expanding

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.09.2007, 18:50

this has been giving me a head ache lately. I have 40 wells and 40 factories. So when i decide to expand half of them from 500m2 to 1000m2 it means my production gets cut in half for 10 days. I did that and now it feels like it was a mistake. I lost about 1mil gas a day worth 30mil so I lost 300 million. That was a total of 20 000m2, I could ve just expanded 10 buildings 2000m2 instead of 40 500m2 each. Anyway now that the 500 > 1000m2 expansion is complete i have 40 buildings that are 500m2. I m expanding those to 2000m2 but it still feels like I have too much money and will basically shut down production soon. Should I just go from 500m2 to 3000m2 or something? Even then I would be expanding a few buildings every day and have 20 buildings expanding in a week. Suddenly it seems like expanding properly is the key behind the success of some of these big companies like CMB etc. They manage to keep the production going and expand at the same time. How can I solve this problem and whats the perfect way to expand? Maybe i just have too much money and nowhere to spend it lol

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.09.2007, 18:57

Oman:311395 Well E:50 2000 m

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.09.2007, 19:04

1 month to wait now lol.........

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.09.2007, 19:16

I have the same type of problem with my Textile stores(take years to expand).

I normaly expand half my buildings, of one type, at once. Then wait to expand the other half until the expantion is complete. It may not be the best idea but it seems to work for me.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.09.2007, 19:25

yeah that works fine until you get to like 1000m2+

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.09.2007, 19:33

France:41175 Cattle & Plant RC S:100 3000 m

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.09.2007, 20:28

well RC is different obviously unless you only have 1. I have 1 researching and the other expanding so my RC s are always growing.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.09.2007, 21:01

Varg AB wrote:well RC is different obviously unless you only have 1. I have 1 researching and the other expanding so my RC s are always growing.

That is the way I do it. But sence you don't like RCs...
Germany:63028 Textile store E:100 2000m

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 27.09.2007, 21:10

Are your factories dependent on your wells? If they are, try to keep the wells bigger than the factories. That way you will never run out of required products, especially when you are expanding. The wells will take longer to expand, so make sure you get big wells before you get big factories.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 28.09.2007, 16:54

big expansions arent smart, well that depends on how big you are and what is big.
i try to expand at the most 1/3 of one building type at a time, or rather 1/4, and do short expansions, 2-3 days or something.
when i get those up i expand the next batch, that way you get the most production time of your biggest buildings.
if you would go from 200m2->1000m2, you would be running on your other 200m2 buildings, but if you do 200m2->300m2, and then run the 300m2, when you expand the next batch from 200m2 to 300m2.

i hope i was somewhat clear:D

a very big problem is if buildings dont expand at the same rate, then you have even bigger issues getting your production stable

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 28.09.2007, 17:03

sava84 wrote:big expansions arent smart, well that depends on how big you are and what is big.
i try to expand at the most 1/3 of one building type at a time, or rather 1/4, and do short expansions, 2-3 days or something.
when i get those up i expand the next batch, that way you get the most production time of your biggest buildings.
if you would go from 200m2->1000m2, you would be running on your other 200m2 buildings, but if you do 200m2->300m2, and then run the 300m2, when you expand the next batch from 200m2 to 300m2.

i hope i was somewhat clear:D

a very big problem is if buildings dont expand at the same rate, then you have even bigger issues getting your production stable

its different for me because i only have 2 types of buildings that are connected to each other (wells, factories). I have 40 each. You say big expansions arent good. Well if i have 500m2 and wanna expand to 1000m2 thats 500m2 costing about 10 million. Lets say i have 200 million now, there s no way to expand less than 20 buildings. Soon i llb e making that 200 million a day so i have to expand 2000-3000m2 otherwise if i expand 10 buildings 1000m2 every day i llbe shutting down production within a week. So if I wanna expand lets say 4 buildings every day I have to expand 2000m2+ and there s no way around it.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 28.09.2007, 17:27

i think its probably better investing the extra cash into coins, and doing smaller expansions, the more small expansions you make the bigger profit and productivity.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 28.09.2007, 17:52

yes but my main goal when i started was to make top40 in fixed assets so i ve always spent everything on expansions. and now im really really close