Developer Diary 17 – The World Market and Buying
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no if the world market is only buying 70% of production then only 70% is bought and 30% is lost.
Wouldn't all RGO's be a source of money in the global economy? Pops working in RGO's are after all making money out of nothing. They then spend this money on the global market, getting their everyday needs.
Would be interesting to know. Seems almost impossible to model easily though. How do you differentiate between good produced in colonies but consumed in the homeland? I'm hoping for a better naval model instead.
*Swooon*
And you said there'd be no regional Markets! Oh joy, I'm so glad. This you describe above is completely the essence of the whole "access-to-markets as game-play objective that I for one was hoping for.
An altogether cool DD today, all points totally golden.
My your family prosper over the bones of its enemies for ten thousand years, for truly your techniques are outstanding.
Absolutely loving the look of the map, the interface, fantastic. I really like the creases in the map too, well done the artists!
what about market access ?
will there be differentiation in that, countries which have exclusive trade agreements in between them will constitute a separate market in themselves, with different supply and demand in that market ?
introduction of economic sphere, ie commonwealth thing is very good for implementing colonialism principles, after all the main drive for expansionalism and imperialism was to garner markets for produce.
but, will the great power be able to prevent its colonies/dominions from trading with the world market and other countries ?
if so, if a dominion/colony is allowed to make trade agreements with other countries, will they constitute a separate market with that country or countries ?
will there be the smothering embrace of mother russia and the accompanying inevitable mouth to mouth kiss ?
Woah, another golden nugget! This means game-play will be effected by seasonal fluctuations in production!
And I bet weather plays a role on the battle-field too now...
RGO workers make money from the goods it sells on the WM which comes from a buyer somewhere. so no money creation there.
I suspect goldmines will produce money as in one pic somewhere it standed seperated from other incomesources
I wonder what would be the effect of vassaling China, or.... perhaps and India! Would that even be possible? I hope so... but if so I also hope countries of a certain confidence can escape from being sphered, perhaps through warfare directly, but if not then through the risk of war as a response.
Will all countries be able to have spheres of influence?
i mean not only the GP were big enough to influence other countries, for example Argentina and Brazil even had wars to gain influence in Uruguay.
I think Latin America was a special case in the XIX century as they were sovereign countries recognized by the GP and they were not shackled to any one GP and traded with whomever had ships in port, mostly from the UK and France.
So, how does one expand their influence? will all civilized countries able to have spheres of influence or only the GP?
i mean not only the GP were big enough to influence other countries, for example Argentina and Brazil even had wars to gain influence in Uruguay.
I think Latin America was a special case in the XIX century as they were sovereign countries recognized by the GP and they were not shackled to any one GP and traded with whomever had ships in port, mostly from the UK and France.
So, how does one expand their influence? will all civilized countries able to have spheres of influence or only the GP?
My bet, the money taken by crime somehow feeds into the bank accounts of armed movements and the criminal demand for... "illegal goods" off the world market. If illegal-goods can exist in the game, perhaps they do, to serve as the part of some sort of global "rebel economy" or perhaps there are legal Decisions that make products like opium illegal or not and therefore taxable by the producing nation... Or something.
after reading about the commercial sphere of influence, are we not going to see countries getting machine parts according to prestige rank?
No, you need bureaucrats to collect taxes, but funding has no effect on tax collection efficiency, since it would simply be a no-brainer "you raise this slider to make money" decision. Funding does have many other effects, though.
Yes, for relatively primitive societies before they develop an entrenched bureaucracy.
Quit wasting words! Describe as much new information as possible and hang the rest!
I also notice in the map that Gibraltar is somewhat confined to the east side of the peninsula. Intersting that it's always taken up the whole peninsula in other games.
Also, will commas be added to the numbers later? I find 32,564/38,000 much easier to read then 32564/38000.
Despite my nagging, great dev diary.
This has really pushed me over the edge. I will get this game when it is economically feasible.
Ok, I just re-read the bureaucracy Dev Diary. How do you know when you have enough bureaucrats to maximize your tax collection in a state? Looks like the screenshot state needs more admin spending at least, to make the criminals go away.
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Is there a way to see (statistics screen or some such) how the Great Power markets are functioning? So we can see net imports / exports to the UKs marketplace, or even our own, to see where they are vulnerable or which sorts of nations we should be looking to expand our influence into?
Looks like being part of such a market could be both good and bad from a minor nations standpoint. You are much higher on the list to get manufactured goods from your major, for example, than you would be alone. Will the major powers try and influence a player minor into their sphere I hope?
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