1.13: Supply Exchange and The Market
The Market brings stocks, bonds, funds, sectors, commodities and supply deals onto one page, and the new Supply Exchange lets you find suppliers and buyers, including NPP companies, and sign a contract in one step.
1.13 adds The Market, one page for everything you can buy or trade. The market cap chart leads the page and can be collapsed. Tabs cover stocks, bonds, funds, sectors for sale, commodities, supply deals and currencies. Supply deals lists open offers across every commodity, with company logos and CEO portraits. You can filter it by players or NPPs, by offering or seeking, and by commodity, and each offer shows its volume and estimated value per turn.
It also opens the Supply Exchange. Until now, finding someone to sell you energy or buy your steel meant asking around in Discord. Now every commodity has an offers page listing sell offers and buy requests, with volume, price against market, term, the company's country and its credit rating. Take an offer in one step, for all of its volume or part of it, and the contract starts that turn. Your sector inputs panel tells you when sellers are offering your costliest input.
NPP companies take part. They post standing offers from spare capacity and unmet demand, marked as NPP, and they accept your buy proposals when they have capacity to spare and the discount is no deeper than 10%. Contracts still buy you priority when supply is short and a price up to 35% above or below market. They do not lock in a fixed price.
Contracts are safer, too. You can amend a pending offer instead of cancelling it, and you are told when a contract is accepted, taken, started, cancelled or expires. Companies with the same owner, the same CEO, or a 5% stake in each other cannot contract with each other, and no contract can cross an embargo or the iron curtain.
The 1991 world gets steadier foundations. Nigeria, China, Turkey and seven Western European countries open with household incomes in 1991 currency, every populated region has a real population that changes through births, deaths and migration, and Brazil, Germany, China and Nigeria keep budgets sized to their economies. Share prices no longer count the era's free technology as company value. Bond issues no longer inflate financial services demand, and plants that sell out in short markets ramp up faster. Freight bills now follow each sector's share of state demand. Logistics sectors no longer pay the sprawl penalty.
Turns run faster and more reliably. Treasury, bond, index fund and corporate tax steps settle in fewer writes. A turn interrupted mid-step resumes without repeating payments, and state enterprises, coupons and capex grants can no longer stop the corporation turn.
Politics and accounts: Japan's proportional seats are allocated correctly, party mergers require neighboring presence, withdrawing from a race keeps you out of it, and new parties see their regional registration pools. You can change your account email, sign in with the Discord app on Android, and choose between a modern and a classic interface. The tutorial covers the 1991 world.