Post by madadder on Mar 25, 2007 20:09:33 GMT -5
So yesterday I had an event on my planet that I'm sure you've all had before. "A new process for inventing <commod> has been discovered".
For me, this commod was a somewhat significant deficit, but the event took this deficit and made it a big producer for the rest of the day. I figured I'd take advantage of this.
I slowly walked up the commod and by the time I went to sleep for the night it was at 3000 tons. It probably could've gone higher if I would've just set the max high, but that would defeat the purpose of the strategy here.
By walking the commod up slowly, I was able to keep the cost to produce the excess of it down. Once I woke up this morning, and the commod was a deficit once again, I set the max of it to 20k.
Basically what will end up happening is that while the commod was being walked up to 3k tons, it was doing so at a cheap cost, at about 75% of the base price for the commod. Now that it's going down and I've raised the max, the value has increased, so the planet is eating it at about 120% of the base cost of the commod. Bottom line is that by the time this deficit gets back to -525 tons I will have made a nice chunk of money off of it by doing very little work.
The big question is - doesn't setting the max to 20k while it's being consumed again give an opportunity to get dumped on? The easy answer is yes, but you have a couple things working for you. If you keep the spread of that commod at 40% people won't be apt to sell it to you. Also, unless they kept logs from the night before, they probably won't know that you've got an excess of it anyway, and even if they do, there's more than likely another planet somewhere that would buy that commod for more.
For me, this commod was a somewhat significant deficit, but the event took this deficit and made it a big producer for the rest of the day. I figured I'd take advantage of this.
I slowly walked up the commod and by the time I went to sleep for the night it was at 3000 tons. It probably could've gone higher if I would've just set the max high, but that would defeat the purpose of the strategy here.
By walking the commod up slowly, I was able to keep the cost to produce the excess of it down. Once I woke up this morning, and the commod was a deficit once again, I set the max of it to 20k.
Basically what will end up happening is that while the commod was being walked up to 3k tons, it was doing so at a cheap cost, at about 75% of the base price for the commod. Now that it's going down and I've raised the max, the value has increased, so the planet is eating it at about 120% of the base cost of the commod. Bottom line is that by the time this deficit gets back to -525 tons I will have made a nice chunk of money off of it by doing very little work.
The big question is - doesn't setting the max to 20k while it's being consumed again give an opportunity to get dumped on? The easy answer is yes, but you have a couple things working for you. If you keep the spread of that commod at 40% people won't be apt to sell it to you. Also, unless they kept logs from the night before, they probably won't know that you've got an excess of it anyway, and even if they do, there's more than likely another planet somewhere that would buy that commod for more.
