Mercatores - week 8

[Lawrencelot]

Week 1 ends now!

Hope you are done with selling, I didn't give an exact time but I warned you. You all seemed ready for the next week btw.

Updating... no actions allowed, but negotiating is allowed

[Lawrencelot]

Some of you did not have enough grain for the maintenance of your offices. The penalty is now double the price of grain in Roma, while you still have to buy the grain for week1 (and week 2 too of course, else you will get another penalty). The penalty will become higher every week, so don't forget to buy grain as soon as you can.

I changed some values, but I forgot to color what I changed, so I just put up the new image. If you really want to see the old values, I can give the links. I didn't change the values of the expensive goods yet. HackerHuck said Africa is at a disadvantage, but that's only the case with the expensive goods I'm gonna check those values later since nobody has enough money to buy spices or anything.

Myth powers are implemented when the values are fair.

Week 2 starts now!

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

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.

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

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?

[Raffles]

Buy 10 Timbers from Asia @ 65coins each
But 10 Bricks from Asia @ 100 coins each

Upgrade Roma/Asia Office lvl 3

Buy 24 Timber from Asia @ 65 coins each

all going up for sale. Lowest bid: 85 coins. Ask for: 95coins

6288 coins left.

[Shanba]

I... I didn't finish selling... oh dear.

[sprontalic]

Starting Total - Week 2

10,410 coins
8 Timber
Total Goods: 8/24

Buy Phase

Buy 2 grains from Roma (20)
Buy 2 Timber from Roma (200)
Buy 10 Bricks from Roma (1000)
Upgrade Roma to level 3 office
Upgrade Gaeca to level 3 office
Buy 4 Marbles (2,600)

Mid Buy Phase Subtotal

6,590 coins
2 Grains
4 Marbles
Total Goods: 6/28

@Sailor Jerry: Would you buy my Olive Oils if I sold them to you for 7750 coins? We both make a bigger profit under this deal.

[Leptopus]

The game should have a fixed time for closing, so we can get our selling done.

/out

[Lawrencelot]

In the rules it says that the week ends on either friday, saturday on sunday, so you have at least 4 or 5 days to perform all your actions. Also I warned 1 or 2 times by saying that I was nearly ending the week. About the grain: I expected people to forget that, that's why I gave just a small penalty.

I got the data from Raffles friend, he gave me a whole analysis of the game and what values need to be changed and which provinces have advantages and which don't. Too bad I already started week2, but with his help I can make the values really fair for the next week.

[Leptopus]

I guess I misunderstood the rules. In my defense, I don't think it's all that clear that the end will come by surprise, but it's not important to me anymore, obviously.

Sorry if I sounded snippy. Hope you guys have fun.

[Mad Jackal]

pre-post status
start week 2
15,769 coins
2 lvl 2s= 24 cap
4 grain
0 wine
0 bricks
4 Lumber
8 total goods
1 loan outstanding (5000 @ 10% per for 3 weeks)
payments expected to pay: 500 due wk 2, 500 due wk 3, 5500 due wk 4.


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Buy 6 timber from Roma @ 100ea. =600 coins (600 spent)
Buy 10 Bricks from Hispania @ 65ea. = 650 coins (1250 spent)

Upgraded Roma to lvl 3

(lose 5 wood, 5 brick)

Upgrade Hispania to lvl 3

(lose 5 wood, 5 brick)

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post-post status
buying phase week 2
14,519 coins
2 lvl 3s= 28 cap
4 grain
0 wine
0 bricks
0 Lumber
4 total goods
1 loan outstanding (5000 @ 10% per for 3 weeks)
payments expected to pay: 500 due wk 2, 500 due wk 3, 5500 due wk 4.

I would be interested in selling slaves and brick to Gracea.
And I would be interested in trading bricks for lumber.
Any quantites/ prices for these trades before I finish my buying phase?
Anyone else want bricks? I'll be asking 87.5ea.

[Mad Jackal]

Raffles, I'm not in my trading phase yet.

But how close to a deal would straight up brick for timber 1:1 be for you? We both pay 65 to buy the unit to begin with.

[bird1111]

Prepost Status:
9455 coins
2 bricks
-2 grain

Buying 6 grain from Roma for 60 Coins
Buying 7 Timber from Germainia for 630 Coins
Buying 10 Slaves from Germania for 1700 coins
Buying 5 Brick from Roma for 500 Coins
Upgrading Office in Roma to Level 2 using 2 Bricks and 2 Timber
Upgrading Office in Germania to Level 3 using 5 Bricks and 5 Timber

Postpost Status:
4 Grain
10 Slaves
6565 Coins

Willing to trade up to 5 of those slaves for coins.

[Mad Jackal]

Bird I've not checked your math, but Timber isn't 7 per in germany is it ?

[bird1111]

Crap, its 90 not 7

Prepost Status:
9455 coins
2 bricks
-2 grain

Buying 6 grain from Roma for 60 Coins
Buying 7 Timber from Germainia for 630 Coins
Buying 10 Slaves from Germania for 1700 coins
Buying 5 Brick from Roma for 500 Coins
Upgrading Office in Roma to Level 2 using 2 Bricks and 2 Timber
Upgrading Office in Germania to Level 3 using 5 Bricks and 5 Timber

Postpost Status:
4 Grain
10 Slaves
6565 Coins

Willing to trade up to 5 of those slaves for coins.

[Raffles]

Sorry, I'm not interested in bricks anymore seeing as I can make more money out of selling timber rather than bricks. Plus I've already upgraded anyway.

[Mad Jackal]

yeah raffles. I noticed your friend fixed that for you.

fair enough.

[HackerHuck]

I'm trying to guage the interest for my slaves before I buy anything.

Preferred trade - 24 slaves to Sprontic for 6 marble

Second best - 19 slaves to CES for 8 bricks

Others may make me offers as well.


I think the olive oil and wine spreads are a bit oversized with respect to Rome. We've got a few people who can sit back and trade one unit each turn to Rome and net at least 2k. I can't get close to that much in profit during a turn unless I can get someone to make a very unbalanced trade with me.

[Shanba]

I'm looking to trade 3 iron for 7 timber and lumber to anyone. I'm also looking to buy iron.

[Shanba]

Scratch that. I'm dumb.

[sprontalic]

Trading slave would be the best for me as well, so do you want to just keep doing that for now?

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

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

[Mad Jackal]

pre-post status
buying phase week 2
14,519 coins
2 lvl 3s= 28 cap
4 grain
0 wine
0 bricks
0 Lumber
4 total goods
1 loan outstanding (5000 @ 10% per for 3 weeks)
payments expected to pay: 500 due wk 2, 500 due wk 3, 5500 due wk 4.


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Buy 2 olive oil from Hispania

@ 5800ea. = 11600 coins (11600 coins spent)

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post-post status
buying phase week 2
2,919 coins
2 lvl 3s= 28 cap
4 grain
0 wine
0 bricks
0 Lumber
2 Olive Oil
6 total goods
1 loan outstanding (5000 @ 10% per for 3 weeks)
payments expected to pay: 500 due wk 2, 500 due wk 3, 5500 due wk 4.

I would be interested in selling slaves and brick to Gracea.
And I would be interested in trading bricks for lumber.
Any quantites/ prices for these trades before I finish my buying phase?
Anyone else want bricks? I'll be asking 87.5ea.

[bird1111]

Prepost status:
4 Grain
10 Slaves
6565 Coins

Buying 2 Iron for 760 coins

Postpost status:
5805 Coins

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

[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.