Trade contracts within my own enterprise, if so how? (Golden Rainbow)

I'm not seeing any options to be able to create trade contracts between my enterprises corporations. I can make one from one of my enterprises corporations to my countries corporations but not between my own enterprises corporations. Is this possible, if so how?

a) Common Market / Contracts / Offer..
b) zero out/fill in quantities
c) Common Market / Contracts / Accept..
d) "accept local market contracts only"
e) Confirm to update data
f) (optional) go to Corps./ Contracts / Accept or Cancel and look at the pleasing scroll of green..

Thank you, I think I did it right, other than line b. of your instructions. How do I know what quantities to put in, or to zero out?

Also is this the same exact method to trade within the corporations when in country mode?

Suppose you want to devote half the production of Llama Farms International (and/or other corps, but not all of them) to your internal market, and it culls a million llamas a month, then put in.. um.. (gets calculator..)

If, however, you want to intermarry 50% of *all* corps production, use the percentage box at the bottom instead. Make sure bits of offers aren't left floating in the air at the end, and that "offered" and "accepted" are the same.

Were I a cynical vet, I would say the answer to question 2 can be deduced by experiment. As it is, I shall just say Yes.

PS - I've just seen that you've launched a poll to.. er.. "improve" a system that you do not know and are asking for help about. This will have the 'thou shalt not' newbiehaters spinning in their graves, and I can't honestly say I blame them.

Yeah I did launch that poll however it's still valid, in that I want more information provided on the pages of trading so that I don't have to open up multiple browser windows to get the information.

If I understand you right, I can choose a percentage (guesswork) or I can enter a specific number (opening multiple browser windows to get that information and jumping back and forth between corps) so the poll would still be valid since Im asking that more information be provided in the systems that are in place regardless which system a person uses.

Okay, thats about the poll comment, and I've got my flameproof suit on so I won't get burnt any.

Now, thank you for the additional information it is appreciated greatly.

Kamidan

If you want to cover all bases, simply max the offer (100%). If there is only demand/take-up for, say 73%, then confirm the 73% so the remaining 27% isn't left hanging. No need for either guesswork or multiple browsers. In another couple of weeks of playing, you will have answered for yourself many of your own questions.

I was concerned about trying (what I wrote below and crossed out) as I didn't want to have to redo all my contracts between my country and my enterprise but went ahead and took the plunge and apparently it does work the same when they are both in the same common market it set up trades between them.


Thanks again, one more question on this subject if you don't mind.

Since I have a country and an enterprise and have yet to find a common market to join I've created oen myself and now both my enterprise and my country are part of this common market.

If in step D. I change it to be accept local and common market contracts, will this set up automatic trades between my enterprise and my country? Or do those have to be manually entered?

Once again, my thanks for your time helping a noob.

I've only been playing a month - us noobs must stick together. I've never played a better game apart from chess, nor one in which new players are treated with such apathy and disdain (with a few honourable exceptions, I should add). Hopefully our whispered conversation in this peaceful morgue will one day help a newbie who is as yet unborn.

SC is based entirely on supply-side economics - consumers have been completely left out of the equation, as have the social and political consequences of rich countries selling their citizens crap. Quality is a poisoned chalice, which goes round and round like pass-the-parcel. In RL, companies bite your hands off for steady local contracts, but in SC they do not pay, for the reason given above. To try and compensate for this, somewhat ineffectual brownie points are awarded instead. More brownie points are given for local than for common. With practice, all contracts can be cancelled and redone in under a minute, so don't worry about that.

Is there a way to automatically have market commitment follow demand in the local/common market, or do I have to set it manually after every new company?

Nope, it's not automatic, but neither do you need to do that much after each new corp. Suppose you want to commit 40% to a given market, but the actual take-up after the first round is (say) 23%, 0%, 16% etc. etc. You can either 'seal off' those amounts by zeroing everything and confirming, or just leave the offers open. Then, when you acquire a new corp, just 'accept ( local/common) offers' and if the new corp is interested in the remaining stuff on offer, it will grab as much as it wants up to the 40%.