Tycoons Facebook Game - Joshua Kennon

February 10, 2012

My Super Tycoons Facebook Game Net Worth Just Hit $60 Billion

September 22, 2010 By Joshua Kennon 4 Comments

The last time I updated you on my Super Tycoons Facebook game exploits, I was rejoicing at increasing my in-game net worth from $100 million to $14 billion between May and August. This was after I rolled out my flour empire expansion. Ultimately, I decided instead of going for the commodity leader board, I would sell the flour to enter the auto manufacturing industry. To date, I've harvested 18,176,980 pounds of flour but I only have 4,577,747 pounds on hand. The figure would be much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Video Games Tagged With: revenue, Tycoons Facebook Game, Video Games

Ruby Is Now a Steel Baroness on the Tycoons Facebook Game

July 16, 2010 By Joshua Kennon Leave a Comment

My grandma Ruby is finally on Facebook. As a result, we got her playing the Tycoons game that I have been obsessed with for the past few months (as evidenced by the total blog posts I've written about it). Since my last update, I've increased my net worth in the game from almost nothing when I started two months ago to roughly $6 billion today. With the commodity price inflation that has happened, we got Ruby setup and she started with a few hundred thousand dollars, like all players. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: My Life Tagged With: inflation, Ruby, Tycoons Facebook Game

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