Dec 12th 2012, 11:26:48
@blid Your calculations only hold if food was $50 all set long, and only if you actually stock food.
Flaw 1) Food isn't $50 all set long. Food is typically 40ish in the first 30-40 days of the reset, and turret prices a lot more than 117, so it isn't remotely near worth it to get any farms before food closes in on $50, and turrets drop to $117.
Flaw 2) You haven't accounted for the fact that after selling turrets to buy food, you still have to sell the food at a later date at ANOTHER 10% commission loss (You still incur this 10% if you built farms for the food to sell). Also food depreciates in value, the $50 food would drop, causing an even further loss. Based on all this alone, a commie shouldn't stock at all, and should just grab until it is time to tech up and cash out.
The farms wouldn't save any money, especially if it's only producing at $33-34 per food (before commission) in the last 5 days of the set.
Flaw 1) Food isn't $50 all set long. Food is typically 40ish in the first 30-40 days of the reset, and turret prices a lot more than 117, so it isn't remotely near worth it to get any farms before food closes in on $50, and turrets drop to $117.
Flaw 2) You haven't accounted for the fact that after selling turrets to buy food, you still have to sell the food at a later date at ANOTHER 10% commission loss (You still incur this 10% if you built farms for the food to sell). Also food depreciates in value, the $50 food would drop, causing an even further loss. Based on all this alone, a commie shouldn't stock at all, and should just grab until it is time to tech up and cash out.
The farms wouldn't save any money, especially if it's only producing at $33-34 per food (before commission) in the last 5 days of the set.