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Whoa, turns out I was looking at the price of opium and thinking it was my stock of opium left in inventory, then getting angry when my ships wouldn't head out to deliver... oops! Oh well, I guess I won't be getting that badge after all...
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HORRIBLE problem in that you often can't see how much tea you have to deliver. This REALLY screws you up since you can't plan. It's already a difficult, frantic, and somewhat luck based game. This could be exciting, but being stuck without any knowledge just makes it not fun.
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Great game, the graphics look really polished, the theme is really novel for a flash title, and it even has an interesting topic to teach!
I don't hand out 5s very often, but this game earns it.
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Tips for getting the hard badge:
1. Score is based on the amount of crates sold and shipped, so always aim for transactions where you buy or sell large amounts at a time even if you're doing so at a bit of a loss.
2. Ignore transactions worth only a few crates after the first year or two. Visiting a port too often makes it risky and it's better to avoid that as long as possible.
3. Don't be afraid to go for a good deal in a risky port if you have spare money to afford a fine and/or have more ships than you need. If you don't have five boats you always get a new one whenever your tea arrives in England, so if a boat gets caught between orders just surrender it since you'll just turn around and get a new one anyway. As long as you have two or three boats you're fine.
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1500 crates of tea shipped almost 1900 crates of opium. With a wealthy retirement. Still can't get the badge of 80 mil is it even possible. But overall a very fun game. Play it a few times to get the feel of it. Actually read the little dialogue boxes and stock up on tea early for breathing room. Hit opium and tea at low prices, avoid risky ports later in the game you will be depending on have several ships to hit good deals. The game already says this I'm just trying to give and extra hand good luck!!
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Score 9,000,000 points and my rank is master smuggler. Check the hard badge and it requires not 8,000,000 but 80,000,000 points. Is that even possible? Do you need enough luck/trickery to get into some kind of math loop, such that, without it, high scores are around 10,000,000 and with it, they're around 80,000,000,000? You know the kind of trick some games have, right? Not hacking. Just, I don't see how it's possible.
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The market trends are very harsh, buying the stuff takes an entire week, and that too in a limited number. Prices also fluctuate REALLY fast, in a week, the price once went up by 90. Otherwise, a good game. Quite accurate history, and also an interesting story.
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Britain sold opium to China to get huge profits and after the chinese realize that its bad for them, they began to destroy opium. Then came the british to force them to buy opium. WTF?!
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If england is paying you in ships then it would be fixed if you could sell these ships (I would have then been able to win by selling 4 of the ships at the end to buy stupid tea)
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For everyone that thinks that the tea is given away, it isn't. England is paying you in ships, British Pounds, and possibly the capital to get started. The price of silver was going up. England was on the gold standard, so it needed to buy its silver from other countries. In theory, it would just be simpler for England to pay you in pounds, get all of your silver from opium sales, spend it all on tea, and keep your income and expenses for Pounds and silver separate to avoid exchange fees, which were much greater than then now.
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either way guys England traded illegal flowers to China for silver to buy Tea THEY SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR THE USE OF DRUG MONEY
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I always get to the final couple years and can't seem to buy tea fast enough. It would be really nice to have amounts larger than 30 crates. You have to push that button a lot to get 400/500 crates of tea. Love the game though! Addicting... like opium and tea.
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It would be helpful if we could see what our tea goal is, not just how angry people are. I really like this concept, but I just can't tell weather I'm winning or losing. Also why do we lose our job when Britain's mood is *high*? Shouldn't low mood be bad instead? Or maybe rename the meter 'anger' instead of 'mood'?
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I like the graphics and the sounds - very smooth - but I'm having serious trouble telling tea chests from opium chests and especially buying from selling. The first several hands I played I thought I was buying stock, and was waiting for the lowest price. This game has real potential, but when doing a triangle trade, it really, really needs to be clearer than "X crates for Y money."
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Developer should do same game based on the mexican war, would be a world success lol. Vote up if you agree. P.D. Great game 5/5.
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If you think you're giving away free tea, you're not. You're just pocketing the profits of your shipments. For example, let's say you sell 600 billion cups of tea. Sell each cup at 1 pence net profit, that makes 290 million pounds profit. That's 21.3 billion pounds in today's prices! Sadly, the Chinese only bartered in silver, and Britain wasn't going to open its treasury and give its silver to anyone, least of all China. In other words, your opium/tea business will be worth more than the software empire of Bill Gates (80 billion USD), but you can't use your profits to get any more silver coins. I think something the developers didn't think of is that just because you have to spend your silver coins on tea, doesn't mean you have to spend silver coins on opium as well. Allowing the use of English currency to buy opium would have added an extra layer of complexity and common sense to the game AND lowered the difficulty a little. It'd also show you you're actually making money. Sigh -_-
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So... I have to spend silver to get opium to get silver to get tea to give it away to increase Britain's tea demands to lose money to try to get more to get risky deals to lose my boats to lose good opium deals to lose tea to lose British tea demands to lose business. In other words, you've screwed yourself from the very minute you enter the tea business.
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You guys feeling angry about getting robbed by the British? Free tea? Risky opium? Ridiculous tea demands? Congrats, you comprehend about 1% of the Chinese rage at Britain when it actually did get China addicted to opium.
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How is it that England has to pay me 0 for tea? I also can't sell my ships when I need to, and that aggravates me. Can't you make it to where England actually PAYS you for your work, AND you can sell your ships whenever? It would make this not so... impossible and frustrating. Even IF I get close to the end, I never even get CLOSE to 80mil for the badge, let a lone finish it.
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In hectic times, having the "being caught dealing" popup hinders with open deals. Whatever choice you pick, the "fade out" is in the way of being able to click on a deal waiting to be accepted. Even if for a slight moment it is too much and during a chaotic amount of trade going going on, every unnecessary hindrance is too much. This GUI look-and-feel "feature" is in the way of gameplay, please fix it.
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It would be better if the speed of the buying opium and tea would be the same.. not the tea slower.... it's a major disadvantage..
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Yea but what exactly Polirocetic you mean?I have to be prepared when the tea ship arrive or what exactly you mean saying quicker serving?