My Market Value is 17.80 Billion E's

[Urban Ranger]

Milk and butter? Those are horrible businesses to get into The trick is to look for a product that has consistent shortages. Soybean used to be pretty good but I stoped keeping track of it a while ago.


COckney,

Build Air Transport companies in your country if you don't have one or two. Trust me. Stone sucks too. Companies slash production if there are excessive supplies. Try knocking up the quality in these markets.

[Colon™]

I've started a corp too: Colon Entreprises (sounds grand doesn't it? ) in Kebir Blue. I've set up two companies, one Rice farm and one Soybean farm but haven't been able to produce anything yet.

Anybody wants me to invest in his country?

[Hagbart]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Milk and butter? Those are horrible businesses to get into The trick is to look for a product that has consistent shortages. Soybean used to be pretty good but I stoped keeping track of it a while ago.

Oh noo! ...now I'm confused (or u are wrong): I looked at the products (suply and demand) and chose butter because the suply was half of the demand...to me that means that it is good to build a butter factory cause there is not enough butter on the world market. (btw i'm in the White Giant world).

[Hagbart]

I'll try to be a president now, that might be fun.

[Sandman]

I've started a game with my country, Tantallon.

Like everyone else, I've a nasty shortage of low level workers and a severe shortage of med workers. Most of my unemployment is concentrated in managerial area and amongst engineers.

I've got a good service and chemical industry and there are three high-value private companies. (maybe I should turn up the tax)

Is there any limit to what companies you can set up? For example, can I start a cocoa company in the polar regions?

[Jules]

Hey, what gives here?!

Ok, I set up a contract to buy a small amount of services from one of my state corporations (less than 1% of their monthly production). I set the corp to reserve the appropriate amount of output for contracts. Then later when trades executed I get a message saying the company couldn't deliver on the contract. Huh?! Do open market trades get priority or something?

[Urban Ranger]

Colon,

Fearless Blue is more advantageous to attackers, but if you are just a CEO all you need to worry about is damages to your factories.


Hagbart,

The butter market has very long stretches of over-supply, that's all.


Sandman,

Don't turn up the tax. If you have a whole bunch of high tech types sitting around what you do is to increase efficiency of your factories. That will reduce the number of low tech workers needed. There also seems to be no regional restrictions on where you build companies.


Jules,

Check the reservatio to see if it has been set correctly. If so, check the production status of your company.

[faded glory]

Well my energy enterprise is growing.

After acquiring the 10 billion dollar Kloten Iron firm, I am feeling confident. It took alot of bids, but I cant wait to build it up. Its in good shape and im suprised I was the only bidder.

Now this adds

Rat power and Light worth= 6b E's
Rat Oil= 278M E's
Rat Mining & ore=11.6B E's

I still have 30 billion dollars left over from the Loan. Im acquiring 2 more corporations at the end of August (game time) A Defense fighter company and another electric Exporter.


If your not sure how to manage your corporation. Go to "All things you can do" on your front page and look for "Automate settings"

[faded glory]

The best trading strategy for products is 2% above market price. And if it doesnt sell, drop it bye 5%. This actually encourages steady but stable growth.

[Urban Ranger]

You're spending way too much on the company. Much cheaper starting your own. A production plant costs around 4B, so any companies that costs more than that is not worth it.

AFAIK there is no set trading strategy. You can't be lazy you need to keep a watch on the market. Jack up the price when there is a huge shortage.

[Jules]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Jules,

Check the reservatio to see if it has been set correctly. If so, check the production status of your company.

I think it's straightened out now. The corp in question is showing the correct amount on the "Product in Stock but Not Offered on the Market" line. It was probably just a timing issue. I must've set up the contract and reserved the goods *after* the corp sold all its available product the month before. Once the month rolled over and new product was generated, then the company sets aside contract goods apparently.

[faded glory]

UR:

Its not that. Kloten is a good company. I know im puttin alot out there for it. But Iron is in HUGE demand and the guy has some really bad fixed pricing rates.

[faded glory]

oh and bye bad I mean low

[Chowlett]

What's the time commitment on this thing?

[Jules]

The game only executes two months each day (1 game turn = 1 month), so probably only 30 minutes per day. If you wanna sign up, I'll PM you a gift certificate number. That way we'll each get 20 billion in play money. I'm Schiller Republic in White Giant. This is a really fascinating game IMHO.