We need a way to buy/sell much faster than we can now. I'm at the point where the game can't sell the old stock I profited from fast enough to put into the next stock that's going to go up.
I've noticed that everyone is fixating on energy for work clicks in the comments, but really that is not where the big money in this game is to be made. For that, you pretty much have to use the stock market. The highscore is inaccurate; I'm sitting at over $3.6 Billion right now. Watch the trading ranges, beware of cyclical shifts in trade ranges, go for the small gains rather than the big move but if you get a big move so much the better. All those 1-3% gains add up, pretty soon a 1% gain on 1 billion gets you 10 million profit in 3 minutes.
There seems to be an inconsistency with the maintenance fee of energy regen / work per click items. First, you can reduce your monthly fee by going down to the cheapest of these items for idling which is great because the cost goes way down. But even with income of 192/click and estimating max energy regen rate of full in 3 hours, that seems like it would be losing more money on the energy regen bonus than I would get from doubling the amount of work clicks I could do. I've read a lot of comments of people not getting any higher rate/click at certain points on MBA's, all at a less rate than $192/click.
Ok, so I've used stocks to take my money from $7m to $21m in about 1 game year, by buying when they go down and selling when they've gone up. Buy and hold for the big gain in this context makes money much too slowly, and several game years can pass before the big move comes, where you get taxes a good 80% of assets while holding stock. There is no way to ultimately avoid the end-of year taxes except by buying investments/shop items, but it is best to be in cash at the end of year because tax then is 20% of profits instead of 20% of total.
@Mace I just tried what you recommended even before I saw your comment posted and it seems to be correct. The negative profits capped at the amount I had invested at the beginning of the year, but after converting to cash the end of year tax was 90k instead of 700k. Overall though, it doesn't seem like stocks are much of an advantage or money making strategy because I still made less than if I hadn't bought stocks and just idled because of the taxes whether or not I used them. Also, the moves in price take too long between intervals/too little change between intervals except for the very very rare jump or drop (up to +/- 100% with certain stocks) which I was hoping to get, but I don't want to sit here all day waiting for that.
@Cannons it turns out that your advice does NOT help, at least for year end tax. What happened is I buy Pink-wear at 967/share, keep buying and at year end boom, 20% tax takes my "cash on hand" WAAAY into the red, negative 700k from holding 3.5k stock. Compared to holding cash, year-end tax is equivalent to 20% of one month's income and never puts me in the red. Also with holding $3.5m in stock, my "profit" is going negative by $500k/month, which would be fine if I could actually make any cash by year-end to re-invest which I can't because the year-end tax doesn't take cash to 0 but DEEP into debt. I don't know of any real-life government that taxes people 20% of the stock they hold... yet anyway (et al Cyprus, ECB negative interest rates, coming soon?)
You are right. Annual tax takes 20% of all money you have (cash + stock). There are some ways to avoid this: 1) spend money on education / investments to increase your earning potential. 2) buy shares that you expect to fall just before the year ends ad raise again in new year.
@MaceTheFace420 I too am taxed at 20% instead of the stated 10% from investment/work income. It was hard to tell, bt buying and holding stocks is MURDER on passive income; the tax from holding stock (1.5M +) totally wipes me out every month.
Hi Dreamslair, I see what you mean about companions not permanently lost. I restarted today to see my wis comp in the slot and the armor break one gone. I remove the wis comp and refresh the browser, and I see the armor break companion back in the equipped slot.
Since the update, it is impossible to play this game. It freezes my computer and then unity crashes- a single core of my recent, higher-end CPU is kept running at 100% for no discernible effect. It may be related to the ridiculous amount of calculations introduced with the update.
I'm having problems with companions in the inventory randomly disappearing, plus companion forging itself is highly buggy. For example, put a maxed level companion in the forge, it claims there is no companion and offers to buy one with diamonds. I think companion disappearing is also related to the forge somehow.
Hi there! There is a bug in which more than 1 companion is equipped at the same time, hiding one of them. You still have them! We are fixing the bug right now; just have a little patience!
For what concerns the Companion Trainer, we are making it a little more understandable!
From now on I am 1/5 and flag every game this developer puts out. All their games are poor quality, but they must have a horde of bot accounts to artificially inflate the rating of all their products.
Remember folks, money is NOT for ridiculous things like food, rent, water, electricity, consumer items etc etc. That's all unnecessary. Your money is supposed to go back into stocks! Why, take the robot as an example. Robots do not complain when they are injured, do not sleep, do not bleat about how much heating costs in the winter or cooling in the summer. In short, robots are the perfect worker.
Bug: I found the last master on the map in the central quarter and brought him to the tavern, but it didn't register as finding him and the game won't let me look for him again.
3.52 M crystal / second how to: max crystal, garnet extraction, use stockX to get resources. Copy your IdleGod3.sol with a link to original. Trade for soft max garnets (~250B), slavery to max garnet %, reload with copy on bad rolls. Next convert % until cost is above soft cap. THEN go for corporation.
Bug 1: Some kind of long-term instability with this game causing flash to crash eventually on Chrome. Bug 2: After game crashes on chrome, wife has infinite bar for feeding chickens going off the top of the screen and never diminishes, I haven't had to use any grain for the chickens at all for several days now because of this.
Ridiculous difficulty seen only in the free to lose, pay to win types so prevalent these days... but without the pay to win option. Only repulsor is good for anything at all but even backup from other unit types suck too bad to kill the fast zombies that rush the elevators. 0/5 if I could, limited to 1/5.
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You are right. Annual tax takes 20% of all money you have (cash + stock). There are some ways to avoid this: 1) spend money on education / investments to increase your earning potential. 2) buy shares that you expect to fall just before the year ends ad raise again in new year.