[TD] - Market Madness

Day 1,833, 03:05 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Fenyang


I’m sure I am not the only person to go “hang on, what’s wrong with the market!?” Earlier today I decided to look at the market and see how the prices varied between the quality of products and raw material. After doing some calculations I was slightly shocked with the results.

I own a Q2 foods factory, a Q1 weapons factory, three grain farms (35 x 3 = 105 FRM per day) and two aluminium mines (200 x 2 = 400 WRM per day). From these I can make 140 Q2 foods every three days and 16 Q1 weapons every day with surplus WRM. I sell my 16 Q1 weapons for 0.50 GBP, so I make 8.00 GBP per day on those. When I sell my Q2 foods I get 9.8 GBP (140 x 0.07).

Let’s take a closer look at the Q1 weapons. I can make 16 per day, which costs me 160 WRM and I make 8.00 GBP. However, if I was just to sell 160 WRM instead of making my Q1 weapons, I would make more. WRM sells for an average of 0.07, and if I sell my 160 WRM I make 11.2 GBP which is roughly an increase of 28.5% profit.

However, if we look at the food market there is a positive difference. To make Q2 foods I need 280 FRM and I can sell them for about 0.07 which gives me 9.8GBP. If I were just to sell my 280 FRM I would only make 5.2 GBP which is roughly 48% loss.

From these results I have concluded that I will no longer make weapons and will just sell WRM instead until the market changes, if it does. I will however, continue to make my Q2 foods. I hope this article has provided people with some information on the current market. Please note the I have only written about the Q2 foods and Q1 weapons market; it could be different for the other quality products.


Fenyang
Editor of The Dependant