May 7th 2014, 19:52:45
aron: I know I've seen your name a few times, but I don't know how knowledgeable you are, so I'm assuming you need some basics. Each set has a pretty typical path based on the fact that almost everyone plays the same strategy.
The netters first start by trying to build up construction sites, technology levels, and land, often, but not always, in that order.
Once they get big and fat and have high tech levels, they start to stockpile a resource--typically food, but some people try to play with tech or oil markets. But again, most people stockpile food.
Because of this, that means farmers are holding on to more of their bushels, stockpiling instead of selling, and cashers and techers are spending more money on bushels and less on military/tech/oil, so bushels are going to go up in price and stay up for a good portion of the set.
A few people will use the "decay/corruption" bonus and will sell off stockpiles early, so there will probably be a little drop in bushel prices at some point, but overall, it'll stay much higher until the last days of the set when everyone is trying to dump their bushels to buy military and gain the most net.
The concept behind this is that military costs a lot of upkeep, so it's better to cash in as much as possible on your turns when you have little upkeep.
LAstly, no, don't build farms. If you're a casher or techer, keep doing your thing and buy the bushels. It sucks to pay so much, but it's more efficient for your country to buy $50 bushels than to build enough farms and buy enough tech to produce your own food.
If any of this doesn't make sense, either ask questions or join a clan with strong netgainers who can mentor you (most any clan near the top of the TNW charts will have people knowledgeable enough to give you the guidance you need).
<--MSN