War and Profit
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by Manic Frenzy
Have you ever noticed the prices of raw materials (RM) and manufactured goods.
How they fluctuate in times from no battles or no wars to other times when resistance wars (RW) and war games are active.
In times of peace, Q1 food just doesn't keep your wellness from dropping and dropping and if you're working for a higher quality employer (Q3, Q4) you have to go out and buy the good food.
So if you can afford it, you are trying to buy Q2 food or better.
Have you seen the price of Q1 food? Sixty one cents was the last price I saw. I think that's the lowest price in my short time here that I've ever seen it. About a month ago the price for Q1 food was approximately seventy cents as I recall it.
Yet the price for Q2 food has stayed relatively the same. It has only dropped about five cents in the last couple of weeks probably due to a couple of competitors trying to get their products out the door.
Q3 food is more than double the price of Q2 food.
Q1 food = $0.61
Q2 food = $2.20
Q3 food = $5.23
Q4 food = $7.35
Q5 food = $23.46
Now I have heard that there are employers out there alternately asking about war games. Their workers are not keeping their wellness up and thus they are not getting the same productivity out of them and in some cases, especially for lower skilled employees, the employers may be accepting losses. They don't want to lower their salary because they might just leave for better paying jobs which might lower their productivity again.
From what I hear, the war games are coming. When? I'm not sure.
But it will be interesting to see if and how the prices of RM's and produced goods change when they do start.
Sometimes allowing the market forces to alter the supply and demand of goods can take a terrible toll on us all. Sometimes the great pendulum of the market force of over supply can suddenly swing back and then we could find ourselves with over demand. The pendulum swings both ways but never seems to reach a viable equilibrium that can sustain the markets.
It would be a super ask to get a team to do the super task of controlling all production, manufacture and construction into a viable and sustainable level for this nation.
This task is something that is probably beyond our capabilities to handle.
We will just have to fight when we can and hope the inanimate object that is the market will take care of the dull days.
War and profit, they do seem to go hand in hand, don't they..
Some food for thought.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of eMarket fluctuations 😛
The market will change from time to time, It is up to the GM's to take the good times with the bad.
It is a reality of markets that the prices fluctuate, especially in times of war. Knowing how the market fluctuates is absolutly essential to turning a profit.
He did make some very good observations. Unfortunatly, he didn't delve further and present the significance of those observation. He just posted that he had made the observation.
Anyway I'm not in much of a position to comment and analyse the market since I've only been around here for 3 days.
there are a number of skilled company managers in eAus who should talk to, you will find what they have to say interesting. Have you registered on the forums?
Oh, it's worth compairing the difference between each level of Food with the cost of Gifts; it tells you a lot about where the system is straining. At lower levels, food cannot be priced higher than (previous Q level plus a Gift) or people will use lower quality food and make up the difference with Gifts. The exception occurs at the top end, where you have people buying 10 gifts and Q5 food as they try to squeeze out a seventh attack.
59 cents!