MacNab24 It is hard to sell fabric and clothes as a new player, coz the quality is too low to sell in stores. Keeping them is a drag on your scarce resources. I would focus on finding a product that only requires a low quality to sell, and start producing that. Use the Analytics - Market analysis tab to find interesting markets, and the Analytics - Reference tab to discover what you need to produce goods.
Using the profits of distribution (selling products in your stores) to fund research to increase the quality of your products might also be a good idea.
starting in research early is a bad idea. it costs too much. equipment is way too expensive for a new player to afford. And how to finance the research when you are struggling with profitability to begin with....?
If you need higher tech, buy factories with installed higher tech from the second hand market. Sometimes you get lucky with equipment as well because the game values equipment at much lower rate than what it cost brand new to purchase (same thing with raw materials). Also, in certain cities with very high hiring costs, you can get a factory with staff already hired, save you more.
You should atleast be in the 100 millions to consider inhousing research.
I have upto 19/20 tech that I use in factories and farms and most of the tech I use comes from purchased factories that had tech with them. This is especially useful now that you can increase capacity factories without limit. Earlier I would buy a high tech and make my own factories. Now I just buy one license and its all I need if I cant find used factory on the market.
New player should stick to commerce. When you have established stable profits of several millions, then consider going into other things. Ideally, stop your fabric factory as well because its hard to sell to other players unless there is shortage etc..Plus the game is like half dead. I'm guessing no more than a few thousand people play this game regularly. And every now and then a dead player comes back online to dump all his old unsold purchased stock into the market, then its really hard to sell new stock profitably. I just came back after like 2 years and sold alot of stock for basically free to get some cash and start again. And when I couldn't sell enough for throw away prices in wholesale, I went into retail. Now I sell 1.5 million royal jelly per update in retail and it will still take me 40 updates to get rid of all the stock. If I produce this inhouse, I'll be no.5 producer lol. So this kind of thing also happens. |