Where to put the huge amount of gold ?

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Nobody wants gold on the market. Should I build a warehouse and put it all there ? Shut down mining for the time being?

[Kunovega]

There is no market in this game, what are you talking about?

All goods are exported automatically from the docks. Trade route offers can alter the value of a limited amount of exports, but all goods are still exported at the default price even if you have no trade offers.

Have you never looked at the goods and prices tab on the trade tool? Or the export pages of the almanac?

I'd suggest you play the tutorial, you seem to be missing the basic core concepts of the game.

[Hexapuma]

I think that's exactly what he's saying, the price of gold has decayed over time (which I thought was baseline but might depend on Llama of Wall Street?). Sometimes the decay can be really sharp, though gold's base price is really high compared to the extraction cost.

But yeah, you can uncheck it in the list of trade goods in the almanac to stop sales and build a warehouse with a slot dedicated to gold, if you want to save it for later. Your hunch was exactly right, and the Llama of Wall Street campaign mission has a tutorial on doing it too.

The Trade Institute and Customs Office will both improve export prices in different ways over time, too (the Institute can spend knowledge points to provoke a bull market - price increase - on three random goods, which might also help with gold). The Cold War era lets you turn gold into jewelry, and the Modern era can turn gold and plastic into electronics (and electronics into other things too), all of which will start at default price even if the ore itself never goes up.

And heck, if you can find a trade route for gold, even if it's negative you can check what the current standard price is and the trade will always be better (this is a lifesaver in Colonial and World Wars when you don't have many options for what to sell and if rum craters you might just be doomed).

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

There is no market in this game, what are you talking about?

All goods are exported automatically from the docks. Trade route offers can alter the value of a limited amount of exports, but all goods are still exported at the default price even if you have no trade offers.

Have you never looked at the goods and prices tab on the trade tool? Or the export pages of the almanac?

I'd suggest you play the tutorial, you seem to be missing the basic core concepts of the game.

If a trade is negative it's not better than standard, it's worse and you would lose money compared to simply exporting at base rate. The only reason to take negatives on export is for political adjustments.

[longjr97]

Docks with exports turned off are my warehouses.

[-I-]

Originally posted by longjr97:

Docks with exports turned off are my warehouses.

Hopefully, they'll be watched by guard dogs. Cause there's theft.

[joeball123]

Personally, I don't find warehousing to be worth the bother, firstly because I usually run a diverse line of exports rather than investing heavily into just a few products and secondly because, frankly, money's easy enough to come by in this game and I'd rather have some money now than maybe more money later, if I remember to mess around with warehouse settings in time to catch a trend or a good trade deal or whatever.

Originally posted by Kunovega:

If a trade is negative it's not better than standard, it's worse and you would lose money compared to simply exporting at base rate. The only reason to take negatives on export is for political adjustments.

This is incorrect when you're playing with The Llama of Wall Street active.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2295214079201572821/EE5473247514FACC68B3E7B15BCADB37D15D9CE1/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false
As can be seen in the screenshot, there are three prices listed for the selected trade route:
- The "Standard Income per 1k units" is the nominal value of one thousand units of the selected resource, assuming that no price modifiers are in effect.
- The "Auto Export Income per 1k units" is what I'm actually getting right now for one thousand units of the selected resource when I'm just selling to the market rather than to a specific trade partner.
- The "Route Income per 1k units" is what the selected trade offer would give me for one thousand units of the selected resource.

The pictured trade offer is at 34% below the "standard" price, but that's still almost 50% more money than I get at current export prices without a trade deal. Is it a bad deal that's only worth taking for the political adjustment? Maybe. Is it worse than just exporting aluminum without accepting the offer? Not at present.

[Dude_84_Dude]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

There is no market in this game, what are you talking about?

All goods are exported automatically from the docks. Trade route offers can alter the value of a limited amount of exports, but all goods are still exported at the default price even if you have no trade offers.

Have you never looked at the goods and prices tab on the trade tool? Or the export pages of the almanac?

I'd suggest you play the tutorial, you seem to be missing the basic core concepts of the game.

The game DOES have a market economy with fluctuating prices, even in the base game without the Llama of Wallstreet DLC.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Mister Dude:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

There is no market in this game, what are you talking about?

All goods are exported automatically from the docks. Trade route offers can alter the value of a limited amount of exports, but all goods are still exported at the default price even if you have no trade offers.

Have you never looked at the goods and prices tab on the trade tool? Or the export pages of the almanac?

I'd suggest you play the tutorial, you seem to be missing the basic core concepts of the game.

The game DOES have a market economy with fluctuating prices, even in the base game without the Llama of Wallstreet DLC.

There is no market where you buy/sell in the way he implied.

He acted like you can't sell if there's no offers on the market. (which implies he's talking about the trade offers, which isn't called a market either) And also doesn't require offers to sell exports.

Thanks for not understanding.

[Dude_84_Dude]

Originally posted by Kunovega:

There is no market where you buy/sell in the way he implied.

He acted like you can't sell if there's no offers on the market. (which implies he's talking about the trade offers, which isn't called a market either) And also doesn't require offers to sell exports.

"Implied" being the keyword, which points to you making erroneous assumptions about what he meant. In fact, you can buy raw goods on the market tab, and you can also sell goods (it's done automatically when the goods reach port, but same difference). It's obvious the OP meant stockpiling a particular good and then waiting for demand to increase to maximize profit.
That's called a market economy, or a "market" for short.

[Kunovega]

Originally posted by Mister Dude:

Originally posted by Kunovega:

There is no market where you buy/sell in the way he implied.

He acted like you can't sell if there's no offers on the market. (which implies he's talking about the trade offers, which isn't called a market either) And also doesn't require offers to sell exports.

"Implied" being the keyword, which points to you making erroneous assumptions about what he meant. In fact, you can buy raw goods on the market tab, and you can also sell goods (it's done automatically when the goods reach port, but same difference). It's obvious the OP meant stockpiling a particular good and then waiting for demand to increase to maximize profit.
That's called a market economy, or a "market" for short. :demoticon:

No, he acted like you couldn't sell it on a market (that doesn't exist) without a trade offer (that isn't required)

You're assuming the rest, I posted what I did to suggest he should use the correct words and be clear; because how he posted made it seem like he didn't understand the game, at all.

You're just arguing to argue and making a lot of assumptions to what he might have meant. It's very clear you're just here to troll since this thread was already answered and you're adding absolutely nothing of value other than to be hostile.