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WOOO!!! I managed to pull it off by following what steeper said "always, always, always buy something." That worked great, I didn't fall behind once, well until the very end I came close to falling behind because my business was so succesful all the ports were "risky". Fun game, challenging enough for me to have to play three times to win.
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Finally, 100m, watch out that after 650 (if you can go on) the game HALVES you opium-reserves, so don't have too much, have lots of money and tea :).
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This is some hard stuff man, when you have like 300 opium but your only getting 1 crate for 40-60 silver in various places... you only have about 1200 silver and your next tea shipment is due in 20 weeks. I just couldn't make the deadline with so little opium demand... demoralizing D=
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Needs a pause button, a restart button, and a button that allows you to sell your ships manually. Pretty good game though, but it really is kinda hard to win :X
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I never knew there was 170 million Opium addicts in China in the end :p Well, now I know why China is a country composed by mostly poor people
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Hard Badge:
Don't stop buying Opium unless 30 chests costs over 2100$ (70$/chest).
Sell opium over 50$/chest to make profit.
Keep an eye on the price of Tea.
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Frustrating as hell for two reasons - 1. the game can be un-winnable -> tea is at $64, opium at @82, buyers are only wanting to pay $30-50 while the clipper waits for me to come up with the remaining 300 or 660 tea. 2. 30 crates at a time makes it hard to buy when you want 300 and you can only watch the price jump 400-500%
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Game seems to climb in difficulty fast. I had a risk at every port. Opium was costing more than I could sell it for and tea had sky rocketed to 80 for over 3 years. Is this game just supposed to get so hard you just lose?
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So strange, sometimes the final order is 650, sometimes it is 720. Then I am saving opium and stuff to be able to buy for the 720, but it finishes at 650 (?????)
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First of all, the click-click interface system is AWESOME, but it needs to have better tooltips or explanations as to what the hell you are clicking on. If I click on the dude that says "6 chests for 99" am I buying it or selling it? Should I be looking for high prices in ports or low? Depends whether I'm buying or selling, which I currently can't tell. That's a rather crucial detail, don't you think? This game sort of reminds me of the old VB classic, Dope Wars.
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This game is great. One suggestion, though: let players set their own pre-set trading numbers rather than having just 5, 15, and 30 as the defaults. From my perspective, I never needed to buy less than 30 crates. If I could have had something like 30, 100, and Max, then I would have had a better time. Still having the prices spike when large quantities are bought would be fine.
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Pretty harsh when you can't buy opium because you don't have enough opium to buy more...um, what? Also a bit harsh when 6 of the ports are risky and those are the only ones that continually have more on offer. Could be a great game, too many 'have no control over' factors makes it frustrating though. 3 stars is generous, too bad there isn't a half-star option or I'd give it 2.5 :(
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Found a bug...i sent two ships to different locals...one ship got busted...the other NEVER CAME BACK!
What happened witch my 100 buckets of Opium? =s
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Past the first 1 minute prices rose to 50 each then over the next 3 minutes decided to rise and stay over 100 each...
As you could probably tell my play time was short lived!
Please fix the problemwith prices :(
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Need a way to slow everything down, ability to sell extra ships before you lose from lack of funds, able to buy more than 30 at a time. Idiotic that you get nothing for selling the tea.
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Based on my samples, it is better to ship tea on time than let happiness drop in order to get more time for sell opium. More happiness in Britain means bigger tea orders, and the tea shipped appears to garner more points than opium sold.
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Still haven't won, but lost with 110 million points. But didn't get the badge for some reason. The secret is to sell, sell, sell. That's it. Take risks, buy high, sell high, doesn't matter, as long as you keep selling you'll hit the 80 million.
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Wow. I'm doing super awesome. I've got loads of opium and I'm ready for my tea order ahead of schedule... Whats that?! A deal for 57 chests of opium for 99 pounds each?! It might be risky, but I've got a bribe card. Lets go for it!(Sails boat over)...(2 seconds before reaching the deal) "Chinese are doing bad things to you. Give us your bribe card!" (Boat reaches the offer) "Forfeit your boat cause you suck!" Now out of opium and money.... At least I can make my tea shipment on time... "The queen is evil, we want more tea than you actually have!" "Whats that? You have no money, no opium, and not enough tea? Sell your boats for cash."...."Did you want to buy some opium with that cash? Sorry, the prices just rose astronomically"
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"And if you buy any, we will take half of it and make sure we break our promise of future compensation"...
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"Twice"
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Okay, This is a nice concept, Except for one massive flaw.
The trading company WOULD HAVE BEEN PAID FOR THE GODDAMN TEA.
I should have made a LOT of money through the game, had my tea not been given away. ¬¬ 2/5 because, hell, THAT'S A MASSIVE FLAW.
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how is score calculated? I played 3 times, all wins, 1 with a lot of money left 49m points, 1 with 0 money left, 77m points, the other time i didnt remember but was a realy low score..... is best to ship tea quick? best to do better deals? best to what? ....
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Hard Badge Guide:
Never sit on your money, and always sell even if it's low profit (except at the beginning when you don't have enough boats). Take advantage of low prices, but never spam the buy 30 unless the market just crashed. A good tactic is constantly buying opium then tea (especially later on), because when you toggle buying between them, I found my market rarely soaring for them that way with prices getting out of control. I had almost 300 tea before the second shipment, once I got two boats. You just have to constantly buy tea to win. And as long as you wait a second or two to click the buy 30 again, the market won't crash.
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Well Done your score 108,027,590 3480 tea crates sold = 696 Billion cups of tea 3063 opium sold 307 million opium users. :)
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crates opium SOLD * crates tea delivered * years of play. In other words, score really depends on how long you last and how much opium you sell.