III · Meridyen · The present day
Meridyen: modern freight, ports and glass towers
The short version. Meridyen is the modern age of Be a CEO, set in the present day. You run a freight and supply-chain company between refineries, ports and the capital. It starts with ₥8,000 and 2 trucks, 8 towns, 12 routes, 10 goods and 5 rival houses.
Run trucks and convoys between refineries, ports and the city. Fuel, cement and electronics move on thin margins and tight schedules.
The present day has the same old questions: who do you trust, who do you squeeze, and what will the regulator think?
- Starting purse: ₥8,000
- Fleet at start: 2 trucks
- Towns: 8 (5 at the start, 3 open in later years)
- Routes: 12
- Goods: 10
- Works you can build: 14
- Rival houses: 5, and 3 more that enter later
Goods and base prices in Meridyen
These are the base prices in the game’s data (₥). Local supply and demand move them from the first day, so you buy where a good is made and sell where it is scarce.
| Good | Base price |
|---|---|
| Fuel | ₥44 |
| Steel | ₥62 |
| Apparel | ₥16 |
| Food | ₥7 |
| Electronics | ₥300 |
| Cement | ₥12 |
| Lithium | ₥42 |
| Pharma | ₥230 |
| Seafood | ₥14 |
| Batteries | ₥115 |
Towns of Meridyen
- ColdridgeMountain refinery town
- IronfieldSteel-mill city
- LumenApparel-mill city
- Port KestrelContainer port
- Meridian CityFederation capital
- BrinewaterLithium boom town · opens in later years
- TesseraScience-park city · opens in later years
- Port SeleneDeep-water terminal · opens in later years
Rival houses
Rivals at the start
- Halden Holding
- Quanta Retail Group
- NorthStar Freight
- Veyra Energy
- Threadlane Apparel Group
Houses that enter later
- Tessarin Freightworks
- Ondra Cold Chain
- Orrin Aggregates
Every rival house has a head with a temperament: cautious, balanced or reckless. When you grow too dominant, rivals can band together against you.
8 dilemmas from Meridyen
- Your best dispatcher talked to the pressImani, your best dispatcher, gave Signal News your real idling-emissions figures, which are worse than your brochure says.
- The hospital needs supplies in a stormA storm warning has shut the Port Kestrel road and every haulier has parked up.
- Everyone is raising prices but youDiesel has jumped again and every haulier in Meridyen has raised rates by fifteen percent.
- A union seat on your boardJo Okafor asks for a drivers' seat on your board.
- The bridge everyone has given up onEngineers have rated the old Varn Bridge on the Coldridge road 'unsafe for heavy loads'.
- Your fiercest critic is going brokeThe Lamp, a small investigative site that has exposed your company twice, is going bankrupt.
- NorthStar is going underNorthStar Freight is a week from bankruptcy, and three hundred drivers will lose their jobs.
- Publish every margin you makeCustomers suspect hauliers of gouging.
In the game
The other ages
I. Valmora · Year 412, Lantern CalendarII. Ferrovia · 1846About Be a CEO (closed alpha, Windows)