Comparing oil and rare earth metals

Would that affect foreign relations, harming the poor of another country, indirectly?

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I’ve implemented this. it currently works with the same numbers as before, but now there is a new blue bubble for prices. It will show an input to the crisis situation when it triggers.
I’m working on the situation itself triggering a long term price trend down.

Also I redid the icons for rare earth metal mining, and the crisis so they use the same ingot icon as this new item, to make it clearer what stuff represents.

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Looks good, thank you for this. I’ll reiterate that currency strength should also be an input. Neutral at 50%, makes the problem worse in the lower half and mitigates it in the upper half.

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good idea, I’ll add this

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Could we have percentage tooltips for all graphs?

Graphs in blue icons and graphs in focus groups?

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Good point, this shouldn’t be difficult.

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Could the water shortage be also simulated in a similar way?

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Rare Earth Mining would probably exacerbate the water shortage, right?

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Uhh, why?

You require water to refine minerals. There should be a similar situation with cash crops which are water-intensive when/if they are added into the game (sugarcane for example).

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