Hardware manufacturing completely bankrupting me

[jeeves88888]

When the units sell they sell well and it easily pays for itself, but I'm not sure i quite understand how the distribution and orders side works. When I set a print limit, does that maintain an amount in stock, or a total sale?

Similarly, when do my couriers choose to pick up the boxes? When there is demand? Whenever they want? There always seems to be a huge amount of undelivered crap in warehouse. Company X made a deal to print 100,000 copies, 30,000 are needed still but there's 50,000 in my warehouse; how do I make those their problem?

[thagho$t]

I haven't played much since these newer manufacturing updates but I'll try to help.

Couriers come whenever you have their 'arrival time' set in the hire menu, Similarly to Receptionists or any staff like that, and will stay to continue loading product into their trucks until their 'departure time'. If there are still alot of boxes after he leaves, You need to hire more.. If you want a 24/7 stream of couriers then hire enough and change each ones arrival time.

The copies in your warehouse are waiting for a courier to come pick them up

[jeeves88888]

Ya couriers were the bottleneck; I need 24 to keep the line clear. Which means that taking on software printing contracts isn't turning a profit anymore. Maybe slightly but since robbers will just waltz in and steal the entire production line, certainly no ROI in sight; even for in house printing. Hardware is still worth.

With that in mind I get why the minimum wage security guards don't try to stop someone who can casually walk off carrying 7 printing presses

[Gopher]

You need to assign rooms to groups and then assign security to those groups. Each room with an outside door/gate should have a security guard posted to it. If there's a security guard at the entrance, no robbers will get in.

[jeeves88888]

but if I have a guard at my front door assigned to an "all rooms" group he's fine to let those obviously sneaky bois in to the sever lounge? As long as they don't steal from reception?

[BigSilverHotdog]

I put cameras and security desks in every room with an outside entrance including the loading dock... ESPECIALLY the loading dock. Make sure you hire more than 1 guard per desk/door, per shift. Staff them 24/7. On a moderately sized company I'll typically have 21-24 guards working the 3 shifts (7-8 per shift).

edit: btw I've never actually seen a successful robbery...

[jeeves88888]

in my poorly secured company thieves come about every 2 years? 2.5 years? They used to steal server racks or printing presses, though when I upgraded to the large printers it is exclusively servers. They steal somewhere between $500,000-$750,000 worth of servers when the come.

The security guards cost you $1500/month/ea, so your full suite is $36,000/mo. If a robbery happens every two years you spend $864,000 to save $500,000. Seems more worth to just let them take it.