The prices I charge at my law firm are... Criminal.

[Borfoid]

Maybe someone else has experimented with this and could shed a little light on setting up a large law firm.

My building has a traffic index of 74% with marketing of 18%

My max client cap is 50 and I've bought the office equipment and hired the staff to man all those desks constantly through the time it is open.

My stats are all 100% and I don't seem to be getting anywhere near the 50 capacity, not even close. I will get about 18 at my low points to 28 at peaks but generally I'm floating around an average of 22

That doesn't seem to add up to me?

I'm guessing I should be able move 40% of my staff and equipment to a new location and set up another law firm branch without impacting my profitability considering I'm only operating at about 60% capacity at best.

All those staff and equipment seem redundant right now, I can't get anywhere close to the same kind of traffic I get at stores with a way worse traffic index, I seem to be able to charge eye watering prices over the market rate too.

What am I missing here ?

[GunRunner89X]

What is your actual capacity though? The building capacity is 50, but what capacity do you actually have, i.e. how many work stations have you got? For the max capacity, you need 50x desks/computers/chairs.

Also: crank the marketing to 100%.

[Alewx]

I gor the Same Situation but in smaller office. 4 Deals 4 Computers 4 chairs, 4 building limit, but never get's more than a single Person per hour.

[ProtossRush]

Try City Ads in hell's kitchen with 6k a day marketing fee but that should hike up ur marketing. best combo is $6k billboard ad and $500 large internet ad

Are there any competitors in the zone? Try buy em out and use their equipment as well

I am only getting around 600k per day with 101 employees, 2 per desk everyday full-time, only 1 cleaner working part-time. And I charge $1100 per service

[Sarsgamer]

I'm not sure if it's a bug or not. Different retail stores types vary as well regardless of max capacity and traffic index. District demand can play a factor as well, but i'm not sure how much.

Lawyer and dev offices I aim on staff/ desk half of the max capacity.

Increasing your marketing will help a bit, but your traffic index is pretty good already.

Law and dev offices might need an adjustment to the market rate and base rate. Base rate used to be highly profitable in early betas, now you definitely want to increase the rate. However, each district is different. Retail is generally the same, you can gouge your customers in Midtown, but not in Garment.

[muck muckerby]

about $350 per hour for lawyers in garment, dont forget a cleaner, even though no store room, pop in a cleaning station and keep it clean
also stay out of the premises, when your in their when its open no customers !!
does need marketing.

[Domestic Life]

Open 7 days a week. Charge $800/hr if you care about price satisfaction. You need at least 50 standard office desk with computers and chairs. Lots of lawyers. Maximum ad spend.

[Borfoid]

Originally posted by GunRunner89X:

What is your actual capacity though? The building capacity is 50

I've got 50/50 capacity and every one of those desks is manned 7 days a week.

Originally posted by muck muckerby:

about $350 per hour for lawyers in garment, dont forget a cleaner, even though no store room, pop in a cleaning station and keep it clean
also stay out of the premises, when your in their when its open no customers !!
does need marketing.

I'm charging $950 per hour on this building and all my stats stay at 100% constantly throughout the week. Lowering my prices has no effect on the number of people coming through the door, increasing them a bit does lower my stats below 100% but doesn't kill traffic - I like having things at 100% though.

I'm only ever inside a place when I'm decorating/setting up. I do all my admin work from home so I can speed up time without doing much more than walking to the fridge and my bed.

Originally posted by Sarsgamer:

I'm not sure if it's a bug or not. Different retail stores types vary as well regardless of max capacity and traffic index. District demand can play a factor as well, but i'm not sure how much.

Lawyer and dev offices I aim on staff/ desk half of the max capacity.

Increasing your marketing will help a bit, but your traffic index is pretty good already.

What you're saying about having them half staffed is kind of what it looks like to me too, as I said in the opening post it looks like having it staffed at 100% is probably giving the place a redundancy of about 40% as my traffic never goes above 28 and even then it's only 28 for an hour out of some days of the week - not all.

Originally posted by ProtossRush:

Try City Ads in hell's kitchen with 6k a day marketing fee but that should hike up ur marketing. best combo is $6k billboard ad and $500 large internet ad

Ok, that's one thing that's been bugging me a bit and I should have looked in to it more... The advertising seemed to suck because all I could do is run small, medium and large internet campaigns.

Bit of a facepalm moment there - I'll drive around and look for other ad agencies, see what kind of a difference that makes.

Originally posted by ProtossRush:

Are there any competitors in the zone? Try buy em out and use their equipment as well

There is one, or there used to be when I first set this business up. I'm still pretty new to the game so haven't done anything with buyouts yet, will take a look at that too.

Lot's to do - time to get to work.