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Got the hard badge with 92.5M pts. Tips: buy and sell as much as possible including taking bad deals and risky deals. At the beginning buy up to about 100 opium first to get adequate capital before you waste it on tea. Aim for the large volume deals even if profit is not huge. If caught I've mostly forfeited except once when you should use your bribe card, bribe card no longer works if you don't use it by about 2/3. If you have a lot of money or not enough ships it might be better to pay. Towards the 3/4 mark there is a deal that halves your opium supply so keep selling it off before that. Buying in large quantities jacks up the price but it also tends to come down if it hits the top so don't worry about stocking up when things are relatively cheap. I find waiting a second or two before the next buy seems to delay the price rises.. Thumbs up if you find this useful.
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I want to know what Great Britian has on me. Because I spend millions of silver coins on their tea for a ship. And when I have all my ships I basically spend tons of coins for a thank you from some buy that looks like a fat Abraham Lincoln. Not cool.
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About the "no-money-for-shipments" thing:
What if they guy isn't allowed to use the profits to buy from the chinese, as the british doesn't want silver to flow from britain to china?
What if he just keeps all the profits in Britain, for his wealthy retirement?
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very enjoyable. By the end I was so caught up in it i really wanted to sell more opium and get the sat shipment of 660 tea.I i loved seeing the little ships going on their way and by the end of this game it became a frantic struggle to sell opium and buy tea!! ^^ really good game 8.5/10
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I played this game when it came out and got all the badges on the same day. I don't know what you guys are complaining about so I'll just assume you're bad at the game and don't want to spend the time to get good at it before complaining that's it's too hard.
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Caribbean Admiral is much better than this. There are different goods to trade, the interface is more lively, you can go into town and repair and your ships, trade goods. This is so static and boring.
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Ahh, this game makes me think of good old Tai-Pan. The circle of opium, tea and silver. Great game, very entertaining. 4/5
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Are you kidding me? Finally managed to deliver the last shipment and the game rewards me with a whooping 36 million points, nearly half of what I needed for the hard achivement? Balanced much? I made more than that while failing in an earlier attempt!
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So... Is the last tea order supposed to be impossible? Or is it just me that noticed that the last segment had 50+ prices the entire time with only 1 chest per order at 22 bags of silver per order?
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Surprisingly fun game, and a neat little history lesson. I love simple tycoon games like this, where there are only a few main things to keep track of.
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playing on latest opera, the game doesnt fit the "windows" size kongregate provides. contect to the right hides behind the chat/game/achievements tabs
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I don't know why people are bitching about the hard bagde so much? I got 40 million on first try by just buying almost all the time whenever I get the chance.
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It was a fun game;D and for the people talking about not getting the hard badge, you are supposed to stockpile a lot of tea at the beginning when its still pretty cheap and keep around 700 tea at all times and the badge will be easy ;D
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You should really update the game so that you make some sort of money for the tea your shipping. It makes no sense that you purchase tea and don't make anything when selling it back to Britain.
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2 stars for simply being bad. Highest score ive gotten is 92625600. Was buying tea ta 80+ per batch nonstop but couldnt get it fast enough for the 700 or 800 something i needed. Really bad design.
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Pure luck to get hard achievement, the problem is always the SLOW BUYING of goods, thats the bottleneck. The amount of silver you have is endless and it doenst matter if boats get taken as you have 4-5 at all times and get new ones all the time. Really badly designed badge and sucky mechanic ingame.
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hard badge is not impossible. without trying hard I got 77 million points at game end. you have to watch the markets closely!
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The pace, the pricing, and the quanties make this game extremely unrealistic and the hard badge nearly unobtainable. In concept, I liked the game, but the exponential increase in difficulty isn't scaled well.
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The problems here *why it is only mediocre*:
1. No money for tea. That's just bad business.
2. No larger unit purchases. 30 units is a little too small.
3. I guess that means the whole setup on the monetary end. Seriously, if there was no money involved why in the world would anybody have sent the tea all the way to Britain? Why not just keep the opium profits at that point, and say screw the Brits? *Note, did this with the last shipment on the game I got the hard badge, just bought and sold more opium. Tea was at 70+ and opium stayed down near the 20s. The final mission really doesn't affect the score, so who cares about the Brits during it? Bad design IMO.*
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The hard badge should be impossible. The absolute highest I've achieved is around 13,500,000. Not even halfway to the designated mark.
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Seems no one understands that having the chance to serve Her Majesty the Queen is already the greatest reward in return.
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This was a surprisingly fun game to play. I went in just going for the Badge of the Day, thinking it was going to be boring. I really enjoyed it. As with everyone else, though, I couldn't get the hard badge since you can only buy 30 tea at a time. When prices skyrocket, there's no possible way of filling the order like you're expected to. There's a difference between difficult and impossible. Being able to buy 45 or 50 at a time would be great.
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ridiculous when it gets to 90 per tea, specially when u have no choice but to get it
why should i give the profits away by buying tea n giving it to the british n not getting anything in return for that is beyond me