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win or lose to get the hard badge? I got 88 million points while 500 tea crates away from the final order... and have never won... so how would I win with a lower score than 80 million?
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It's funny how the games says: Can you make your fortune? Well the answer to that is no. You use your profit to buy tea and give it the English. And while they need 600 crates, the buying value is 80, and they just except to still get it?
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Ah, by 'stack everything', I mean opium > tea, but get tea whenenever you've tons of silver and it's relatively cheap.
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Easier than I though, 13~ on 1st attempt, 97 on second (after reading few comments). I just tried to stack everything, when it was cheap and to make 30-50 crates deals (mainly during middle stage of game). I also had useful excess of tea, which helped me over 3 years. My mistake was spending 12,5k on fees, instead giving boats. I couldn't do anything in last year (very high prices) and ended up with 0 opium and 120 tea (lose). Still... badge.
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sees final tea order for first time oh I am doing good. *has no money or opium* crap I will just wait then and see if I scored enough. I won and got the hard badge.... but those moments while waiting for myself to lose... afraid to get just under the required score when you can't do anything...
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In the final leg, you basically have to hit the 30 Tea button continuously, otherwise you won't buy fast enough. Alternatively, stockpile team from previous legs.
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Too simple (actually the decisions you can take are very few), too random (you can't forecast price trends at any level) and as years progress it becomes too fast and you just click wherever you can. Not really a good manager game.
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*Sends ship out for a 56 chest deal at 99/chest in a risky port WITH a bribe card!* ... *Ship gets halfway there* ... *Ship gets three quarters of the way there* ... *BRIBE CARD NO LONGER WORKS HAHA* *SHIP GETS CAUGHT*
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I do like to think the game is ironic. The over-puritan Victorian Era, the very Industrial Revolution, as paid with opium money. That's the historical point of the game.
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116.9M Points. Buying everything below $55, sell to any above $55, take no risks -- stockpiles are good. Last shipment, buy tea at any price -- time is the limiter not funds.
When you only have one or two ships, pick ports close to the bottom, unless the top has a great deal: $80-90/crate, 20+ crates.
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I wish there were more games about trade like this, but this one has lots of problems. It feels like you're just waiting you fail. Like other people said you can't keep any of your profits. There are no upgrades to invest in, and you can't sell your ships when you want. I rarely send more than two ships at once so after that they're useless to me. Britain demands more and more tea and at the same time conditions get worse XD
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I always begin to play this game because it is good ART and well formed, but I CAN'T sell Opium to people. I'm not a virtual drug-dealer. I can't do it!
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ATTENTION - "Plus" this comment to keep it alive. Here's how the scoring works: Multiply the # of Opium crates sold by ten. Then mulitply that by the # of Tea crates shipped; that will be the final score. So: (Opium crates X 10) X Tea crates = Final Score. Although, it doesn't do any good to keep track during the game as there's no total so far in-game. The obvious thing is to buy as much as possible. It works best when the prices get below 20; a disaster of some kind can drive it below 10. >:D When that happens buy the sh*t out of it nonstop, trust me. I have to admit I got 2 or 3 disasters that drove prices down below 20 a couple times and below 10 once. Here's a screenshot (cropped to make my red text bigger) of my final score for those who might want a visual aid. I even lost by not being able to make my last shipment. Can you blame me? It was 720 crates of tea; you'd have to click buy x30 nonstop the whole time and that's almost impossible. http://imgur.com/h2aFgNZ
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Ok, just a quick follow up to my last comment: it's actually better to go broke and lose the game than it is to keep Britain waiting. I got almost 10k more points losing without fulfilling the last shipment and having almost nothing than I did doing so and having a ton of money.
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Yeah, I have no problem at all winning, but it seems like every single time I finish I wind up with 65 mil and some odd change. Never more, generally never less. I sort of wish I understood what I was getting points for and what I wasn't, cause this time I felt like I did way, way better than last time and finished with almost 2x the amount of money (~50k), yet I got a worse score. On the other hand, I did keep stupid old Britain waiting for its tea for a little longer, but again, I have no idea what kind of an effect that has on score. Plus I'm not all that big a fan as it's still way too luck based for my tastes, especially when you factor in the dumb risky ports, which of course by the end is pretty much half the available ports...
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Unlike what others say, this game is neither rigged nor impossible. You have to have patience and think critically. After failing my first game because I took one too many risks, I realized what needed to be done and got the Hard badge the very next attempt. This is a fantastic game that takes a decent amount of strategy and attention-to-detail. I would certainly play another game of this series.
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You mean that the English just couldnt take some tea plants and plant them in India to avoid losses and such? What has happened to them?
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A good way of beating the game: set realistic goals for your opium/tea prices. If you know the price will stabilise around 30 silver coins, buy as much as you can. Don't expect the prices to go any lower than that (except for the market crashes). Took me few tries and got the hard badge.
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retarded unbeatable game.
was doing so well in the beginning was upto 50k coin had tons of tea..etc.. in the end, all were "Risk" ports, lost everything at every route, tea went upto 95 each only needed 30 more tea to beat the game, price wouldn't drop, ports kept busting me so i couldn't sell opium to get the last tea... rigged game?
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kind of bs that as soon as you buy opium for cheap order prices cut in half instantly. price seems to be inverse of your stock, meaning demand has absolutely 0 to do with sell prices. if opium is so big in china, as well as so hard to get, how does it make sense that sell prices would take such a sudden hit?
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I appear to have single handedly addicted 3/4 of china considering that in 1839 4108506 chinese people were alive and I addicted 319 million and I have compitution everyone in china must be high on opium right now