Buying vs having enough resources for purchase

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It would be good if the buttons for buying things differed depending if you've got enough resources, or whether you'll need to use cash to buy some of them:

green: can upgrade/purchase with existing resources

blue: can upgrade/purchase but need to buy some resources from the market

 

You can mouseover to see this but often you forget, see the button unghosted and spend all your cash inadvertently :)

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Reply #1 from Offworld Forums Top

Along these lines, it'd be nice to have a 'net assets value' indication - essentially, the amount of cash you'd make right now if you were to sell all of your resources (warning: numerical integration probably required!  unless your demand curves are integrable, in which case, good job!)

Reply #2 from Offworld Forums Top

NavyFish: regarding net assets value - You can see this in a tooltip if you hover over your company in the company list, although the calculation is probably different from what you've asked for. I haven't checked, but I'm betting the "resource value" in the tooltip is just your current resources times the current price, without taking into account how much you'd actually make from actually selling given that each resource sold reduces the market price for the next sale.

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Reply #3 from Offworld Forums Top

Quoting emaise, reply 2

I'm betting the "resource value" in the tooltip is just your current resources times the current price, without taking into account how much you'd actually make from actually selling given that each resource sold reduces the market price for the next sale.

Ahhh, that might explain why I get bought out just as I'm selling a huge chunk of resources to generate enough cash to perform a buyout myself.  If the net value of resources is calculated in such a way that it inflates your actual net value, then selling resources can quickly devalue your company.  Further amplifying that effect is that Soren J. mentioned that cash has a diminishing effect on your stock price.

 

Reply #4 from Offworld Forums Top

As far as I have noticed, then the resource prices take into account the drop of price as you sell them.