when you run out of food, does it damage your max pci for the rest of the set, or just for the next few turns until your pci grows to meet max pci again

Has someone ever tried to manipulate public market prices by placing a small number of items that you need at a very low price?

i.e. I am a casher buying business tech and the current price is $3.5k per pt. I place a hundred or so pts on the market at $2.5k. Stupid techers then undercut eachother based on the $2.5k and all of the sudden tech has dropped in price by 40%.

Not a bad start, you should find it more effective to research 1 or 2 categories that are selling the best on the public market. Also, change governments right now to either Theocracy or Democracy. Communism is one of the worste governments for the techer strategy.

To continue to grow you will need to start selling your tech so you can finance your buildings.

I have never run it, but I would sell them on the public market @ $35 so that demos could buy and resell on their private market and make $1 per bushel. That will beat the best possible private market price you could sell for.

After thinking about it there may be some demos running a farmer too. With the tech advantage they will eventually outperform the F government.

Of course after posting this, it looks like farmer/oilers are scarce this set.

All of these are oh so familiar to me...now I just learned what purchasing bushels on the private market instead of selling them can do to a startup (hint...I can't think of a better way to destroy cash).

I need some tech allies too

I am in the same boat. I'll start teching around turn 360

Why is it that Farmers finish so poorly in this server? Food prices were very high throughout this set, I would have expected to see a Fascist in the top 10. And scanning through the past 10 sets I see a similar pattern. I guess I may be missing the farmers that switch to H at the end of the set.

Ended up finishing 3rd, even though I had 200k tech pts still on the market when time ended. Probably could have gotten 2nd. In such a short set there is always a tradeoff between growing large and therefore generating more pts/turn vs researching as much as possible early and making the most of the high market prices. I chose not to get big but I'm not sure it was the best decision.

You need to get rid of all buildings except for labs and a few hundred industrial complexes to produce only spies. Research only the tech that sells for the most on the public market, and sell as fast and as much as you can

you need to spend all your money on agricultural tech

Business just dropped from 33k to 22k per pt. Demos can be having a field day with stuff like that.

Jets and Troops are clear, lets see if there are any indy's that will be aggressive

agreed, I have had so much tech bounce back because it was priced too high... This looks like a casher's set to me.

I am looking for tech allies as well

If you plan on Teching you will need to figure out a better way to finance your growth.

Your goal is to get thousands of Research Labs (make 3000 your first goal) and very few other buildings. That will maximize your tech points per turn. From there you can sell some of what you research onto the public market and use the proceeds to buy your military.

In order to get to 3000 research labs you will need to be making some money along the way to finance the buildings. I reccomend either 400 farms or 300 industrial complexes. And then build Construction sites until your BPT is 35 (this will need to be higher if you plan on getting larger). Sell your excess food and military on the public market and use that money to build up to 3000 research labs.

This sounds like a great idea

I cashed, finished 6th.

I'm the only survivor...and I won't be around long. However I took out another country while I am going down.

according to this formula PCI can decrease even if Max PCI >= Current PCI. If pop growth is large than this situation occurs.

I don't know if I qualify as the contact, but I will message you.

Clearly we (niceguys) weren't organized and weren't able to put in a proper kill run to retal. And at this point if we did organize and take out a few countries it wouldn't make much of a difference.

So as for my clan-mates that PSed tanks and troops, I can only apologize for not making it sporting for you guys.

I hope my Swamp Guardians countries at least give you a challenge.

Ouch, I logged in 45 minutes too late. There goes a wonderful start...Swamp Guardians 6 dead in first place with 400M between cash and oil ready to sell. All because someone in the same tag did something stupid

Are there any details as to exactly what these startups are. Doesn't necessarily have to be a turn by turn, but maybe a probability of what the country looks like at the end? Net Income/Land/Buildings/Military/etc.