Cornering the commodity market

[Cavalry]

Originally posted by Petrus



Now the manual says that slaves will increase the value of cotton and I compared the current price to my notes. There was no substantial change. Same for the price of slaves.

From the game demand & supply screen, I see: " The DEMAND of cotton will increase when more good manufactories are built and more CLOTH provinces are colonized" and "DEMAND of slave increases when there are more Cotton, sugar, tobacco provinces colonized"

Demands & supplies min at 50% and max at 200%.

So if you want COTTON price go up first, it is hard. And at the beginning slave is redundant, so it is cheap too.

Try fur, it is simpler. I played as Russia and see my fur income and fur price go up a long time. Then I have too much fur provinces in Siberia that fur price begin fall.

But I think this kind of economy don't sound much. No matter price will fall or increase, we will colonize them anyway.

 

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It seems that the large problem here is that there is no specific information on exactly what factors will influence the supply and deand. I know the manual has been dragged thru the mud so often that I will resist the urge. Still, a little more explination would be nice.