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[PanH]

I think retail is the easiest until you paid your debt and are settled.

[Sensei]

I started off with a silica sand of quality 51, making me the second best on the market- I figured I should go into producing it right away, since it's selling for $5 a unit right now and costs me all of $0.50 to make, or so, in resources. Is anyone here consuming silica sand at all? I might just go into consuming my own stuff if I can't find a buyer, but I plan to undercut the existing sellers. I imagine there's not many people doing glass anyway, so I might be able to do that.

[FluidDynamite]

A minor note to people having trouble logging in to the normal server today (capitalism-online): It seems to be an issue with Firefox, you can get into the normal server if you use other browsers such as Chrome. Saw this on their forums, and it solved my problem, thought it'll be useful to other people with the same issue.

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I don't know if I'm missing something, but I don't understand why people are so eager to pay off their debts. Getting a loan only incurs the one time processing fee, and a daily rate of 1%. I feel like it's pretty easy to get returns above 1%, eg. earn more than 100k by investing 10mil. That and since the loan cap is calculated from your net worth and not your cash, I find it pretty efficient to always take loans until you're at the loan cap whenever you can, and just find something to invest the cash into.

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Re: Silica sand, I'm not too sure if selling it on the B2B is going to be too profitable, due to the nature of the stuff it's used in. Glass bottles don't need quality that much since most of the food items it's used in it has a fairly low quality weighting (usually 10%). Glass and silicon are used in high-end products, so I'm guessing that those manufacturers are mostly capable of producing high quality sand by themselves due to their size. Not too sure about quartz. Just my 2 cents though, I could be completely wrong. I think your chances are better if you try to use the sand to produce something and then sell that item.

[PanH]

Well, you can sell glass bottles at the industrial store, and often with products that are not high end, there is sometimes lots of demand. Though, it's sold at 1.75, Q85 on the BB, so yeah, the glass bottle market is probably full.
What are your others research (also, if you've not done much, you can restart, which grants new research).

[Funk]

Under cuts LordSlowpoke then watches as some one posts a batch at 0.03!
Do you mind if i ask you how big your power plants are and what your using for fuel.

The glass bottle market is massively over priced, there sub 0.25 to make

[Carnwennan]

If you could refine that sand into glass, I might be able to use it to make fibreglass.

[PanH]

The glass bottle market is massively over priced, there sub 0.25 to make

Compared to the BB prices, it's under priced. I mean, it's only 700% !

Edit : electricity prices down again (well, more or less).

[Sensei]

I've started making some glass, but it's not incredibly competitive (Q38). I also took out some more loans and opened a hardware store, and a second mine to produce even more obscene amounts of sand. I've noticed that glass on the B2B is a lot higher priced than what's apparently being sold in stores, someone's selling high quality stuff for cheap.

I also got my friend into the game- she started with tech 51 in integrated circuits, so she's also researching microprocessors and silicon, with the hope of producing integrated circuits and microprocessors to supply vehicle makers (although she opened an electronics store too).

[FritzPL]

I'm planning on doing roughly the same thing, but building laptops and PCs instead, and maybe some other electronic accessories. Mainly computers though. I think this is the way to go - in electronics industry, only resources you use are silicon and integrated circuit, which come from silica sand and tungsten powder, which are fairly easy to get... I just need to sell my goddamn company and I can not because apparently my b2b transactions are 'under investigation' Pissing me off big time, but what can you do.

[Brilliand]

Found the game through this thread.  Thanks for mentioning it!

All of my companies are producing water and electricity, because I think the prices are too high (and if prices are too high, then moving into that industry is a great way to make money).

Note that the most deadly thing you can do to someone trying to fix prices is to sell just barely below their price - that way, when they buy up your stock to maintain their monopoly, they don't gain much and they support your business model, allowing you to grow like crazy until the market is saturated.

[Supercharazad]

I've just begun selling electricity at 0.06
I'm making it for 0.03, so I'm still getting a 100% markup on it, but I'm also undercutting the 0.07 price that everybody else is using.

EDIT: Jesus Christ, companies in this game get big. The largest is $53.2 Trillion!

[MarcAFK]

I just logged back onto this on the 10th, to find that all my businesses were lost in disasters the previous day, doh.
At least i got the insurance, This time i might do something more interesting than merely buying up all land and sticking Farms or Factories/mines on 60% of the land, stores on 35%, and 2 or more research centers, then sticking half of each onto 7 day expansion, queueing up 7 days research/production, then logging out for a week.
Repeat ad nauseum for 10 weeks then get bored and let everything get deleted.
So, yeah.

[lastverb]

I just started playing yesterday, currently exploiting items with low market demand met. Anyone got proper salaries formula for my spreadsheet?

[Brilliand]

I just started playing yesterday, currently exploiting items with low market demand met. Anyone got proper salaries formula for my spreadsheet?

http://www.ratjoy.com/forum/topic/a-single-place-for-all-revealed-formulas/2

$1 x (building size) ^ 1.2

I just discovered that stores work better selling just your one best thing than selling many things of varying profitability (despite the efficiency penalty), so I'm basically disposing of all the junk I bought at NPC prices to stock my shops.  My main server account is basically trading in cans and toy keyboards at this point, with a little dolls and linen thread on the side.

[MadMalkavian]

I think I might get back into this again if I can find something that I want to produce and/or sell. I'm thinking maybe apparel of some kind.