It isn't cheap to pay someone to smuggle an EMP into a rival base, or pirates to raid a competitor's supply line, but it can be extremely effective. Though direct conflict is not possible – you'll never send space marines into an enemy base – a variety of skulduggery is available on the black market.
#OFFWORLD TRADING COMPANY FORUMS UPGRADE#
Running steel mills without iron mines is perfectly possible, if you're willing to pay market price for iron to keep them fed – and it may even be a winning strategy, if iron is abundant and the market is flooded with it.Īlong the way, players upgrade their headquarters to increase the number of tiles they can claim, and construct special buildings like the Patent Office that have wide-ranging gameplay effects. Supply and demand are the only rules, and the player who can most effectively craft their strategy to buy low and sell high generally takes home the prize. The marketplace is the core of Offworld Trading Company. Players must stake their claims to resources and wrest any advantage they can buying and selling on the real-time marketplace – but greasing some palms on the black market for a timely pirate raid on a rival's supply chain can make all the difference. In the game, money, not firepower, is the player's weapon. Buying shares in another company increases the shares bought bonus.Offworld Trading Company is an economic real-time strategy game developed by Mohawk Games and published by Stardock Entertainment. Turning a good profit will raise your stock price as well.ĥ. Making prices rise with a hacker array on resources you hold will raise your stock price (at least temporarily).Ĥ. I plan to test that and post again if I am materially wrong.ģ. Divide that by 100,000 for $4.00 which will then be modified by shares bought bonus and difficulty bonus. So with an x5 multiplier, if you paid off 100,000 in debt, your total value would increase by 400,000.
So for every dollar of debt paid off, you increase your total value by $4. You lose X cash but remove a detriment of 5X from your total value. buying your own stock raises a multiplier that improves the stock price.Ģ. That should not count assets other than cash or perhaps cash and resources.ġ. However, the 100% in red to the left of the score panel does indicate he had enough to pull it off.
Sid Meier's Railroads), it was a common practice to sell ones own stocks to complete the coup de grace.
Is it possible he sold some of his own shares to fund this? (I know that is unsatisfying, but in games like this (i.e. (Current Value per Share) * (1 + Shares bought bonus) * (1 + Difficulty Bonus)Īssuming the opponent already had 8 of your shares, the buyout price should be something like:Īs you say, there does not appear to be enough cash and resources available. Then there are modifiers that affect your stock price. Perhaps it is a 'playability' adjustment. I don't understand why it is not 10,000 but the numbers are what the numbers are. Target Value per Share appears to be Total Value / 100,000. The x5 in debt appears to be a multiplier applied to the debt when calculating your total value which is the base for the stock price. Here is what I see (early in a game) when hovering over my name in the upper left section.
In my game, I can't see the cash, all I can see is cash + resources. I will cover pushing your stock price at the end. I had to start a game and watch some things happen. It is a poor analogy in some ways but it does seem to track a little. Think of your stock price like shields that defend attacks. I think this is odd but in a way it makes some 'game' sense. If you buy more than 50% of your own company, then if an opponent buys that chunk (brining ownership back to the 50% where they have to buy it all at once), you do not get the money back. There is one anomaly I have noticed with the stocks. It makes it harder for the enemy to buy up your stock. I have learned that keeping the stock price up is VERY important to survival. When you say $44 cash, can you explain a little more? I don't know where to see how much money they have (and if I have overlooked it, I want to know) Also, I suspect that it is at least 44K. Here is a blog which may have information that supercedes that in the rules
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