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Common Market

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Anthony King

All worlds
17 Oct 2019 15:27Link
How do I set one up? please help me, yours sincerely Michael.
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Anthony King

All worlds
18 Oct 2019 12:58Link
please help me?
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Vladian Enache

All worlds
18 Oct 2019 13:00Link
enter country
go to common market (left bar menu, 2nd section)

.../cgi-bin/cgiw?mktmain

there should be a link on that page to create one, if you are not currently a member of one
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Letsie

All worlds
18 Oct 2019 13:31Link
Vladian is right. That is how you create a common market.

My question is why you should want a common market in the first place. Common markets are only good under a few very specific circumstances.
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Anthony King

All worlds
19 Oct 2019 14:49Link
Letsie, here is why, because I was told that if you have common market you make your own corporations quantity number of quality items in your own corporations, for example, in one of the threads someone made on about common markets is that you can make a few items with a high quality and most items low quality to make it cheaper, i dont know how to do that so i am learning.

Thank you Vladian for your help my good friend.
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Letsie

All worlds
20 Oct 2019 04:30Link
I was afraid you were going to say something like that. What you want to do is something that works only in theory.

What I am about to write counts for roughly 90% of the corporations in simcountry.

If you produce low quality (and thus cheaper) items for your own corporations the end product is also going to be of a lower quality. Meaning that not only will the original corp produce less profit for but also the corporation at the end of the production line.

If you are going to make high quality goods and sell them cheaper to the end of the line corporation it will cut in your profit margins. The end of the line corp gets its supplies cheaper and will earn more profit. But all those corps before it will earn less and will not be able to use the best selling strategies because they have to sell at a fixed rate.

For 90% of the corporations common markets are not profitable.

Common markets are good for a
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John Galt

All worlds
20 Oct 2019 14:00Link
Also with corporations there is a maximum produced quality that cannot be exceeded no matter how high your supply quality is. With common markets you cannot control your input quality. You buy what is being sold. What is being sold will be higher quality than you need to reach your hard cap production quality.