01-12-2002 05:15									#91
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I'm currently bidding on a power company there.

	01-12-2002 17:59									#92
	Suffering from ads?

Hey, you got a corp in my country now.
Nice work.

Update: My corporations are now actually gaining worth in my country. A little over 50B $E now. Pathetic, I know, but considering a few months ago they were around the 30B $E mark, it is a nice improvement. My country's debt is now at 40B $E with 15B $E in cash lying around. Strangely enough though, my budget still says that I am losing money every month.

	02-12-2002 07:18									#93
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Over 60B $E corporation value now.
With my CEO, one of my companies just passed the 100B $E mark too, and is almost debt-free. It just needs a little more spending money, then I can pay off its remaining debt and then start using it's income to pay for other companies. Yay!

	02-12-2002 07:47									#94
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Finally my assets are positive and I'll pay back a huge 120B loan within two months

	02-12-2002 12:38									#95
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

[joke mode]
I wonder why people aren't buying from my Skanky Meat corporation?
[/joke mode]

	03-12-2002 08:21									#96
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Hmmm, it seems that the powers-to-be have decided to be pro-active in combatting the services shortage. All my services companies now produce 1,000,000 units per month rather than the previous 900,000 per month. Hopefully this will mean that, although there is a sudden increase in services being produced, demand will still outstrip production and much money will be made! Mmmm, profit...

My country's corps are now worth 60B $E, and my CEO corps are continuing to do well. Not as well as some others here yet, but nicely.

	04-12-2002 04:52									#97
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When I first saw Quality Upgrades, I though "50M $E for 1% increase?!? Get ****ed!". However, that assessment was too hasty.

For the purposes of this analysis, we will use a standard services company, all market values averaged and rounded.
Ok, a single quality upgrade costs 50M $E for a 1% increase in quality. This leads directly to a 1% increase in the price you can charge, all other values being equal. Services hover around the 1500 $E mark per unit, so a 1% increase would mean you get an additional 15 $E per unit, for 1,000,000 units per month.

1500 x 0.01 x 1000000 = 15,000,000 $E extra per month.

As you can see, each quality upgrade pays for itself in just over 3 months, and everything after that is pure profit. Even the fact that higher quality seems to use more high-tech services doesn't reduce this margin significantly.

The more units per month that your factory produces, the higher profit you will get from each quality upgrade. The higher the price of the goods to be sold, the higher profit again.

	04-12-2002 05:11									#98
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns [joke mode] I wonder why people aren't buying from my Skanky Meat corporation? [/joke mode]

I've heard rumors about something called Skanky Foot-in-Mouth Disease.

EDIT: Seriously, though, quality upgrades are always a good idea.

	04-12-2002 16:25									#99
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I started this too.

I am on the same island as DRoseDARs but a bit further south, on the south-east coast. My country is called 'Caladon'. I am still trying to get to grips with the system.

If anyone wants to sell me stuff at favourable rates, let me know!

	05-12-2002 06:24									#100
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I am after contracts for the following items for my country. Preferrably for 99 months (then I don't have to worry about that particular contract for a long time). Will pay 1.05% (which is the highest amount a contract can go to), quality is irrelevant.

code:
Product			Monthly Need
Coffee			3,000
Furniture		220,000
Gas			1,150
Home Equipment		225,000
Jewelry			10
Potatoes		67,500
Poultry			25,500
Sport			125,000

If anyone produces any of these products and wants to sell to me, please do so.
My country is The DreamWorld KingDom.

Last edited by Skanky Burns on 05-12-2002 at 08:11

	05-12-2002 06:40									#101
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Ask Franit Empire

	05-12-2002 07:08									#102
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

You have cars. I'll take some please.

	05-12-2002 07:42									#103
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

Please send me a proposal on simcountry PM with details as I'm too lazy

	05-12-2002 08:12									#104
	Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

Okay, done.