What determines product sales between multiple products?

[Steppenrazor]

hello thinking of picking the game up.. watched several of the streamer chap (charlie pryors youtube videos on this..)

I've got a pretty good idea how building capacity/product capacity works. -if you want to max the building - You have enough sale points/stations/registers so that each meets or exceeds the building Capacity (and if one is lower - everything/whole building drops to the lowest?


But I'm wondering - how do customers determine what and how many of each product to buy?

will someone come in and just buy 1 French fries? or just a soda? or do they all go for the whole combo meal? or some random mix? Some % chance per item?

and are they limited to 1 each product? or will one walk in and buy 25 hamburgers?

[Kyle]

I can't answer this question entirely in regards to the percents and stuff or what they use to actually decide, but a rogue answer would probably be

A customer comes in and can buy several of the same item, personally I think they might just come on a budget or something (there is an index called customer satisfaction that directly changes how much they are okay spending a little bit, but this might just push your maximum pricing up instead, not sure) As for sale volume (# of items sold), each business has 'primary' items that sell more frequently, as well as several other factors like district demand.

Fries and stuff just sell more compared to expensive things like jewelry as well.

You can also sell everything anywhere, albeit non-primary items get a sale volume reduction, which means you would probably have trouble selling jewelry in a fast food restaurant since it's already abysmal before being penalized.

the building capacity stuff you said is correct yeah

[Steppenrazor]

Originally posted by Kyle:

*snip* personally I think they might just come on a budget or something (there is an index called customer satisfaction that directly changes how much they are okay spending a little bit, but this might just push your maximum pricing up instead, not sure) As for sale volume (# of items sold), each business has 'primary' items that sell more frequently, as well as several other factors like district demand. *snip*

HA! - i was just reading a thread about a walmart type shop.. and it made me pretty much along the same lines...

if there isn't some max amount of cash and/or number of items they by per visit. (with likely some random chance for each item. some (like fries - everybody likes fries!) having a higher % chance, and the as you said "primary" type having a boost as well.

here have some points. ;)