Oberon
Newbie
Reged: 11/07/02
Posts: 3
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How to make money
#41941 - 11/07/02 05:41 AM (24.58.82.62)
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Ok, I've been playing this game for about a month now. Not a long time, but a solid start I feel.
After looking over the basics, I figure the best way to work this game is to get a solid cash base. That means I need to build a foundation of comercial buildings and the residentials to populate them I assumed.
I donated $5 to get 50cf buildings and some cash to buy around 700 infantry builders to speed my goals. I filled my starting area with 50 buildings, using a 4/1 ratio. I also created a couple research buildings to work on 75cf buildings, and a factory to make assault rifles. All with the right populations to keep everything running smoothly.
My base income is .$30,000 a day.but my moral has plummeted to 264, and my small empire subsidy is starting to drop as well, at 134,637 right now. As it stands I am quite worried that I will soon be a profitless empire.
Morale is absurdly important, with workers making 4000% more money just because they are happy (wish it worked that way in the real world, heh). And the only thing that keeps them happy is buying troops, no ammount of infrastructure does anything but upset them. After having filled 50 building spots with money-making buildings, I was hoping to see something on par with my small empire subsidy, but what I see is a fifth of what I got for free. I cant even begin to make buildings faster than moral loss and small empire subsidy loss is eroding my income.
I read around in the boards some, and commisioning units is how to keep the moral up, but thats horribly expensive. I get little effect for a small tank or jeep, but each one is a couple buildings or more I cant build. And training them is just a money pit. One jeep, lets say an LRM jeep that would actually be useful in combat, runns around 800k. Dump a little into training, and thats a clear million to have something that gives maybe a dozen points to moral. More if you keep training it. Thats the price of 4 residential buildings at 50 cf, or one comercial.
So my question is, how do I manage to build up an infrastructure? Is there a way to make money as an empire after your moral boost and small empire subsidy go away? Does the economy every get less absurd and start to feel like someone that had attended even a single economy class helped make it?
So the long and short of it, how do I make money short of buying it in donations?
-Oberon
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anderclayton
Captain
Reged: 08/05/02
Posts: 894
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Re: How to make money
#41972 - 11/07/02 03:58 PM (198.104.0.100)
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The small empire subsidy decreases 1 for every two bucks you make with the rest of your empire so it isn't going to go away until you are making quite a bit of money. The morale thing might be a problem but in concept it isn't going to go below zero (and you should build up your army anyhow so that should help).
Ander
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TheDeadlyShoe
Lieutenant Colonel
Reged: 06/22/02
Posts: 1621
Loc: Redmond, WA
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Re: How to make money
#41977 - 11/07/02 04:57 PM (4.40.152.52)
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Basically, your empire income wont go up significantly until you 'Break Out' of the Small Empire Subsidy, which requires a substantial and extended investment in infrastructure. Alternatively, you could landwar for excessive morale.
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