Finishing Design Deals Question?

[deece16]

If I sign a deal (because I find my Design team sitting around a lot) and finish it in like say 1-2 months, but the deal was for 15 months, do I get paid for the 15 months or just the time it took me?

I've been letting them sit once I finish it till the month that it's due to get the most money out of it, but I'm not sure that's even nessecary. Of course, holding it also keeps my competition from putting out thier product... so that's a win anyway.

[EvilFinchen]

I think once you finished them, that's it. Because deals pay "in days". The moment you finish the job you're not getting "x amount of money per day" anymore. So it might be a viable strategy to let them run until the due date when finished. Never tested this though.

Let us know how it worked out.

[RoxiSinister]

Yeah the deal stops paying when it is concluded. If you finish early and send it on its way, you lose the income from the remaining time. If I'm hurting for money early on, I hold on to them too, but I've also missed the turn-in date doing this, so be careful. hahaha

[deece16]

Well, I have about 6 or so at any one time, I just do the work, then pause it, and take all my teams off of working on it. I put them in order by how soon they are to come due, and leave only the one that is coming due the soonest open. This seems to work pretty well. I use these design deals basicly to cover my month to month expences, averaging around $1M a month in deals. I was using the Marketing deals and keeping a larger Marketing team than I would otherwise, but the market deals seem to be messed up, at least for me (see my other post on here called Market Deals)

[Harag]

If you're guys have finished a design and just sitting around for a few months doing nothing, then they are not gaining experience for designing (I think) so wouldn't it be better to finish, get paid asap and then start another design, so they gain experience ?

[EvilFinchen]

You take a design deal, design it to the end, unassign the team that has been doing the design and start working on a new design deal.

You just leave the former open because if you finish it, you're not getting the $ per day anymore.

This is deals (from the reception), not contracts!

[deece16]

Originally posted by EvilFinchen:

You take a design deal, design it to the end, unassign the team that has been doing the design and start working on a new design deal.

You just leave the former open because if you finish it, you're not getting the $ per day anymore.

This is deals (from the reception), not contracts!

What he said

[Divine]

You should be able to get the money from the remaining months when you finished the job

[HQRDà]

Originally posted by Divine:

You should be able to get the money from the remaining months when you finished the job

You can, just pause it and act as if you need more time to complete the work :)