Introducing Services
Much of our focus has been on various physical productions and supporting the logistics that go with them. However, the other side of the economy is services. Although we value the substance and economic virtue that go along with physical production, it is naive to ignore the valuable role that services play in society. Our early feedback from our closed beta test has revealed a need to acomodate the service industry.
So what exactly is a “service” in the economic sense? A “service worker” is broad category describing someone who performs a task for someone else. Services can seem very physically tangible, plumbing, barber, or waste collection. Services can also seem very intangible, like law, accounting, or business consulting.
Until now, our model has focused primarily on supply chains and physical assets. With our latest release, we are now introducing services to go alongside productions.
The existing operations section is now subdivided into services and productions. Services work exactly the same way as productions with a single important distinction: services have no resource output. What does this mean? It means that services still can consume resources or require equipment, but their output is intangible. Like normal productions, a service is associated with a physical location, but there is room to list a traveling service if that best suits your needs.
At the end of the day, as good citizens, we want to hire our neighbors. And as service workers, we want to provide our neighbors with high value service.