Offworld Trading Company (Game)

Offworld Trading Company

GAME » on April 28, 2016

A purely economic RTS game from Civ4 designer Soren Johnson.

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Overview

OTC was made available in early access on Feb 12th, 2014 and launched in a completed state April 28, 2016. Features to be added during the early access process include multiplayer matchmaking, leagues, and ladders.

Gameplay

Up to 8 human or AI players must take advantage of fluctuations in the market prices of resources by buying or producing low and selling high. The game ends when one player buys out all shares of their competitors' stock.

Resources

Some resources can be gathered directly from the map and others can only be produced by consuming other resources.

Energy - produced by wind, solar, or thermal power plants
Water - harvested from natural deposits or from ice tiles
Food - produced by consuming water
Oxygen - produced by harvesting dry ice or consuming water
Fuel - produced by consuming water
Aluminum - mined from natural deposits
Iron - mined from natural deposits
Steel - produced by consuming iron
Carbon - mined from natural deposits
Silicon - mined from natural deposits
Glass - produced by consuming oxygen and silicon
Chemicals - produced by consuming fuel and carbon
Electronics - produced by consuming carbon, silicon, and aluminum

Resource Market

Any resource can be bought or sold freely on the local market (among traders on mars) for the going rate. The price of a single resource will increase as it is purchased, and decrease as it is sold back to the market.

Once a player has sufficiently advanced buildings they may dispatch shipments a resource into orbit to the offworld market. The price of resources on the offworld market is independent of the local market. (usually 10-20x the local price)

Black Market

Various underhanded methods of sabotage are available for purchase at the black market.

Extra claim - buy an extra claim for your company
EMP - freezes buildings within a radius of 2 tiles for a period of time
Power Surge - freezes a number of connected buildings for a period of time
Underground Nuke - reduces natural deposits on a tile by two levels
Dynamite - destroys a building, reducing it to rubble (may be repaired for 1/2 build cost)
Mutiny - forces an opponent's building to operate for the player for a period of time
Goon Squad - protects a building from sabotage
Pirates - patrol the designated tiles on the map, stealing up to 60 resources in transit

Stock Market

Each player's company offers a total 10,000 shares of stock to interested buyers and may be purchased in increments of 1,000. If a single player owns all the shares of another company, they assume control of that company's buildings and assets.

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