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cafecafegames

All worlds
30 Aug 2024 16:53Link
Andy, why is EP price still falling while demand is greater than supply?
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Andy

All worlds
30 Aug 2024 18:00Link
The base price is being reduced for some time.
it has nothing to do with market conditions.
It has a positive effect on the profits of many corporations who are now
paying less for EP.

The market price is based on the base price.

With shortages, the market price will go up to a maximum, maybe around 150% of base price.
If there is a surplus, the market price will go down to about 50% of base price.

We always hoped that players will build more corporations if the price goes up.

If this was true, we could have let the market price go much higher or much lower depending on the market.

but we have seen that players, in general, do not react to a higher price
and letting a product drift up very high could undermine many other corporations and cause them to bankrupt.

Hence the MAX price.

If the case we have now, base price is being reduced gradually and the MAX market price goes d
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cafecafegames

All worlds
30 Aug 2024 19:30Link
Pity.
I invested a lot in my setup of WFs, WT corporations and the ability to be self sustainable.
Now my profit is less than expected.

Is really hard to think a good economic strategy when conditions change in this way.

Thanks for your answer.
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Andy

All worlds
30 Aug 2024 20:19Link
WF will remain profitable.

We were very clear about reasonable profit levels.

you could read the discussions we had several weeks ago about the profits of WFs.
we said all along that they will be profitable but warned that countries will not be able to base their economy on wind farms and that profits will be good but no magic.

other than before, EP is now sold to the country not at base price but rather at market price which is much higher,
and,
the quality is increasingly taken into account and at the end,
the full quality of EP will be taken into account and countries will pay more for EP.

Just make sure you have no shortage of wind turbines in the country.
negative numbers of wind turbines will result in bad maintenance and EP output is already much lower.

don't go over 1000 wind farms as maintaining them becomes a major issue.

all this has been on the game news and the forum