| tymantyman (White Giant) | Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 04:57 pm 
My country has 30 corps (currently 28 recommended) and I was up to about 60 rating in defense.
Since my new user gifts stopped last month I have been hemorrhaging money. I attempted to raise taxes / profit sharing, but that just caused the corps to start loosing money. I have lower Social Security, but that doesn't appear to do much. Since I didn't have enough defenses to deactivate any weapons I finally decided to sell all of them as I was already a trillion in loans.
I sold the last of my defenses just now, and even after that looking at my monthly finances it looks like I should be around a profit or loss of 1 billion a month, which basically means I will not be going anywhere fast.
Any recommendations on what to do? My real $ to play will run out soon, if im not going to be getting anywhere I highly doubt I will renew. |
| Pathetic Sheep (White Giant) | Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 06:53 pm
You need CEO corporations. |
| Stuart Taylor (Little Upsilon) | Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 11:05 pm
Agreed. You need to invite CEO's to buy your state owned corps. To help entice them, set your tax rate to 0%. I know this sounds a silly thing to do, but the CEO's pay you money for products which they have to buy from you. You make cash from them that way.
It is reletively easy to get to level 2 to earn those 100GC, so do this, and build your defencive (not offensive or strategic) weapons to help you reach that target. Build your transport system beyond what it reccomends, and do the same with hospitals and schools - provided you have enough workers that is. Building beyond the reccomended levels will make it easier for you the acheive levels 3 and 4 after that.
A lot of new players go to invade a C3 as soon as they can. This is a mistake. You need to make sure your main is making a profit before you expand your empire. If you take a C3 before you are ready, this just causes more headaches when it comes to levelling up.
Joining a reputable federation would also help as there are many experienced players in them who would be more than willing to help train you.
If you need any further advice, please don't hesitate to contact me. Just click my name to the left of this message and I will reply to you as soon as I can. |
| Lolosaurus (White Giant) | Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 12:29 am
Your single biggest problem here is that your corporations are not making much money. This is due to the fact that you are paying too much money for supplies.
- Go to your corporation page and set your supplies quality to 190 for all of your corporations. While you're at it, go to your automation settings page and set quality to 100 for products your country (not corporations - country) needs.
- Cancel all of your corporation contracts. In general, contracts are evil, nasty things that undermine your economy.
Those two steps will help a lot. As previously mentioned, private corps are generally a bit better than state corps so take their advice and either invite some CEOs in or set up your own CEO. |
| Pathetic Sheep (White Giant) | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 07:30 pm
It should help to raise your "profit transfer" to 95% and regularly go to "profit, cash, and debt" and boost all your corporations to $75B.
Don't expect CEOs to notice. Send them a direct e-mail and point out the free cash and 0% tax rate. You can also post in the "monthly 0% country" thread.
You can also increase salaries. The best rate varies by product. But most of the salary comes right back as taxes. Corporations productivity goes up when salaries go up. Some corporations can pay very high salaries and not lose any money. That means your country gains a lot. |
| Pathetic Sheep (White Giant) | Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 07:32 pm
You can also decrease government salaries. Make sure the automation is off. |
