Not a bug, its that way to give you an extra challenge. hehe this is gonna be fun, after I spend my 70k Ill have my entire building area full, one maxed horse, and all maxed spearmen (Again on the swordsman, cant spearmen go up to 12, swordsman to 13, and horses up to 8? thats what i remember, but ill check it out)
HAHAHA! Can anyone else get the orange ball to the goal on the full up map? check it out, i didnt mean to but its pretty badass http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=3683474
smart cuddly, but you wont live to qubba, the trip from verd to diep is too hard, or verd to hara, the area fromt eh starter area and to qubba is far to much for anyone on foot. Do a cuople routes, til you can afford 5 guys with powerful guns in verd, and then enough to make the trip to qubba, the its a solid plan
Qubba....Ok now that qubba is bankrupt it no longer deals in luxurious goods like alcohol, jewelry, shoes, that kind of shit, lmao, trying to bring in forage, to make it produce food, hopefully this will solve its issue of importing food, which, again hopefully will reduce its expenses, giving it a quicker revival
after about 3-4 trips of jewelry, now selling to qubba is no longer an option, now they are all broke too hahaha, its ok though, although there is only so much money in the world, if you sell to broke people money comes from thin air, everyone in the cities is averaging like 350$ each, ive got a healthy 10 mil, time to recruit and arm >8D
Depletion....the downside of the jewelry exploit is that when you do it once, the city wont buy jewelry for 4k again until its back to like 400$ a person, but its alright, once youve exhausted that city for a couple months, you can go to others, and eventually sell it all to qubba when its out of jewelry, good business, always
Then go to qubba, try the alcohol run, get like 50k, get your jewelry scam going, and man your man up with ONLY atvs, im not atm but im carrying over 20 guys, once you get all your men with sniper rifles and have like 100k or more on hand, get a hummer, and then start doing alcohol runs, or clothing runs from any city selling cheap clothes. Get 500k, then buy 15 sniper rifles, and recruit men all around, i go for anyone with 9+ ap and 30+(preferable 60+) Sniping, and no less than 30 hp. If they have 13+ str and 6+ ap, with better than 40 sniping, you got yourself a man for an rpg, after you ha these men you can expect to do pretty well, im gonna get a 30-40 man group before i attempt to take on the army regiments
and you can get more jewelry to start. If you get an idea of the time, you can run a few trips of alcohol from the fort to qubba a few times. If your still REALLY new, take Leather from poca to caganel, then shoes from caganel to drushlak, and take clothes, and if there are none left, take medicine to poca, repeat like 3 times, then buy as many shoes as you possibly can, and go to verd, sell em there, get yourself to a 4 man group with acceptable weapons, repeat if you need more cash, if you do that particular one more than 3 times it wont be profitable.
Hrm, well If you cant provide the self protection, bc you havent completed the robbery, or are too poor to use that exploit...Just wait in qubba(Get food when caravans come with it, or get it from fork goks-water is in city) and when Caravan X comes by, it will drop off gold, then just wait and pick up the jewelry, now you can do a small scale scam with the cities around, or wait for a few trips(They take like 10 days round trip im guessing)
In a wrap, Fuel from hara to Abu, wait, take the gold, bring it to qubba, sell it, get the jewelry as soon as its made every day in the morning, take it to a poor city, sell it 4k each, wait a day, buy it all back for cheap, repeat with other cities. Sorry to take so long writing this guys, I have a tendency to be exceptionally thorough when i dont mean to be. Have fun, and if you need a pre-late game route or strategy, just say so, i wont hesitate to be thorough xD
Now heres the exploit part of it all! All that waiting pays off with this, after selling your 50+ Jewelry to a city, they will be overwhelmed by its value. When you sell them, if its a smaller city, there wont be the right market of consumers and the merchants will have unsellable merchandise, wait outside like a day, and often times, you can buy it all back for 700 each....really...really..nice... Im not sure if they buy a couple and then get overwhelmed, and you may need to do the jewelry run again, but its getting me several million an hour, and increasing quickly as i increase my cargo capacity.
Your jewelry should be available to be bought at under 2k each and if they are up at $3500+ you should wait for it to sell out before starting the process, bc it would seem like Caravan x just dropped off some gold, qubba produced some jewelry, and now its selling in the city so its harder to buy...If not buy it up and take it to any surrounding city, except Hara(This exploit includes bankrupting every citizen of that city, so screwing over the city that produces fuel isn't a risk worth taking)
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