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Power's Edge Announce: Improving Regions - Guide Item
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:06:50 +0000

Announcement from the Moderator to All Leaders:

The following is a draft of a Leader's Guide section on the new
Improvements orders.

Please let me know what you think!  We are trying to provide clues to
how it works, without giving away the actual source code.

From Steven Bass, author of the Improvements options:
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Improving your regions:

A leader can assign workers to improve a region; increase the region's
production, add a new external link, or add a new internal link. As
with most things in life, success in these endeavors is not assured. A
group of workers may try their best and yet fail at the task. Succeed
or fail, the workers assigned tho the task disappear from your
nation.

The ease of improving a region depends greatly on the existing
conditions. It takes few workers to increase the production of a
barren region, and the payback period is well within the life-span of
a typical game universe. Improving a high production region is much
much more difficult. The payback period for improving a very high
production region could well extend past the end of the universe.

The same is true for creating new links. It is relatively easy to add
a link to a region which has few external and internal connections. It
gets much harder when the region is already well connected. External
links are easier to create than internal links.

Improvements are never cheap. Rarely will a leader successfully
improve a region with only a few workers. In the best circumstances, a
dozen workers would be the smallest number with a reasonable chance of
success. It could take over a hundred workers to improve a well
established region.

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