Can you make profits with the market?

[(Mika)nia]

I wonder if I can make profits with trading. (buying selling).

I'm not talking about trade carts and cogs

[Divine Porcupine!]

saracens have the best markets for that type of trade. but no buying other reasources is not that profitable but does has it's uses.

[(Mika)nia]

thanks

[Xinnobun]

Yes you can make profit with the market. I would suggest to invest into cement and steel companies (as well as construction equipment) as those are the two main materials required to build Trump's wall.

[(Mika)nia]

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[Cats. Just Cats.]

What Tawm said. More easily put: You can sell stone in the early game and you'll get more than 100 gold for 100 stone, so you'll make a "profit", if you will call it that. It doesn't work for wood and food though, their values will go down very quickly after you start selling them.

[Zetnus]

Market prices are affected by what other people are buying and selling. You could theoretically make a profit by buying resources from the market when they are cheap and selling them when they are expensive. But that requires other players to drive up the price by buying the resource in question. Also keep in mind that there is a comodity trading fee.

[Cats. Just Cats.]

Originally posted by Zetnus:

Market prices are affected by what other people are buying and selling. You could theoretically make a profit by buying resources from the market when they are cheap and selling them when they are expensive. But that requires other players to drive up the price by buying the resource in question. Also keep in mind that there is a comodity trading fee.

That effect contributes to gold being the most important resource by far. Let's assume one player is completey gold starved and needs to exchange food for gold at a rate of ~7:1. In this situation, if there is another player in the game, who has surplus gold, he can theoretically send all his workers to mine gold only and sell the gold to receive multiple times as much wood and stone. His eco will be multiple times as strong as his enemy's eco.

That being said, I've been feeling for a while that gold is too strong compared to the other resources, especially to wood and food. I would "nerf" gold, so to speak. It will always keep its dominant position among the resources, but it should be adjusted a bit. Maybe have gold starved players receive 20 gold for 100 food, instead of the current 14 gold (17 with upgrade). Gold would still retain its important place, even with this adjustment.

[R.O.T.O.R.]

Originally posted by Xin`ಠ:

Yes you can make profit with the market. I would suggest to invest into cement and steel companies (as well as construction equipment) as those are the two main materials required to build Trump's wall.

i would also suggest ladders.