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Morganstern posted 03-25-99 03:34 PM ET
Some of the posts on this forum indicate incredible energy credit levels. In the few games I've played, any time I get over 1700 credits, I'm in significant danger of losing most of them to a market crash. I've already had four such crashes in my current game.
Are the reported levels being achieved in games where random events are shut off? If not, is there some way to eliminate or minimize crashes (more Energy Banks?) when you are playing with random events?
Rawhide posted 03-25-99 04:03 PM ET
I have made it over 8000 credits without a market crash(leaving random events on) and didn't have a energy bank in every city. I was playing on Thinker with the Hive.
Fiannaidh posted 03-25-99 06:31 PM ET
In late game, you can have such mega cities, that your income is over 1000 per turn. It doesn't seem so hard once this happens, especially if you turn your core cities to stockpiling energy.
VulturesRow posted 03-25-99 09:15 PM ET
yeah if you get into the longer games you pretty much end up at the point where you either A)cant add any more facilities to your core cities or B) you dont want to because of ecological factors. So you set these monster cities to stockpile energy and it builds rapidly...esp. if you are morgan Morgan rules.
Morganstern posted 03-26-99 01:16 PM ET
I'm getting into the late game now, playing as Morgan (of course!), and am experiencing exactly what Fiannaidh and VulturesRow are talking about. Lots of energy credits, but at least no crashes the past few years. Only problem now, I accidentally turned off the pop-up box (bored with micro-management, I guess) for completing construction, so now cities are storing energy automatically, making another crash that much more likely. BTW, only playing at the third level (believe it's Talent), so still have a ways to go.
Fiannaidh posted 03-26-99 03:34 PM ET
Click the menu button, then game, and go to preferences, you should be able to re-enable/disable any popup boxes you accidentally turned off/on
micje posted 03-26-99 06:06 PM ET
I've had over 100K energy once without a crash. Crashes have never happened more than once per game to me yet. I think crashes are too harsh anyway. What about just halving it?
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Author	Topic: Energy Market Crashes
Morganstern	posted 03-25-99 03:34 PM ET Some of the posts on this forum indicate incredible energy credit levels. In the few games I've played, any time I get over 1700 credits, I'm in significant danger of losing most of them to a market crash. I've already had four such crashes in my current game. Are the reported levels being achieved in games where random events are shut off? If not, is there some way to eliminate or minimize crashes (more Energy Banks?) when you are playing with random events?
Rawhide	posted 03-25-99 04:03 PM ET I have made it over 8000 credits without a market crash(leaving random events on) and didn't have a energy bank in every city. I was playing on Thinker with the Hive.
Fiannaidh	posted 03-25-99 06:31 PM ET In late game, you can have such mega cities, that your income is over 1000 per turn. It doesn't seem so hard once this happens, especially if you turn your core cities to stockpiling energy.
VulturesRow	posted 03-25-99 09:15 PM ET yeah if you get into the longer games you pretty much end up at the point where you either A)cant add any more facilities to your core cities or B) you dont want to because of ecological factors. So you set these monster cities to stockpile energy and it builds rapidly...esp. if you are morgan Morgan rules.
Morganstern	posted 03-26-99 01:16 PM ET I'm getting into the late game now, playing as Morgan (of course!), and am experiencing exactly what Fiannaidh and VulturesRow are talking about. Lots of energy credits, but at least no crashes the past few years. Only problem now, I accidentally turned off the pop-up box (bored with micro-management, I guess) for completing construction, so now cities are storing energy automatically, making another crash that much more likely. BTW, only playing at the third level (believe it's Talent), so still have a ways to go.
Fiannaidh	posted 03-26-99 03:34 PM ET Click the menu button, then game, and go to preferences, you should be able to re-enable/disable any popup boxes you accidentally turned off/on
micje	posted 03-26-99 06:06 PM ET I've had over 100K energy once without a crash. Crashes have never happened more than once per game to me yet. I think crashes are too harsh anyway. What about just halving it?