Apr 20th 2014, 5:41:47
Originally posted by hsifreta:
so all that about stock and jumping is just to confuse us. what you actually mean is that you'd maintain the amount of defence you'd normally have for that level, and farm you newbs.
You still stock and jump. For techers, stocking starts around the 5th week of the reset.
For casher/farmer, stocking starts about 2 weeks from end of set (about now). If food prices are extremely high, it can start as late as 10 days from end of set (on between 40k-60k land - in the past this used to be 80k land before the building cost formula and military losses for bottomfeeding are increased). Due to large land sizes, (unlike a techer on 25k-35k land), it is still positive cash flow to cash to the last turn of the reset.
In the current food prices, it is likely people will stock the cash on hand as it is and eat corruption. If food is above a certain price, it is calculable that eating corruption is a lesser loss compared to buying food at $60 and selling it at $35 to your PM.
For commies, they don't stock at all because of the 10% commission, it equals a 20% loss of stock right away. They instead perform something called a "cash-out" (hitting the cash button), in which they spend money to produce units, until their "upkeep in 1 turn" divided by "NW of units produced in 1 turn" is larger than $254/NW, after which it is better to buy troops and tanks from your PM. This scenario does not happen on Primary because you need to be about 90k-100k land in size before you have any chance of getting close to this $254/NW figure, so Commies cash to the last turn of the reset.