Couple Questions

[The Onyx Tiger]

Loving the game. It's worth the money in my opinion. I just have a couple questions.

Firstly, is it possible to sell things other than what is labelled in your business? For example, I see flowers and gifts in what looked to be a fast food/restaurant in the first picture on the store page. In the tutorial bit when opening the gift shop, you're able to sell pop/soda, but I figured it was part of the gift shop until now.

Secondly, is there anything to do while not running your business? I am at Day 81 I think and I've skipped about 40ish days or something just because there's nothing to do. Had a business with employees, set up a delivery schedule, and am working on duplicating it with a second store. I am also working on an HQ. But I find nothing really to do.

I know you can work at a supermarket, but are there other businesses/shops you can apply for a job? Are there activities currently in the world? Anything at all to pass time during the day instead of work then skip.

I understand that it's a grind early on, but the emphasis is mostly on skipping time to make money to buy more stuff. I don't want to constantly be skipping, especially since I noticed that there are events in the world where people open and close their own businesses, and I don't want to be wasting so much time.

Thank you.

[็]

Hello,

Yes you can sell what ever you want but when your item is labelled for your business it will sell better.

You can try to decorate your shops, invest in new buildings, walk in the park etc.

Not actually, there is only El Gato

About what to do if you're not skipping, it's up to you to find something interesting, as I said earlier if you try to design your shops it's gonna be really time consumming

[The Onyx Tiger]

Originally posted by ็็็็็็็็็็็็:

Hello,

Yes you can sell what ever you want but when your item is labelled for your business it will sell better.

You can try to decorate your shops, invest in new buildings, walk in the park etc.

Not actually, there is only El Gato

About what to do if you're not skipping, it's up to you to find something interesting, as I said earlier if you try to design your shops it's gonna be really time consumming

When it's still very early for your business(es), there's not really much you can do about decorating/designing because all your money has to go into making more money. Once you have excess then yeah, you can decorate.

Thanks for the answers.

[soldyne]

Yes, you can sell anything in your store. customers will come to a store with the intent to buy the store's primary product but can walk out with any product you have for sale. that was the intent of the tutorial when Uncle Fred had you put a soda machine in your gift shop. if you get a large enough place you can sell all products in one large department store if you want.

as for not having anything to do, there are no real activities in the game yet. there are some on the roadmap. you have to remember that its very early access so the game only has the bare bones features available.

I think you can go on a casino boat trip on Friday nights at the docks, but, its a $5000 cover charge just to get in. that's really all there is at the moment.

but its a good question for real life. if you had a bunch of money and people working for you, what would you do and would you want to do those things in a video game?

[The Onyx Tiger]

Originally posted by soldyne:

as for not having anything to do, there are no real activities in the game yet. there are some on the roadmap. you have to remember that its very early access so the game only has the bare bones features available.

Yeah, I know it's very early. I was just curious if I missed anything. I angrily searched for a way to hire people for my HQ and found out there's a second hiring office hidden in the far reaches of the map. haha

P.S.
I stopped the tutorial at the part where I'm told to open a fast food joint. People have been saying it's a terrible second business so focused on moving to a larger store for my gift shop, sold the old building, and bought another with 100% Demand for cheap and expensive jewelry. Currently building that up, then my HQ.

[Mister Jofel]

I walk in the park,
I pass time with a 4 hour gaming session in my appartement on my gaming computer.
Drive around town and try to improve my damage for each round around town.
When you drive around, you might find some place you haven't been to yet (underground parking lot?) :)
Sometimes I do shifts for employees who fell ill.
Leave open 1 job/shift in my own store/restaurant to work

At first I also thought this fast-food thing is a waste of time and money. But similar like a gift shop, by expanding the shop with soda and expensive gifts (which the tutorial highlights) you need to do the same with your fast-food store on your own. Try adding selling soda, hotdog, french fries even salad to your fast-food store and it will make more money as your gift shop in the end. Also having 2 shifts in your fast-food store is more profitable compared to adding a shift to the gift shop. Or at least I experienced that with my shops.