NPC enforced "futures" for market

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 09.06.2009, 20:05

I'm new to the game, but I see no way to recall a market position. It seems one of the reasons a billion units of something sits on the market at 1000x the actual active pricing areas.

Would you consider "killing" old positions, 6 months or so, as a sort of "futures expiration"? If you take a position in a commodities market in the real world, and the market moves against you, you lose at delivery/expiration time. This would keep the mega-corps more honest, and clean up some of the crap.

Again, I'm pretty new at this game, so if these things happen, well...a Kapi-pedia would probably have told me that.
Great sim/game. Love it already. Thanks.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 09.06.2009, 20:23

The Admins go through different areas of the market every now and then to clean them up. There is no use for this.

P.S. A lot of the "over priced" products are either contest products/old contest products or Special Building products. People usually don't tend to sell Pears for 500c for example.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 10.06.2009, 16:44

Thanks for responding, Azer.

Does that mean contests are only for the oldest, richest players? I don't really get the use of them for any other than the "ultra-elite". I also don't understand why large units of over-priced stuff form "old" contests would still be stuck on the market?

Forgive my naivete, I have only been playing a few days. I can use all the help I can get.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 10.06.2009, 16:53

Contests are good for small players as producers of contest products, and yes competing in contests is for richer players.
As a small company you sell your contestproduct for a much higher price then you usually would.
But sometimes there is an oversupply on the market and not everything gets sold, so after the contest is over, some companies get stuck with for example 50000 Q1 coffeepowder for 500 each.

To buy it back would be expensive and kind of useless because even though you don't loose the money to buy it back, you do loose the 10% marketfee you have to pay to put your stuff on the market.
So I guess they hope there will be another contest with the same product or they just hope some idiot will buy it or they just don't care and leave it there.