I finally got a chance to get around to playing the new version and it's looking good so far. I'll do a little write up once I've tooled around with it and broken it a bit. Hemmingjay, what are you looking for in this guide? I may be interested in writing it, but I'd like a little clarification on it. Is it intended to be a bit of a walkthrough, or do you want a writeup on the mechanics, or do you want a step by step introduction guide?
EDIT: Played around with it for a couple hours, seems like Brons' experience is more or less what I'm having. Went to Russia right away, and once I figured out how to ship arms, things got rolling. Might want to make that "add" button a little more noticable
Anyways, started shipping things off to countries I could. Eventually I started buying some intelligence, but it didn't seem to help much with me only using public transport. I could never get to the countries offering all the monies. Seems like making money is reaaallly slow at this point, I've just been pouring all my money into one shipment to the place I can find with the highest return. And then it's just waiting until it gets shipped and I can get money to do things again. I'm actually waiting on a pretty lucrative shipment to Moldova as I write this. Ah, there we go. Made a couple million off of that. I guess as you get more money, making money gets easier. It seems that I'm getting exponentially more each time, but it's still pretty slow going. Haven't messed with the Black Umbrella options yet, we'll see how that goes. I also just became a level 16 arms dealer, not sure what that means but I like the sound of it. I'm waiting on a couple more shipments at the moment, so after those finish I'm probably heading to bed. I'll write more in the morning after I get some sleep.
EDIT2: Okay, I kept playing a bit longer. The pacing gets a lot better once you have enough money to buy enough to fill up multiple public transports. At that point, you send one out and when it finishes, you can just keep buying AKSU's and lining them up for the next couple shipments out. By the time your next shipment goes out, your second shipment will be in and you can keep buying and shipping. That's getting me close to that 30 million mark. Gonna buy me a jet
Anyways, I'm going to bed for real this time. I'm really liking the game Hemmingjay, can't wait to see the next build.
EDIT3: Right before I shut it off, Interpol showed up! I tried to escape, but none of the travel options work. Perhaps I need a private transport? Either way, I was captured, and was roughly escorted to the game over screen. Now that I know what I'm doing, I can probably get more done in a shorter amount of time next game. Here's hoping a private transport will be enough to get me away from the coppers!