Mercatores - week 8

[sprontalic]

How much are we trading this time hacker?

[Lawrencelot]

@HackerHuck: now I see you didn't make an error, I thought your Total Spent-Value was your calculated value of coins you had left.

Offering can be done in any phase, but only once per week, and not if someone else offered to the same temple. Also, if you perform the offering action you should choose a player or province (if you have to) in the same post, or the myth power will not be performed.

[bird1111]

Prepost status:
11496 coins, 2 grain

Offer to Cerus

5 coins given to him.

Postpost stauts:
11491 coins, 2 grain

Mad Jackal, want to do the same trade as last week?

[Mad Jackal]

bird1111 I don't want to sound un-appreciative, but with the purchase of Asia my natural deal improves to 7200 from 7000.

So I would now prefer to get 7600 coins from you instead. (Profit for both = 400)

[bird1111]

Oh, forgot you had purchesed Asia, that's fine for me.

Prepost status:
11491 coins, 2 grain

Buying 5 Iron from Germania for 1900 coins
Buying 11 Slaves from Germania for 1870 coins

Postpost status:
7721 coins, 2 grain

[HackerHuck]

How much are we trading this time hacker?

It's no longer cost effective for me to increase my storage capacity, so let's keep it at 28 slaves for 7 marble if that's still OK with you.

[sprontalic]

Week Start Total

10,620 coins
Total Goods: 0/32

Buy Phase

Buy 2 grains from Roma (20)
Buy 7 marbles from Graeca (4,550)
Buy 1 Olive Oil from Graeca (6,000)

Post-Buy Phase Subtotal

50 coins
2 Grains
7 Marbles
1 Olive Oil
Total Goods: 10/32

Trade Phase

Offer: 7 Marbles for 28 Slaves to HackerHuck

[HackerHuck]

Week Start Total
12,218 coins
Total Goods: 0/32

Buying:
Resource office qty price total
Slaves Afrika 28 140 3920
Marble Roma 2 800 1600
Grain Afrika 2 7 14
Total Spend 5534

Remaining Coins: 6,684

Accept Trade 281: 28 Slaves to Sprontalic for 7 Marble

Inventory:
Marble 9
Grain 2


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I think that the offering to Ceres is an incredible steal!

Not only do you get the equivalent of at least two grain for only five coins, it also gives you the benefit of not holding that grain in your inventory.

I think it should be at least 40 or 50 coins.

[Mad Jackal]

pre-post status
buy phase week 4
17719 coins
3 lvl 3s= 42 cap (Roma3 Hisp3 Aisa3)
0 grain
0 wine
0 bricks
0 Lumber
0 Olive Oil
0 slaves
0 total goods
1 loan outstanding (5000 @ 10% per for n weeks)
payments expected to pay: 500 per week in trading phase.


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Buy phase

Buy 2 olive oil from Hispania

@5800ea. 11600 coins. (11600)

Buy 3 grain from Asia

@7 ea. 21 coins (11621)

Buy 5 marble from Asia

@ 680 ea. 3400 coins (15021)

Buy 30 timber from Asia

@ 65 ea. 1950 coins (16971)

Buy 1 Slave from Asia

@ 150 ea 150 coins (17121)

trade phase

Pay 500 coins interest.

(17621)

offer/trade 1 olive oil to bird1111 for 7600 coins

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post-post status
trade phase week 4
98 coins
3 lvl 3s= 42 cap (Roma3 Hisp3 Aisa3)
3 grain
5 marble
0 wine
0 bricks
30 Lumber
2 Olive Oil
1 slaves
42 total goods
1 loan outstanding (5000 @ 10% per for n weeks)
payments expected to pay: 500 per week in trading phase.

[bird1111]

Prepost Status:
7721 coins, 2 grain, 5 Iron, 11 Slaves

Accept Trade 283

7600 coins given to Mad Jackal for 1 Olive Oil

Sell 5 Iron to Roma at 400 coins a piece for 2000 coins total
Sell 11 Slaves to Roma at 180 coins a piece for 1980 coins total
Sell 1 Olive Oil to Germania for 8500 coins

Postpost status:
12601 coins, 2 grain

[sprontalic]

Post Trade Phase Subtotal

50 coins
2 Grains
28 Slaves
1 Olive Oil
Total Goods: 31/32

Sell Phase[/b]

Sell 28 Slaves to Graeca (7000)
Sell 1 Olive Oil to Roma (7000)

Post Sell Phase Subtotal

14,050 coins
2 Grains
Total Goods: 2/32

Upkeep Phase

Level 4 Office Roma takes 1 grain
Level 4 Office Graeca takes 1 grain

Weeks end total

14,050 coins
Total Goods: 0/32

[Mad Jackal]

pre-post status
trade phase week 4
98 coins
3 lvl 3s= 42 cap (Roma3 Hisp3 Aisa3)
3 grain
5 marble
0 wine
0 bricks
30 Lumber
2 Olive Oil
1 slaves
42 total goods
1 loan outstanding (5000 @ 10% per for n weeks)
payments expected to pay: 500 per week.

