King Karolus Servant
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Joined: 29 Aug 2007, 22:00
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Re: Changes to market values in the RC
Also I have to mention that non market users might not necessarily be at a massive disadvantage , I have seen TDL create almost the same ammount of units and wares as most of us did(and I used some heavy marketing there) in a game we had late at night, cursed ravine I believe it was (the map name), so competing against the market is possible without the market itself if the resources are used in the right way (one more example of that is Revolution who is rather solid in his early and lategame with little market use).
The reason my stats weren't as bad at the end of the game was because I kept building after peace time and eventually I had 15 farms, so I was catching up. I am capable of training some soldiers after peace time but it comes at a cost; this time I had starvations. The easy thing about the market is, if you make a mistake you can easily trade to make up for it. If I make a mistake I'm doomed.
Then again, it's hard to judge the matter by the looks of this game. It is also possible that I had least of everything because I had so little serfs and builders. That was my mistake, I forgot to train serfs now and then. But this is what I fear: if I make more builders and more serfs, I need more food. Thus I need more farms and more buildings. If I don't have enough timber to build all these buildings, I will have huge starvations everywhere and that wrecks your economy. Using more timber also means: less weapons. And once again: that's where the market kicks in. Next game I might try using 35 builders and 80 serfs like you all do, and then we'll see...
The game surprisingly lasted for 2 hours and 30 minutes, and at around the 1 hour 30miinutes I run out of coal completely (I actually stopped trading at 55 minutes into the game ) and as a result was forced to suffer with no gold, but thankfully i could trade iron for coal which was rather expensive, but shortly I run out of iron too and at this stage the I was suffering what I would call the after effects of the heavy market abuse that I did and luckily I had enough bread to trade for coal to keep producing Gold in order to keep training new units, this is just one scenario where one benefits from a market but is also punished later in the game, for every action there is a reaction.