Mercatores - week 8

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Hannibal isn't crossing my Alpes!

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Hey guys, I'll be buying crates of wine for 9500 each, mkay?

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Could you prod the other two?

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geraintm, you need to pick a region.

Raffles, every week you get to buy first, then there's player trading and then you get to sell stuff. Given an infinite amount of weeks, you will generally speaking become infinitely rich, yes, but I would be very much surprised if that were to become an issue.

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Raffles, you could do that n times, but that would also take n weeks. And in this game, as far as I can tell, weeks are a commodity in and of themselves.

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Nope.

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Anyone willing to sell me wine?

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Cogito.

I could offer you 1 wine for 8860 coins + 8 Lumber.

It's a deal.

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Buy 8 timber from Alpes

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Buy 2 Timber from Alpes
Buy 2 Bricks from Alpes
Upgrade office in Roma
Buy 2 Grain

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I'll remember that for next time, but the difference can't have been over 500 anyhow.

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I think we should wait until everyone is done trading. But I'll be accepting the offer.

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Mad Jackal, I meant to say "buying", waiting until everyone was done buying. I wasn't entirely sure we could trade yet.

Money Balance: 10000 - 940 = 9060

Accept Trade #84.

I now have 100 coins, 1 wine and 2 grain.

Sell 1 wine to the Alpes.

I'm done for the week with 12100 coins and 2 grain.

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I'd be interested in a loan in 2 or 3 weeks. Good interest rate.

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First buying, then trading, then selling. All in one turn, but you have to do in that order.

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You can't upgrade two offices, I believe, but you've got the right idea otherwise. An upgrade is instantaneous.

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Thanks for a hundred coins!

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Mad Jackal, same deal next turn?

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Damn.

Logic, still around?

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Want to sell me a wine next "week"?

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Of course.

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I don't think we need a replacement, btb. Having one province unoccupied at the beginning of the game does not seem like a problem to me.

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12200 Coins
No goods
22 Capacity

Buy 2 grain from Roma
Buy 2 Bricks from the Alpes
Buy 2 Timber from the Alpes
Buy 8 Iron from the Alpes
Upgrade Office in Alpes to Lvl 2

9500 Coins
2 Grain, 8 Iron
14 Unused Capacity, 10 Used

Who'd be interested in buying some Iron? HackerHuck?

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I need the 9500 for the wine, Hackerhuck. I'd happily sell you the Iron at a decent price.

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[quote="HackerHuck"]Second best - 19 slaves to CES for 8 bricks[quote]
Oh wait, you meant Iron rather than Bricks, right? I'd definitely like that deal.

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To what extent are they going to change? Could, for example, the price of wine go up by a 1000 in one week?

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(In a specific region, of course.)

Will there also be "global" price changes? For example, a bad wine year causing the wine prices to drop?

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Hey, logicticus, when you get back. Why don't we make the deal 13 marble for 1 wine? You get 250 extra coins that way!

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Starting:

9500 coins, 2 Grain, 8 Iron.

Buy 13 marble from the Alpes.

Accept Trade #233

Sell 1 Wine to Alpes

Sell 8 Iron to Rome

Ending:

16900 coins, 2 Grain. Pretty sweet.

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Logicticus was away for a while, so we only got around to doing these trades now. It's still week 2.

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Having a couple of provinces which are open does add a greater element of strategy to opening new offices, so I don't mind. I'm fine with the goods the way they are currently.

Logicticus, same deal this round?

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16900 coins

Buy 2 Grain from Rome

Buy 5 Timber from the Alpes

Buy 5 Bricks from the Alpes

Upgrade Rome Office

Buy 5 Timber from the Alpes

Buy 5 Bricks from the Alpes

Upgrade Alpes Office

Buy 13 Marble from the Alpes

Buy 13 Iron from the Alpes

Accept Trade #254

3500 Coins, 1 Wine, 13 Iron, 2 Grain, 12 Unused Capacity

Trade 1000 coins to Raffles for his office in Asia and 1 grain.

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Meh.

Sell 1 Wine to the Alpes

Sell 13 Iron to Rome

20700 Coins, 2 Grain, 26 Unused Capacity.

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Isn't Wealth a bit cheap?

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Ah, ok. Bird is correct.

Logic, 26 Marble for 2 Wine?

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Oh snap.
23120 Coins

Buy 8 Grain from Roma

Buy 2 Wine from Roma

Buy 10 Iron from the Alpes

40 Coins, I think I've covered my Maintenance costs in Grain too now.

Sell 10 Iron to Roma

Sell 2 Wine to the Alpes

28040 Coins