QUESTIONS FOR CB

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I took a rest last night or was it this morning, must have been around 3AM or so that I loaded up Capitalism II and played for about 1. 5 hours and had a nice rest. To some players they might think it rather odd that a person could be resting while playing Cap II, but for me it's actually a very relaxing game. Especially more so when I play singleplayer since if I really flub up (like my first game explained below) I can just restart, no harm, no foul.

On my first attempt this morning I built way too quickly, I was short on cash, so I issued as many shares of stock as I could and then burned through that cash too, then I made the really bad mistake of going to the bank and taking out the maximum loan, then burned through that money too, it was either close down some business's or declare bankruptcy. I decided to try to pay off the loans by selling off every business that I had started regardless if they were showing a profit or not. When I was done selling them all I was able to pay off my HUGE bank note, and had about 4M left over. I attempted to start with just that small 4 million dollars but before my retail shop could show a small profit I was broke again and declared bankruptcy. I quit that game and started a new one that I've got saved and it looks like it will be a good one, Im showing a profit on most business's, and overall, and the only thing I wish I had done with the starting choices was to make 7 competitors instead of 4 and make 2 lands instead of 4, because that many lands is hard for me to keep track of, plus for some reason the people in London don't want to buy imported frozen chicken, eggs, steak or food stuffs in general that can be produced at a farm in a foreign land, no matter how much I lowered the price they just refused to buy any. Anyway, relaxing good times. I really love CAP II. It's really such a deep great game. I sure wish they would come out with a CAP III but I feel there is little hope for that in these times of FPS.

Out of curiousity CB. . . What kind of game settings do you like to start with?

I only play the difficult level now starting with a difficulty level of 173% with 4 cities, starting cash of $10 Million, 10 Competitors all with very high capital (I think they start with like 300 Million?) and very high aggressiveness, high expertise level and very high competence level for local competitors 0 seaports for consumer or industrial goods. I thoroughly enjoy the first 5 years of starting out but after I break through and start becoming VERY successful then it gets boring other than trying to become filthy rich and making it to the top 10 of the Billionaires list. :)