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>get warehouse in italy
>get warehouse in russia
>hire one dude
>travel between warehouses
>get more cash
>hire more dudes
>repeat
Capitalism, ho!
I've played almost 400 hours and there's just 3 garages in my company
Slow but steady
However, take your sweet time about it, make it more immersive by visiting dealers instead of using the online shopping, or just do it whenever you feel like it
Economics of the game are "broken", that's a well known fact. On the start it is fairly hard to expand, but from the moment you buy let's say 4-5 garages and train your drivers to the level when they start to bring you a good income, it's just a cash machine. I'm playing the game for years, have more than 500 hous of playtime. Never "cheated" game mechanics that way, I only fast travel between garages if I see an interesting cargo far away on the map and I have a garage close to the place, so I can pick it up without driving to the other end of the map just to pick a cargo.
But back to the topic... in the begginings it was fun, buying new garage and hiring drivers. I even customized a lot of tracks I bought for my drivers. But it gets repetitive quickly and even if you try to buy and fill garages on regular basis, it got to the point when my income was growing faster then I was phisicaly able to travel around the map buyng new garages and hiring the drivers. After all the game is about me driving with trucks, delivering cargos. After some time I decided I will just buy the garage and let it emty, so I can use it to fats travel for an interesting cargos nearby. That way I was also able to reduce the pace of which my income was growing, as an empty garage doesn't bring you any money. But it still didn't help and the game was just throwing tons of money at me.
I know there are some realistic economy mods to install, but I got already to the point when it wouldn't change the perspective of the game for me and I didn't want to start a new profile, leveling againt, etc.
There was also a problem with driver agencies, even if I could buy a new garages fast enough, the game simply didn't "produce" enough drivers to fill them (I think it was fixed in one of the latest patches). So when it got to the point where I wasn't able to hire anyone I just gave up on it. I bought the garage and trucks (to spent more money) and I let it be. But since they introduced the option to buy the garages from the menu I thought it's a chance to spent some good money and cut my insane wallet a bit.
So I bought all the garages I could online and upgraded them, still have over 900 million euros left!
Currently I have 163 fullsize garages with 285 trucks and 170 drivers. But this means if I want to fill all of them, I would have to manually pick over 650 drivers and 540 trucks!!! That is just not realistic at all, I can't even imagine the amount of time it takes. I do fill a few of them from time to time, but it is just a fraction of what I need. And I think we can all agree there is zero fun factor in this. And more importantly, it doesn't solve the problem with ever growing income, which from one point just demotivates to even care for a management side of the game.
So how can we solve this...from the perspective of the game developers, first of all the economy model of the game has to change massively.
If I have drivers who are brining me 30000 € in one trip (and I have a lot of those), which is let's say day or two of ingame time, and I have 100 of those drivers, that alone is 3 millions of euros for my company per driving cycle. That is just pure nonsens and the worst part is, there are no expenses to run a company other than buying a new stuff. So either we massively short the income for delivery or we add some expenses for running a company that big. IMO the second one is the way to go, that way we can balance the dificulty... at the start you are short on incomes, but little to no expences too, then when you expand, you get paid better and more frequently, but there has to be an element of outcome for the sake of running that big of a company.