Specialization and Verticality

[Yippy]

@rain9441

My good friend who I recruited to play this game lasted only about 2 weeks because jkomut would continually dump FE on the market to drive prices down due to his “specialization” (experts) and vertical integration advantage. He had unfortunately started off on Montem as a metallurgist and got squeezed out of the market. There was nothing he could do, he picked the wrong starter package I guess. I told him to COLIQ, start on Prom, and sell RCO to the MM but it was already over.

I have seen this a lot in this game. Glass half empty vs glass half full. FE is cheap, I lose money vs FE is cheap, I can make so much money.

[Dimunz]

The basic issue, that there is little demand for higher-tier products. There is not many sofisticated project to pursue.
Now maybe shipbuilding and planetary projects can boost demand, but other exciting projects like space station creation, asteroid mining, deep-space exploration, etc is not there to burn the piling cash and increase spending (and demand).