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[Cowboy Chip]

I see the top players who have billions of users/customers. How? What's the formula? I have tried many different settings and have not been able to pass 5K users/customers. SOOOO frustrated lol. Any tips would be welcome ;-) Thanks in advance.

[jhovgaard]

Originally posted by CowboyChip:

I see the top players who have billions of users/customers. How? What's the formula? I have tried many different settings and have not been able to pass 5K users/customers. SOOOO frustrated lol. Any tips would be welcome ;-) Thanks in advance.

It's all about increasing the userbase in a controlled manor. Run marketing campaigns to attract users. Cancel them if your product starts to become unstable. You always want green response time.

You can never get more users than your "potential users". Make sure to improve quality of your instances to increase potential users.

Hope it helps!

Best,
Jonas

[Cowboy Chip]

Thank you for the tip Jonas. How many instances should I have?, and in all servers? or just the large...

[eSerraDOTeth]

Same for products, i run all three marketing campaigns non stop for my social network, i cant manage to have more than 200 clients, my infrastructure is expert maxed out ( i have 400ms of response but yet its still in green)... i dont understand how it works

[jhovgaard]

Originally posted by CowboyChip:

Thank you for the tip Jonas. How many instances should I have?, and in all servers? or just the large...

Every time you add a new instance you add additional workload to your product. You should onyl add more instances if you can keep the response time (efficiency low enough) to keep your overall response time low enough. You get the most out of your money from the big servers.

Originally posted by LSDLenin:

Same for products, i run all three marketing campaigns non stop for my social network, i cant manage to have more than 200 clients, my infrastructure is expert maxed out ( i have 400ms of response but yet its still in green)... i dont understand how it works

Have you upgraded quality on your instances with the Lead Dev? If yes, what is your "Potential Users"? It's show under the stats view.

[Cowboy Chip]

I got it ;-) Thanks so much for your tips. It's nice to be in a game were people are responsive to questions. Happy holidays ;-)

[Cowboy Chip]

what's the best platform to use?

[jhovgaard]

Originally posted by CowboyChip:

I got it ;-) Thanks so much for your tips. It's nice to be in a game were people are responsive to questions. Happy holidays ;-)

No problem and thanks, you too! :-)

Originally posted by CowboyChip:

what's the best platform to use?

It all depends on the amount of users you have. You probably want to upgrade continuously.

[Cowboy Chip]

Ok, thank you ;-)

[V4D4RS F1ST]

im still having issues running a profit. managed to hit 20k users but still losing 10k a day to run the damn thing..... not worth it so i shut down the project because of how parasitic it had become.

[kochan]

Hi everyone,

to make a profit you have to concentrate on three things:
1) Improve the efficiency of a feature. That way you can handle more online customers with the same amount of servers and consequently more registered users at the same cost.
2) Buy bigger servers. The price per CU drops significantly and you have less expenses for the same amount of CU.
3) Research and install a better framework. