How about a new market commodity? Add a market commodity of gold. Gold could be used to buy items that can not be bought with cash. Those items could be things like land, bonus points and missiles. Gold mines could be a new building type and added gold production could be added to one of the weak governments to make that government type better and more used.

Why?

because the market is very lack luster and slugish. everyone just stocks most of the set and the market goes flat unless there is a war. More market activity with more options could spice things up.

this would make the game more complicated.

or admins could start selling gold too?

make this like Asian MMO except we are a browser based text game?

LOL

more complicated is a good thing.

You mean like you can buy ingame currency with real money? Hehe, then there would be no skill. Somebody could just buy tons of currency, buy up and grab everybody on the server ^^

no, not at all no real money. you can buy and sell gold with in game dollars but you you can only buy land, bonus points and missiles with in game gold. Gold should be made hard to produce so there is not large amounts of it. It would make the market more active and give more options on strats and what to stock. The market would be more active since you would have to buy/sell more than once to convert missiles, land and bonus turns into cash, military tech and bushels or the other way around. More options on how to play would be good for the game.

The beauty of this game is in its simplicity.

It would be nice with a test server where new stuff is added and tested. You could rate the changes after each reset, keep the ones who receive good ratings and remove the ones who don't.

People who produced gold would have to sell it for $$$, right? But they could use the gold to buy other stuff? So people who sell land for gold then have to sell the gold for $$$ to run their turns? I am getting dizzy going in that circle...

thats how a lot of the facebook games work. You have normal currently then you have a seperate currency (ie. tokens, credits) that you can use to buy special items.

So arbitrary and pointless complexity? Yeah, as long as we're at it why don't we make more game events take realtime as well as turns, yeah that's the ticket.

Hell, why not just add derivatives and insurance company stocks, etc. Convert the game to a game of financiers and brokers instead of players.

Cerberus of the MI