Re: Trading problem

Bruce Glassco (bglassco@mscfs.edu)
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:11:34 -0800

>At 9:02 AM -0600 on 3/11/97, Mark Hendrickson wrote:
>
>
>> Gentlemen:
>>
>> The rules state that:
>>
>> "When the tradegood ceases to be sold in the originating
>> city, the purchasing city will also remove the item from
>> its purchase list, thus making room for another tradegood
>> to be bought."
>>
>> So you go ahead & find a commodity, buy it all, & then you can't sell any
>> of it b/c it's no longer for sale in the original city? Do you need to buy
>> all but one & hope nobody else buys it? This seems silly, if I've
>> understood this right.
>>
>
>But also notice that you have 24-36 months to use this trade route.
>
>Perhaps there should be a little more time between then the original city
>stops selling, and for the demand to die down in the final city.
>But all in all, your making a huge profit with each trip, you can stand
>to lose one load.
>
>You can always find a new traderoute and start all over again.

I think the point of the original question misunderstood that
tradegoods continue to be sold in cities every turn for 24-36 months. This
is unlike G1, where they were only available once per year.

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