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It's a good enjoyable game but the problem is, it's too fast paced. You don't have time to make decisions or plan any kind of strategy. You just jump at whatever you can buy because there's no time. Plus the comment f you agree.
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Got really fortunate finally and I finished with 33,871,800, my only success to 1839, for some reason my mass tea buy and opium buying during a stable period and a crash (respectively) didn't force a demand based inflation to occur, so the 24,000 I had left over sufficed nicely and I was left with lots of lucrative 80 chests for 90 and above. Very lucky, finally, took a while to finish a game. I can see how people could finish by fluke on their first attempt too.
No idea how to go about getting 80,000,000 since I was buying at selling at a huge profit and how your meant to cover the 570 crates on the last year without having the money BEFOREHAND is beyond me, since I still almost ran out of time!
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also keep your opium count as high as you can, because the number they ask to buy is based on that, like if you have under 100 crates theyll only ask to buy like ten well say, but when I had 500 they would ask four a hundred crates! selling 100 crates for 99 dollars makes a pretty quick profit, and makes the game MUCH easier, and plenty of money to buy the tea that your missing.
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106,107,070 ;) what I did is in the beginning when opium prices were low i bought them like CRAZY, and bought enough tea to get by. Throughout the whole game I never sold for under 55 dollars too, and whenever a crash would happen I only bought that and as much as I could constantly clicking the 30(and selling during the rests). I would only buy the tea or opium if it was under 45, unless I really needed it. Hope this helps! oh, and I also beat the game:) at the end I just bought and sold things like crazy once I knew I was gunna win, so I could get the acheivement.
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So wait - i spent all my money on tea which I gave to the Brits for free, all so that I can retire with 80,000,000 POINTS? Where can I spend these 'POINTS'?
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being able to use the profits from selling tea in Britain might be nice. For that matter, so would having the folks who make the badges actually play the game. I was ranked as "master smuggler" with just over an eighth of the points required for a hard badge. Maybe it should be made an Impossible badge, neh? I miss having hard badges be the ones that are difficult and rewarding but doable, with the impossible ones being the ones that are just drudgerous whoring. Now, the medium badges are difficult but rewarding, and the hard badges don't even look like the staff plays the game.
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Wowow, I expected winning the game to give you a hefty boost in your score so I rushed to get it on the last round even though I had 50k coins, and what do you know my score is lower than my failure of a first attempt which ended up being 42m -.-
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I like the game, but how in the world am I supposed to avoid losing a ship when, out of nowhere, a port changes from not risky to risky? Oh, and also, it is fairly impossible to win the game unless you stock up on a lot of tea before you get any tea orders.
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I really dislike how you just give the tea to the Brits without them paying for it. I should be able to make profits in both countries like a true businessman.
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I played this game because I saw it say "You didn't smuggle enough opium to satisfy Britain's thirst for tea" when my friend was playing and was really confused... doesn't make any sense until you play lol
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It is literally impossible to meet this demand on time, like you if you had the money you could not buy the tea fast enough. Are you really meant to lose this game that badly?
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So much more depth and atmosphere than most games. Not easy, but all the more fun because of it. Only small issue is that your 'supply' of opium, in itself, should not effect overall demand. So if you have 1 crate left, demand should still register above this.
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it said i shipped 2160 crates of tea and there were 438billion cups drank thats 200million cups of tea per crate ... i doubt it
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lol both tea and optium was at 82 and there were ! over practicly every port and i needed 500 more tea... yea i won. just kidding lost
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The instructions are rather misleading, given the way the final score is calculated. It's actually not at all about making your fortune; it's the amount of crates you've traded that really matters. If you have spare money, just buy/sell a lot to raise you statistics, even if it makes no sense from economical point of view. Making profit is a secondary goal, or more of a mean to keep you going. Large quantity deals should be a priority.
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Dekona Rodriquez -- I'm British and I don't know 1 person that drinks at least 5 a day, the most I've ever drunk is 2-3.
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Done. 99,057,960 points... I was at 695 and buying my heart out heading for the last load - and I won. 3,480 crates of tea to Britain. 2,844 crates sold to China.
There is only one way to win - watch all of the trends and don't be surprised if you are expected to buy tea at 50-70 while also buying opium at 12-17 and selling at 70-99. There is a lot of quick deals you have to make to do it. It is also important to balance your purchasing and selling - if you buy too much of anything at once - or sell too much of anything at once, the prices go ballistic.
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Each crate of tea is filled with boxes of teabags, teabags are used to make teapots, these teapots go on to create tea cups. That is how they manage to get so many cups of tea out of it. Not to mention these aren't exactly large cups here.
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Dude, the tea isn't drank by Britons alone, but it is sold to Britain and they sell it to the rest of the world (PS, Brits do drink a lot of tea, at least 5 cups a day, well most I know)
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If you need (or want) a lot of tea or opium all of a sudden, don't click on the same buy tea/opium button 5 times in a row - that'll trigger the "frenetic buying" event. Make a sale or buy just 5 of the other resource every few times. (Upvote please!)
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I would love a game like this that was turn based, had more choices, let you spend money on ships, upgrading them, bribes, etc. This one just gets too hectic after a while.
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Pretty nice game, for the time it lasts. But really? A hard badge? At least make it somewhat difficult then, I got 119 million on my first try.
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All it needs is an ability to sell ships whenever you want, rather than when you run out of cash. Then you can sell off a few ships to buy the final shipment.
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80 Million Points Scored – Finish your game, win or lose, to submit your statistics and earn the badge. This must be done in a single game. [Best so far: 79520499]
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alright, so i just played and never had a trade opportunity. I sat through 5 minutes of the game with no chance to increase my capital. cool.
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No restart feature? Combine that with VERY crappy instructions and I'm a bit sick of hitting refresh in my browser trying to understand how to play.
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Step 1: Buy Opium. Step 2: Sell Opium. Step 3: Go to jail (Death Penalty Bonus if you are actually in an asian nation!) OR skip to straight to step 4. Step 4: Opiate withdrawal - Daily Withdrawal Bonus Quests: Quest 1: sht in pants for 5 gold (or pee in pants 2.5 gold). Wish you were dead for 10 gold. Escape from rehab for 20 gold!! What are you waiting for?!... Hmm... One raised eyebrow = giving it one point.