the forum.

-Gnilraps
16 Shells