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Let's focus in cars, trucks, finished stuff only; be a realtailer!

3 (21.4%)

Keep the current inventory mix, it has worked fine til now!

3 (21.4%)

Become a tuning car shop, add engines and chip to stores

2 (14.3%)

Stay hungry, stay gredish: sell everything that we produce in the whole vehicle chain to keep surplus at minimum

6 (42.9%)

Total Members Voted: 11

[LoSboccacc]

I think everyone should 

the problem is that there is no 'raise' interface. I'd have to fire you all and recreate all openings (wich sucks)

I was thinking about 1% of the  earning before taxes, each.

[Supercharazad]

Ah, I think it has to be done once the contract expires and renegotiations happen. So a couple of days.

[GreatJustice]

How can electricity be 0.05? The cost of production is 0.07 IIRC

[LoSboccacc]

How can electricity be 0.05? The cost of production is 0.07 IIRC

that's the unit price.
economy of scale 

[Scelly9]

How can electricity be 0.05? The cost of production is 0.07 IIRC

You get a discount for making in bulk.

[MarcAFK]

If you make your own quality 0 water from your own quality 0 electricity from your own quality 0 gas made from your own quality 0 electricity...
erm, yeah it cuts cost down.

[LoSboccacc]

It isn't just that. It changes a lot if you make one, one thousand or one million, even if the material costs stay the same

Just put powers of ten on any production slider and you'll see that production costs doesn't dimply add up. (the proper formula is on the forums)

[Supercharazad]

We're WAY down on stock. Somebody, start getting car bodies, motorcycles, SUVs, truck bodies and vans in the warehouse!

[MarcAFK]

Those trucks i bought aren't selling, maybe 1 every 5 hours, doh

[Supercharazad]

We should have enough money to repay our loan now, and stop having to pay interest.

[Muz]

We're very low on wheels and seats. Can't find any good prices on the market, so I just got a few to keep production going.

Also low on vehicle bodies, but due to extreme prices, I'm not going to buy any unless you guys want me to.

[BallC420]

Guys,

I've turned on retail automation running every 15 minutes so stock problems should be a thing of the past.

It will buy from import or B2B (whichever is a better deal based on Q-adjusted value ratios) and resets prices to Lazy2x price on every tick. Not sure if that's good or bad for the stuff we produce so feel free to suggest an alternate pricing strategy (maybe a minimum multiple of the Q-adjusted value?). It will try to keep 1 hour worth of product in stock for every product so for the vehicles that sell 1 every couple hours, it'll keep 4 around.


edit: Oh, can someone accept my application for Sales Manager? It's easier for me to keep an eye on the automation without having to log in to the other account.

[MarcAFK]

Where's this automation feature?

[BallC420]

Where's this automation feature?

Custom written by yours truly. I'm the one they're complaining about on the official forums for spamming their news feed with my "just-in-time inventory" strategy.

Log file snippet (that shows we're slacking on marketing spend as well):

Code: [Select]

Setting active firm to 4705...
Sucessfully set active firm to 4705 - 'Auto Union Inc.'
Retrieving retail data for firm 4705 - Auto Union Inc.
Retrieving data for Store 5205
Retrieving import market listings for 1 store types
Retrieving B2B market listings for 1 store types
Car Body - Buying 4 from Import - Q15 for $37,619.75 (Ratio: 4.45)
Store 5205 - Profit per tick: $141,375.00
Store 5205 - Marketing is at 0.63 % of optimal (M: 9,378,175 - Opt: 1,488,113,165) - Cost: $14,787,349

It does R&D too in case we want to use that... screenshot1 screenshot2

[LoSboccacc]

is the bot configurable?

we have some money so we can keep longer stockpiles, like a half day worth, with the bot running just every quarter day?

(I say this just because of what scott said about message spamming)