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by Guest » 23.06.2007, 23:06
My strategies:
Steel Upgrades:
first of all there is no purpose having a production building if you have nothing to produce. Please not this not only means resources but money as well to run your production facility.
If you can grow 1,000,000 oranges a day but only make 100 seeds then your fruit plantation will sit idle while you wait for your seeds to grow.
Keeping that in mine expand your mines will they produce more Iron and coal than your factories can make, use the steel produced to expand the factories until they can catch up to the mines, then use the same steel that you are making to expand the mines.
I have 4E5, 1E4, 1E3 factories and 3E5, 2E4, 1E3 mines in this manner but have taken a break from this system to expand other buildings.
but likewise, always keep yourself well supplied far beyond your needs.
If you start to run out of power expand your power plants.
If you get extra then you can sell it on the market for the cash to expand.
Don't listen to these people who will tell you to build rather than expand, you are libel to end up with 60 toy stores that way.
But in all area's try and build up,
If you are starting electronics, Jewry, beverages or whatever,
Obviously first produce the factories, then later build the stores.
Expand the factories to keep the stores feed.
Again no sense having the stores remaining empty without anything to sell.
Once your factories surpass your stores you can either expand the stores or sell off the extra.
Time management
don't produce goods like I first did, 1000 pieces of this and 1000 piece of that. Produce by time, so that all your factories complete thier production all at the same time.
I work during the week, so when I get home I set my factory production for around 24 hours, so they will all be done when I get home that time tomorrow, then all I have to do is log on once and a while to feed my stores.
If you are making pullovers for example,
Production time: 0:2:36 h. per unit. per h. 23.03
Then you can make 23.03 pullovers an hour.
So if it is 7pm and you are going out to the bar for the evening and Last call is at 2:30am, as it is here, then you can set your production for,
23.03*7.5=172.725, so you can make 172 pullovers while you are gone.
Providing of course that you don't get lucky and end up at somebody else's house instead, which very rarely happens to me anymore, at my age, so not even worth considering.
Work Smart, Not Hard
If you can sell 300 steel @ 135 on the market making $40500
Then don't waist your time making things like engines that you can buy on the market for 12K.
Just buy the engines, and make them into motorbikes.
Don't enter to produce 341 toothpaste, cause you are waiting resources. the computer doesn't keep track of fractions besides for money, so round up.
Toothpaste
Required: 0.1 kg Chemicals 0.1 kg Plastic 0.1 Liter Water
If you only make 5 then you are also throwing way .5 chemicals, Plastic and water.
I keep forgetting that myself.
Likewise with gas, glass, plastic and other goods that have decimal for required materials.
Keep track of your prices,
if you have 1000 gas for $10 and buy 1000 more for $20 the warehouse will average it out so it will say 2000@15$ so if you sell it all for $16 you are only really making $2000 instead of $10,000.
1000@10=10,000
1000@20=20,000
2000@16=32,000
Likewise for selling time in stores,
If you are going to be gone for 12 hours, sell as you normally do and you can edit the price later so it will take about that long, plus you will get more money for your goods that way.
can you sell more faster at high prices with expanded stores.
You run into the problems of goods on the market costing far too much money than you'd ever be able to sell then at in a fair amount of time.
But if you upgrade all your stores you can sell them faster regardless of Market prices.
If only have at E2 grocery stores then certain you wouldn't buy 800 Q1 apples for $5 or above, since you would need to make profit.
But if you had an E10 store with employees then that would be nothing, you could buy the 800 $5 apples and sell them for $50 if you wanted to.
Haven't done this yet cept for my car dealer, I raised it up to E6 but only sell about 4 or 5 motorbikes at a time, even though it has 24 open slots.
I'd try selling them at E2 but it would take forever just to sell one bike but now it is more reasonable at the same price.
your cost increases with higher quality, so raise your price as well or sooner or later you will be selling your goods for free.
Don't shoot yourself in the ass, if you can find goods on the market at or around the same price as it cost you to make them, then just buy them and use the time in your production facilities to make something else.
I just made some CPU's and found that it cost me $125 to make so I looked at the market to find the same or higher quality for less money, so I bought all the ones that costs me less and now I have 627 CPU's, so I don't have to waist the time making them myself and can use my factories to turn them into computers.
Dunno, I'm bored with writing now,
TA TA
. Please post other strategies and mabey we can help other noobs besides me:P.
