What is the best way to make money (Little Upsilon)

I was wondering what the best thing was for my country to make money?

Make more corporation of the profitable sort.


That is pretty much all there is too it.

Invite CEOs. Screw building your own.

Better still, start your own CEO and use to to populate your country with corps. Learn to IPO, and the world's your oyster

Hugs and respect

Jo

ASK PLAYER ANDY. HE WILL GIVE OUT SEVERAL TRILLIONS OF SIM $$$$$$$$$$$$$

Income from corporations is very limited.

Real money is in market trading, farming C3's, accepting bribes, collecting protection money etc

Steal it.

Hello. I've been playing off and on for a couple of months now and have tried to get this game down to where it's fun and enjoyable to play. I am a premium member and have 2 countries, one being a slave. I've read the beginner, general and white giant forums as well as striking out on my own. Some observations i've made and situations i've encountered leave me scratching my head.

First off, without money you are nothing in this game, nothing at all. So... I tried making some. I've built corps up only to have them destroyed by earthquakes. I've built them up again as state corps because i'm not paying 30 gc's every month to start an enterprise. In an effort to find out which type of corp is more profitable i've gone public with a few and played with profit sharing and taxes. I've had 80% taxes and 10% profit sharing and vice versa. I've had common markets going and have seen my "game score" sore to new heights doing so only to see my money vanish in a blink of an eye. I've learned having a high "game score means absolutely nothing at all.

Taking your corps and selling to your own country and your own corps is great to get a new corp going for a few years, but I find that as your quality of product rises you eventually have to stop buying your own products or you go broke. Sure it helps you sell for more, but you go broke. So, I only buy from my corps if the quality is under 175 or so. Selling on the open market is the only way to go unless you can sell to your neighbor and they don't notice your super jacked up prices.

Turning corps public is still bewildering to me as I don't notice any difference in the profit they make at all. I don't notice an infusion of cash when I sell shares either so that is confusing as you're suppose to see some if you sell in corp info.

Having a enterprise would be great if I wanted to spend 30 gc's every month for the addition beside your one empire. : ( That is sad and I won't do it.

I've found out how to drive private corps out of your country and how to get them in as well. But during this whole process I just can't make any money having a democratic government with a president.

Having hospitals, special clinics, back to work university's for your people is the most draining thing next to a military that sucks the cash from your coffers. But if the peeps aint happy then no one moves in. I've experimented allot and come up with a good idea on the game but don't care for the cash draining pull the game has on you so you are forced to buy cg's for things you may need.

Adjusting the automation and settings has all been done and still....EVEN with corps that all make money, having no military, never needing to buy allot of country supplies for the people my country still looses money and I'm getting tired of it. Playing around with the slave state allot has taught me some things, but without dumping money into the game it's ridiculous.

The bugs with the game kill me and i get tired of having to reset my trade strategies every month, since the auto sticks you back to -10% of you quality. Any help from the experienced players out there on the best corporation models would sure be a help. I'd love to be my own ceo but i'm not spending the exta gc's to do it. : ( Unless I can get back the 30 a month it'd cost meh.

Anyway, that's my observation so far.

Cheers,
Redman

Alot of experienced players have already given many ways to be profitable. The number one way for your country to be profitable with least amount you have to do is CEO companies. The amount of money your country will get from the company far out weighs what you would get versus a state corp. Even if you dont want to buy a ceo. Get CEO's in your countries and maximize them. You will need lower taxes to get people to move there companies to your country. As for going public your company wont be more profitable by just being a public company. A Public CEO company will have higher quality and eff maxed at 225. A true public company will be more profitable then a ceo with quality and eff maxed at 250. In order to have a true public company controlling share must be no more then 24.99% Still for your country you want a CEO controlled true public company.

By the way the 200 quality and eff for state and 225 quality and eff for CEO's is across the board doesnt matter if its Public or not

How to do it, Crafty?

I think the GMS would be wise to give some strong consideration to to Redman's frustrations. It is an honest, non-biased review of this game. If SimCountry could eliminate some of the issues he laid out this game would surpass where it used to be. If not, those issues he laid out could very well be the catalyst for another recession in SimCountry.

Agreed- everything I own is losing money and I'll be f*cked if I have to add more coins just to keep my countries afloat- I'd rather leave the game which is a real option right now.
SC, thank your lucky stars a new version of SimCity hasn't been released, because I would be outta here so fast.

build good companies like service, High tech and power there are some ind ones too
build ones that stay red all the time
max upgrades
control spending
I am a war type country that makes my own companies
and reliable make 50 to 60B in each country
buy nuclear sell electric when prices are profitable
and try to do the same thing basically with other stuff
either buy and wait or move it to another world you own
I like the second way
get rid of green supply companies
run up ssi, health, trans, and edu so you have 130 welfare rating
don't build companies building if ou don't have workers
as for Simcity I would like a new version too
heck I would not mind if Maxis stays take this parternship and stick it to EA

ive been having success with state corps in my commie society ive been setting up setting your trading strategy is hugely important building the right corps is key so you can demand rediculus mark up on your goods and get it in a reasonably timeframe

most important thing is to remember nothing happens overnight making small steps and patience is important

@ Crafty and raging pencil: Roflmao!

Lol, what! Crafty and Raging pencil. That's all I have to say. After I read the above message Maclean Blue. Nice one.