I used to play TMBR in the long ago and assumed I could do the same when I found the game again a few months back. Well you can't. People now use their private market to de-stock (because of the smaller numbers I think) and the military market is never active enough to make re-selling viable. That is true on all servers (I haven't played on FFA or Team) but it is particularly true on tourney and true to the nth degree in tourney "B" and "C".

You will do well playing CI but may have to play rather aggressively to be sure of winning. If you just want to qualify into "A" grab to about 20k acres never hitting anyone more than once. After you get to that sort of point my guess is that viable targets will get very thin on the ground w/o taking the risk of pissing people off enough to suicide on you. So you will just have to do the best you can to maximise networth from there. It won't matter though, as you will already have well enough networth to get into "A".

If you want to win, to hell with worrying about pissing people off, just keep aggressively grabbing and aim to finish with 30k acres.

Good luck.