I wouldn't raise the price for lawyers because then you'll get 0 customers, they will all complain that the price is too high and not use the services (that's why you weren't getting as much money as you expected for the day 92). What you could do instead is close the law firm on Saturday as well as Sunday, or leave only one or two lawyers scheduled, since the weekend isn't so popular. Then you won't get such a big number in expenses. Thanks for a great episode!)
I wish Big B would explore the city a tad more when he's got a day off. Let's see what's along the docks please, and there seems to be a lovely church not far from the park...
We could have a wander about but I'm not sure there's much we can interact with. I think that the RPG aspect of this game needs a bit of work in that regard.
You can change color on the furniture aswel. Go into the customization tab (where you do the walls and floor) and right click on the item you want to customize.
Loooving this series! I know the nitty gritty bits with the finicky other bits can be troublesome but you've been doing really well with it, Penge~ *Really* excited to see how this new business does once you have it up and running! Bernard's business rival is sure to get in a snit about it, but Bernard's greatness and goals cannot and should not be contained! lol Keep on Keeping On, Penge, and thank you so much for doing what you do~
Ok, you very nearly got it this time. Per my previous comment, you want to set the Logistics Manager to maintain double the capacity of your racks. Each clothing rack holds 50 items and you have two racks per clothing type. That means you need 100 of each clothing type just to keep the racks full (the inventory number includes what's on the rack), tell your LM to maintain double that amount (200 units of each type) at the store. The same approach applies to the flower shop, except that the shelves hold different amounts of product. Specifically, each rounded shelf holds 25 Exp flowers, 40 Chp flowers, or 200 gifts; you are also using some product panels which can each hold 100 Chp gifts. With your current Florist layout, the LM should maintain a stock of 100 Exp flowers, 160 Chp flowers, and 800 each of Exp and Chp gifts. As for the Purchasing Agent, the values you put in were correct as described, but given that some of your sales are pretty low right now and will increase as your staff improves, you might want to bump up those values by 100 or more. Really, as someone else already mentioned, there's no harm in just setting the values for the Purchasing Agent to 1000. You don't need that much, but it'll guarantee you don't have to think about purchasing again for quite some time. Employees have no effect on shelves getting restocked. Every shelf is topped off at 2am, after that each shelf will refil when it becomes empty. You'll want to stay away from the jewelry store for now as its incredibly expensive. If memory serves, each jewelry shelf is around 17k and the initial stock order was over 200k. Finally, loans are bad... in personal finance. In business finance they're just part of doing business and there is almost never a good reason to repay them ahead of schedule. For instance, you saved $350 a day by paying back the loan, but that money was enough to set up at least one, and possibly two businesses. That would have brought in 5-10k per day. The $350 is trivial by comparison and an example of why most businesses have debt. It is almost always better to use the debt to finance your expansion than it is to reduce your interest payment. Granted there's a limit to how much debt a company should maintain, but it is well above what you had or were likely to ever get. Anyway, still enjoying the playthrough, I do love a bit of admin, hope this all helps.
There will be a time where you need 1000+ in the warehouse, the suppliers will randomly run out of certain items making it impossible to buy from anywhere for 1-2 weeks
@@DonGorgen good point, I forgot about the shortages, still, for the most part he’ll be fine with the lower numbers and either way he’ll be able to get hands off the admin.
You can save your own store designs (the "Blueprints" option in the escape menu) to use at the interior decorator if you don't want to use a pre-built design. The only caveat is that the size needs to match, e.g. C2 designs can only be applied to C2 stores. Nice if you want to open a chain of stores with the same layout.
Haha!! Congratulations on discovering modern technology!! 🤣🤣🤣 Some time ago, I also made this wonderous realisation, in the same way!! 🤣🤣🤣 Isn't it AMAZING the things that younger people find obvious that older people have to learn from younger people?!?
@@TheGeekCupboard Hehe! I had to come to Korea for Korean people to teach me that ridiculously simple yet time saving trick!🤣🤣🤣 Korean people do this all the time automatically without thinking. And I remember thinking, "How stupid was I not to think of doing that?!?"
