Factories; Looking for Advice.

[𝖝𝖔𝖓𝖎]

I'm wanting to start a factory a bit early but I wanna know; are they really worth it?

If so, I was interested in having a factory produce food-related items that I need currently and possibly later in the game; is it possible for one factory to produce all food items efficiently?

I currently have a restaurant serving pizza, burgers, hot dogs, chicken skewers, french fries and salad; would it be possible for a factory it actually produce enough for this one business and possibly future businesses?

I've mainly seen blueprints that are one-item orientated which is making me think it might not be but I'm not really sure as the factory system has heavily confused me.

[Andragon]

At this point I would have to say that early on you simply cannot afford a factory as the setup will most likly cost millions. One factory might be able to produce enough but others won't. I doubt that you will be able to produce enough food unless you plan to run just 2 or 3 restaurants. Electronics, tobacco, jewelry might be possible as you don't sell a lot of them but make a huge margin when producing them

[Adonis]

Originally posted by 𝖝𝖔𝖓𝖎:

I'm wanting to start a factory a bit early but I wanna know; are they really worth it?

If so, I was interested in having a factory produce food-related items that I need currently and possibly later in the game; is it possible for one factory to produce all food items efficiently?

I currently have a restaurant serving pizza, burgers, hot dogs, chicken skewers, french fries and salad; would it be possible for a factory it actually produce enough for this one business and possibly future businesses?

I've mainly seen blueprints that are one-item orientated which is making me think it might not be but I'm not really sure as the factory system has heavily confused me.

I've tinkered with Factories a little and they really aren't worth the investment. Importing products cost almost the same to the penny so why buy all that equipment train all those workers but not make any extra money. In the end you still have to import the raw materials so coordinating imports into your supply chain doesn't go away.

[Sarsgamer]

Factories aren't complete yet and there will be more updates and improvements in the future.

I personally would say they aren't worth it yet, especially for cheaper products.

I was looking at expensive jewelry tonight and doing some rough calculations. I need roughly, to cover spikes as well, 1500 expensive jewelry per day to completely eliminate importing it altogether. This would likely require two factories and a large upfront investment. And it wouldn't even cover future growth.

Keep in mind I've seen devs state that factories aren't meant to completely replace imports, just supplement them and also help with product outages. I've only done one factory so far with clothes and jewelry and did have one clothing outage after and my racks never went empty, but that's also partially cause I import more than I need.

They are kinda fun to build though if you like that sort of thing.

[Adonis]

Originally posted by Sarsgamer:

Factories aren't complete yet and there will be more updates and improvements in the future.

I personally would say they aren't worth it yet, especially for cheaper products.

Keep in mind I've seen devs state that factories aren't meant to completely replace imports, just supplement them and also help with product outages. I've only done one factory so far with clothes and jewelry and did have one clothing outage after and my racks never went empty, but that's also partially cause I import more than I need.

They are kinda fun to build though if you like that sort of thing.

IMO this factory mechanic has been poorly implemented. Using the logic that factories are only meant to cover shortages doesn't make sense if this game intends for us to build a business EMPIRE. An unprofitable factory is a bad business investment not to mention the time it takes to build a roll out factories. Manufacturing is mostly all about efficiency but in this situation raw materials cost the same as the finished wholesale products so it doesn't matter how efficient the manufacturing process.

I would have liked to see factories be a more realistic and logical part of the game..