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Today I want to present you short proposition consisting one of the most important problems occuring in the game - low usefullness of regions with wood and stone. We have seen quite a few possible solutions, some of them were better some of them worse, but in the end none of them was actually implemented into game to solve this problem. Here is my shot(it's pretty simple I guess):
1. Wood, wood, woodo.
"OMNOMNOMNOMNOM, GOOD ESTATE IS GOOD."
In my opinion the regions that suffer mostly from current situation are those which have wood as their special resource. Countries with wood as high resource have generally much lower profits from taxes, their markets are less stable, as well as many of their citizens work abroad, what generates situation in which new citizens may have problems with finding work without being exploited by boss. That's why I thought about some significant change in game to change this situation. Here is the deal :
Currently wood has only one way to use - building houses, which are indestructible and every player needs only one to benefit all available profit from it. There were some ideas to make those houses destructable under some low percentage of possibility, but many players object because this kind of randomness may be significant cause of losses for unlucky players, whereas other ones wouldn't even spot the difference plus there is a chance of losing house by some new players who won't have enough gold to buy a new one, so in effect there would be no benefit for the house sellers from them, despite of their loss.
My idea is to introduce brand new product - Infrastructure(name of the product is questionable, if you have better idea how to call it, feel free to write).
This building could be placed in particular regions by the congressmen for 30-day period(for example) and would give bonus to production depending on its quality. For example Q1 will give 1% bonus to production in the area, when Q5 gives 5% of benefit. This low percentage won't make a huge difference, but may be used by the governments to attract investors to their country. Each region could have only one piece of infrastructure in the same time, but if the state officials have better quality available to deploy, they could do it by making new deployment law(they would get information if there is better or same quality of infrastructure already deployed so the law won't pass) and as soon as it's done, old infrastructure is destroyed(new one lasts for 30 days from the moment of closing voting in deployment law). I'm not sure if they should be destroyed when the province is taken by other country, so I leave that to discussion. I believe the cost of creating infrastructure should be slightly higher than creating an estate of the same quality - eg. it should be mutliplied by 1.2 or 1.25.
This solution should generate constant demand for wood, so the regions with this resource would generate significently bigger profits.
Your ideas :
Proposition by
DarkDwain :
Other possible use of the "infrastructure" item would be increasing productivity in medium regions by twice as much percentage as in the high ones, so when a region with medium resources gets infrastructure bonus it has only slightly lower production bonus than high region, what may encourage citizens and governments to invest in them.
2. Stone, rock 'n' roll
This idea is one of the simpliest ideas ever. Currently we can see DS in almost every major battle of the e-Sim world. Their commonness is mostly caused by their low cost in raw. In real life building defence structures is expansive process, which requires lots of raw and work, whereas on e-Sim almost every country can afford boarders filled with DS's, so the easiest way to increase benefits is to increase raw required to build a single structure. Most countries certainly have enough reserves to pay more for DS's and since they are more expensive, people will appreciate them.
That's suggested change in cost of building DS(and possibly hospitals but they are used rarely so maybe lower cost may attract to use them) :
Now After implementing changes
Q1 300 450
Q2 600 900
Q3 900 1350
Q4 1200 1800
Q5 1500 2250
Feel free to comment and post your ideas
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Ogólnie idzie o to że tacy Hiszpanie albo Francuzi ciągle kwiczą że drewno to tylko do kominka i w pizdu, że mają słabe warunki, biede i ogólnie metr mułu, więc można im postawić nową opcję - infrastrukturę, która będzie dawała bonus do produkcji(Q1 - 1%; Q5 - 5%) i będzie stawiana przez kongres w danym regionie na 30 dni. Bonus niewielki ale i tak napewno znajdzie się mnóstwo rzytoff co sobie takie coś w ogródku będą chcieli postawić. W sprawie Stone'a to jak dla mnie wystarczy podnieść koszt budowy DS'a i tyle powinno styknąć.
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