Order strategies

They do not work. They just don't. I have tried three or four different times to change them so my country will keep a 5 month supply and it always resets. Any ideas?

For new players, first 14 days, there is no way to change them. They are excellent choices.

later, you can change to your liking and turn off the game settings. This is on the settings pages.

If all this does not apply to you, come back with more details.

Any particular reason to force them to have a strategy of your choising? Seems rather unnecessary and a hurdle to enjoy the game as a new player.

If I were a new player, I would feel highly frustrated to change strategies, come here the next day, and see them magically changed back.

Either block them from changing strategies and explain why or liberate the feature.

Most new players do not even come close to this part of the game in their first days.

if they do, we have observed disastrous settings that in many cases, destroyed the healthy profit these new countries enjoyed.

So now we enforce this for 14 days and do not let them destroy their economy during that initial period. We think that most of them have lots to learn in the first weeks and there are very few complaints.

HAH. Few complaints? my country runs out of three or four basic things every real day. 1 game month is not a good low water mark setting. Why? because supplies that have shortage arent ordered in 1 month, therefore it causes shortages. How about instead of blocking it completely, you limit it? That would make more sense.

If you find a few particular products that you have difficulty getting enough of Luke then you should manually order more (being careful not to exceed a safe cash flow) and slowly you will build up stock piles.

Most all longer term players here have stockpiles for emergencies when they need to feed their own corporations or transfer stuff between countries to keep a positive stock.

Obviously things in big shortage are going to cost you more but in the long run its better than not having the product and your welfare/supply index drop or corps not producing. Sooner or later you can stock pile stuff when its cheap win, win, sell for profit or supply yourself cheaply.

dont really have the cash on hand to do that as you can see from reading this thread havent been registered for more than 14 days

are there better strategies than the ones given to me? what should i use?

Just wait your time Luke, 2 weeks will be gone before you know it.

it already is. thats why i asked what i should use

Defaults (1 month left - order 10) work most of the time for me. If you had more cash I would say buy when the stock is down to 3 months but that will cause your country to spend a lot for a few months while it builds up those levels. A couple of things that you run out of frequently you could set the orders manually by buying...say...5 months usage worth every month until you hit a target of a couple of years stock. You will have to do the math to see the costs each month. This is prob good for things like low Q FMU's at the moment, services, construction in particular (always have loads of construction spare) and the rest is up to you to figure out as you get used to the game.

Happy playing, Crafty

Personally, I like 12 month left order 12. (I've still experienced shortages, haha.)