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by Guest » 22.04.2007, 09:29
Yes, definately buy a power plant,
you can cut your power cost in half or more.
Power will cost you .03 to make but from .06 - .08 to buy.
no don't bother building more fruit plantations, it is the cheapest thing in the game.
I buy milk for under 2 and sell for 3,
I buy fruit for under 3 and sell for 5.
I only have one fruit plantation and 5 grocery stores just selling what other people are making.
But the food market is the lowest profit,
if you wanna make the big bucks expand into another area,
I was working on the textile industry but these contests keep screwing things up, but now I'm working on electronics.
the other industries have higher profit margins.
Before the contest I could make a pullover for less than $40 and sell for $100 that's $60 profit.
Sure you can make a peach for .30 but only sell it for $5 which is only $4.70 profit.
I can make plastic for $18 and sell it for $60
Steel for $20 and sell for $130.
you know, high profit margin higher profit.
NO point in being able to sell something for twice the ammout if it also costs you twice as much to make, like gold and the other jewelry goods.
sales - cost = profit
Then the question becomes which can you make the fastest?
If you can make something twice as fast but have to sell it for less than half the price then you are losing.
If it takes you twice and long but sell for less that twice the prices you are losing.
then you want to see what is being bought,
no sense in making a high profit good if nobody is buying them.
from what I've done so far I'd say avoid the food factory,
Rubber is useless to sell unless you make it into tires.
Coffee is useless unless you are selling it yourself, even then it took too long to make profit.
My big sellers are pullovers, leather jakets, plastic, steel, stones and glass.
But diverification is always good,
expand your industry into other markets so you have a wide base to drawl on.
As now these contests are killing my textiles but I have tried to build in all areas, so I can still make profit till the blackhole that the contest has become moves on to another area.
Also, no good in letting factories or stores left empty without production going on,
So build in a upwards.
as an example,
I can make far more from my mines than my factories can ever hope to process, as it is now, which is what you want, to flood yourself, then your factories can never go idle and you can sell the excess for profit.
The alternative would be that your factories would be waiting for your mines, in which case you are losing money by not making anything.
so build mines till you have more goods than you know what to do with,
Then build factories till they can produce more than you need then build the downline industies to make finished products.
then once you can get all that going, where you have your final stage producing without pause, then build the store to sell those goods,
Then you will never be idle.
And upgrade accordingly.
Also, if you can buy something from the market, at or around what it costs you take make, then why make it?
you are just waisting time, so just buy it and use the factories to make those goods.
Should I get a beverage factory and produce apple juice? 
