Why are newspapers more expensive than oil and everything else starting at ~300?

[Karsten]

Has anyone figured this one out yet?

[shoopy]

Probably to balance out the fact that they give extra multipliers to things like lemons, donuts and pizza, e.g. at 125, 150, 175 etc. as opposed to the usual 100, 200, 300 for everything else.

[Bud]

Originally posted by ardiel:

Probably to balance out the fact that they give extra multipliers to things like lemons, donuts and pizza, e.g. at 125, 150, 175 etc. as opposed to the usual 100, 200, 300 for everything else.

But even things like cars, pizzas, and donuts are wayyy more expensive than oil and banks.

[shoopy]

Originally posted by Budrick Payne:

Originally posted by ardiel:

Probably to balance out the fact that they give extra multipliers to things like lemons, donuts and pizza, e.g. at 125, 150, 175 etc. as opposed to the usual 100, 200, 300 for everything else.

But even things like cars, pizzas, and donuts are wayyy more expensive than oil and banks.

That's just how it works. The smaller busineses have more diminishing returns e.g. when you buy a car wash, it increases the price of the next car wash by a larger percent than when you buy one oil after another oil. It's just how the game is designed. Probably to encourage you to go to the higher businesses instead of just farming the low ones infinitely.

[Karsten]

Originally posted by ardiel:

Originally posted by Budrick Payne:

But even things like cars, pizzas, and donuts are wayyy more expensive than oil and banks.

That's just how it works. The smaller busineses have more diminishing returns e.g. when you buy a car wash, it increases the price of the next car wash by a larger percent than when you buy one oil after another oil. It's just how the game is designed. Probably to encourage you to go to the higher businesses instead of just farming the low ones infinitely.

That makes basically no sense. The all business multiplier seemed to be there to encourage us specifically to go for all businesses, not just focus on the best three.

[shoopy]

Originally posted by Karsten helfarts:

Originally posted by ardiel:

That's just how it works. The smaller busineses have more diminishing returns e.g. when you buy a car wash, it increases the price of the next car wash by a larger percent than when you buy one oil after another oil. It's just how the game is designed. Probably to encourage you to go to the higher businesses instead of just farming the low ones infinitely.

That makes basically no sense. The all business multiplier seemed to be there to encourage us specifically to go for all businesses, not just focus on the best three.

I don't know what you expect to hear then, because there's no other reason besides they decided to do it that way.

It makes no sense. Oh well. That's how it is.

[schwarzrotes]

if y have enough angels y shoud buy the upgrades what give 10+ and 50+ units that will fix this
you always should buy all angel upgrades that you can to have max profit in every round, thats what the angels for

sorry for bad english

[leqesai]

Newspapers are more expensive because they are the deciding factor in what is currently your most profitable resource.

At the later stages you'll get like x20 or x25 for each tier of newspaper upgrade onto various resources. Things that are falling behind quickly catch up and become your most profitable. Donuts, for example, don't make a lot in the beginning but are one of the most profitable at the end of the game.

[sabrina carpenter fan]

Over time, prices basicly reverse, making Newspapers the most expensive, and Oil Rigs quite cheap by comparison.

[Karsten]

Originally posted by leqesai:

Newspapers are more expensive because they are the deciding factor in what is currently your most profitable resource.

At the later stages you'll get like x20 or x25 for each tier of newspaper upgrade onto various resources. Things that are falling behind quickly catch up and become your most profitable. Donuts, for example, don't make a lot in the beginning but are one of the most profitable at the end of the game.

I know that but car washes will also be more expensive than oil rigs.

[Styxplorer]

Best thing would be to accept the gameplay mechanics and, based on that, figure out the tactics it needs to make the most profit (as explained by community members above). Sorry Karsten, as long as you don't ask the developer himself, no one will be able to give you better answers than those written in this topic.

[Hyper Hippo Productions]

Originally posted by Karsten helfarts:

Has anyone figured this one out yet?

This is intended! As you progress through the game, you'll find out that different investements have more importance and grow/diminish in profits in relation to their current amount. The Newspaper investments are very important, as they benefit all investments. Good luck!

[Themberchaud]

On my phone, im a trigintillionare and by the time you can afford ~2000 news paper stands it becomes the dominating money maker as the multipliers are x9 - x15 for ever 100 - 200 statnds you have.