Bunker manufacturing question.

[Naviss]

Hey all, I have looked up a lot of info about the bunkers, From videos to wiki, But I've not seen any info that's 100% on how manufactiring works. Seems slow at times then faster at others.

So my question is, Do you have to remain in free roam to keep your staff bulding weapons? Does it stop when just collecting supplies?
My question is, What can't you do to keep your staff working.

Thanks.

[Unusual Burb 🐦]

Just like the MC Businesses, your bunker should continue to produce product/research upgrades for as long as you're in online mode. So if you're doing missions, heists and etc.. the bunker should continue. The only times it doesn't is if you are in SP mode or not playing the game at all :p

[Naviss]

Ok thanks for your reply. Just seemed odd that I did a hour and half of missions and came back and no added money for stock. Then I hang around a few minutes and boom, Get more stock.

Thought maybe it had to do with where I was. I'm glad it's just working so long as you're online multiplayer.

Must have been bad timing on my end to think it was slow or paused when I done other things.

[Unusual Burb 🐦]

Yeah, its a little odd, but normally the bunker takes AGES to produce anything. Upgrades can help but they still take a while. I tend to just fill up my bunker with supplies, tie up the two knobs on my controller to keep my character from being kicked and do something else while it produces.

[Naviss]

I got one more upgrade to do. But yea seems very slow. :( And uses a good amount of supplies to make a small amount of product.

[Harry Mckay]

Wait until you try researching instead of selling. :P

[Unusual Burb 🐦]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=945349611

For reference, you should refer to this guide. Normally how I manage to finish all my upgrades quickly, I just focus on manufacturing instead of researching, because researching takes way too long for just a 225K worth upgrade. Assuming you have an upgraded bunker, with a full stock, you should have $1,050M, allowing you to afford up to 3-4 fast-tracked researches and still have spare cash to keep for yourself ^^

[Naviss]

Thanks for the video! That's helpful!

I still have one more bunker upgrade to get before it's working at full speed I suppose. So slowly getting there.

Haven't even looked at the upgrades yet. Focusing more on the bunker upgrades first t then a MOC I suppose.

[Unusual Burb 🐦]

No problem! :)

If you need any help with things, feel free to hit me up on Steam first. I'm taking a good long break from grinding so I'm more to helping for the meantime. I'm usually available After 3-4PM on weekdays, UTC+8, random times on weekends.

Otherwise, good luck with your stuff!

[Bobby Digital™]

production halts during steal supplies missions, so if you are solo and you get 1 unit of supplies, thats 10-15 minutes of no produced stock, do that 4 more times to actually fill the bunker, thats maybe an hour of time that no stock is being produced.

[Naviss]

Thanks Phylla! I'll keep it in mind!

Ah Bobby, That's not what I wanted to hear but it does add up to some of the down time I seem to have with production. That's a real bummer because I do play solo. :( So I guess the question is, With that down time of a hour would it be better in the long run to just pay the 80K to resupply?

[iMoveFasterAlone]

Buy supplies. Time is a factor.

If you spend a lot of time stealing products you could use that time to make money.

If you make more money doing something else you could do it.

[Unusual Burb 🐦]

Originally posted by BlanketGrinder:

Buy supplies. Time is a factor.

If you spend a lot of time stealing products you could use that time to make money.

If you make more money doing something else you could do it.

Makes a good point. Could just buy supplies, then do something like I/E work to earn that back quickly. Supplies take quite a while to drain anyways.

[iMoveFasterAlone]

Originally posted by Phylla~ 🐜:

Originally posted by BlanketGrinder:

Buy supplies. Time is a factor.

If you spend a lot of time stealing products you could use that time to make money.

If you make more money doing something else you could do it.

Makes a good point. Could just buy supplies, then do something like I/E work to earn that back quickly. Supplies take quite a while to drain anyways.

Yes.

If you have ceo office and vehicle warehouse and only source top range cars.

If you can souce and sell a top range car with a profit +75K rather than stealing bunker supplies - using the same time for both - the answer is pretty clear.

But monies is not all. If you hate sourcing cars dont do it.

[Bobby Digital™]

i would just like to add a bit more info. i don't know if you guys have seen all the threads of people getting the dreaded "transaction has failed" situation upon selling stock, but a friend of mine figured out that it happens if you sell stock while you have bought supplies and they have not been delivered yet.

sell stock only after supplies have been delivered.

[Rabanito]

Originally posted by Bobby Digital™:

production halts during steal supplies missions, so if you are solo and you get 1 unit of supplies, thats 10-15 minutes of no produced stock, do that 4 more times to actually fill the bunker, thats maybe an hour of time that no stock is being produced.

Yeah, that's why you should do resupply missions just for fun, to know all dlc content and for little casual money.

When you're ready to make good money, then you should always buy supplies. Much better profit in the long run.

Some people could say you don't need to buy supplies if you have a group who can help you during resupply missions. That would seems to be true at first sight, but is not.

Funny thing is that if you have a group to help you with resupply missions, there are several other activities which can pay more money when having a team. And your teammates will get good money too, instead of getting paid in peanuts as CEO or MC assistants.

And remember:

Best money making method in the whole game: Pacific heist.

Best money making method if you want to go solo: CEO cars combined with GR (gunrunning) business for the cooldowns.