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I find it weird that I just started learning about the Imperialistic Age in Asia and this game just pops up into my life.
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After many failed attempts, i finally won. The hard badge isn't actually all that hard to achieve. once i had finished the game, my score was 120m. Key is to spam buy tea throughout the entire game, Under $50/crate is a bonus. great game and glad I've finally beaten it
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Loved the game, and I think most people's complaints are unreasonable; to those who are complaining, chances are that you suck. I played twice, for a total of 15 minutes to beat the game. That was probably the easiest 50 points of my Kongregate career, so stop complaining about the difficulty, it is fine; you are just not doing it right.
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Okay, great game and all, but for some reason I've got a glitch? My game won't end. Right now I have 1060 crates of tea, 144 crates of opium, 4031 silver, the ship is 'Due in 1 week' for a few years now (yes, I'm in 1839 and it says 'last shipment'). I've forfeited all my ships to see if it would work, but it doesn't.
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man, i had 58 mil, not bad. why im posting is i had crates of tea sold and had 420 billion cups of tea drunk... they really WERE addicted... you think maybe they were putting opium in the tea or something? these people ate, drank, slept, breathed, and deficated tea. but they didn't reuse the deficated tea. thats just gross. they do now though. a clever rename: de-caffinated.
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i've played this game about 10 times. the learning curve is steep, and no matter what i do, no matter how the game favors me, i simply run out of time. all i would need is another 30 seconds during 5 different games (in 1837). i keep getting angrier and angrier. i will rate this game as a good one when i have actually beat it.
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Very nice economics-themed game. The tea is basically payment to the british to cover your ass smuggling drugs in China sea. I mean, imagine if there were pirates plundering you while at sea, then you get also get caught once you land in a port.
Up to the peak of the opium trade, they really did buy (both tea & opium) at sky-high prices, just to get their fix. That's addiction for you. :P
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It's a good, fun game, don't get me wrong, but a few key changes could make it a great game instead of a good game. Either slow everything down, get rid of the cooldown for buying things or at the very least allow us to buy more at a time. It takes weeks comparing the cooldown of buying tea to how long passes in the game and I'm not even sure if you can buy enough tea to fulfill the later orders if you don't have a huge stockpile going into the order.
You have no chance of buying low and selling high if you can only get 120 crates before prices skyrocket. Later in the game if you wait just a bit too long to buy all your tea for the shipments then you'll end up losing because it won't cool down quick enough. And I know you should be buying tea nearly constantly, but when opium and tea prices are high, and every port is being watched so it's nearly guaranteed that you're going to lose your ship and opium on any deal it's a little difficult to get things done.
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I like this game alot, you have to be aware and use strategy to make it far in the game. Not many games make you think like that. 5/5
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easy as .it does not matter the opium buy price as long as you sell it for more.i.e. you can buy at 80silver and sell at 85silver its still a profit.do this the entire game and you have enough money buy last tea shipment to pay any amount for the tea
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Yay 80,083,512 =D Just made it. Didn't like the game very much, but I was very focused when playing, meaning I was very into it. 4/5
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BRUTALIZED IT got caught first time i played then second time got all three achievements and you shoulda had monty pythons spam sketch audio play for the final shipment cause all you do is rampantly click ports til you get enough tea and sell enough opium
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w00t won :) great game and for the people who wonder why buy and give away tea for free I have three theories:
1. You were supplied ships by some company(or the country) and your job was to smuggle opium and in return you had to supply them with free tea so they could make money.
2.You are trying to keep the British people from rage-killing the Chinese for as long as you can so you can make money, so you simply give them free tea to keep them happy.
3.The game makers made you have some money sink so the game would be slightly more challenging then just buy low sell high and virtually no way to lose
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haha this game was fun :) Ended with 126.430.410 score.
In the end you were just spamming trade points and buying stuff, no matter the cost.
4/5 from me
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YES! I WIN THANKS TO :
"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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"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."
TL;DR: Dont worry about making a profit, just make sure you can buy enough to sell. Profit doesn't matter in the end. My score: 137,098,120
Also, don't buy more than once without buying the other or clicking a trade route.
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Oh my god. I bought 15 more tea which would have put me at 365/360. It literally said tea loaded. but I was a split second too late. Still a great game though.
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I hate how its relative to how much you have- for making bribes it makes sense, butnot market price. I had about 20,000 silver coins, so prices for both tea and opium stayed around 40-50 coins per chest. It became a cycle of me not buying at outrageous prices and them no going down, until I ran out of opium, and then money.
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Just buy and sell as much as you can as fast as you can, just keep track of prices to make sure you make a profit. It is rough in the beginning, but you'll start to build up a huge profit to work with when you need it: several 10,000s. I was buying tea and opium all the time. For most orders I had more than enough tea stockpiled before the English ship came back with the next order, except at the end which was a little close... damn tea prices went up in the 80s, and even though I had plenty of money to keep buying, it is the principal of the thing. Ended with 119million points.
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I just got the first badge! :D It's really one of those decent games I'd give a 3/5 to, like JSilvis said, it is really fast paced. Also like Ohimesama said, you should get money when you meet the orders-not just ships -.-...-Dentasi
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This gane is awesome. I love the concept. I'd love to see a different version based on the same principle, but with improvements made based on the suggestions given in these comments (some are very good ideas). 5/5.
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this need an option to buy more tea at once, I had money, just lose because it was to much slow to buy 30 crates at a time
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King "Oh, we appear to have ran out of Earl Gray tea, what a quandry!"
Commander "I'd say! There's no more tea smoke to fill my monacle, it appears we're gonna have to invade China once more"
King "Good luck out there champ"
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121,337,440! I think the trick is not in clicking the same buy button 3 times in a row. Make sure to send a ship out or buy something else every so often. That prevents the game from thinking you're on a buying frenzy, even though you're still buying without rest. Still heavily dependent on luck though, since your buying power is based on how low opium prices are and how high you can sell them safely.