Clydebink

Maybe there is a way to do this and I am unaware of it, but I'm interested in what how visibility of opponent's funds would affect the game. The reason I want the ability at the moment is because I just lost again. My stock was only worth half of theirs, but I had bought a good amount of my own stock. This lasted for a while, but I thought I was doing pretty well, growing at a faster rate. Then I got bought out and it felt sudden. I wonder if visibility of opponent's funds would h

I enjoyed reading that. In reply to "Why is there debt in the game?", you have an interesting point. If your stock-value just went down and you can buy your own stock back to pay off debt, I don't know why debt is in the game. That's not what I was going to say when I started typing, but now that I think of it, I think you have a good point. In reference to sabatoge taking too much control away from the target: the black-market is so expensive. No one wo

I just played a long game against a scientific colony and I think they won with patents? They weren't manufacturing anything but food, oxygen, and fuel. They were mining all of the silicon and carbon. I knew I was going to lose because their stock-value was ticking up slower than mine for a long time, but it was hard to tell what they were making money on. Maybe they were just selling carbon and silicon. Anyway, once they won I clicked on them and they had around 10 patents. That made me

Maybe there is a way to do this, but I haven't found it. The ability to set prices that I want to automatically buy and sell at would free my efforts up to concentrate on other more important matters than clicking on the aluminum plus-sign everytime it goes below $30, or pressing the "auto-sell" button everytime water goes over $10. I know what I'm willing to pay and what I'm willing to sell at, but there is no way to tell the computer that other than to do it manually; this is ti

[quote who="bigheadzach" reply="2" id="3505866"] Debt occurs when you're forced to buy essential commodities from the market (power/water/food/O2/fuel/anything you set to Auto-Supply), and when you win an Auction. Most players don't realize that auctions can be won by anyone since you buy them on credit. When someone wins an auction, there is an immediate stock price drop as the debt is transferred. If you're quick you can get a cheap stock buy before the colony pays it

Is it the case the companies don't have to buy their stock back in order to buy you out? That's how it seems and it drives me crazy. Buying another company's stock because you speculate that their worth will increase seems like a reasonable strategy to me. I would think that this would also get rid of the need for the arbitrary mechanic of having to pay double for stock owned by other players during a buy-out. In Jakkillr's example, I'm assumin