Collectives cash

please let these taxers get a few c3s i would love food to be about 8 or 9 would make my life a lot easier

Ragnar, there are a few taxers starting to eat, food will be down in about no time. Tell me about the infra, I was agri terran with 240k land and some 110 agri on ultra... 4 mil food per turn, market had overdose of food(I was using almost all turns as well).

Lol Rag...I just went Aspha miner again.. hate being poor because of Food Market Prices xD

we dont hate you for flooding the food market rag - we would just rather you quit and let us raise the food prices to a solid 8 or eeven 12 (prays this wil happen)

we will just see who cracks first - loving the fact upkeep is very small for collectives XD

heh, you`re telling me drunk. Ever since I made my 92.7k c3 as a food terran with 100 levels of agriculture research, food prices have taken a nosedive. Won`t be long until they become as cheap as raw materials. I`m sure agriculture collectives everywhere on the server must hate me right now. =P

And yes nirvana, taxing is useless as collective. You simply couldn`t survive and even with a food price of 1 your income is mediocre at best. And you`re probably better off going agri even in those dim circumstances.

I`m sorry to say this but Taxing as a Collective is just..Well...Meh..USELESS!!!! You better raise pop and then plunder..you get far more money than Taxing..I just got 24 Mil Credits off a 40K pop Assimilatted C.1 xD!!!!

Well guards always rip collectives to pieces :P

We would rip tax collectives to pieces on fast dm.

tax collective might work well on fast server hahaha

go tax! :D

Ragnarok I was around :P

Also, food is a really good income even when prices are at like 3 or 4, and much better than plundering by far in the long run.

But yea, there isn`t any other option for collective. Food is the best option for collective given the 50% mods they have in favor of food. And for tax, you barely break even at food price of 7 even with max loyalty.

But don`t be discouraged. Just research a high agriculture level, and slowly build up your planets or win em off other newb collectives. I`m the 7th richest empire on normal server and I`m agri collective. I got enough cash to last me a whole year with 0 income playing as high as 15 million PR.

the build rate problem isn`t so bad since the capital ship build rate cut. Just be glad you didn`t live in the times when sloop build rates were 10, galleon/schooner build rates were 7 each, barks were 5, and there was no MOW, brigs or R Snow. Not to mention R class couldn`t capture at all and galleon didn`t have ANY missile attack whatsoever.

Not only that, terrans could build 2 hercs, 3 nirv, and 3 tyr at a time, with similar build rates for caps on other races.

Under such conditions, you would have been considered really good if you could make a c4 and not die trying to hold it. The elite collectives managed to make 2 of them on very rare occations.

So, considering what things used to be like, it ain`t so bad. Really.

You can make good money off of food. If you want to complain listen to Ishamael and complain about the build rates.

pfft dont tell em..then they`ll leave and food prices might improve :P

uh haha.. i was making quite a bit of food before i switched over. it`s not all that bad, tiny build rates and no retal problem aside...