My $.02:

Another solution may be to update a mean price of each market item with each game tick, and to restrict offers of all types to a percentage range of the median price. In this fashion, price changes would be limited to a given price range during each game tick.

For example, say the market price of oil is 60 and a 10% limit is instituted. A seller can only dump at 54 at the lowest. If he does this, then when the next game tick occurs, the mean price will likely be near 54, then near 49 (48.6), and so on.

Illicit transfers may still be possible, but price swings could at least be mitigated to be spread over a longer period of play time without having to eliminate the standard order feature. I suppose there would have to be a feature of having SOs be cancelled if the order amount falls outside an items range.

Military $1500
Medical $1999
Business $1500
Residential $1500
Agricultural $2000
Warfare $2289
Military Strategy $1500
Weapons $1989
Industrial $1500
Spy $1500 $1400
SDI $1500

wtfluff

Amen.

Kk I'll start warring some fools then :)

lol, I thought that was you.

I'm a long time tmbr player myself. Fairly new coming back but recently top 10'd with tt->tmbr.

I should start by saying that even if you plan on reselling most of the set, I strongly advise choosing some sort of more traditional production method to create an initial stockpile to kick start the reselling. Unlike teching, or cashing/indy/farmer, your income depends on your profit margin times the volume of units you are able to resell, so you need a pile of cash to start with to make the strategy work.

With that in mind, I have always thought of mbr as a 3-4 phase strategy:

phase 1: start-up phase - regular startup to whatever strategy you like best. I usually sell some spies and prob go demo or theo techer, although I have seen other startups that work well (Such as farming or cashing and then putting bushels on market to change govs without losing stock)

phase 2: stocking phase - Now you run the start-up strategy until you have the desired amount stockpiled. You can can either grow in this phase and spend most of the set here, or switch to MBs as soon as you have high military tech and enough money to convert your buildings to MBs and buy out your private market. You will also want to stock enough turns to convert all your buildings.

phase 3: reselling (optional) If you are reselling for a long period of time, you will still want a nice cash pile to start with. Usually troops and tanks make the most profit, but sell in a lower volume than jets/turrets. Always diversify according to the market. Another good tip is to sneak in some good landgrabs when you first buy out your market (buy out jets, topfeed like a fluffer, build up MBs on the land, buy out everything else with larger private, cry at upkeep).

phase 4: destocking phase: If you haven't already been reselling, you should now have enough money and turns to buy-out your private market. Regardless of whether you are doing a mbr reseller or just an mbr destock, you should keep in mind that you get the best NW/$ with troops and tanks from your private market.

A note about destocking and reselling - If you can, do the math to see how much you need to resell to have enough cash to continue buying out your private market. See how much one tick costs you for each unit type. If you have excess money such that you cannot spend it all just by buying out troops/tanks on your private market, buy jets then turrets. If you don't have enough money to buy out troops/tanks up to the last game tick, continue reselling to make more. If you work it out by balancing your land total with the number of ticks left and the size of your stockpile, you can end up just spending your whole pile buying out your market up to the last game tick. I don't believe this is necessarily optimal, however, because you usually are better off reselling a little earlier and offing your turrets to buy more troops/tanks and sometimes jets.

Sorry for being long-winded. Hope that helps.

1999 acres wouldn't be much harder to kill if someone is really out to get you.

Omm nom nom... Cookie..

Thanks I feel better now :D

for building 10k research labs instead of mbs?

yes.

Fascists were too greedy this set. I paid the iron price.

Poor Jack. He was my tech ally last 2 sets.

0mg I'll crush you all with my 999 acre TMBR

@blid, who needs construction sites?

Wow.

Finished a whole box of milk duds reading this thread.

@OP The Harry Potter books were way better than the movies.

How about selling some oil, please?

double post sorry

Edit: never mind lol I didn't notice how crazy the GA were :O

Me2

Well, I was happy making top ten regardless of flufftiness. This was only my third set of express since I stopped playing in 2007.

loved him in lebowski

D:

Destroy his missiles w spy ops ;D

Quit diminishing my returns #2!

derp

Your name makes me think of the faceless men.

Let's add O allies and remove the rest

psyche

derp

Cheaters never prosper!

Fun set Imo

I think I'll break my personal best score with a farmer strat, despite being missiled out of half my buildings during destock :D

And I had already halfway destocked so spending turns is too costly for me to rebuild :(

Yes, I lost about 5k out of my 12k military bases.

Logged in to this news on my all-x

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10.5 mins ago
A brigade from maderfaker (#27) has invaded your lands!
Your defenses held against the invaders and forced them away!

Your military lost:
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1343 Turrets
17,371 Tanks
Their military lost:
145,711 Jets

Try using a period and more selective capitalization.

Lol.

Sorry Cable, my remarks were uncalled for.

nothing personal, just don't fluff with me

Cable idk who you are but i have a suspicion and i'm going to end of set retal you if you are who i think

=p

Because you had it too good last set! (if you were buying those techs)

I played in 1996 and 1997 during the old Solaria days. Played a lot in games A and B in tourny. Then I quit for a while until the mid 2000s when played a few resets. At that time, I won primary under the name HydroponicAvocado. The reset after I got sui'd a bunch and quit again. Now I'm back on express and will be playing Tourny again. I'm tempted to play primary too, but we'll see =P

I need a tech ally. What's your #?