Trade Conquest

1 con game làm về nền kinh tế khá hay,1 viên ngọc thô quý hiếm,từ 1 thương nhân đến nguyên thủ quốc gia,học cách các nền kinh tế quốc gia hoạt động

之前以为游戏有严重BUG，建造建筑时钱被扣除了，但是建筑没建起来，几次后直接破产，后来发开回复说是动荡省份8级以上有机率投资失败。感觉游戏指南应该再丰富一些，总统来说游戏挺好玩的，容易上头，推荐一下。

I'll give you a short review and then a in-depth one. Short review: Started as a nobody in Serbia, got money through buying high and selling low on the stock market. Took control, opened borders for immigration, started cloning, changed labor laws so everyone is working 24-7, no retirement, no children, just work. Economy exploded, built up a massive army, conquered Europe only to get my hard paid work deleted in the end by UK and France nuclear dead man protocol. And all this just because I wanted to take Kosovo from Hungary. 10/10 would recommend, money well spent (bought full price). Long review: The game is a bit rough around the edges (especially visually) although it didn't bother me as much. You start as an "investor" basically a nobody with some money and a bonus you pre-pick in the game menu. You then pick a country to get business (investment) rights in and off you go. Trade on the market, buy some industries, maybe buy a license to access another country's resources/industry. The point in the early game is to build money and research points while making sure the countries you are doing business in don't fall either because of incompetent politicians or outside threats. The more you invest money in a country the more influence you have. As a side note someone in the review was complaining about pressing a button a million times to get influence, but that is a sub-optimal way of doing things. You can bribe politicians directly but it's tedious and a waste of money, a better way of doing it is by buying every industry, maxing out their tier, investing money in security and infrastructure and getting influence automatically every month. The more developed a country is the harder it is to do it, but you can always pass imperial laws in France for example and make them attack a third world country, voila, now you have more land that is in need of investment which is going to bring your influence up. Also most importantly if you intend to take over a country you should pass a few laws while the game is paused, since your influence with the corporations or workers decays over time. Once you take over a country (you pass the enabling act) the game will simulate a short civil war over the next few months, in this period you basically have to try and keep the unrest below max by either building security buildings or passing laws that reduce unrest and bam, Bob's your uncle and you are the supreme leader now. PROS Very active developer, answered my questions and dropped a mini update within hours of us interacting for some things that I reported as bugs. This is very important for these types of indie games and I can't stress this enough! In-depth trading game, there is way too many resources and everything is based on offer and demand over several world markets (EU, US, China, etc.). What is in demand in one market might be oversupplied in another. Any country can be made successful (conquer the world or the market) with the right laws and enough investment, there is no artificial max ceiling on countries that are not the "main character" like in a paradox game. Many different ways to interact with your enemies, from deploying viruses, kidnapping their president, setting of nukes and blaming their enemy to weather control, direct confrontation with your armies, nukes and supersonic missiles. CONS The UI as other's mentioned takes some time getting used to, many information is not front and center but is instead buried in a menu or in a hover or just plain not there. For example since there are too many resources it is hard to keep track of what you have in storage (for some reason even though there is a max storage button you don't actually know how much you used/how much you have left). After talking to the developer on discord they added a notification of items in stock on a hover but there are other things that need to be changed. Another example is that you get in-game notifications in your simulated phone interface, split into two categories, global news and direct notifications. However the direct notifications often include 100 messages that I am missing feathers and glucose for my industries that sometime can hide the fact that Mexico is trying to undermine my economy by spreading fake money or that someone assassinated the president in Egypt and now Russia is buying up their industry tiles which I needed for my titanium plane parts. Optional improvement: Lack of diplomacy. Aside from getting investment rights and meddling in another country policies/laws you can't do anything. You can't trade resources directly, do shared investment projects, plan attacking a third country, or other stuff that countries regularly do. Even when dealing with superpowers or any other nation for that matter, if they don't like you, you either attack them or spam the bribe button until they start liking you again. I think this would complete the game and add a lot more control/enjoyability.