Price reflects demand

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01.03.2008, 14:47

Would it be so difficult to have the price go up or down as a reflection of how well supply meets demand? To illustrate 1 extreme example of where it does not: In France this is the current candy situation; demand: 4,590,530 Supply: 1. You would think the price would skyrocket. But no, it sits at roughly half 0fwhat it costs to make. I understand that it COULD still be sold at a higher price but that would take a lot of store time and why? As I am not a dev for this game I am unaware of all the considerations that go into making the baseline price for the regions. But it seems to me that a fairly simple formula (took me 10 minutes to work one out) would raise and lower the price to match supply and demand and would solve the problem of so many unprofitable products

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01.03.2008, 15:03

such improvement to store-prices would improve the game because food and products that nobody produces would start give a better profit margin. Do limit the profit of the whole economy you could lower the overall demand of all products, so some people would be forced to change their business.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01.03.2008, 15:18

dont forget: a lot of stuff (also food), which is absolute non-profitable by selling in stores, even at highest q, can be sold in q0 at huge prices.

a lot of guys need this for the specialbuildings.
for example : i buy camdy bars in q0 at 120, i guess, you cant sell them at 120 in stores, not in q0 and not in q10.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01.03.2008, 17:39

I think every store product is profitable, except food. You just have to produce it, not buy (exept gas) if you have small store. If you have 2000sqm+, you can earn lot of money on detergents, candys etc. If demand is ex. 20 000 and supply is 1, i don't think the price should be veery high, because it makes no sense. If nobody sells beer, then one person will make 10 beers and sell them for million per beer :s

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01.03.2008, 23:27

powerenterprise wrote:I think every store product is profitable, except food. You just have to produce it, not buy (exept gas) if you have small store. If you have 2000sqm+, you can earn lot of money on detergents, candys etc. If demand is ex. 20 000 and supply is 1, i don't think the price should be veery high, because it makes no sense. If nobody sells beer, then one person will make 10 beers and sell them for million per beer :s

but that is exactly how a market economy works. Do diamonds cost thousands of dollars to dig up out the ground? Not even close. But they sell for that because people will pay for it. "Everything is worth what someone else will pay for it." -[forgot the author]