SimCountry

[Frozzy]

I made a meagre profit in my few days away. Oh well...

[Az]

Tax the private corp.s, raise from say 30% to 40%. and reduce profit uptake from national and state corp.s to let them ride easier through the hard months that come from time to time.

[Skanky Burns]

Better than making a loss Frozzy.
And when you improve the companies more, you will make more profit.

[Az]

the advice of selling production at the same percentage that your production quality is above 100% got me into quite the trouble, btw. I had to make bargain offers of "Best Price" sells, to get rid of surplus stock.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Just joined, as Gergovia in White Giant. Any way I can get invited to join the Apolyton coalition?

[Sandman]

I have to invite you. Which I have just done.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

...and I already got bored with running a country, and decided to switch to running an enterprise instead. Sorry. Still in White Giant though, as Armscor Industries.

[Lemmy]

Yay, Vlad, if you need Internet or a High Tech Sevices contract, let me know, my enterprise is called LemCorp Incarnate.

[Datajack Franit]

Franit Empire is sinking into debts... facing doom

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Azazel
the advice of selling production at the same percentage that your production quality is above 100% got me into quite the trouble, btw. I had to make bargain offers of "Best Price" sells, to get rid of surplus stock.

You subtracted 100 from the sell price so that if its quality was 122, you were selling at 21 above market?
If so, you should have just let it sit there - it may not sell each and every month, but when it does you actually make a profit on it. I haven't had to resort to "best price" sales strategies ever.

Datajack: Try decreasing social security each month until things pick up. That should save you lots of money, and hopefully put you into the black.

[Malleus]

Here is what works for me (as suggested by the player FAQ and various experts in IRC chat):

Big shortage: quality level - 100 + 13

So for 136 quality set at 49.

Small shortage: quality level - 100 + 10

So for 136 quality set at 46.

Break even: same as shortage.

Surplus : quality level - 100 + 5

136 qual is 41.

Big surplus: quality level - 100 - 1

136 qual for 35.

Incidentally, since things are so cyclic in the economy, when there is a surplus of something that I know goes into demand (like potatoes) I simply withdraw the product and hang on to it until it goes short, then reap the money!

M

[Datajack Franit]

Can someone post the differences between a normal company and a 1-quality level upgraded one (workers and so on) so I can tell if upgrade some companies or not?

[Az]

Skanky: yeah, well, when I had to actually take loans because my corps. profits nullified, and country began sinking, just at the time I started a massive Railroad building campaign. I am making a profit now.

I try the bottom up approach now. every login, I raise the price at which I sale.

avg. product quality=130.
starting price +10%, lower price each month.

I am doing much better now.


Datajack: WHY IS YOUR GOVT. INDEX SO LOW?

Suggested steps:
lower your social security.
close some water treatment plants.
And what the **** is going on with your education?

What are your secret stats? It seems that your country is too much militarized. improve your corps. instead, get the cash, and then build up the military.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

As you can guess, Armscor makes weapons, primarily. However, I'm also trying to start up a services corporation as part of Armscor, since services as a produce seem to be in very short supply.

At present, I have an Anti-Aircraft Missiles company up and running, with helicopter-land missiles and anti-missile missiles companies in the pipeline. I don't have any service units available, hence my trying to create a Services company.

[Malleus]

Vlad, the sovereign nation of Riis would like to purchase ammunition from your fine companies. I will happily pay 5% greater than market price for missiles.

M