I hear everyone talking about how they are making so much money with their gas business, why am I not? Here is what I have:
20m power plant- 2 employees in green
20m well- 2 employees in yellow
20m factory- 2 employees in green
20m gas station- 2 employees in red
I am selling gas for about 25 per piece, q0. I am making about 6000 a day, since it takes too long for the gas to be sold before I have to go to bed or go somewhere. I put about 250 gas in the store at a time. If I were to lower my gas prices to say 18, would I see a significant decrease in time needed to sell everything? Also, I am currently trying to get my quality up to 2 or 3. Does quality help at all in the speed something sells? If someone could answer any of my questions that would be great.
Problem With Gas
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You know you can change the price on something once you've started selling it with no adverse effects. So if you want to put up 250 at 25, then immediate change the price to 24, you can compare the two times and see how much faster it is. Repeat at 21, 18, however you like. Then a little math will tell you which is the best profit / hour.
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Free-Way Gas Productions
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well generally you want 1000 gas to sell out in 12 hours. So if your only selling 250 at a time, youll want to have it sell out in 3 hours. Uhh... you def want to keep it constantly in sale tohugh, meaning selling 2000 per store daily. Just buy gas off market, and then resell in shop, you can make big profits this way rather then producing your own gas from the start, which is very costly. I myself started as buyign and resellign gas and it has done me very good 
tho now im self producing. And i do make overe 2mill a day.
tho now im self producing. And i do make overe 2mill a day.-
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You basically need to do your calculations for rate of profit. What you want is to make money fast, not just make money. Without doing the actual calculations for you, here are some general trends to help you:
If you are making your own oil and gas, then generally you will find that the faster you can sell it in the stores, the faster you will make profit. BUT you can only produce it so fast, so you basically want to sell it as fast as you can produce it. Assuming you are a merchant level, your 2E factory in green can produce a little over 2565 gas per day. Your oil well and power plant provide more than enough oil and power to keep this one 2E factory constantly producing gas. So you want to find the price in your store that sells about 2565 gas per day. I don't know specifically, but I would guess that would be around 18 for your q0.
And yes, quality makes a big difference. For instance, you could probably sell q3 in the same time for about 22 which brings you significantly more profit, so it is worth the investment. It's definitely worth the investment to get your gas quality up a few points (at least once you have a few gas stores). After that, research gets expensive, and you will have to decide if you really want to continue researching that product or something else.
So selling 2565 gas per day at 18 caps each, you would be taking in about 46,000 caps per day, much more than your quote of 6000 probably because of your high price. And a little over 40,000 of that is profit over the complete production line. This may not sound like a lot, but many of us started out this way. With that kind of profit, you can build another building every 4 or 5 days at first, Then, as you increase your production, quality, and stores, you will make money much faster.
As others have mentioned, you can also make good money by buying gas off the market to sell. This is very true, just make sure to check your calculations for profit rate. Unlike the case where you make your own gas for very cheap, when buying off the market, you quickly reach a point where reducing prices to get a faster sale will slow your profit rate. So just make sure you do your calculations first. The difference between these two techniques is that when you make your own gas, you will have a lot of production buildings (I've heard something like 2/3 of your buildings are for production) and the rest are sales. For those buying off the market, they will usually have at least half if not all of their buildings for sales. By having more sales buildings, you can sell gas faster without reducing prices.
Hope this helps. There's a lot more details, but I tried to give an overview of one way you can look at it. Best of luck.
If you are making your own oil and gas, then generally you will find that the faster you can sell it in the stores, the faster you will make profit. BUT you can only produce it so fast, so you basically want to sell it as fast as you can produce it. Assuming you are a merchant level, your 2E factory in green can produce a little over 2565 gas per day. Your oil well and power plant provide more than enough oil and power to keep this one 2E factory constantly producing gas. So you want to find the price in your store that sells about 2565 gas per day. I don't know specifically, but I would guess that would be around 18 for your q0.
And yes, quality makes a big difference. For instance, you could probably sell q3 in the same time for about 22 which brings you significantly more profit, so it is worth the investment. It's definitely worth the investment to get your gas quality up a few points (at least once you have a few gas stores). After that, research gets expensive, and you will have to decide if you really want to continue researching that product or something else.
So selling 2565 gas per day at 18 caps each, you would be taking in about 46,000 caps per day, much more than your quote of 6000 probably because of your high price. And a little over 40,000 of that is profit over the complete production line. This may not sound like a lot, but many of us started out this way. With that kind of profit, you can build another building every 4 or 5 days at first, Then, as you increase your production, quality, and stores, you will make money much faster.
As others have mentioned, you can also make good money by buying gas off the market to sell. This is very true, just make sure to check your calculations for profit rate. Unlike the case where you make your own gas for very cheap, when buying off the market, you quickly reach a point where reducing prices to get a faster sale will slow your profit rate. So just make sure you do your calculations first. The difference between these two techniques is that when you make your own gas, you will have a lot of production buildings (I've heard something like 2/3 of your buildings are for production) and the rest are sales. For those buying off the market, they will usually have at least half if not all of their buildings for sales. By having more sales buildings, you can sell gas faster without reducing prices.
Hope this helps. There's a lot more details, but I tried to give an overview of one way you can look at it. Best of luck.
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