The interior decorator saves a TON of work. Just imagine a large shop, let's say a Jewelry Store for example, that can serve 75 people per hour. To make full use of that, you'd need to order around 60 furniture items from the store. That's not including decorative items, btw. But the game only allows you to order a maximum of 54 items at a time. Worse, even if you order from 2 or more stores, you're only allowed to have a maximum of 54 items piled in front of any building. So now you have to order 2 or more deliveries coming at different times, and hope to get enough items from the first delivery packed away before the second arrives. Even if you have the 8 item trolley from "definately not IKEA", that's going to be a lot of back and forth, but it's twice that if you have tre 4 item trolley. If you're setting up an office for 50 people, you could need hundreds of items of furniture. Just one table, chair and computer each comes to 150 items all by itself. With the Interior Designer, everything gets done at once. All the furniture arrives, no matter how many items that is, and all the walls and floors are done too. What's more, there are plenty of blueprints which have already had the security worked out, so you only have to hire guards (sometimes). You might need to check the checkout queues, but you won't need to fuss around moving things into your store/office. It's worth all the effort though. The second store I opened (a Jewelery store in Midtown that can serve 75 people per hour) is earning over 100,000 per day (over $1M Gross Profit per 7 days). I had to take a massive $800,000 loan from Vantander Bank to afford it, but the profits paid that back in just a few weeks. My 50 Lawyer office only makes about 90k per day, for comparison.
The boxes are Mary Poppin's boxes. It's magic. You might experiment with the interior designers when you open your next retail business, see if you like what they do. Right now, you kind of have the clothes store the way you like it.
Look at the potential profits of a store vs the rent and you'll find the rents are crazy cheap at the moment (the devs say they will change that). My big Jewelry Store in Midtown costs a bit over $1,000 per day. It's daily profit is over 100 times that. I will gladly spend $1K to make over $100K. And that's profit, so salaries, rent and $6.5K marketing is already factored into that as expenses. To make the really big money in this game, you need to find a location with a good Traffic Index, but also high Customer Capacity. In my current game, I'm focusing on bigger stores (30+ customer capacity) and I'm making over $3M per week from 13 stores. Two of which I'm still in the process of opening. And I'm only on Day 80.
You have a regular desk in the breakroom. Can you try to place the coffee machines on this desk. I also noticed that where you purchased the sofa there were kitchen counters which might also hold the coffee machines.
When you're scrolling throgh the candidate list, if you click on the bar where it says primary skill you can sort the list so that you have all the 100% stacked together then 99% and so on. And now, go look for 8 more lawyers and setup a evening shift. The max 8 just means 8 at a time.
Why will you increase the lawyers fees if they are not selling even at lower price. Decrease the price. You are overpriced in most of items in all businesses.
Oh what have I missed? I'll double check that. Again, I want someone to do that for me. What's the point of hiring logistics managers if I have to tell them what to do?!
Your lawey price was fine, you're gonna lose a lot of customers and money by upping the price that much. It's the weekend, they are useless for office business, so give them saturday off aswell.
I wouldn't raise the price for lawyers because then you'll get 0 customers, they will all complain that the price is too high and not use the services (that's why you weren't getting as much money as you expected for the day 92). What you could do instead is close the law firm on Saturday as well as Sunday, or leave only one or two lawyers scheduled, since the weekend isn't so popular. Then you won't get such a big number in expenses. Thanks for a great episode!)
I will give that a go. This game is melting my brain, it's so complicated!
I wish Big B would explore the city a tad more when he's got a day off. Let's see what's along the docks please, and there seems to be a lovely church not far from the park...
We could have a wander about but I'm not sure there's much we can interact with. I think that the RPG aspect of this game needs a bit of work in that regard.
You can change color on the furniture aswel. Go into the customization tab (where you do the walls and floor) and right click on the item you want to customize.
