Wanna buy some uranium, mate?
Posted: Aug 05 2006
So I started a WWIII-game, as African Republic.
A pretty damn hard game, if youre a newbie like me. Especially the economy-part.
I accually looked at the editor first to see which nation was selfsufficient in most things, but it turned out that the numbers I found in the editor only applied to the very first day I played. After that, it hit rockbottom.
Then I realized that I had one uranium-mine and no demand at all. Zero.
I started to sell it but after a few months I saw that I was the only one selling. I was about to quit this game and start over, but I raised the price. 200% markup.. 300%... 500%.. And they kept buying.
Everyday I raised the markup to the fullest and everyday they kept buying.
I hit 1000% and thought "Damn, they're dumb asses."
I hit 10,000% and thought "You gotto be kidding me!"
Right now, Im selling at ~$500,000,000/Unit.
Cost to produce: ~$4.
Other nations have tried to flood the market with cheap uranium long before this point, but I went from negative money to $3trillions in a few days, so I dont need to sell everyday. Or even every month.
Their goods keep selling at around $25-50/unit and my stock keep lurking in the shadows waiting for another dryout. Which eventually comes, every few months.
Right now I got 16 trillion dollars. All from one single uranium mine.
I've built up my industry so that I am selfsufficient in everything.
Not only that, Ive built several backup-buildings in every type of industry, deactivated and waiting for whatever need that may arise.
I got several de-activated large military bases around, some airbases and two ports. Just waiting to be activated once im certain my defenses can repell both Libya and Egypt, if they attack.
Social Spending is maxed out.
Domestic Approval above 70%.
Bought good military designs from all over the world.
For the first time in this game, I feel like the rest of you probably do in every game.
- A potential King of the World. :)
Some people just dont know when to stop buying.
A pretty damn hard game, if youre a newbie like me. Especially the economy-part.
I accually looked at the editor first to see which nation was selfsufficient in most things, but it turned out that the numbers I found in the editor only applied to the very first day I played. After that, it hit rockbottom.
Then I realized that I had one uranium-mine and no demand at all. Zero.
I started to sell it but after a few months I saw that I was the only one selling. I was about to quit this game and start over, but I raised the price. 200% markup.. 300%... 500%.. And they kept buying.
Everyday I raised the markup to the fullest and everyday they kept buying.
I hit 1000% and thought "Damn, they're dumb asses."
I hit 10,000% and thought "You gotto be kidding me!"
Right now, Im selling at ~$500,000,000/Unit.
Cost to produce: ~$4.
Other nations have tried to flood the market with cheap uranium long before this point, but I went from negative money to $3trillions in a few days, so I dont need to sell everyday. Or even every month.
Their goods keep selling at around $25-50/unit and my stock keep lurking in the shadows waiting for another dryout. Which eventually comes, every few months.
Right now I got 16 trillion dollars. All from one single uranium mine.
I've built up my industry so that I am selfsufficient in everything.
Not only that, Ive built several backup-buildings in every type of industry, deactivated and waiting for whatever need that may arise.
I got several de-activated large military bases around, some airbases and two ports. Just waiting to be activated once im certain my defenses can repell both Libya and Egypt, if they attack.
Social Spending is maxed out.
Domestic Approval above 70%.
Bought good military designs from all over the world.
For the first time in this game, I feel like the rest of you probably do in every game.
- A potential King of the World. :)
Some people just dont know when to stop buying.