Keep a watch on oil demand please. (White Giant)

I have formed my own watch dog group. Due to the recent changes by the Gm's which has totally destroyed our economy and country profits I have been keeping an eye on demand.

Oil Demand has risen sharply for the last 5 months and I am beginning to worry that the gm's will again crush us with one of their oil resets. I am gun shy and do not want to quit this game, which is what I will do if they reset oil again. The last game tweak has cut our country profits by almost 50% not the 10% they are trying to feed us. It effected most profitable industries not just oil. Electric power, high tech and more were flushed down the toilet.

Just keep an eye on oil please as demand has been skyrocketing again. Build corps as needed.

okay thanks...ill go ahead and build some oil Corps.
tho i can't go all out...newb players arn't that rich
any tips?

Yep, Spar. Buy a Discounted Gold Coin Package from the Banker(Moi, in this case) and build all the new Oil Corps you heart could desire.

I am selling 500 gold coins for 25USD via paypal.

Compare this to 360 gold coins for 36USD.

Regards,
Wendy

Tsk tsk. Don't put your eggs in one basket.

Demand for oil jumped another 2 million.

we are gonna get screwed -_-

I used to play years ago, and quit after 3 months because of that economic manipulation. I built so many corps to meet demand and then poof, all of a sudden no demand - just oversupply.

The real world can learn a lot from this manipulation of "world markets" lmao. Good simulator actually.

I try every year to see if things changed and it looks like not this year. I'm just one person with a comment, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot of people like me right? Maybe.

That's one thing we could all vote on, let the markets run free!

Spar, correction: THEY are gonna get screwed! Haha

I too would like to see the markets run free, with no price fixing. I feel it would be more realistic and add a strategic element to the game that is lacking.

Marshal: looong time ago when i said ahahaha

Lol You're right. Way for me to not pay attention to dates! Haha

yeah. woah your in the future!
*lol jk*

I've formed 5 new oil companies between my two countries but lack of Factory Maintenance Units is killing production...

...eh that sucks....

Find some contracts,

Contracts are not profitable, just have your countries keep a stockpile of 12 months, stock up you corps to 12 months and then restock your country, when you start to get low in your corps sell the stockpile to them and order more...

I do this with all of my countries and Enterprizes and very rarely run out for more then 24 hours.

How are contracts unprofitable

Everybody told me that contracts are not profitable, but my common market is doing very well, and at least so far, it doesn't seem to be the case that contracts or common markets are unprofitable.

Contracts do not allow you to set quality or price. So the best you can do is what ever is biult and market price, you can ussually do better buy just buying and selling on the market.
When I first started I set up a common market and biult what I needed to supply everything and corporations kept going into debt. I was told to cancile all contracts, and sure enough they stopped loosing money.

Hm. Weird. I am not having the same problem.

What about local trading that's good right?

Local trading is fine, you control what and when buy controlling what you stockpile.
I stock pile 12 months worth of what my corps need at about grade 130, trying to target a 250 grade output. Anything over 250 is effectively grade 250 but you pay for the higher cost, well so far anyway.

Yah your definitely right I cancelled all contracts and my country started making 3 to 4 more billions of dollars which is a lot for a county with 13 million population I assume this increase in taxes is from extra profitability in my corps after cancelling contracts thanks

But yah if I want to I can provide my corps with 30 percent of what they need through local trading would you suggest doing that I'm not having trouble selling all my products