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[Sowelu]

yeah I could have done better than a supermarket myself.  I do not like dealing with >100 items.  I'm just gonna suck it up for now, and slowly work on my desserts, beverages, ice creams and confections.  Also, vanilla.

[Sirian]

I wonder how ridicilous store/factory/R&D sizes would get at some point. Stores the size of small countries. Mines that should realistically extend to the core of the planet.

I doubt that, don't forget that maintenance/salaries go up exponentially as you expand your buildings. If you look up the highest ranked players, they don't have crazysauce-sized buildings. There's probably a sweet spot somewhere around 1k-3k mē, and after that you have to build another factory/store/R&D for optimum results.

Edit : the top ranking factory (probably a mine ?) is 90kmē, which is 300m*300m. Not that big.

[MarcAFK]

I;m loving my gas station, theres only 2 dozen or so items and theyt sell pretty well, also beverages would be rather easy to start produicing myself, and theres maybe a dozen items that sell better than others, gasoline, milk, etc, i try to keep 25 k of each around.

[LoSboccacc]

I'm still at farmer markets: it's the noob market, I know, but I can stuff half of it with lvl 1 products (requiring only water and energy, that is)

it's also cheap to expand, which is good as I don't have money around, ever 


btw: I gained 40x of my investment in the stock market with high frequency trading; I wish it were that easy in real life 

[Domenique]

I;m loving my gas station, theres only 2 dozen or so items and theyt sell pretty well, also beverages would be rather easy to start produicing myself, and theres maybe a dozen items that sell better than others, gasoline, milk, etc, i try to keep 25 k of each around.

People buy more sorbet than gas in my gas station. Sorbet station sounds better. It's like there's a new car that runs on sorbet. Or people just stopped giving a fuck.

[MarcAFK]

Just looking at stocks that iv'e sold recently makes me waht to cry, k could have made a few million on them.
But then again what i bought is gaining value anyway so i'm happy.
Also i'm kinda missing the automation of capitalism, once you set production up it just keeps going as long as raw materials are available, which is inevitable if you supply everything yourself.
But i have a fairly good strategy which is to buy everything of a certain type then priuce it so they sell around the same amount per tiuck, then multiply that by 40 to get the amount of reserve i need to keep, that way i shoiuldn't really need to screw around with repricing everything as long as the same quality and price is still available to import.
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I;m loving my gas station, theres only 2 dozen or so items and theyt sell pretty well, also beverages would be rather easy to start produicing myself, and theres maybe a dozen items that sell better than others, gasoline, milk, etc, i try to keep 25 k of each around.

People buy more sorbet than gas in my gas station. Sorbet station sounds better. It's like there's a new car that runs on sorbet. Or people just stopped giving a fuck.

Change your prices around maybe?
My size 100 store is selling about 25 of Almost everything (beverages/canned foods/icecream) , 50 of sorbet, 100 of milk/milk/milk/cream/cheese and 124 Gasoline.. I could make more profit if i reduce the gasoline price but i only have capacity to actually make 124 gas per tick. Producing it myself is god because it only costs $2.40 and i'm selling it at 23.

[Paul]

The game is so random with its quests.

I just got one to supply milk in a jug at 7.50 a unit. WTF game? I'm an electronics company.

It also keeps giving me quests to do with retail. Expand a store to 130, sell a bunch of money worth of stuff, etc. I don't even own a store anymore - I'm just a manufacturer that sells B2B. My store was doing so poorly I just sold it off.

So far the only quest it has given me that I could actually complete was to expand my factory to 74, which I did by expanding it by 4 (it was 70). It also asked for 5 units of digital camera once, but paid me so little for them that it wasn't really worth it.

[LoSboccacc]

there is a page with the % you can gain from each product by directly getting it from import and placing on the market at the current average price..

it's nice and help when stocking up stuff, to give priorities of non b2b available stuff

http://www.ratjoy.com/eos/tools/import_export_data.php (they say it's outdated, but it doesn't seem so)

you have to manually compute the percentage gain by (store ratio/import ratio) * 100

sort it up and chose the best on top, maybe it's outdated, but so far, it works!

[Carcanken]

Just made a ton of money yesterday, been doing pretty good, anyone need some hot foods at a discount price?

[Lord Allagon]

How is the market for natural gas? I just put 5000 units for 1,22 and it got bought literally seconds after.

[Paul]

Wow, that's a big jump from yesterday. I wonder if someone is playing that market now - just yesterday there was millions at .95.

[andrea]

I just bought some gas ... I wonder if it was your gas?
if so, that was just luck. bought it only because my well was busy with water.
if echozon wasn't involved, then the market is good.

[Lord Allagon]

Someone called Meatstravaganza and someone called Aranea Industries. But the latter just bought 150.

[andrea]

then it was not me, and the market might be good. I'll try selling some later.

[ndkid]

Oh god, I just started expanding my hardware store for the first time. SUDDEN DOUBLING OF DEMAND FOR EVERYTHING!!!! I was expecting more of a log curve, but, nope, now I need to double my inventories STAT!