SimCountry

[Skanky Burns]

1) No. The only way around that is possibly taxing the corporations or increasing the profit payments to 100% for a single month. Of course, this affects ALL the corporations in your country.

2) If your goods quality is 130 and you charge 43 above market, then other corps will see your goods as expensive. Don't be surprised if they don't sell well. If you charge 29 above market, then corps will see your goods as a bargain, and be more likely to buy them.
If you charge 30 above market for goods that are 130 quality, it is the same as charging market price for 100 quality goods - they are both equally likely to be bought.

The best way to see what works related to buying and selling prices is to check what the top corporations are doing.

3) Besides a peace treaty (which guarantees that we won't attack you) there isn't really any formal way to express support between your federation and ours. However, if your federation comes under attack from a third party, I pledge my military to aid you. Others from the Apolyton federation will undoubtably do the same.

[Skanky Burns]

And checking your country out now:

You have 6 services companies. Excellent!
The construction company will be useful in case of a war too.

You have an Anti Aircraft Missiles company - kill it now. (3 B$ loss last year)
Ditto Highschools.

Upgrading quality and efficiency in the rest of your companies will increase their worth and profitability. You can probably also start more corporations with your newly free workers too.

[Malleus]

I inherited four services with the country, and built 2 right away even before I read one of the faqs floating around.

I intend to float my AA missile factory for a while; I am buying up all of it's production.

As for the high school factory, I am doing the same. I am building back up my high schools on the theory that as I get more teachers they will die back to a reasonable level instead of building back up from the really low level they are at.

Thank you for your support. Hopefully you can support my student's country of Radsu also. They haven't looked at it yet, I just finished registering for it.

My students have it tougher than us. They have to elect a President to do the mouse work, then the other get selected by the president to be his cabinet: Minsters of Human Services, Finance, and Transportation (Home Office), and Ministers of Defense, Foreign Relations and Trade (Foreign Office). We've already had our coalition almost break just from trying to name the capitol

Oh, one more question: I have been having all of my companies making fixed deals with the country to sell their products to the country. Is this standard policy? It's taking me a while to set up

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[Frozzy]

I'm worried my prices are too high. I'm not selling anything. Help!

[Datajack Franit]

Frozzy- turn prices down then

[Skanky Burns]

It is an absolute pain trying to keep up with your countries purchasing habits without using contracts. Particularly as you quickly reach the purchasing limit before being able to get decent stock levels for each item. When I first started, I was checking stock levels each and every day - if I missed even one day my country would have shortages.

To cut a long story short, contracts to your country are definately worth it, and will save you much time after they are set up. I normally have the contracts for 99 months so I don't have to worry about them for a long time, and have contracts for virtually all the product types.

A word of warning though. Don't attempt to get your companies fulfilling each others supply needs. It is a massive amount of work with very little reward. Let your companies take care of themselves.

That is a very interesting idea re: your students running the country. Keep us informed of their progress.

Frozzy: The market goes in cycles. Every so often the demand for a certain product goes through the roof and your entire stock will be sold. The next three months you won't be able to move a single unit. Then the month after that, you can't sell them fast enough. As long as your prices are relatively near the products quality level, it should be alright. You could probably get away with reducing your % of price reduction per month.
I have mine reducing at 1% per month, and they eventually get sold (all in one lot when the demand for that product picks up).

[Datajack Franit]

This is a stupid question but what are the negative effects of shortages?

[Skanky Burns]

For companies:
You don't produce stuff, so you don't get an income.
You still pay staff wages and interest on loans.

For countries - I have no idea.
I think it might reduce your welfare index, and hence your score. There are probably other effects too.

[Datajack Franit]

I guess I can let my peasants die starving then

[Skanky Burns]

I'm "experimenting" with complete neglect of my new country - just as long as my corporations are chugging along and fresh deliveries of warm bodies are flowing into my main country, I'll be happy.

Some research on its effects wouldn't go astray though. I'll report back here if I find anything relevant.

[Skanky Burns]

"If those product shortages are for citizen consumption don't even need to bother. No effects."
Apparently the shortages don't do a think.

Although I do have a slightly happier find to report.

http://jinson.ath.cx:8012/sc/index.php

This page allows you to search the database for different countries/corps that meet your specific criteria. So say you wanted an empty country that had a population above 13 million, you could search for that.

There are dozens of free countries with population over 18 million, btw.

[Az]

OK, I am going in..

[Frozzy]

Thanks Skanky

[Az]

say, do I need to improve my corps. all the time?

[Datajack Franit]

Nah, once a year is ok

If you have money to spend, then, it's ok