| Nathan Spiegel (White Giant) | Monday, February 27, 2012 - 09:03 pm 
seeing as demand and supply of various products like to fluctuate, I had an idea to do something to help my corps.
Seeing as military supplies are in the green, that means that corps may not be able to sell as much and make less profit. is it a bad idea to temporarily contract full production to my country just so my corporation has a guaranteed buyer and makes a profit? |
| Matt Patton (Little Upsilon) | Monday, February 27, 2012 - 10:15 pm
I only contract something to country when I can't get something like say la shells lt shells
also is pop boosting 100 mil in 6 months a bad idea I seen one country do it on little Epsilon I think yes |
| Matt Patton (Little Upsilon) | Monday, February 27, 2012 - 10:25 pm
other bad ideas being a low tax nation with mostly private companies then all of a sudden jack up tax rate
cuz then the companies will leave |
| Gothamloki (Little Upsilon) | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 02:55 am
Nathan: It can work. You can "stock up" on the product now. Store it, use it, move it between your countries, sell it to your other corps, or just wait and sell it off on the world market when the demand turns red again. It's a perfectly legit game-technique. |
| Nathan Spiegel (White Giant) | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 03:40 am
@gothamloki
thank you for that very clear answer 
I hadn't even thought about reselling it when demand goes back up... very interesting idea indeed. thanks |
| Magicabe (White Giant) | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 09:11 am
Do it once and tell us how much u lost cause fixed price selling doesn´t work. |
| Gothamloki (Little Upsilon) | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 03:31 pm
Magic: When selling, it should be at the new market price. Isn't it?
(Yes, Nathan. If you're doing this... stocking, then selling later... keep track of the market price you're paying now to buy the product. (You'll need a handy little notebook to play this game.) Then sell when the demand goes red AND the market price is equal or greater than you paid.) |
| Gothamloki (Little Upsilon) | Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 03:45 pm
Magic: I think you may be talking about the forced compromise in pricing the market imposes on the transaction. Apparently, when you sell at +100 market price and someone buys the same quality product at +50, it will make the sale at +75. Or something like that. Not sure the exact mechanism involved, but I do believe Andy posted a reply about this issue some weeks back. (I can't remember where the exact post is, though.) |
| youwillfall (White Giant) | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 07:00 am
what i typicaly do is prop up the corp with cash and let it hold onto the resorces (i would end up forgeting to sell them and use some high quality services that i didnt require) if your not producing a high quality (expencive) product it could be concidered an option |
| Quetzalcoatl (Fearless Blue) | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 08:44 pm
Playing the market in this game does work, i do it all the time, Currently i have in stock 100,000 tons of gold that i bought at 38M, the price of gold fluctuates between 35M and 120M, also other tyes of commodities also do the same, Which is why when i am running low on cash I start to trade commodities, if you look at my coutnry tenochtitlan on FB, you will see it went from 600B in cash to over 13T dollars in Cash in less than 3 days, this is from selling commodities that i stock up on when they are cheap and sell when they are high. Recently most of this cash came from oil, I had over 4B tons of oil, which was almost 25& of the market in reserve. it works!!!!! |
| Sunny (Kebir Blue) | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 08:51 pm
Gonna try that! lol |
| Quetzalcoatl (Fearless Blue) | Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 11:59 pm
Sunny check out tenochtitlan reborn on FB and see my cash reserves go from 600B to 13T just by selling commodities that where way overpriced. Also im looking to buy 10 Chemical batteries and 10 nuc missile batters, if any of you have this and want to sell some to me go ahead, this will only be used as a defense measure for my country. |
