| rep (Little Upsilon) | Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 06:29 am 
Question for the veterans out there:
When deciding the type of new corp to build I pay close attention to the factory utilization chart. I compare max capacity to current demand and choose to build corps which have high demand and significant underage in max capacity.
In the past couple game months there has been an explosion of max capacity and there are very few corp types left with a reasonable shot at quick profitability.
Has everyone on LU gone on a building spree or does the GM every once in a while pump in a load of C3 corps?
Thanks. |
| Crafty (Little Upsilon) | Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 06:38 am
Good question.
I too have noticed a very large increase in the amount of corps for each type, most all types as far as I can tell. In my opinion far too many corps have appeared for it to be the work of one or two players, we are talking hundreds in one or two game months.
Just be a bit patient Rep, I feel sure that things will come back to the expected supply and demand situation before too long, this sort of thing does happen regularly. |
| Lou Cyphre (Little Upsilon) | Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 11:17 am
I have not observed the whole market, but I do have a stake in production plant marked, and I dear to say it has had an explosive growth. An production increase from 40 to 130 plants world wide on LU.
that means about 203 corps are added every second day. |
| warfreak (White Giant) | Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 03:06 pm
It isn't LU that is getting it. On WG, I've seen a big oversupply in products. A few days (real), Elementary and High School supply jumped up, mostly with a large jump in corps being built for it, and some asset stripping.
What the people building the corps don't realise is that suddenly increasing supply so much, price drops like a hammer, corps start closing again. Then it is back to normal.
My current approach to building corps is basically to build out my corps. I try to avoid having too many of the same corps. So for my main country, I have all the types (except space), so defence, argiculture, food, industry, high tech, govt, etc. It minimises this sort of thing from happening. I mean, I know investing a lot of FMU, oil, gasoline is safe, but if something like that hits a big green spell, I'm relatively safe. A while back, WG had a long green period for oil, but I was able to keep that corp alive with my other mining corps (gas, wood, stone, potassium). |
| rep (Little Upsilon) | Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 06:13 pm
Wow. Just checked things out again here on LU, and this month there were mass closings. About 2/3 of the things that were way over capacity are now just about even or even under capacity.
Demand stayed in the ballpark, so it had to be corp closings.
Crafty, how right you were. I'm breathing a bit easier now. I contract my corps out completely to my country, then manually sell them on world trade. If everything went green for a long time I'd be forced into Greek-style austerity and they'd be rioting in the streets!
Warfreak, your method is the smart way to go. If you're diversified there's usually going to be some corps making money, and that can carry you through any down turns. |
| alan watt (White Giant) | Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 06:47 pm
warfreak that is my approach too. I try to have one of everything even remotely worthwhile, then build some more oil, gas, HTS, etc. Here on WG most everything is in short supply and sells easily, name your price. I have seen Oil and other biggies plunge for long periods though.
Plus it's more interesting than looking at a dozen each of oil and gasoline. |
