Casher

Key Points

1. Play a Democracy or a Republic. the democracy will give you a tech effectiveness bonus which will allow your residential, enterprise and military tech to give you a better advantage when you are cashing. While the republic will give you a weaker country (people love grabbing republics) it will also give you a 20% Per Capita Income bonus which could be essential in cashing for huge amounts of money.

2. Keep those tech levels up. It is important to keep your tech levels maxed while playing a casher. Residential, Military, and business tech all play very key roles in maximizing your cash flow per turn. Weapons tech is also a key factor with cashing. A republic is an easy land grab, but maxed weapons tech make sit just a bit harder.

3. LOTS of Construction sites. You don't want to waste all your turns building up your new land, when you COULD be cashing for much more. The higher your buildings per turn, the less time time it will take to build up your empty land, and the more time you can spend hitting that cash button, which is point #4.

4. HIT THAT CASH BUTTON. This is the key t the cashing strat. The cash button gives you the extra money you need to buy your tech and military. As a casher you will not produce anything except a few spies per turn, The rest is set up for pure cash. It is this fact that makes cashing one of the easier, yet most dangerous strategies to play.

For the beginner, the casher is a popular strategy because it keeps your cash flow in the green (at least for most of the game). For the advanced player the Casher is popular because very few other strategies allow you to grow so big so fast. The casher gets its name from the "cash" link which increases your output of money each turn by 20%. In order to maximize the amount of money you make, you need to set up your country in the casher way. 45% enterprise zones, 45% residential zones, 3-5% industrial sites, and the rest construction sites. That's all you build. 

it is important for the casher to spend as much time as possible cashing. In order to do this you will first need to build your countries key points up in other ways. Try starting with a commie indy, and then when you have sufficient acres, and a lot of construction sites, switch over. Casher get huge bonuses for having lots of "money tech" (residential, enterprise, and military) but under no circumstances should you try to research these yourselves. the whole point of the casher is to BUY EVERYTHING. If you are playing the classic republic, then keep your defense high. Attack only once or twice a day, build the land, and only buy your military and tech at the end of your turns. A later game casher must be careful and hide its true net worth. This is done by stockpiling. Then near the end of the game, you can sell your tech, or food, and purchase the military that will give you your big net worth jumps.

The average day for a casher looks like this

The casher is the most popular high ranking strategy is Earth. But it can be difficult. Market prices can seriously affect how well you grow. Make sure you keep your tech levels and defense high. 

Many people have analyzed the casher strat much more in depth, HERE is one example from a top player named Rico.

Although you can use a cash strat with countries like dictatorships (for the extra military strength), you will see quickly how the loss of BPT, and the PCI bonus can seriously hinder how much money you can make per turn.

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*check the THC strategy center for more details about playing a successful casher from a few different sources.