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    Just curious to know if there is realy a way to corner the market. You hear rumeors there is but how do you do it. I f you would explain it to someone who dont have a master degree in economics please.......

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    Haha, this question has been on my mind since I began playing. This is the first I've heard anyone else mention it though.

    Maybe it's just because I'm still a fairly new player on a new server, but I just can't see it happening. There's simply too many players producing too much resources, spread evenly across the board. Even if you got a whole bunch of alliances together and formed a cartel, you couldn't really make a sizable dent on the market, and that's assuming nobody "cheats", which will inevitably happen given the total anonymity of the market.

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    I've tried it with stone on a few servers for kicks. Yesterday night I spent 2 billion gold on my server trying to drive up stone prices. I had mixed results; someone online noticed my attempt and offloaded about a billion stone on the market for a cheap price, causing me to buy that up instead of older offers on the market. I think I did manage to drive the average buying and selling prices up by 0.3, though. And that was with one city, had I bothered to do it with my other 6 cities I might've succeeded in causing a more drastic price-hike.
    Last edited by Alusair; 11-23-2009 at 05:22 AM.
    It's all Rodri's fault.

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    Erm... yeah, take a look at Server N1. Someone crashed the market and the following day drove prices up so high that its stopped many people from being able to build as many troops. Average prices: 130 for food, 240 for lumber, 5 for stone, and 270 for iron. People now use gold to protect their food instead of huge stone reserves. Ridiculous. Of course I'm not going to detail how it was most likely done... coz its screwed over the entire server, and I wouldn't wish that on the other 100+.

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