Today we introduce a number of new revolutionary features to encourage team play in Virtonomics!
From now on corporations will give a significant advantage to all its members. Meet the corporate certificates!
Basically certificates are a new game currency which can be earned by players for certain achievements. They can be spend in multiple ways including personal and corporate kinds.
Certificates turnover rules
I. How to earn certificates? (To corporate account)
- Welcoming bonus to all new corporations: 200 certificates;
- 5 certificates per each game point spend;
- 10 certificates for each victory in tenders (1st place in professional league, any place with a reward in amateur league);
- Daily certificates for archiving following goals: world leader in retail (5 certificates), all leaders in retail by country (3 certificates), the best fuel seller (10 certificates), all service sector leaders by revenue (3 certificates);
- 100 certificates for researching top level technology which was previously unknown in the realm. The first researcher of a new technology bring to his corporation 100 certificates; if the technology was researched by multiple players they share the reward;
- 100 certificates for completing each IV level quest by any member of a corporation;
- 50 certificates when a member of a corporation reaches 31th level of any qualification (each qualification is rewarded separately). Qualification value without bonuses is taken into account. This can be achieved by natural growth or by qualification purchase.
II. Certificates distribution
- Certificates are stored in the corporation, all members can see the accumulated amount of certificates, managing members (President, Vice-president, Deputy President) can see log and all transfers (who earned, how many and when);
- Managing members can spent and distribute certificates. Certificates can be spend on corporate projects (see article V) or distributed among corporate members (see article III);
- If a corporation did not spend or distribute certificates in last 26 days (game turns/updates) all certificates will disappear.
You can manage  corporate certificates from the page: My company / Corporation / Certificates.
III. Corporate certificates distribution for personal use
- Types of distributions depends on corporation level (see article V);
- Managing members (President, Vice-president, Deputy President) are responsible for distribution;
- Corporations with level less than 5 can only distribute 100% of accumulated certificates equally among corporate members. Non whole numbers rounding down to the next lowest number. Here and further: players without company and bankrupts do not participate in distribution;
- Corporations with level less than 11 can distribute 100% or 50% corporate certificates. Also they can distribute 50% certificates equally (proportionality) and 50% will be distributed according to amount of certificates earned in last 52 game updates;
- Corporations with have more than or equal to 11th level can distribute a certain percent (10, 20, etc. %) of accumulated certificates and they can set how many certificates should be distributed equally and how many certificates shall be distributed according to earning;
- If a player did not spent his certificates in last 52 days they will disappear;
- Undistributed due to rounding certificates will be transferred back to corporation account.
IV. Use of personal certificates
- A player can speed up construction or subdivisions' updating process by spending certificates;
- Certificates can be spend on company logo or on any Corporate VIP-service (Corporate Villas, Corporate Research, etc.);
- You can purchase a corporate «chest / set» (see article VI);
You can manage  personal certificates from the page: Cabinet / Game points / Certificates.
V. Corporate projects
Number of available corporate projects directly depends on corporation level which is determined by the total number of certificates spent by corporation from the beginning.
 1st level. (basic) Specialization "Quality": +1% production quality bonus to all members of the corporation. Cost: 300 certificates, duration 26 updates;
 2. (Total spending from 300, no other requirements) Specialization "Cost effective power plants": Reducing consumption of fuel by 25% in Oil-fired and Coal-fired power plants owned by members of the corporation. Cost: 500 certificates, duration 26 updates;
 3. (Total spending from 500, no other requirements) Specialization "Elite livestock": +5% livestock quality bonus to all members of the corporation. Cost: 750 certificates, duration 26 updates;;
 4. (Total spending from 750, no other requirements) Specialization "Elite fishing ": +15% bonus to quality of fishing products produced by corporate members in fishing based. Cost: 750 certificates, duration 26 updates;;
5. (Total spending from 500, no other requirements, last permanent level) This level opens access to corporate logo. Also corporation gets access to extended algorithm of corporate certificates distribution.;
 6. (Total spending from 500, level 1 villa, Top-25 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») Presidents and deputy presidents get an awards with +1 bonus to management qualification. Specialization: Bachelors: Gives a special award to all members of the corporation with +2 bonus to chosen qualifications. 14 different projects for each qualification. Cost: 1000 certificates, duration 52 updates;;
 7. (Total spending from 6000, level 1 villa, Top-25 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») Specialization "Government procurement": Bonus +25% to final quality of products which can be sold to government (yachts, airplanes, diesel fuel) produced by corporate members. Cost: 2500 certificates, duration 52 updates;;
 8. (Total spending from 12000, level 2 villa, Top-25 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») Specialization "Ores and oil": Bonus +25% to final quality of extracted resources from mines and wells to all corporate members. Cost: 5000 certificates, duration 52 updates;;
 9. (Total spending from 18000, level 2 villa, Top-25 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») Specialization "Researches": Bonus +5% to research speed in all laboratories owned by members of the corporation. Cost: 5000 certificates, duration 52 updates;;
 10. (Total spending from 27000, level 3 villa, Top-25 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») Specialization: Masters: Gives a special award to all members of the corporation with +5 bonus to chosen qualifications. 14 different projects for each qualification. Cost: 7500 certificates, duration 78 updates;;
11. (Total spending from 36000, level 3 villa, Top-10 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») No new projects. Presidents and vice-presidents receive an award with +3 bonus to management qualification. In addition to that corporation gets the most flexible access to certificates distribution for personal use of corporate members.;
 12. (Total spending from 45000, level 4 villa, Top-10 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») Specialization "Selling technologies": Doubles maximum number of technologies and licences which corporate members can put on sale. Cost: 5000 certificates, duration 78 updates;;
 13. (Total spending from 60000, level 5 villa, Top-10 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») Specialization "Strategic resources": +25% output bonus to farms, plantations, sawmills and fishing bases to all members of the corporation. Cost: 7500 certificates, duration 78 updates;;
 14. (Total spending from 75000, level 6 villa, Top-10 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») Specialization: elite: Gives a special award to all members of the corporation with +10 bonus to chosen qualifications. 14 different projects for each qualification. Cost: 10000 certificates, duration 78 updates;;
 15. (Total spending from 100000, level 7 villa, Top-3 «Rating of corporation by total number of certificates») Permanent award to all corporate members without bonuses. Specialization: Demiurges": Gives a special award to all members of the corporation with +25 bonus to chosen qualifications. 14 different projects for each qualification. Cost: 25000 certificates, duration 104 updates;.
VI. Corporate bonus sets
Unique bonus sets which can be purchased only for certificates. They will appear in the game in near future.
Additional information
As you may have noticed there is a new feature to load corporate logo. This feature is free, to use it your corporation must reach level 5.
New corporate ratings.
Corporate rating by number of certificates earned in last 52 updates. All earned certificates are taken into account including welcoming bonus and certificates earned by members who left the corporation. This rating shows current success. Position in this rating is taking into account when corporate level is determined.
Rating of corporation by level and number of spent certificates. Certificates consider to be spent when they distributed between members of the corporation or used for corporate projects. This rating does not have time restrictions, all spending from the first day of existence of a corporation are taken into account.
Currently it is a testing period of this new corporate features. It will continue until mid of August and than we might do small re-balancing.
We launching this update on Wednesday, 06 of July.
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