Quelye

Those two have been steadily increasing, and I think they'll continue to do so as the active players get larger and we have less smaller nations producing the resources. Market Trends 10/13/14 Market Index: $6,993 (-$52) 1) Aluminum: $1,358 (-$24) 2) Steel: $1,274 (+$16) 3) Uranium: $876 (-$1) 4) Bauxite: $801 (-$18) 5) Gasoline: $796 (-$7) 6) Coal: $547 (+$23) 7) Munitions: $476 (-$40) 8) Oil: $301 (-$4) 9) Iron: $244 (+$4) 10) Lead: $214 (-$4) 11) Food: $106 (+$2) Notes Another drop today in the market, the overall market index shot down another 52 points. The aluminum industry seems to be suffering, either from too much supply or too little demand. Both bauxite and aluminum have dropped considerably. Steel is still in high demand. The price of steel has increased and coal and iron have increased along with it. Food is the only other resource not to have taken a loss today, with an increase of $2. Like I said, I'm predicting food to continue rising so if you need to stock up, the sooner the better. I don't forecast it going lower anytime soon.

There is a GDP already:

Market Trends 10/13/14 Market Index: $7,045 (-$107) 1) Aluminum: $1,382 (-$8) 2) Steel: $1,258 (-$42) 3) Uranium: $877 (-$2) 4) Bauxite: $819 (-$25) 5) Gasoline: $803 (-$5) 6) Coal: $523 (+$14) 7) Munitions: $516 (-$24) 8) Oil: $305 (+$1) 9) Iron: $240 (+$1) 10) Lead: $218 (-$18) 11) Food: $104 (+$4) Notes Not a good market day, the overall index dropped by $107. Most resources dropped except for Coal, which passed Munitions for the #6 spot. Again, I recommend you buy Munitions. Food continues to trend upward, and I predict it will only keep increasing. Buy it now while it's low.

There's a really neat graph included in the game on this page: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/trade/history/ You can click on each individual resource to see just it's price history over the last month or so. Market Trends 10/11/14 Market Index: $7,152 (-$55) 1) Aluminum: $1,390 (+12) 2) Steel: $1,300 (+$9) 3) Uranium: $879 (-$30) 4) Bauxite: $834 (-$22) 5) Gasoline: $807 (-$8) 6) Munitions: $540 (-$47) 7) Coal: $509 (+$16) 8) Oil: $304 (-$9) 9) Iron: $239 (+$13) 10) Lead: $236 (-$1) 11) Food: $100 (+$2) Notes Iron passed Lead for the #9 spot on the market. Overall the market took a hit, the index dropped $55 today. The top two resources, aluminum and steel increased by about $10 each though, and I'm not seeing anything that would indicate them losing value anytime soon. I'd say if you need those resources, the sooner you can buy them the better, as I'm predicting in a few months they'll be $3,000+ each. Munitions and Uranium both took a big hit today, and I'm predicting they'll keep dropping. Until there's a war we won't see much demand for munitions, and until there's nations big enough for nuclear power plants we won't see much demand for uranium either. Coal continues to rise in value, and while I think it's near its peak I think it still might be a good time to get on the train and produce Coal. It's got a lot of value as both an energy resource and a component for steel.

Market Trends 10/10/14 Market Index: $7,207 (-$9) 1) Aluminum: $1,378 (+$37) 2) Steel: $1,291 (+$1) 3) Uranium: $909 (-$3) 4) Bauxite: $856 (-$2) 5) Gasoline: $815 (-$7) 6) Munitions: $587 (-$35) 7) Coal: $493 (+14) 8) Oil: $313 (-$27) 9) Lead: $237 (+4) 10) Iron: $226 (-$2) 11) Food: $98 (+$5) Notes Oil and Munitions took a significant drop, and the overall Market Index is still declining. Aluminum had a good day, jumping up $37, our biggest increase. Coal is the other notable mention, increasing $14. Munitions are incredibly cheap right now. I'd say buy up while you can -- they likely won't stay this low for long and once they increase in price they're going to stay high. Hell, invest lots of money into them now and then sell them when the price is higher for a short term investment. Food is increasing, but it's still relatively cheap. I'd say food is a buy right now before prices get any higher.

Sheepy had a good idea in one of his announcements about doing a daily market trends post, kind of like how the alliance rankings are run. I'm going to try this out and try to keep it updated regularly. Market Trends 10/9/14 Market Index: $7,216 (-$42) 1) Aluminum: $1,341 (-$8) 2) Steel: $1,290 (-$8) 3) Uranium: $912 (-$8) 4) Bauxite: $858 (+$2) 5) Gasoline: $822 (+$1) 6) Munitions: $622 (-$15) 7) Coal: $479 (+$5) 8) Oil: $340 (-$2) 9) Lead: $233 (+3) 10) Iron: $226 (-$2) 11) Food: $93 (-$10) Notes Not a very good day for the market compared to yesterday, the overall market index dropped by .58%. It's a small, but not insignificant drop. Manufactured resources all took a drop except for gasoline, which suggests that perhaps supply is outpacing demand for Aluminum, Steel, and Munitions. Aluminum is the highest resource on the market, and bauxite -- which is used to make aluminum -- is the 4th highest. Right now looks like a good time to be making Bauxite/Aluminum. Food took a big drop, it's down $10 from yesterday. Buy it while prices are low, right now production is high and demand is low, but as more nations shift into commerce mode the demand for food will increase significantly. I wouldn't be surprised if it averages $150/unit by the end of the year.

Interesteing, another new alliance. How fares things for the Scottish Imperial thus far?

Small inactive alliances are killing color bonuses (look at Red). If nations were kicked out of alliances after being inactive for a period of time (2 weeks?) then the alliances would eventually get deleted for 0 members and color bonuses would be better off.

Hasn't the game been out for like, a year now, and always been free to play? Also as far as I can tell there's just one advertisement at the bottom of each page of the game.

Hmm, I wonder if I could get a piece of the pie.

I like it because it allows you to enter any nation score. For example, I could look at who is in someone else's range just by entering their score.

Willing to buy all of your food at $100/unit or less. Send trade offers to my nation: http://politicsandwar.com/nation/trade/create/nation=Taissaugh\ Thanks!

What information public? E-mail addresses and IP addresses? I can't imagine anyone wants that sort of information posted publicly.

Didn't Sheepy say not to copy and paste?

It's almost too bad that this new style of playing the game, living in an era of constant war and change, is being driven out.

Where does it talk game days? I've only seen real day times, but I'm new.