Loooving this series! I know the nitty gritty bits with the finicky other bits can be troublesome but you've been doing really well with it, Penge~ *Really* excited to see how this new business does once you have it up and running! Bernard's business rival is sure to get in a snit about it, but Bernard's greatness and goals cannot and should not be contained! lol Keep on Keeping On, Penge, and thank you so much for doing what you do~
Ok, you very nearly got it this time. Per my previous comment, you want to set the Logistics Manager to maintain double the capacity of your racks. Each clothing rack holds 50 items and you have two racks per clothing type. That means you need 100 of each clothing type just to keep the racks full (the inventory number includes what's on the rack), tell your LM to maintain double that amount (200 units of each type) at the store. The same approach applies to the flower shop, except that the shelves hold different amounts of product. Specifically, each rounded shelf holds 25 Exp flowers, 40 Chp flowers, or 200 gifts; you are also using some product panels which can each hold 100 Chp gifts. With your current Florist layout, the LM should maintain a stock of 100 Exp flowers, 160 Chp flowers, and 800 each of Exp and Chp gifts. As for the Purchasing Agent, the values you put in were correct as described, but given that some of your sales are pretty low right now and will increase as your staff improves, you might want to bump up those values by 100 or more. Really, as someone else already mentioned, there's no harm in just setting the values for the Purchasing Agent to 1000. You don't need that much, but it'll guarantee you don't have to think about purchasing again for quite some time. Employees have no effect on shelves getting restocked. Every shelf is topped off at 2am, after that each shelf will refil when it becomes empty. You'll want to stay away from the jewelry store for now as its incredibly expensive. If memory serves, each jewelry shelf is around 17k and the initial stock order was over 200k. Finally, loans are bad... in personal finance. In business finance they're just part of doing business and there is almost never a good reason to repay them ahead of schedule. For instance, you saved $350 a day by paying back the loan, but that money was enough to set up at least one, and possibly two businesses. That would have brought in 5-10k per day. The $350 is trivial by comparison and an example of why most businesses have debt. It is almost always better to use the debt to finance your expansion than it is to reduce your interest payment. Granted there's a limit to how much debt a company should maintain, but it is well above what you had or were likely to ever get. Anyway, still enjoying the playthrough, I do love a bit of admin, hope this all helps.
There will be a time where you need 1000+ in the warehouse, the suppliers will randomly run out of certain items making it impossible to buy from anywhere for 1-2 weeks
@@DonGorgen good point, I forgot about the shortages, still, for the most part he’ll be fine with the lower numbers and either way he’ll be able to get hands off the admin.
You can save your own store designs (the "Blueprints" option in the escape menu) to use at the interior decorator if you don't want to use a pre-built design. The only caveat is that the size needs to match, e.g. C2 designs can only be applied to C2 stores. Nice if you want to open a chain of stores with the same layout.
Haha!! Congratulations on discovering modern technology!! 🤣🤣🤣 Some time ago, I also made this wonderous realisation, in the same way!! 🤣🤣🤣 Isn't it AMAZING the things that younger people find obvious that older people have to learn from younger people?!?
It seemed so obvious! I had a pencil and paper ready but yes, hurrah for technology!
@@TheGeekCupboard Hehe! I had to come to Korea for Korean people to teach me that ridiculously simple yet time saving trick!🤣🤣🤣 Korean people do this all the time automatically without thinking. And I remember thinking, "How stupid was I not to think of doing that?!?"
The interior decorator saves a TON of work. Just imagine a large shop, let's say a Jewelry Store for example, that can serve 75 people per hour. To make full use of that, you'd need to order around 60 furniture items from the store. That's not including decorative items, btw. But the game only allows you to order a maximum of 54 items at a time. Worse, even if you order from 2 or more stores, you're only allowed to have a maximum of 54 items piled in front of any building. So now you have to order 2 or more deliveries coming at different times, and hope to get enough items from the first delivery packed away before the second arrives. Even if you have the 8 item trolley from "definately not IKEA", that's going to be a lot of back and forth, but it's twice that if you have tre 4 item trolley. If you're setting up an office for 50 people, you could need hundreds of items of furniture. Just one table, chair and computer each comes to 150 items all by itself.
