Apr 3rd 2013, 20:42:34
Originally posted by wari:
Wouldn't a good techer be in fine position if not for the lack of a food spike this reset?
The food market never took off because nineteen out of twenty landtraders went farmer. If they'd all been cashers and food had hit $80, suddenly this reset becomes one where a good techer can compete with anyone.
ESPECIALLY with the effect traders had on keeping the tech market so high, so late.
The food market never took off because nineteen out of twenty landtraders went farmer. If they'd all been cashers and food had hit $80, suddenly this reset becomes one where a good techer can compete with anyone.
ESPECIALLY with the effect traders had on keeping the tech market so high, so late.
The reason why all the landtraders went farmer is precisely because everyone was afraid that if they went casher, they would have nobody to trade with (of the same casher strategy). In game terms, it is called splitting the player base (trading player base), and isn't exactly ideal.
And honestly, had food hit $80, the landtrading farmers would be laughing all the way, because a farmer stocks its own food and does not rely on market conditions for its finish. If food had actually reached $80 at any point, it would have just made them get their tech even faster and they would have traded faster for more land.
Landtrading cashers on the other hand has to stock food. The higher the food price, the more unfavourable it is for them. The lack of food peaks actually helps cashers in general more.
This reset was a particularly bad techer reset partly because there really was just too many techers. But despite that fact, the top 3 non-landtrading countries is probably still going to be techers (despite you claiming that the lack of a food peak harms techers more).
The lack of a food peak doesn't actually harm techers more - it just harms all Democracies that are trying to resell/sell down so they have a lot less potential profit margin (most techers stock as Demos, correlation doesn't imply causation). Likewise, the lack of a food peak hurts countries that went Decay bonus.