Heat is on Expert mode, tips needed!

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I won the regular campaign with a huge margin, taking about 80% of the stocks.

On the expert mode, the AI is seriously beating me. I am making 50-60.000$ in a map, and the AI gets away with 80-110.000$ regularly.
I read all the tips I could here, and I think I know the game quite well, but it seems I am not as expert as I wish.
So, is there any tips for me, or is there any successful expert player for the dlc at all?

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Ok, I just looked into the achievements, and there is 0% of players, who
"Beat the The Heat Is On campaign in expert mode".

Is it even tested?

[Gamious]

It has been thoroughly tested, yes. But it is quite challenging.

[Strady [CZE]]

I am playing last part for Expert mode DLC. DLC is more difficult than basic game. Lise usually earn 110 000$ a more! My best 142 000$ She beat me 159 000$. You must sell best price and good timing for gas.

[Gibibit]

If you look closely at the balance changes for 2.0.8 (link) you might find some new strategies!

Hover over the spoiler tag for tips:
In the last area only: Because gas now fills up the existing pocket before growing, you can just about empty an oil pocket, convert the last bit back to gas and then fill the entire pocket with gas. If you do this with every oil pocket you can get a lot of gas, easily gaining more profit than even the experts! However, it requires that you find lava as soon as possible and you need to pay close attention to every oil pocket that you are draining. Try practising this strategy in the single game mode.

Note that you do not necessarily need the above strategy to win the expert Heat Is On campaign. We played it internally before the v2.0.8 gas changes.

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Originally posted by 1000 Gibibit:

If you look closely at the balance changes for 2.0.8 (link) you might find some new strategies!

Hover over the spoiler tag for tips:
In the last area only: Because gas now fills up the existing pocket before growing, you can just about empty an oil pocket, convert the last bit back to gas and then fill the entire pocket with gas. If you do this with every oil pocket you can get a lot of gas, easily gaining more profit than even the experts! However, it requires that you find lava as soon as possible and you need to pay close attention to every oil pocket that you are draining. Try practising this strategy in the single game mode.

Note that you do not necessarily need the above strategy to win the expert Heat Is On campaign. We played it internally before the v2.0.8 gas changes.

Yeah, I would try that, it is a good strategy I used before. But I just played the first few maps on expert, where you cannot use this, because you do not have the technology for it.
And it is quite discouraging, if you play like a champ, and the AI just beat you, while it also should not have the neccessary technology to make so much money.

I would encourage to dial back the AI during the first few turns.
I do not know exactly, how the AI gets the results, but I can guess that their profit is tied somehow to their technologies and the oil/gas content of their land. This way the AI gets an unfair advantages, if it can purchase technologies much faster than the player during the first turns.

[Strady [CZE]]

Hi, I finished expert mode yesterday.
- I played as Henry. I wanted all treasures. I founde all treaserures only first arena. Second and last I found two treaserures same over and over. I had to buy last treaserur. I sold treaserur best price 1400$ but bought 42000 last treaserur$
- Good advice for 1000 Gibibit in last sector (viz up)
- Bonus level important ME: 235000$ Rival: ZERO
- Good price for 5% share is 95000$ - 120000$.
- Good timing for gas and after sell oil
May be some advice help you

[Gamious]

Henry is indeed a very good character to choose. Having the best plots of land in new areas, and bonus island can make a lot of difference. If you don't have Henry, you can of course also find all the treasures to unlock this, but that can get a bit pricey.

We might capture an expert run one day, so you can see how it's done.