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Season 1 / Turn 188

This turn’s bulletin digest

Only events from this issue’s turn are listed. Earlier turns are available in the back numbers. Occupations are not called capital falls without evidence that the town was a capital at that time.

Ongoing wars

Country cards

Population, troops and labor shortage are in people; food is in tonnes and money in 100 million yen. Individual unit strengths and deployment appear only where stated in public record text.

Prices, auctions and trade volume

Prices (one game unit)

Top three countries by trade volume

All open auctions (by deadline)

Cumulative losses and this turn’s losses

Counted period 97–188

Only numbered losses in public land-battle records are counted. Unit destruction, private battles, unnumbered losses and unavailable records are excluded. By default, repeat wars are combined by country pair. Turns without records are not treated as zero losses.

Capitals and major cities

This turn’s occupation and capital relocation records

Countries that fell this turn

Public map and resistance

Public map for this turn (JSON)

Summary by country. Cell values are available in map.resistance_low in this issue’s JSON and in the public map JSON.

Private resource stocks

These are the same owned quantities as in statistics, including goods in transit. Units: food 100 tonnes; wood, stone, ore and goods 10,000 tonnes; oil 100,000 barrels; fuel 10,000 kilolitres; ammunition 1,000 tonnes; steel tonnes. Unavailable values are shown as —.

Public rankings and country status

Area and territory are cell counts; economy is in 100 million yen and ships are counted by hull. Stance tags are included only for human countries.

Top three countries by sailing distance

Top three countries by ships sunk

Factions and member countries

Public record text for this turn

All public text for this issue’s turn is included. Ship and unit positions and strengths in the text describe the recorded event, not their current deployment.

Merchant and civilian ships on the public map

Fishing

Public port fish and fishing boats

Fishing boats on the public map

Distant fishing grounds

Neutral bank

The bank belongs to no country and creates no new money. It lends only cash deposited by private sectors; total loan principal is limited to 50% of deposit principal. Cash on hand, deposit principal (a withdrawal claim), and loan claims are separate. Interest is 1% of principal per turn, with a 20-turn term. For interest, one turn means one month, or about 12% per year. Unpaid debt is repaid with available goods. Delivering goods does not increase bank cash.

Half of interest actually collected in cash is distributed in proportion to deposit principal; the other half stays as bank reserves. Insufficient reserves stop dividends without reducing deposit principal. Withdrawals are paid in order within available cash; the unpaid part waits for cash from repayments or deposits. At the start of a turn, a private sector below working cash withdraws its own deposit first, then borrows only the remaining shortfall. After private shipping, shipbuilding and domestic trade, it automatically deposits only cash above the cap at turn end.

Interest 1% per turn; 50% of cash interest collected is distributed. Loan ceiling 50%, term 20 turns, disappearance wait 12 turns.

Automatic deposit cash cap 10000 in 100 million yen. Working cash is the sum of private purchases and shipbuilding payments in the preceding four turns, with a floor of 2000 in 100 million yen. Goods lot size 1, goods order Food, Timber, Stone, Ore, Oil, Fuel, Industrial Goods, Ammunition, Steel. Interest is simple; interest fractions below 0.001 (in 100 million yen) carry forward, and dividend fractions are rounded down.

A loan is limited to the smallest of the working-cash shortfall, household sales in the most recent 10 turns, 50% of the value of privately owned stock (including warehouses and cargo in transit), available bank cash, and the bank-wide lending cap. Food uses its fixed price; other goods use world prices. A due-date cash shortfall blocks new loans for the following 12 turns. Automatic private borrowing is checked against these conditions.

Rules, limits and lending terms

World weather and currents

These per-cell values for this turn are the same for every player. This page shows only cell counts; the per-cell values are in the JSON of this issue under world_environment (weather and current, indexed y × size + x). The codes read as follows.

1=Sunny, 2=Cloudy, 3=Rain, 4=Snow, 5=Thunder / 1=Northeast, 2=East, 3=Southeast, 4=Southwest, 5=West, 6=Northwest, +8=Warm current, +16=Cold current, 0=No current

Cell counts