Quite early game, most profitable business

[FakeHollocoz]

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TLDR: Look at http://adventure-capitalist.wikia.com/wiki/Businesses.
(Don't bother reading the original post...)

Early strategy:

1. Early strategy for each business: Buy 24, upgrade its relevant x3, buy manager, then buy 25. Buy next business.
   
2. Go back to earlier businesses to get them to 50, 100.
   
3. When you first buy Movies, Bank or Oil, leave them running. Buy others. When the Movies, Bank or Oil are 3/4 of the way (green bar), then buy more of them.
   
4. Try to get all businesses to at least 100 (for the nice x3 Unlock). Buy each again to 200, starting from Oil upwards.

Early-mid strategy (100k angels): Focus on Oil, and all relevant upgrades for Oil.


Late-mid strategy: Folllow this guide http://steamcommunity.com/app/346900/discussions/0/618458030681519409/. The growth of businesses are not constant... making maths unreliable to give a simple advice.

Tip: By the time you have 500 Oil, and you have done a soft reset, buy Angelic Selection (x5 profit from 1 billion sacrifice) even though you have only 2 billion angels only. It's worth it.

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Original post:

I have 774 angels working hard for me.

In this reset I have proudly upgraded all businesses to 100. I wanted to measure business investment returns. The businesses on the left are too quick to measure without spending angels. In this reset, I haven't used nor abused any angels.

Profit per investment = Profit (green bar) / number of existing investments (under icon) and convert this into per minute.

Profitability = Profit per investment / investment (or Buy in orange bar).

Profitability results of each business:
Shrimp: 0.31%
Hockey: 0.87%
Movies: 1.4%
Bank: 1%
Oil: 0.38%

Contrary to what other threads said, Oil isn't the most profitable. Far from it.

Any input? I'm afraid to sacrifice angels at this stage. I will come back to this thread, when I have way more angels, and can afford to pimp them to show cash / sec.

[essen]

The most profitable varies depending on where you are in the game, in part due to the multipliers you get as you buy them. For example right now for me the most profitable is car wash, then donuts, then newspaper, then shrimp boat. I am quite late in the game though.

[FakeHollocoz]

That's why my post says all businesses are at 100. To show fairness. And this profitability won't change relatively, say if you upgrade all businesses to 500. Movies should still be the most profitable still.

Even if Oil is at 99, and Movies is at 101, Movies is still more profitable to invest in. More bang for each buck!

[Blitz7287]

Yeah im an octodecillionaire at the minute with 400 sextillion angels and my most profitable one atm is Lemons by quite some margin. Then oil then bank. I own 1800 lemon, 1500 oil and 1400 bank.

[FakeHollocoz]

(This isn't a response to blitz7287, just that i was composing this while blitz wrote first!! :D)

A level 100 business would be a better investment than a level 300 business because of exponential cost in upgrading businesses (or 'Buy' in the game).

Eg. Lemon business might look cheap to upgrade to 400 while others sit at 100, but assuming profitability is same as others, it's not wise because of exponential, but hey it's a game :)

Strategy for me would be to upgrade to 25, 50, 100, 200 (for unlocking 'Upgrade all x2'), but if possible, upgrade Movies furthest first. Followed by Bank closely.
Eg.Shrimp: 105
Hockey: 120
Movies: 140
Bank: 130
Oil: 110

Thus, invest a ratio of 1, 3, 5, 3, 1. Rinse and repeat. Then race to the 100, 200, 300 milestones.

[FakeHollocoz]

@blitz7287, did the angels tell u the profitability of the lemon? I feel like we need numbers, not just feel of it.

My suspicion is that if you raise Bank to 1500 to match Oil, Bank should be a better 'Buy' from then on.

(edit) Actually if you have Bank 1400, Oil 1500. 'Buy' Bank. Easily...

[Darth Mark]

I saw on the wiki (yes, this game has quite an indepth wiki) that each level expense is increased by the power of 1.07. If that is true, I don't see how the relative profitability could ever change, aside from purchasing a multiplier for one business and not another.

[Blitz7287]

Im not really up with the numbers of it. It confuses me lol i just go off the number per sec but most of them don't even have a counter on them anymore they just say 0 seconds all the time. Heres a screenshot if that helps you.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=434644800

[FakeHollocoz]

@blitz7287 wow thx :D

Did you spend angels exposing the rate? Does reset remove it? Thank you again :)

[Blitz7287]

Yeah i've got to the point were i don't think it matters spending some angels and they are being gained at a ridiculous rate. I buy upto the 1 trillion angels x11 bonus. I've also bought everyone of the upgrades when they become available and yeah they reset everytime so you have to buy them again.

[essen]

I've had all times at 0 for quite a while. I'm about 10 money upgrades of the end. Just about every business was the most profitable at one point or another, though some for much longer than others. Oil is currently the least profitable by a factor of like 1000.

[FakeHollocoz]

@blitz7287 wow :D That's mega rich :D :D

The profitability of your businesses are (converted to the minute to compare to my OP):
Shrimp: 0.048%
Hockey: 0.036%
Movies: 0.189%
Bank: 7%
Oil: 39%

Lemon: 0.085%

Just... Wow!!! So businesses grow exponentially differently. Eg. Oil isn't best investment in early 100's, but quickly outpaces other businesses later on.

Very surprising that Shrimp, etc fall in profitability. That means the exponential cost outpaces the earning, even with the unlocks!!!.

Thx @blitz7287... That means late game, we should focus on Oil. Every other business is almost redundant. Kinda sad :P haha ...

[FakeHollocoz]

@essen, "I've had all times at 0". What is at zero? :P Sorry.

[FakeHollocoz]

@Mark, a musical sasquatch
Hey, I'm nervously doubting the 0.7 growth (as stated in the wiki) right now ... >_< getting confused, but challenged.

[essen]

0 seconds.

The reason businesses become profitable is that Newspaper bonuses improve them, sometimes immensely. Look at Unlock>Gallery for details. Also the bonuses of businesses on the left side of the screen get higher quicker.

[essen]

Also look at Angel upgrades, they're also skewed toward certain businesses.