making money????

[susplayz]

I like the concept of the game but it's impossible to make a profit and getting a loan is pointless because you never have time to pay it back. What you pay for the product plus the selling price doesn't leave you very much. Why doesn't this thing have a sandbox mode?? I'm glad I got it on sale because this was a waste of money. It is not enjoyable at all when all you do is barely cut even and anytime you upgrade you're screwed

[DrummerJacob]

Originally posted by jessbasta84:

I like the concept of the game but it's impossible to make a profit and getting a loan is pointless because you never have time to pay it back. What you pay for the product plus the selling price doesn't leave you very much. Why doesn't this thing have a sandbox mode?? I'm glad I got it on sale because this was a waste of money. It is not enjoyable at all when all you do is barely cut even and anytime you upgrade you're screwed

Seems like you dont know how to play the game. You do have to pay the loan back. Theres even an achievement for it.

Also, you dont like the profit margin? Okay? So thats your opinion and your feeling. I disagree completely and think the pricing is fine and once you get everything going, its fine and can make 10k in an hour, even though I'll have to spend some of it. And? What...

I have over $150K+ saved up and the save Im on only has like 25 hours played. How is that not a lot of money?

Imagine that in real-game days. To make $150K at a gas station, even as the owner, would take quite some time.

I have a friend in California that owns a few 711s. I think he owns 3. And he makes something like 45-110k a year from each one as I recall from the time we talked about it. I was asking him some stuff about franchising and how costly it is and how hard it is to get a foot in the door, so I got a little info from him.

If I am able to make $150k+ in just 20 hours of irl time, thats not even a year in-game, and thus were making WAY more than people do in real life.

If you feel its a waste of money, thats fine. Might want to play demos first before buying. They took all this time to build a demo version of this game and allow you to try it out for free and you didnt even do that, and now youre here ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the product on the companies Steam forum when they literally gave you what you paid for.

Thats a you issue my guy.

[susplayz]

wow no need to be hostile I can't even make more than a grand? Maybe a little helpful advice or something to show me I messed up would be useful. To those who are new to the game, the first impression is confusing and tutorials aren't very helpful.

[Lagkill]

Profit margins are in line with a real gas station. They don't make a lot of money.

[The Knight of Faerie]

If you can't even make a grand in GSS, then that's not the game's fault. It's yours. It's a slow and tedious grind, but I managed to save up enough to pay off the initial loan on time just selling gas. Yes, profit margins are low. But they DO exist. If you have no profit margin, that's entirely due to over spending. Sure, I might spend 5k restocking the car repair workshop, but I'll make twice that (at least) from the car repairs. Sure I may spend a couple grand on fuel, but I'll make about 2.3 grand from it. Sure I'm spending a couple grand on products to be sold in the store, but that's making roughly 2.3 grand.

Even with paying the salaries of 4 employees every 12 hours and restocking the gas station, there's still plenty of profits and a finite number of landmarks/decorations you can buy.

And once you have it unlocked, there's always closing everything else down and just running the car wash for a while. The car wash is 100% pure (if low) profit, all it costs you is having to go down into the sewer to clear the waterways of trash every so often.

[Gol]

When buying things to sell, be it items or gas, you'll see a red or green dot by the price. If the dot is green it means that the current price is below the average price to buy it, if it is red it means that it is higher than the average price to buy it. Green dot prices are not a bad time to splurge to fill inventory. When it's red I try to keep a minimum on hand until the price goes green again. You can also check the selling price for the item by clicking the graph button when you have the item selected in the order screen- this allows you to see what your profit margin will be. Some items, like oil for an oil change, have a pretty large profit margin. If the margin is high even in the red, you don't really have to focus too much on being careful when you order more. Other items have a a pretty bad profit margin, which in turn means that you should be more careful when ordering those items.

Try to get as high of a tip as possible when you are personally serving customers gas or merchandise- the gas filling minigame is pretty easy. I don't focus on the needle, but beside the needle, and I can get it near perfect every time while holding the boost button. It's ok to stop the conveyor belt when selling merchandise- its far more important to scan and put items in correctly than it is to get it done quickly. Try to avoid cleaning the belt while it's running- I've accidentally yeeted items off the belt this way.

As your station progresses, I'm not sure if it's by station level or station popularity, people will order more gas at a time and more items at a time, which leads to better profit per minute.

There are also options in the "Gameplay" menu that you can toggle that will turn off certain aspects of gameplay- things like people stealing from your warehouse if you leave it open, and the Denis The Menace knockoff kid. I've turned off as much annoying stuff as I can, and it's made the game more enjoyable. I played this game first at release, and those options weren't present.

[The Knight of Faerie]

Originally posted by Gol:

Try to avoid cleaning the belt while it's running- I've accidentally yeeted items off the belt this way.

Just to point out here, but you can ONLY clean the belt while it's running. So try to only clean near the end, and stop cleaning once you see products on it.

Originally posted by Gol:

There are also options in the "Gameplay" menu that you can toggle that will turn off certain aspects of gameplay- things like people stealing from your warehouse if you leave it open, and the Denis The Menace knockoff kid. I've turned off as much annoying stuff as I can, and it's made the game more enjoyable. I played this game first at release, and those options weren't present.

I tend to turn off the kid vandalizing the station, but turning off warehouse stealing isn't needed. All you have to do to prevent thefts is remember to close the vehicle doors after a delivery truck leaves. Also, while it can be annoying, once you have employees to cover the cash register the Party Bus event isn't that bad, so long as you keep the shelves stocked. And it can be a somewhat high profit event.

The key to turning a profit is to not over spend. I know, duh, obvious point is obvious. But it still needs to be said. Early on, only buy one case of any given store product at a time. Only buy 100 units of fuel at a time instead of completely filling the fuel tank. Only buy enough parts to keep the garage stocked instead of having a full restock in the warehouse, focusing more on tires (since those get used up fast), since garage parts are kind of expensive.

Later when you have more funds and enough warehouse space, THEN you can consider laying in full restocks of products beyond what's on the shelves. Something you'll want to consider doing with the Airstrip DLC anyway so you have goods for trading to get high profit merchandise.

[tinak321]

How do we turn off the kid...im on the computer an don't see it anywhere...since we gotta run to the airport now junkyard can't be around when it shows up

[sasorkrk]

Originally posted by tinak321:

How do we turn off the kid...im on the computer an don't see it anywhere...since we gotta run to the airport now junkyard can't be around when it shows up

You can turn him off in the game settings.