A couple of noob questions

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 25.03.2010, 07:53

I apologize in advance if these has been asked before:

1. Looking at my store, it appears that I can only sell 1 type of item per item. I'm assuming this is really how it's supposed to work or am I missing something? I wanted to open an ice cream shop and it seemed a bit silly (to me) if my shop were only selling one flavor of ice cream so was wondering, if there's a way to sell more than 1 item?

2. When registering, I accidentally refreshed so I ended up with Germany head office instead of France. Is there a difference as to where your H.O. ends up? Like does it mean you can't enter into contracts and stuff with those not in the same area? Any benefit in self-deleting and re-registering in France or should I just keep the Germany HQ as it makes no difference?

3. For the raw materials (particularly water which seems to be what I'd be using most for my chosen industry), is it advisable to have my own well? Or should I just buy them? And if I should do the well, should I do it earlier rather than later?

Sorry for the long message and thanks in advance for any help!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 25.03.2010, 08:12

Hello and welcome!

You don't have to apologize for asking some questions... let's get them answered.

1. Your assumption is correct. You can only sell one kind of product in one store at the same time. Yet you can fill it with a different product once your first sale is over (so it is no decision for life what you sell in your store). If you sold banana ice cream in your store you can sell strawberry ice cream after that.

2. The head office has no really impact on your personal game flow.
You only have to cope with some very low transport costs if you want to fill your stores that are not in the same country as the head office (so e. g. transport costs if your head office is in Germany but your ice cream shop is in France). You also have to pay transport costs for contracts to players with other head offices (but they are also very low). I would suggest you to stick to Germany. It is (from my experience) the most chosen head quarter-area.

3. This is a hard debate - there are people that say "Yes, buy your own well for water." and some that might call you a "noob" if you do so.
In my opinion it depends on the products you want to produce a bit (if you want to produce at all). It's hard to say more about this without concrete ideas.
But I can guarantee: You can always find buildings that are more profitable that a well you use for water. When using it for oil this might be different but water is not that good. You have got to consider that you have only a limited amount of building slots so sometimes you need to optimize your structure.

Regards
GoldenEye

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 25.03.2010, 10:34

Thanks for the quick reply! Made me sad though my customers will only have 1 choice of an ice cream at any given time.

Thanks for explaining better. I wanted to build my shop in France so I guess I will have transportation costs then. But what if I build my ice factory in green area? Does it mean I also incur transpo costs to get them to the shop? Even if that's the case, I would think it's still cheaper to build the factory in green area rather than red (where the shop is), right?

I actually want to produce my own stuff plus sell in my own stores. So with that in mind and the limit of buildings, should I have more than 1 plantation building for example (for faster production)? Or is it always better to have only 1 of each (except for maybe the shops)?

Lastly, I noticed some people have been looking for Q0 products. Are my research a waste then? I thought higher Q is better? Why are there a lot of people looking for Q0 products then? *confused*

Thanks again!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 25.03.2010, 11:26

factrories produce 25% more in red area, build them only in red!

some people look for Q0 products for quests or special buildings, because its easier to find 100,000,000 of Q0 product then of Q1 product

don't stop researching, the higher the better.

you can play by producing evrything by yourself and then retailing it, but this way you'll have lower profit ( like a well makes you water worth 10m and a icecream shop the same size makes you 13m in the same time , so it's better for you to produce the icecream and buy the water from the water npc in the market.)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 25.03.2010, 16:14

you should use more buildings to produce the same product, it's faster.

I currently run 81 mines just to produce Stones

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 25.03.2010, 16:43

yea, 5 20m2 buildings produce more then a 100m2 building

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 26.03.2010, 03:24

Oh I didn't notice that! I thought it said green has the 25% production. Now I see it's only for farms and not factories. Thanks for pointing it out! I guess that would be a very expensive factory to build then.

Thanks for explaining the Q0 products. I hope the next contest would have a Q0 product that I can produce then. lol

Wow that's a lot of mines for stones. Are stones in very high demand then? I'll have to consider making a lot of the producing buildings rather than expanding when I have the money then. Thanks!

Another thing (sorry! Every time I say last question a new one pops up. lol) I just bought some ads for my grocery but I don't see any difference. Why is that? Is it too low? It says that to see a difference you should have at least 100. I have 149 atm and it doesn't seem to have changed anything. What am I missing?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 26.03.2010, 03:44

Seems I can't edit. Never mind about the ads. I found it. Seems my ads were too little to make much of an impact. Guess it's only worth it if you can actually afford the whole 40K or at least half of it.

Edit: Grrr... It appears that I CAN edit. I swear the button wasn't there a while ago! *feels like such a total noob!* Sorry for the double post.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 26.03.2010, 10:25

its ok

anyway, 40k adds make your stores sell twise as fast (misspled twise?!)

and about the stones demand,
kapi land is a game of expending buildings (which seems I haven't done since my FA was around 100m.... but never mind that.) so evryone needs stones to expend alot of players X alot of expending = alot of stones

that's why there is a stone npc, so there will always be stones to supply to the people. the damand is realyhigh, but prices wont go up because of the stone npc.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 26.03.2010, 14:34

Zaerith wrote: Thanks for explaining the Q0 products. I hope the next contest would have a Q0 product that I can produce then. lol

Q0 is rarely used in contests. Q0 is mostly delivered to Special Buildings such as Kindergartens or Hospitals. The bigger they are the more products they demand, and, like stated before, Q0 is probably the most produced quality.

I am one of those who produce everything I need on my own. That way I don't have to rely on anyone else, and I can also keep production cost down to make a bit more money.

Just find your own style and keep at it.
A suggestion though... do not ask about green vs red powerplants because history has proved there is nothing right or wrong with it. It only cause MAJOR debate.

ILIYYILI... twice. It's twice. ...and expand.

Oh and regarding adds. Try to buy high quality adds. They give more add points. I didn't know this when I first started.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 26.03.2010, 15:30

Andro wrote: ILIYYILI... twice. It's twice. ...and expand.

oh... right... expand with an A

for the powerplants, red.
green produce 25% less, and in the long term they make much less then red one's.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 26.03.2010, 15:36

ILIYYILI wrote:
Andro wrote: ILIYYILI... twice. It's twice. ...and expand.

oh... right... expand with an A

for the powerplants, red.
green produce 25% less, and in the long term they make much less then red one's.

It's a matter of preference. That's all I have to say.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 26.03.2010, 18:02

It's the same like a mine in green, lower construction costs then yellow, and lower outpot

pointless.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.03.2010, 17:28

Since I can't afford the whole 40k or even half of it, I'm steering clear of ads for now but after I did the math, I did find out that the higher Q one was cheaper. Thank goodness for that thread somewhere in here! lol

So ... going by your suggestions, I've been building multiple buildings as money rolls in - plantations. Is this a good idea or bad investment? I got a couple of steady buyers so I thought making more plantations seemed the best way atm. Not sure if this type of business is sustainable though?

At what point should I stop making plantations and start concentrating on a specific industry? Atm I'm quite enjoying the plantations and supplying people. I guess ice cream industry won't make me rich anyway? Besides the Food RC is expensive. Thoughts and suggestions please?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.03.2010, 21:12

Quite a few industries have recently been discussed in this thread >Clicky< it may give you some ideas.