I used to remember the food prices is between 45 - 60 but not now.

So playing as a farmer is out of the question?

Fascism hybrid is really overpowered, tyr is even more overpowered for grabbing and because of the high private sales prices farmer is the new, better casher.
Then you got the bots who overproduce food and buy out res/bus techs so fcking always. Every techer knows that if agri and res/bus is selling at the same price you tech res/bus, but every game with bots have higher res/bus prices than agri tech. So again, farmer is a better improved casher.

the main cause is the $29 private food as base. used to be $24 when food still peaked to 55-75 every reset. Farmer was crap early, but had a fantastic midgame. Now farmer is just alright all the time. I find it a bit boring tbh.

couple sets back I was running the food prices up to 200 plus early in the set. Gave up on doing that as people would drop it back to 30....

Idk about you but the low ballers really piss me off

what is going on with the price of oil???

Blame OPEC!

Blame OPEC!

Yes, always unnerving to see oil below $250.

well with mil tech the private price is around that so why would someone buy it for more off public?

Supply and demand as they say. As of post oil is $175 and rising. Based on your forecast mil tech prices should stay high as well.

well i over exaggerated the effect of mil tech on oil for the private market but you can get it around 320 for non demo/theo I think demo its just under 300 and theo its closer to 270.

Sounds like a bullish case for $250+ oil to me. Oil now at $208 w/ a $175 bid. Mil tech, as you alluded, was briefly w/o any offer and could sell at a premium for rest of set. Great call.

You gotta look at the fascists case for building. Rigs require no tech for producing 3 oil per building yet farms require significant investment to even beat rigs at 1:4.5. 250 would then require food at above 55 for the fascist to not build 100% rigs and one such fascist will crash the limited express, primary or tournament markets.

I just gotta look at the price and make decisions from there Gerd.

I came here just to see if I was crazy, apparently i'm not.

well with express food prices can sit high for long periods if lack of competition just like primary which has a much slower to market rate.