![]() By the time you see the warning that a competitor has most of the money they need to buy you out, it’s tough to single-handedly stop them without coordinated help from other players concentrating their Black Market attacks. ![]() Once the leading corporation turns their advantage into advanced structures like the Offworld Market, giving them access to a parallel market where formerly worthless resources might be far more valuable, they can pull away quickly. On the other hand, most games are already decided by this point. On that note, I love how this is a game about buying out your competitors’ stock and turning them into subsidiaries, which means to lose in Offworld Trading Company is to literally get owned. The late game is all about maximizing return on your resources, which by now are coming in fast. Conversely, waiting until you do have all the information means other corporations will probably grab the best spots and freeze you out of the sweetest resources. When the shroud lifts after you found your base and you realize there’s no convenient source of water or other essential element nearby, you might as well concede before the fuel costs of transporting it across the map inevitably does you in. It’s essentially random whether you’ll find a suitable location before others do, and being stuck in a bad one with little access to high-density resources is a huge disadvantage. It’s a clever idea, but if luck is against you you might find your game effectively over before it begins. “The opening moments of each match are spent exploring the shrouded map with scanning pulses, which creates a tense risk-reward system that dares you to lock yourself in before you have a complete picture of the resources in the surrounding terrain. You can hire pirates from the Black Market to steal resources for you. That’s easy to do if you’re playing in single-player against the competent AI opponents and can pause to examine them at your leisure, but much tougher (and thus more rewarding) in a live multiplayer game where you have to split your attention between observation and managing your own company. Pulling off elaborate industrial sabotage like this takes some keen observation of how the rival company is set up. Watching an opponent’s debt skyrocket and their share price plummet after you shut off their power with an EMP and force them to buy it from the market is a satisfying reward for a job well done alternatively, using a Hacking Array building to artificially inflate the price of power beforehand, then inciting a mutiny in the enemy’s power plant to divert its flow to your supply will both maximize the damage to their ledger and pour cash into your account as you sell off their power for a profit. If you can identify where your opponents’ supply chains are weakest, you can send their entire economy into a tailspin by temporarily crippling key production facilities with purchased attacks. “What gives Offworld its depth is how you compete with up to seven other corporations using a randomized set of Black Market attacks and buffs. ![]()
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