Pricing, SOO CONFUSED

[jakejk]

It's fair to say lots of pricing is confusing to me, I will list a few issues here.

1. Am I competing with myself?
If is sell the same product in two stores in a district when I see "lowest district price" could it be one of my other stores? I feel like I am reducing prices maybe just to compete with myself.

2. I have stores where in the pricing I see the yellow background and have to reduce cost by huge amounts to remove the yellow even though in the insights I have 100% for pricing. Seems all I achieve is making less money.

3. I see the yellow background on my prices sometimes even when the "lowest price in district" is the same, why would I reduce it (somewhat linked to Q2)

Would love to see a guide on pricing, might just be bugs but right now it doesn't seem to work as I expected.

[David Estes Creations]

Hello!

1) If one of your stores is the lowest price in the neighborhood, than that number might be yours, yes!

2/3) Yellow isn't "bad". It just means you're above either the lowest market price, or above the default price (whichever is lower). Red is when you know you've gone too far no matter what. Somewhere in the yellow is the "sweet spot" for most money without upsetting people!

[Spaznetz]

1) Do you not KNOW what prices you set in your other stores? It's easy enough to look. Also, you shouldn't have too many of the same business in the same neighborhood. There is a limited market for any product, trying to sell the same things in too many places reduces demand. Things like cans of soda are a bit different because they're sold in so many businesses, but nobody is getting rich on soda in this game.

2 & 3) Don't pay attention to the yellow price background. Red is a problem, but yellow is fine as long you have good price satisfaction from customers.

[jakejk]

I didn't even know there was a red, never seen that

[jakejk]

Thanks.

I would love to not be selling the same thing in two places in the district but once you start getting asked to have 80+ businesses it really is impossible to avoid.

Regards checking my prices in other shops I own, again, easy when I had 5 or 6, gets a nightmare when you have 60 or 70.

The feedback that yellow isn't "necessarily bad" and that there is such a thing as a "default price" will be very helpful.

Regards soda cans, as of now i am giving them away free in most places, which is daft but not important.

[jhughes]

This game ABOLUTELY needs an editor where you can set your price by neighborhood. I am not playing any more until that is available. I have 693.2 hours in game, but it is not worth the effort to edit every place in a neighborhood and set every price down and then back up once you put someone out of business.

[David Estes Creations]

Originally posted by jhughes:

This game ABOLUTELY needs an editor where you can set your price by neighborhood

A solution for that will be coming!

[nightshark]

Red is not always bad. If you're in the right area, in my case midtown currently. I have the only hair salon there and i'm 50 bucks in the red on all services and 40 for hair product. Making 350k/day. With the right building traffic you just need 100% skill employee's, 100% satisfaction also. All this is actually very easy to get. The hardest part is staffing and matching staff to hourly foot traffic to maximize profits.

[Bamser]

Can we have a pricing manager? Maybe like the logistic manager. Give them a few shops and set a target per item. Like most sells, most money etc. A better manager hits the sweatspot better and can manage more shops. That would be nice.

[Crimson Bolt]

Originally posted by Bamser:

Can we have a pricing manager? Maybe like the logistic manager. Give them a few shops and set a target per item. Like most sells, most money etc. A better manager hits the sweatspot better and can manage more shops. That would be nice.

This would be amazing