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trade phase

resolve offer/trade 238

1 olive oil to bird1111 for 7,600 coins (+7,600 )

sell phase

sell 1 Olive Oil to Asia

@ 7200 = 7,200 ( +14,800 )

sell 5 marble to Hispania

@ 850 = 4,250 (+19,050)

sell 30 timber to Hispania

@ 105 = 3,150 (+22,200)

sell 1 slave to Roma

@ 180 = 180 (+22,380)


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post-post status
selling phase week 4
22,478 coins
3 lvl 3s= 42 cap (Roma3 Hisp3 Aisa3)
3 grain
0 marble
0 wine
0 bricks
0 Lumber
0 Olive Oil
0 slaves
3 total goods
1 loan outstanding (5000 @ 10% per for n weeks)
payments expected to pay: 500 per week.

[HackerHuck]

Sell 9 Marble to Afrika @ 1000 ea.

Total sales - 9000
Available coins - 15,684

[Lawrencelot]

Week 4 ends now! (no joke)
Updating...

[Lawrencelot]

Sprontalic made an error to his advantage: his starting value was higher (probably because of Sailor Jerry's action.)

Week 5 starts now!

[sprontalic]

Uh I'm really confused. Should I just start with my stats from the front page?

[Lawrencelot]

Yes. I don't think I made a mistake, and if I did, you're just lucky.

[Mad Jackal]

pre-post status
buy phase week 5
22,478 coins
3 lvl 3s= 42 cap (Roma3 Hisp3 Aisa3)
0 grain
0 marble
0 wine
0 bricks
0 Lumber
0 Olive Oil
0 slaves
0 total goods
1 loan outstanding (5000 @ 10% per for n weeks)
payments expected to pay: 500 per week.

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Buy:

Build Trade office in Dalmatia

. Lvl 1 capacity 10 for 15,000 (15,000)

Buy 8 grain from Damlatia

@ 6ea. 48 coins (15048)

Buy 1 Olive Oil from Hispania

@ 5800ea. 5800 coins (20,848)

Buy 25 timber from Asia

@ 65ea. 1625 coins (22,473)

Trade:

Nothing this week.

Sell:

Sell 4 grain to Hispania

@10ea. 40 coins (40)

Sell 1 Olive Oil to Dalmaitia

@ 10,500 coins (10,540)

Sell 25 Timber to Hispania

@ 105ea. 2,625 coins (13,165)

Re-Pay loan 5000+500 coins.

(7,665)

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post-post status
selling phase week 5
7,670 coins
3 lvl 3s +1 lvl1 = 52 cap (Roma3 Hisp3 Aisa3 Dalm1)
4 grain
0 marble
0 wine
0 bricks
0 Lumber
0 Olive Oil
0 slaves
4 total goods

[bird1111]

Prepost status:
bird1111: 12601 coins, 2 grain

Buy 10 Slaves in Germania for 170 coins each
Buy 5 Timber from Germania for 90 coins each
Offer to Cereres

; 2 slaves given to his temple

Postpost status:
10451 coins, 2 grain, 8 slaves, 5 Timber

sprontalic, you willing to trade 1720 coins for 8 slaves?

Anyone willing to trade me 5 bricks?

[Mad Jackal]

I did not realize that the myth powers were going to change.

Nice play Bird1111.

[sprontalic]

sprontalic, you willing to trade 1720 coins for 8 slaves?

No thanks. I can get 8 slaves from Roma for 1600 coins.

[bird1111]

Whoops, how about 1520 instead?

[Lawrencelot]

I did not realize that the myth powers were going to change.

Nice play Bird1111.

I put it in the rules now. They change every week.

[sprontalic]

Whoops, how about 1520 instead?

No thanks. With my current trade with Hacker, I'm basically buying slaves for 1300/8 slaves. Also I'll need 20 slaves as opposed to 8 if I want to get the best profit for myself.

@Hacker: Can we do 5 marble trades for 20 slaves instead of 7 for 28 this time?

[HackerHuck]

Whoops, how about 1520 instead?

No thanks. With my current trade with Hacker, I'm basically buying slaves for 1300/8 slaves. Also I'll need 20 slaves as opposed to 8 if I want to get the best profit for myself.

@Hacker: Can we do 5 marble trades for 20 slaves instead of 7 for 28 this time?

I would of course prefer the largest trade possible (28:7) but if you need to back off of it, I can't really say no.

Given the nature of the weeklong game phase, it might be better to have the myth powers start the following week. That way we can plan around them a little bit. If I were to buy the power that messed with prices in Roma, it would make things very messy this round.