60 days of HARD STORY. Net worth 21 million.

[Agent707]

So, yea... I've played the game a bit. 160 hours thus far. So I kind of know how things work and all?? BUT...
I gotta go out on a limb and say this game is just too easy. Way too easy.
I know you've got some re-balancing coming, but it might need more than just that.

Played story mode, hard difficulty for 60 days.
No exploits! or visiting the casino (I only did the casino once on one of my early play throughs)

I did everything Fred wanted up to playing video games.

After 60 days, two mega stores in Midtown, making roughly 600k and 800k per day each.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2963906246

To clarify, I rented the (A1) store as instructed, but immediately terminated contract.
I then rented the (C2) at the corner of 3rd and 5th and opened gift store.
It's a 30/50. A GREAT starter store.
I think by day 10 I had 24 clothes racks, 4 rounds in it making ~25k per day.
Promotion was 100%. I was running medium billboard.
And also by then was training 16 employees (10 CS and 6 HQ)
(had an office rented by now with those employees hired and in training)

At this point I moved the (C2) store to the best (M1) in the game. The 75/48 at 30 1st ave. I loaded it with every self service item in the game (blue basket items)
Shut down the C2.
After a few weeks of getting that store running with purchasing automation, I rented another M1 (75/47) for my second store and loaded it with every sellable item in the game.
Last persona statement said; Total businesses: 2, Weekly income: $8,263,342

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OK, so I KNOW plenty of you have done better than that in 60 days!
I was not going for any kind of record.
Wasn't the point at all!

Just a LOL I guess!

Maybe I'd like to see a more "story" mode where you just couldn't do something like that.
That's what sandbox is for.

But that's for another post I guess.

Cheers!

[Enivoke]

What business is I rip you off? lol

[Agent707]

They're both Clothing. The other one is just very new hence the lower value and income.

[Enivoke]

Originally posted by Agent707:

They're both Clothing. The other one is just very new hence the lower value and income.

I never managed to figure out the pricing on midtown for clothing, I feel like just adding $20 on top of the market price and people complain.
While I can add $2000+ on jewelry and you'll buy them suckers.

[David Estes Creations]

Originally posted by Enivoke:

I never managed to figure out the pricing on midtown for clothing, I feel like just adding $20 on top of the market price and people complain.

You need your employees to be at 100% skill to get the best pricing - otherwise the customers will complain at much lower prices.

[Agent707]

Originally posted by Enivoke:

Originally posted by Agent707:

They're both Clothing. The other one is just very new hence the lower value and income.

I never managed to figure out the pricing on midtown for clothing, I feel like just adding $20 on top of the market price and people complain.
While I can add $2000+ on jewelry and you'll buy them suckers.

What David said.

Both stores I have 100% Satisfaction (try to have this early as you can).

I marked;
cheap clothes up from ~60 to 150
expensive clothes ~$127 to $300,
Jewelry (160 to 400 and 1270 to 3000)
...etc.
I pretty much just did like 250ish% increase. I didn't play with it to max it out.

I've heard tale of a M1 store making over 900k profit in a single-day.
Best I've done on this one is little over 800k single-day profit.

[Dennis]

As a noob, my initial thought is....clothing in a Gift store is the 'trick'?
Not knocking - I'm a board gamer and love to examine the mechanics for hidden exploits.

My questions are:
1) Why open a gift store if selling clothing? Why not a clothing store? Is that an exploit where you sell clothes without 'competing' for clothing customers versus actual Clothing Stores?

2) Does the Type of shop even matter? (in retail) for anything?

Related

3) Is competition for Customers solely based on the 4 Zones? Does distance near competitors matter? If I open two Gift Stores across the street from each other but in different zones - are they competing for customers?

[David Estes Creations]

Originally posted by Dennis:

1) Why open a gift store if selling clothing? Why not a clothing store? Is that an exploit where you sell clothes without 'competing' for clothing customers versus actual Clothing Stores?

Essentially - any extra item you put in there becomes a possible "impulse" buy for that store. People won't come to your gift shop looking for clothes, but since you have some, they might get them. In this way, the demand of clothing really isn't taken into consideration.

Originally posted by Dennis:

2) Does the Type of shop even matter? (in retail) for anything?

The primary items you sell will sell better overall, and will be what drives the customers into your store.

Originally posted by Dennis:

3) Is competition for Customers solely based on the 4 Zones? Does distance near competitors matter? If I open two Gift Stores across the street from each other but in different zones - are they competing for customers?

Currently, competition is based on district - even though a store might be next door, if it's in another district, it doesn't matter.

[Dennis]

Thank You!

Still wondering about OP's choice of Gift Shop if the main driver of income is clothes. The Board Gamer in me wants to know what the difference is. Why not just open a clothing store and not need to stock a random shelf of gift goods?

Is competition for Customers (within a zone) strictly by shop type? Is there a penalty for not having all the specific goods for a type of shop? Can i put a rack of cheap goods in a corner of my (intended) jewelry store and now advert as a Gift Shop and that helps somehow?

Do appreciate the answers. I was assuming some and helps to know.

[Giliador]

Try now with only fast food. Due to impulse buy is it better to stock only expensive items so insted of then grabing soda they can only grab expensive clothing or expensive gift, would it increase profit? and anyone tested if position of items inside store has effect on sale? In theory the closer everything is to entry to quicker they will get what they need and exit allowing other customer to enter. I pressume there is a limit how many customers can be in a store at one time so you want them to exit quickly.

[jhughes]

Clothing is known to be OP at the moment .. supposedly in 0.2 there will be rebalancing. But in reality, clothing is such a PITA to set up, it should be worth at least a little more :). That is to say, setting up a 75 capacity (8x8 racks) clothing store sucks.