Cinnamon
2008-11-18 |  | Collectives cash |  |
Is there any other way for collectives to make $$$ besides selling food and/or plundering? This is worse than being a Guard! |
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mallow
99+ day(s) ago | 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 |
DrunkenMasters
99+ day(s) ago | 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). |
Nirvana
99+ day(s) ago | Lol Rag...I just went Aspha miner again.. hate being poor because of Food Market Prices xD |
mallow
99+ day(s) ago | 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 |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | 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. |
Nirvana
99+ day(s) ago | 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!!!! |
DrunkenMasters
99+ day(s) ago | Well guards always rip collectives to pieces :P |
Knossos
99+ day(s) ago | We would rip tax collectives to pieces on fast dm. |
DrunkenMasters
99+ day(s) ago | tax collective might work well on fast server hahaha |
LastCrusader
99+ day(s) ago | go tax! :D |
Slavyzz
99+ day(s) ago | Ragnarok I was around :P |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | 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. |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | 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. |
Slavyzz
99+ day(s) ago | You can make good money off of food. If you want to complain listen to Ishamael and complain about the build rates. |
Infernal
99+ day(s) ago | pfft dont tell em..then they`ll leave and food prices might improve :P |
Ishamael
99+ day(s) ago | 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... |
