Best first factory?

[Midgard]

Now i went with pizza but what would be th most lucrative to start with?
Good with a good start but for it to actually become complete and working into black numbers (profit) i see it will take some more before i can have my first Calcone or Capriciosa to sell.

[Sarsgamer]

Probably expensive jewelry and expensive clothes. They are also easier to setup then like any of the foods. Clothes only need one input and jewelry only 2. Some of the electronics too but those require more inputs then I think even food.

Another thing with expensive jewelry and expensive clothes and some electronics is your stores aren't selling a ton of these so you have a better chance to supply all your stores with your own goods with less factories. I have two I2 jewelry factories (16 inputs altogether) and at least a dozen stores selling it between 4 warehouses and I've stopped importing any expensive jewelry to see if my output is actually enough or if it's even too much - I did a rough calculation and I may be overproducing. I just did this like 1 or 2 game days ago so I'll have to sort of watch and see what's going on.

I probably wouldn't do any of the food items right now, but if I were I'd probably go with pizza as well.

[Midgard]

Originally posted by Sarsgamer:

Probably expensive jewelry and expensive clothes. They are also easier to setup then like any of the foods. Clothes only need one input and jewelry only 2. Some of the electronics too but those require more inputs then I think even food.

Another thing with expensive jewelry and expensive clothes and some electronics is your stores aren't selling a ton of these so you have a better chance to supply all your stores with your own goods with less factories. I have two I2 jewelry factories (16 inputs altogether) and at least a dozen stores selling it between 4 warehouses and I've stopped importing any expensive jewelry to see if my output is actually enough or if it's even too much - I did a rough calculation and I may be overproducing. I just did this like 1 or 2 game days ago so I'll have to sort of watch and see what's going on.

I probably wouldn't do any of the food items right now, but if I were I'd probably go with pizza as well.

Cheers for the input, shortages forced me into going for a factory. I think i have around 4 to 5 products that is going on a week or so not coming in and to then start to produce it, well, no matter how fast i would be able to do it in the stores takes a hit.
I was bringing in around 300$ K a week and i´m down to around half of that as it is and i refuse to go back to buying it from those expensive middle hand sources.

For just how long can those shortages last though? Those dockside importers i mean now, and that raw food/material company have a 10K limit ordering, i got it up to around 5K and then i don´t know if my pallet shelves will hold for more but i guess it´s just to order up to 10K (if needed) and the rest will just not be delivered but i´ll wait and see if it´s accepted still, just a day before i find that out.

[Sarsgamer]

Originally posted by Midgard:

Originally posted by Sarsgamer:

Probably expensive jewelry and expensive clothes. They are also easier to setup then like any of the foods. Clothes only need one input and jewelry only 2. Some of the electronics too but those require more inputs then I think even food.

Another thing with expensive jewelry and expensive clothes and some electronics is your stores aren't selling a ton of these so you have a better chance to supply all your stores with your own goods with less factories. I have two I2 jewelry factories (16 inputs altogether) and at least a dozen stores selling it between 4 warehouses and I've stopped importing any expensive jewelry to see if my output is actually enough or if it's even too much - I did a rough calculation and I may be overproducing. I just did this like 1 or 2 game days ago so I'll have to sort of watch and see what's going on.

I probably wouldn't do any of the food items right now, but if I were I'd probably go with pizza as well.

Cheers for the input, shortages forced me into going for a factory. I think i have around 4 to 5 products that is going on a week or so not coming in and to then start to produce it, well, no matter how fast i would be able to do it in the stores takes a hit.
I was bringing in around 300$ K a week and i´m down to around half of that as it is and i refuse to go back to buying it from those expensive middle hand sources.

For just how long can those shortages last though? Those dockside importers i mean now, and that raw food/material company have a 10K limit ordering, i got it up to around 5K and then i don´t know if my pallet shelves will hold for more but i guess it´s just to order up to 10K (if needed) and the rest will just not be delivered but i´ll wait and see if it´s accepted still, just a day before i find that out.

Outage or shortage?

The shortages all last 14 days, from what I've seen, these are just price increases.

Outages / back orders are 10 days, again from what I've seen, and where you won't get any inventory at all.

Market Insider has the notification showing how long either scenario will last.

I tend to overstock my warehouses with imports anyway so some of the outages don't even affect me until the later days, if at all. My first outage was a clothing product and I didn't have any empty shelves during the 10 day outage. I already had a factory for clothing and didn't even think to look to see whether it was by overstocking or the factory keeping me in stock. Probably a bit of both.

My expensive jewelry factories are definitely producing more than consuming so now I gotta rush to create some new stores lol.

I also started a new expensive clothing factory. My brain is having trouble calculating the math lol. The laser cutter processes every 10 minutes then the sewing machine is every 15 minutes... my other factory I did two sewing machines per laser cutter, but realizing 3 would be more efficient, and now debating if I should do 4 sewing machines. The first hour some sewing machines would not be doing something but trying to compute if over the hours they would all catch up and producing at the same time. I'll have to play around with this to see what the most efficient setup is and how many outputs needed.

Side note. The I2, I3 and H3 buildings are better suited for factories if you didn't notice. My first one I did in a I1 building before realizing the others. Sadly there doesn't seem to be that many of them. I even had an I2 setup as a normal warehouse that I ended up converting to a factory and setting up a new warehouse at an I1 building... I was really happy just moving the logistics manager to the new warehouse also kept all the delivery settings - I really didn't want to redo all 16 delivery locations.

[Midgard]

Outage, i typed shortage but of course, outage.
Yup, it´s doable the logistics in the game but one thing, just one of many, what you deliver from your factory directly to a store should be there in numbers since there´s no way to tell if my pizzas now comes from the import or my factory.

I read your comment and i can just learn from it, at times one feel swamped due to the character needs but i guess that´s the way it´s supossed to be.