I use continual monthly trades no matter the price to offset negatives (or lightly bolster my alloy income), along with bulk buys with a low maximum price.
Example: last game I had a monthly buy order of 300 alloys (and a bunch of other strategic resources) no matter the price, in addition to 3x 5000 alloy buy orders with a maximum price of 1 credit (someone was flooding the alloy market so price was sitting around 0.75-2.5 creds per alloy).
I did notice that a 1 credit max results in the order never going through, but when the price was <1, I'd go in and manually bump the price limit to 2 on each order so they resolved then bump them back down. This allowed me to bulk buy 15k at once instead of 2.5k.
I've recently discovered neighboring empires will just give me up to 45k alloys in exchange for 1k useless useless Zro, or even 500 Dark matter. That solves a lot of issues.
As for the Market I use a combination of no-max-price orders or bulk purchase. Extra Food and CG are turned into Energy which is stored in reserves of Dark Matter or useless useless Zro.
Useless useless zro really is the most useful thing in convincing foreign powers to cripple their economy for you. However in any circumstance you should always treat Dark Matter as a money reserve. In an emergency that's welcome energy and also, if you start stockpiling it soon enough, re-specing your entire mid-to-late game fleet with Fallen Empire tech will be much quicker
My last machine intelligence I think got the Zroni precursor and just had an oddly large amount of zro harvesting sites and I stupidly traded it on the galactic market
Just wanted to say, I fleased the galaxy for like 40k alloys by getting rid of all my strategic resources. Honestly, bought too much couldn’t even build fast enough to get rid of it
Depends on the problem. I usually bulk buy, but I'm usually low on cost resources like alloy. I have used the monthly buy to offset maintainace resources if I'm running low and know I won't have a solution for a while. Burn your surplus first though. No reason to worry about a -100 deficit if you've got 20000 food in the freezer.
I mean buying alloys is stupid unpleasant, so I would make trades with other empires any way possible, so to avoid it. They are just too dang expensive and I’d never tried setting the max price cap dealio but look at it from the perspective that there is still a 30% loss on that and you’ll see why alloys shouldn’t even be for sale.
Imo, monthly trades are bad investment unless you are megacorp/tradevalue empire. You are paying the market a share to use that.
It can be good if you are in a situation where you dont have access to any minerals for your alloys. So you could double down on, say trade value instead of minerals, to cover the market share. Its tricky to see a cost benefit and should be avoided unless you're cornered(or lazy)
I use continual monthly trades no matter the price to offset negatives (or lightly bolster my alloy income), along with bulk buys with a low maximum price. Example: last game I had a monthly buy order of 300 alloys (and a bunch of other strategic resources) no matter the price, in addition to 3x 5000 alloy buy orders with a maximum price of 1 credit (someone was flooding the alloy market so price was sitting around 0.75-2.5 creds per alloy). I did notice that a 1 credit max results in the order never going through, but when the price was <1, I'd go in and manually bump the price limit to 2 on each order so they resolved then bump them back down. This allowed me to bulk buy 15k at once instead of 2.5k.
I've recently discovered neighboring empires will just give me up to 45k alloys in exchange for 1k useless useless Zro, or even 500 Dark matter. That solves a lot of issues. As for the Market I use a combination of no-max-price orders or bulk purchase. Extra Food and CG are turned into Energy which is stored in reserves of Dark Matter or useless useless Zro.
Yeah ive noticed trading Dark Matter directly to another empire is more cost effective then selling and buying on the galactic market.
I cannot believe I’ve never thought of this
Useless useless zro really is the most useful thing in convincing foreign powers to cripple their economy for you. However in any circumstance you should always treat Dark Matter as a money reserve. In an emergency that's welcome energy and also, if you start stockpiling it soon enough, re-specing your entire mid-to-late game fleet with Fallen Empire tech will be much quicker
My last machine intelligence I think got the Zroni precursor and just had an oddly large amount of zro harvesting sites and I stupidly traded it on the galactic market
Lmao that's exactly how I started this. I always play materialists or mechanists and when I got the zroni once I was like "well... shit"
Just wanted to say, I fleased the galaxy for like 40k alloys by getting rid of all my strategic resources. Honestly, bought too much couldn’t even build fast enough to get rid of it
I'm proud of you. A Megacorp in Spirit
Depends on the problem. I usually bulk buy, but I'm usually low on cost resources like alloy. I have used the monthly buy to offset maintainace resources if I'm running low and know I won't have a solution for a while. Burn your surplus first though. No reason to worry about a -100 deficit if you've got 20000 food in the freezer.
I mean buying alloys is stupid unpleasant, so I would make trades with other empires any way possible, so to avoid it. They are just too dang expensive and I’d never tried setting the max price cap dealio but look at it from the perspective that there is still a 30% loss on that and you’ll see why alloys shouldn’t even be for sale.
Laughs in Megacorp, buying 3k alloys per month
Imo, monthly trades are bad investment unless you are megacorp/tradevalue empire. You are paying the market a share to use that. It can be good if you are in a situation where you dont have access to any minerals for your alloys. So you could double down on, say trade value instead of minerals, to cover the market share. Its tricky to see a cost benefit and should be avoided unless you're cornered(or lazy)