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King of Tsutsudi: LU is better.

aska26ph2001: Trade->Contracts->Either of the last two options.

David Keirnan: Were the shares you placed an order for offered for sale? Did you offer to pay best price?

I think so but i dont remember the number i tried to purchased

Could you make more profit by having high education (around 180) and having only or mostly high tech service corps than keeping your index at 120 and using low level workers?

I in theory believe that by having more high tech workers would lead to increased tax revenue but I've never been able to test this. Also I would assume workers would pay more for health care and education with higher salaries although I'm not sure if that would pay for the increased education costs.

Since you are a experienced player I assume you have though about or tried this so I would appreciate any insight as I am deciding how I shall setup my countries.

High education has a cost in not only expenses but labor that could otherwise work for corporations. In addition, I believe in a stable economy with a mix of products produced across difference market segments. So, no, building a large education system to focus on one type of production is not something I would do or recommend.

Thank you for your answers so far. Some of them have been really helpful for me. I would like to ask another question.

My CEO is stocking up weapons right now. I'm doing this because people have explained to me that you can save a lot of money this way.
But I don't know what the fastest way is to get all those weapons back into a country. If I try to transfer them I'm 'limited' to the max volume my country can trade. Is there another way to get them from my CEO back to my country?

Oh and are there still 'broken' units in the game? In the 'good old days' there were some weapons waaaaaay more efficient then what they were supposed to be.

Hey aries, are you number 1 because of your horoscope sign? or is that just a coincidence? or being best is that why you call yourself aries?

Letsie: The fastest way to transfer weapons is using shuttles, which ignore all spending caps. Weapons move fairly quickly through space when compared to comparable amounts of needed ammo. Since ammo does not require maintenance, it isn't a bad idea to have it stocked in advance where you are likely to need it. In this way, if you experience a war dec, your shuttles will have less of a workload on the eve of a conflict. For other tips, check the Defense Readiness Guide on the Beginner's Forum, where all my guides can be located by searching my nick "Aries".

Sheepman: Heh, good question! Actually, neither. There is a little bit of a story to it. Years ago where multi-player games started to appear online, an early one was called Stellar Crisis, which was the first multi-player game I played over the internet. My mother worked at OSU for some scientists, and it was called Zeus labs. So, in the game, I went by Zeus.

Sometime

Thank you Aries for your answer. I've got enough info to keep me bussy for a while.

My empire is really in a bad situation now, I was inactive for 2 days and I was planning on raiding C3's for cash and to increase my war level but I wasn't able to get on. Now I see that I have lost a lot of cash due to lots of weapon and quality upgrade spending on orders I placed two days ago. Now I can't get into my country I was using for raiding because it's in too much debt as I was planning on getting cash from raiding to continue to pay for my weapon spending. Is there anything I can do or is it just game over? Most of my countries are in great debt except 2 and I can't raid C3's for more money.

you need to find a way to pay off the debt and get back into your main country at least

I just ordered a bunch of electric power in exchange for gold coins.

if you have a country or enterprise you can sell it from and then flip to transfer the money into that will work.

How to Airlift Units home from Remote Depot when Supply Units does not replenish Units? I have 2 Air wings in a remote depot because of running out of supply. I create 3 supply units and airlift them to the DEPOT. However, those 3 supply units don't do their jobs. Help me!!!

Greetings....Is there a percentage breakdown for the factors in computing the ranking system? Here is the documentation so looking it up won't be necessary.

The total score is an average of many different indexes. The score link on the country home page shows several factors that contribute to the score.

"|The economic indexes include the finance, assets, the industrial index and the corporations and production indexes.

The defense index is computed as twice the defensive index plus the offensive index and the strategic index, divided by four. The war index is also part of the total score.

The welfare indexes are Health, education, transportation, supply, social security and employment."
I look forward to a lively discussion. Thank you

I would like to ask Aries.........

Where in the heck are you hiding????!!!!!!!!! I've been around multiple times and am not seeing you!!!

Hello Aries,

I have begun to look into the trading market to earn money and have run into purchasing limits of my enterprise several times. What is the thought processes for this limit? If the enterprises have the money why can they not spend what they have? Doesn't seem realistic to me, is this to slow down trading?

-JWUrton

Enterprises do offer a lot of spending space. They have a $500 Billion limit each game month, which is not too shabby. You can have two such enterprises on each world and a large empire is capable of adding quite a bit too your spending on a world. However, if there was no cap, quite a few players possess the cash to, literally, buy up just about everything for sale, if they wish.

The caps are there to ensure a somewhat equal playing field for the current products for sale. The one change I would recommend, however, is to count contracted purchases towards the spending cap the same way that market purchases count. I talked about that earlier in this thread. That would allow players a bit more control if they choose to invest in certain corps and stock a certain product, perhaps ammo or weapons.

Thank you for the clarification. It makes sense. For a thought experiment lets say someone or many people did decided to literally buy up everything the market has to offer thus driving prices through the roof. Would this not create an opportunity for others to pick up the slack and start trading between worlds even more? Perhaps it would not be a good thing to completely remove all limits at once but would a gradual loosening of the lease allow a capitalist market grow? Perhaps I am completely missing vital points though. Even in today's societies around the world there are still limitations placed on companies.

Question: My countries on KB (Ailuros and Zephyros) make a profit each month of about 17 billion each. How come they both are losing money? Should I not be making more cash? I think this may be a game flaw but not certain. I also believe it could have to do with supply orders from the various corporations.

Micheal, think of the country "profit" as a monthly allowance. It does not include many items, such as the purchase of products for your country, including from contracts. If you go to your finance page in detail, check out the "Cash YTD' tab. It will show recent influences of your cash total, and you will notice "profit or loss" is simply one component of this.

It is not uncommon for new players, in particular, to purchase items such as weapons and ammo and assume, since profit is positive, that they are staying in the green. However, the "Cash YTD" tab will include this purchase in the "materials purchased" area, which is indeed separate from the country "profit" consideration.

The three line items that get a lot of work there are the "Materials Purchased", "Spending by the Population", and "Materials sold or used bu Government" areas. A lot can be said of these bu

Aires, I was wondering what went wrong with my ordering of hospitals. I have enough workers and it says I can order up to 78 hospitals but I've been waiting a few game years and they haven't come through. Im on FB btw.

It took a while for my hospitals and education facilities to deliver myself. There is quite a market shortage for these on FB so it quite possibly is taking that long to deliver. Check your trade tab trade overview and see if they are still pending.

How do you stop or prevent CEO's from taking over or buying corporations in your country? I know there is a way to do this (as I once tried to get my Enterprise -I think it was on LU to place or buy a corporation from one of your countries Aries but message popped up saying President of country does not allow other CEO's in country).

Aries is probably asleep now.

Check settings on the country home page.
You can stop CEOs from purchasing corporations.

Having CEOs in your country is however very profitable.
These corporations contribute a lot of money to the country.

You can find on this forum, requests to increase the number of corporations each CEO can purchase.

Thanks Andy.
What do you mean Aries is asleep now?