Post by Blue on Jul 23, 2022 17:26:36 GMT
The competition-style events, and economic states we have at the moment are cool, but a few new types could be even better. Logging on to see more, and market specific events could be more immersive.
1. Government Regulation / Policy
'New quality control regulations have been introduced in agriculture / sugar cane production, due to extra procedures involved, labour costs have risen for the next week / month'
Or e.g.
Product tax change
Infrastructure investment (market fees down, less transport needed)
Subsidy?
Ban on retail temporarily? E.g. non e-cars, chocolate
Labour costs change / market fees up or down / price cap or floor / government sells (or buys but might be difficult to implement) a certain good / ban on sales / subsidy / production speed change / less transport needed
These could all be results
2. External Events
E.g.
trend in demand (general e.g. Christmas, Black Friday, Simeon shopping day OR specific e.g. national apple day OR other such as celebrity endorsement/health warning)--> retail speed changes
'Simburg Technical School just opened' --> labour costs down (RNG place names could be fun)
drought/bumper harvest --> crops being produced change yield
wood/food disease or natural disaster --> some stock lost
3. Vote-style
All players together democratically vote on a controversial SimCo government policy (supposed to somewhat reflect reality)
E.g.
'Simeons are hungry. Should we cut taxes on agriculture and tax mining more instead?'
'There's no such thing as climate change in Simburg. Should we ban electric cars and subsidise normal ones?'
'I miss $1 pizza. Should we put a cap on pork prices of 100$?' (Contract and exchange prices) - would have to be careful with derived products e.g. cows and steak
etc etc.
These votes could be fun, and could see better use of Simcompanies times ads, as well as adding realism. Vote-decided events could also have a bigger impact, and be less common than random events.
4. News
This isn't an event, but, a mock news page showing all the daily RNG events could be helpful. Currently, some events are told by the personal assistant which could be made better with more events in a news section.
Votes could also be done from here, and current events e.g. recession/competitions could be mentioned here too.
Also, this could maybe a place for more player ads.
Overall, these events could make all stages of the game more interesting, and makes people have to think about strategy more often. Also, they are immersive and could be entertaining with some fun RNG messages.
I could write a longer list of events/ RNG variations of each event message if needed
Would be great to see this in game.
1. Government Regulation / Policy
'New quality control regulations have been introduced in agriculture / sugar cane production, due to extra procedures involved, labour costs have risen for the next week / month'
Or e.g.
Product tax change
Infrastructure investment (market fees down, less transport needed)
Subsidy?
Ban on retail temporarily? E.g. non e-cars, chocolate
Labour costs change / market fees up or down / price cap or floor / government sells (or buys but might be difficult to implement) a certain good / ban on sales / subsidy / production speed change / less transport needed
These could all be results
2. External Events
E.g.
trend in demand (general e.g. Christmas, Black Friday, Simeon shopping day OR specific e.g. national apple day OR other such as celebrity endorsement/health warning)--> retail speed changes
'Simburg Technical School just opened' --> labour costs down (RNG place names could be fun)
drought/bumper harvest --> crops being produced change yield
wood/food disease or natural disaster --> some stock lost
3. Vote-style
All players together democratically vote on a controversial SimCo government policy (supposed to somewhat reflect reality)
E.g.
'Simeons are hungry. Should we cut taxes on agriculture and tax mining more instead?'
'There's no such thing as climate change in Simburg. Should we ban electric cars and subsidise normal ones?'
'I miss $1 pizza. Should we put a cap on pork prices of 100$?' (Contract and exchange prices) - would have to be careful with derived products e.g. cows and steak
etc etc.
These votes could be fun, and could see better use of Simcompanies times ads, as well as adding realism. Vote-decided events could also have a bigger impact, and be less common than random events.
4. News
This isn't an event, but, a mock news page showing all the daily RNG events could be helpful. Currently, some events are told by the personal assistant which could be made better with more events in a news section.
Votes could also be done from here, and current events e.g. recession/competitions could be mentioned here too.
Also, this could maybe a place for more player ads.
Overall, these events could make all stages of the game more interesting, and makes people have to think about strategy more often. Also, they are immersive and could be entertaining with some fun RNG messages.
I could write a longer list of events/ RNG variations of each event message if needed
Would be great to see this in game.