Making to much money.

[FlyingDutchMan]

So apperently im making to much money,

Im selling cocain hidden in tvs and im just making way to much money.

My buildings are over flowing with cash and i got controle over 3/4 citys filled with money laundering buildings. the whole money laundering is just going way to slow to keep up. meanwhile my terror or whatever you wanne call it is going over the roof simpely because my buildings are overflowing with cash. i mean its almost like ur being punished right now for making alot of cash. Guess making alot of money cant buy you out of the problem of making alot of money.

[Cesmed818]

thank for the info im broke cant seem to make fast cash this help :)

[Tomfool]

I'm pretty sure this is intentional and I for one quite enjoy it. Much in real life Cartels have to manage their growth carefully to both keep a low profile and ensure they have the infrastructure to clean their cash. I for one have found terror laughably easy to take care of, I've got almost a million legal cash banked and earned no more than 2 stars, just use the loyalty & mayor favour mechanics to keep it in check. When a export location produces more money than you can clean start to scale it down a bit and instead begin investing towards other export hubs with other surrounding laundering businesses. Also, make sure you are not paying legal money upkeep on any buildings by using residences, and try pay as many salaries in dirty too, really boosts your legal income. If you've ever watched a cartel show having more money than they can actually make use of is a common theme, it's part of the challenge. There's alot of money to be made in drugs, but get too greedy and you'll choke on your ambition.

[Vichi]

I think we are just building too much farms. I have 1 city with 2 businesses: Opoum and Weed. I've decided toget rid of the Opium, and only leave the current Weed business. Once im done with concluding the opium business, I will start building Cocain in the other city I currently control.

[Vichi]

I feel we may need more options for building more laundry places.

[FlyingDutchMan]

I mean its early acces, for now the options seem pretty good.

The speed up process of laundering would be nice, or atleast locations where you can store your dirty money. Right now im maxed out in residences with overflowing cash, all the ports and plane strips im using are overflowing aswell. I mean its funny to me that im able to build banks but not store most of my dirty cash there. (Not talking about laundering) pretty sure you would be able to pay people not to notice it if you got that much money comming in. Or atleast spend it on something. Im doing the special actions with most buildings aswell, you give it away for good reputation, that cooldown is pretty long aswell and my reputation is already maxed out. For now im just starting over most of the time with new sandbox matches since the building up to it is far more fun than actually being succesfull ;p

[JiN]

I make 90k with 1 port... and have enough time...

[Jackal_NL:]

This game is not yet prepared for dutchies :) who have a build in gift for trade and growing party materials for the mind. I say we are missing a Carnival event to laundy a lot of diry cash...... :D

[Milkman]

I feel your pain. I just gave up and will wait for future updates. The CONSTANT overflow of cash is just too much. you have to maintain some insane sweet spot that is exactly $3 wide in order for all your businesses to remain funded, the clean cash flowing, and paying your lieutenants. And that's another annoyance. dude has been sitting on the city this whole game because apparently there's an invisible gang that takes my stuff if I don't and now he wants me to give him a raise every month or he will freak out and kill one of my dudes? Now I have to always keep at least one person with silent assassin just so I can maintain my organization without people demanding over a 1000 a day.

[_Red_]

@TomFool found the right words imo. illegal growth also needs clever investments and growing too fast just raises attention and causes problems in that business. the first two cities give enough possibilities to get some money for a proper grow of the cartel, after the 5th city it's much easier because you have plenty of laundry's. it's slow gameplay, keeping terror low and ask for that special mayor favour just to grow that empire with only one terror star. :D
at a certain stage you just swim in money, both legal and illegal.

[FlyingDutchMan]

It doesnt really matter how you start, it will be slow cause everyone starts off slow its how the game is build. It doesnt matter if you export opium into the air or set up a big operation with shipping, you earn way more than you can launder since the laundering time is WAY TO SLOW.

[Lerc]

Originally posted by Milkman:

I feel your pain. I just gave up and will wait for future updates. The CONSTANT overflow of cash is just too much. you have to maintain some insane sweet spot that is exactly $3 wide in order for all your businesses to remain funded, the clean cash flowing, and paying your lieutenants. And that's another annoyance. dude has been sitting on the city this whole game because apparently there's an invisible gang that takes my stuff if I don't and now he wants me to give him a raise every month or he will freak out and kill one of my dudes? Now I have to always keep at least one person with silent assassin just so I can maintain my organization without people demanding over a 1000 a day.

100%. This, all of it.

[Milkman]

Originally posted by FlyingDutchMan:

It doesnt really matter how you start, it will be slow cause everyone starts off slow its how the game is build. It doesnt matter if you export opium into the air or set up a big operation with shipping, you earn way more than you can launder since the laundering time is WAY TO SLOW.

With 3 cities and 3 residences I had 1 weed plantation along with some drying racks and packing it into coffee. Was just barely keeping the 1 shipping port I was using under its maximum money (while overflowing all my residences) once I stopped my opium/vggie shipments. But yeah..... just gotta wait till they balance things a bit more.

[YunggGravy]

Yeah I am finding that once you learn to manage terror with the loyalty/mayor mechanic, you can rake in the cash. I control four regions and have over 2 mill in dirty and about 500k in clean money and I am running out of things to spend money on.

I should be able to hire a small private army to take on my rivals. Plus how come the org chart really limits who you can control. The rule of 3 is the best rule and one we followed in the Marine Corps. One person can reliably manage three others. 3 lieutenants should be able to manage 9 people then!

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by FlyingDutchMan:

So apperently im making to much money,

Im selling cocain hidden in tvs and im just making way to much money.

My buildings are over flowing with cash and i got controle over 3/4 citys filled with money laundering buildings. the whole money laundering is just going way to slow to keep up. meanwhile my terror or whatever you wanne call it is going over the roof simpely because my buildings are overflowing with cash. i mean its almost like ur being punished right now for making alot of cash. Guess making alot of money cant buy you out of the problem of making alot of money.

You haven't seen the movie "Scarface". Tony Montana ran into that problem trying to funnel millions of dollars to his bank for obvious laundering. While they were ecstatic at first, it became a real problem later on. Tony was just making too much for the bank to handle. So I think the problems with the buildings washing your money is supposed to be like that - takes time and can only do so much.

https://youtu.be/3EqnPWV9xk8

[FlyingDutchMan]

Originally posted by Cheeky Bastard:

Originally posted by FlyingDutchMan:

So apperently im making to much money,

Im selling cocain hidden in tvs and im just making way to much money.

My buildings are over flowing with cash and i got controle over 3/4 citys filled with money laundering buildings. the whole money laundering is just going way to slow to keep up. meanwhile my terror or whatever you wanne call it is going over the roof simpely because my buildings are overflowing with cash. i mean its almost like ur being punished right now for making alot of cash. Guess making alot of money cant buy you out of the problem of making alot of money.

You haven't seen the movie "Scarface". Tony Montana ran into that problem trying to funnel millions of dollars to his bank for obvious laundering. While they were ecstatic at first, it became a real problem later on. Tony was just making too much for the bank to handle. So I think the problems with the buildings washing your money is supposed to be like that - takes time and can only do so much.

https://youtu.be/3EqnPWV9xk8

Seen the movie sure, and ofc at some point it would be inevitable if you play it right, the issue is that point comes extremely fast right now in the game making it quite boring. Since you cant do much with the cash you got. All you can do right now with ur money is invest it to make more money, (making no sense if you already make to much money as it is) and some quite limited money laundering options on the side.