Buy bigger equipment or bigger field first? Need advice

[Lymark]

I have a 9m harvester&header, but only a 6m sowing machines and other stuff(Will need to buy a bigger tractor for bigger eq.), with around $600k in total. I'm very interesed in buying the 26 field($380k), however it seems too big for my current equipment.

Should I upgrade my equipment first? Or buy the field, then farm SLOWLY with good profits ahead?

[margalus]

I wouldn't buy large fields with small equipment myself. It's too much busy work that way

[b0nehead]

Ive read so much bad advice so ill say what i did here. This is for a multiplayer server so there are no missions to easy mode your way to the top.

First off, max out your loan. THe interest per day is miniscule and it gives you a nice start. I read all over people paying off the loan, again it must be single player with missions as in multiplayer it will slow you down |BIG TIME.

Lease a harvester with a 45 foot cutter. Lease a tractor in the 200k range with high top speed and HP for its bracket ( the hp should be enough to pull the next purchase i will mention). With the money you borrowed buy the sowing machine that also cultivates so you will only need that one tractor. Your machine maintenance per day will be about 8k with this, Apart from machine hous which is very expensive so make sure you don't waste time staring at the clouds. ON goldcrest map you\ll be puilling in about 50k a day. Remember to always have about 30 k in the bank, as a maintenance cost can send you in the negatives and really make a mess of things.

Do not waste time collecting small strips of fruit on your renter harvester. As long as that machine is used strictly to harvest 45 ft worth of fruit at all times then it will be profitable and quick turn around times in real hours ( your hours).

You can pretty much start harvesting and send your tractor right behind and the land is ready nearly as soon as its harvested.

[Nick Chungus]

I try to address production bottlenecks first. If it's taking me a long time to harvest three or four fields, I'll grab a bigger harvester before buying more land.

If it's taking me a long time to cultivate and sow fields, I'll invest in more/bigger tractors and equipment.

You shouldn't, in my opinion, be expanding so quickly that it's slowing down your whole crop cycling operation. Trying to harvest fields 24 and 25 in Goldcrest with a 14' harvesting head is an exercise in wasted productivity.

[Lymark]

Thank you guys, I will invest for bigger equipment then! :)

[Lymark]

Originally posted by Wanted514:

Do not waste time collecting small strips of fruit on your renter harvester. As long as that machine is used strictly to harvest 45 ft worth of fruit at all times then it will be profitable and quick turn around times in real hours ( your hours).

Do you sell your crops regardless of the price? I've been holding off mine until high demand or at least at higher price. It's really a time game, and 100k silo capacity is surely not enough.

[Skippy The Magnificent]

Originally posted by Lymark:

Originally posted by Wanted514:

Do not waste time collecting small strips of fruit on your renter harvester. As long as that machine is used strictly to harvest 45 ft worth of fruit at all times then it will be profitable and quick turn around times in real hours ( your hours).

Do you sell your crops regardless of the price? I've been holding off mine until high demand or at least at higher price. It's really a time game, and 100k silo capacity is surely not enough.

In all reality, dont really bother with high demands. 4/5 times I have seen regular prices beat high demand prices.

[Willow Rivers]

Originally posted by Lymark:

Originally posted by Wanted514:

Do not waste time collecting small strips of fruit on your renter harvester. As long as that machine is used strictly to harvest 45 ft worth of fruit at all times then it will be profitable and quick turn around times in real hours ( your hours).

Do you sell your crops regardless of the price? I've been holding off mine until high demand or at least at higher price. It's really a time game, and 100k silo capacity is surely not enough.

You can buy more silos. They did that because they don't want people hoarding and waiting for great demands. Also the great demands may not be the best current price anymore.

I just had a great demand for for $450 and at abother place it was $495 normal price.

[Lymark]

I wish there's a list to check the possible highest price of each corp, so i can judge accordingly.

[Willow Rivers]

Originally posted by Lymark:

I wish there's a list to check the possible highest price of each corp, so i can judge accordingly.

Give it time. After you play awhile you will get to know waht the highs are.

Threre are indicators. The white numbers mean normal price, green will be higher than normal, blue it great demand, red is below normal, green arrow by the amount means price going up, red arrow means price going down.

[Cpt. Blondebeard]

great demand maxes out the price a place is willing to buy for. each place has its own max hence the seemingly low price for great demand. Good thing is the price dont drop while in demand no matter how much u drop off there