With the Interior Designer, everything gets done at once. All the furniture arrives, no matter how many items that is, and all the walls and floors are done too. What's more, there are plenty of blueprints which have already had the security worked out, so you only have to hire guards (sometimes). You might need to check the checkout queues, but you won't need to fuss around moving things into your store/office.
It's worth all the effort though. The second store I opened (a Jewelery store in Midtown that can serve 75 people per hour) is earning over 100,000 per day (over $1M Gross Profit per 7 days). I had to take a massive $800,000 loan from Vantander Bank to afford it, but the profits paid that back in just a few weeks. My 50 Lawyer office only makes about 90k per day, for comparison.
The boxes are Mary Poppin's boxes. It's magic. You might experiment with the interior designers when you open your next retail business, see if you like what they do. Right now, you kind of have the clothes store the way you like it.
Don’t forget to stock paper bags loving the series
You know down on the docks there is a casino on that big boat you should check it out.
That has been mentioned before! Maybe we'll take a trip out there.
Finally ,I got to watch this beautiful big ambition. I have been busy
Thank you for the interesting video!
Maybe hire a cleaner for Big B"s Big Bills, you got the cleaning station there
That's part of the plan, we did start looking for cleaners, we just need to hire some now!
Look at the potential profits of a store vs the rent and you'll find the rents are crazy cheap at the moment (the devs say they will change that). My big Jewelry Store in Midtown costs a bit over $1,000 per day. It's daily profit is over 100 times that. I will gladly spend $1K to make over $100K. And that's profit, so salaries, rent and $6.5K marketing is already factored into that as expenses. To make the really big money in this game, you need to find a location with a good Traffic Index, but also high Customer Capacity. In my current game, I'm focusing on bigger stores (30+ customer capacity) and I'm making over $3M per week from 13 stores. Two of which I'm still in the process of opening. And I'm only on Day 80.
Loving this series
You have a regular desk in the breakroom. Can you try to place the coffee machines on this desk. I also noticed that where you purchased the sofa there were kitchen counters which might also hold the coffee machines.
I think the problem is that the van is not big enough, remember that the driver has to go to the port and back multiple times.
The van size only affects the number of stores you can deliver to, not how much it can bring to those stores.
30+ in traffic is pretty good, highest I've ever seen is 52.
When you're scrolling throgh the candidate list, if you click on the bar where it says primary skill you can sort the list so that you have all the 100% stacked together then 99% and so on.
And now, go look for 8 more lawyers and setup a evening shift. The max 8 just means 8 at a time.
You need at last 1000 of each item in the warehouse.
Can you open a nightclub next?
That way, you're providing the place for the date, after selling them the clothes and gifts.
Why will you increase the lawyers fees if they are not selling even at lower price. Decrease the price. You are overpriced in most of items in all businesses.
That modern expensive female clothing still stuck at 10.
Oh what have I missed? I'll double check that. Again, I want someone to do that for me. What's the point of hiring logistics managers if I have to tell them what to do?!
Your lawey price was fine, you're gonna lose a lot of customers and money by upping the price that much. It's the weekend, they are useless for office business, so give them saturday off aswell.
Why not simply 'Big B's Billboards'?
... I didn't think of that. To be fair to me, it was quite late when I recorded this and I was tired!
Are you able to buy the properties instead of just renting? I don't know much about the game but was just wondering.
you can, but cheap properties are around $5M and they very quickly get to over $100M
Buying buildings are more for late game when you have millions lying around and you want to avoid negative interest
Don't worry about investments yet, that become usefull when you have millions lying around and want to avoid negative interest
anything other than purchasing every day just makes no sense. if you want less fiddling, just get more stock. use your money to make life easier.
None of your expensive clothing is selling. Decrease the pricing significantly and see your profits fly.
Why are you still fiddlig with the training, your HR managers will do that for you.