Yea, I'm hovering around 300~ in sales, with 3 stores with a total area of 68m^2. I read on the forum, that you dont really see sales every tick until you get a store to 1k m^2.
What? I see dozens of sales/tick. It all depends on your price and your advertising. My current advertising power is 32.2M with a +74.78% effect and as an example I sell 13-14 baseballs per tick at a price of $207 which nets me about $2690 per tick or about 3 dollars a second if I didn't bork the math.
I'm netting around 3-4k a tick depending if my largest store isn't being expended again.
But I'm finding it really hard to stay as small as I am. I only have 8 products around 9Q (Not counting the starting fruit.) Most of my factories are still under 20m. I've manage to get 4 of my five orchards over 20m With one sitting at 220m^2, but that was do to a fluke at the start of the game, when I didnt understand what expanding does, and was experimenting.
All my experimentation, feels like a punishment, by the way. DF is a way harder game to learn, but experimenting and failing was actually awarding. Here, it's just slowing my entire game down.
But yea, in general, I'm floating around 100k. Whenever I do find myself around 300k, I generally have to buy shit tonne of water or electricity, or restock my store with the foodstuff that I cant make myself.
The only thing that selling decently with high margins is my orange sorbet market, that I do through B2B.
Right now, I'm trying to crank out as many oranges as possible to dump in mass on the Export market. It's my highest Q so that should be helping with the Export, I think.
The other smaller farms are trying to keep the shelfs stocked for my farmer market with goods, which is kinda of hard.
My salaries, maintenance, interest means my Annual cost is about a 225k, which I'm rarely at.
With constant research, product, and right now singular expansion of a store, I'm almost always broke.
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Buy things at a decent quantity size, is really expensive on the B2B market, and it's prices are independent from the Store prices. Often time you're buying goods at crappy Q for high cost, in either over saturation or near 100%.
If I could restart, I would be doing a lot better, I would know how to focus and direct the starting loan much better, but right now I'm just paying for my learning the game. I'm not sure when I'll start to make any actual money.
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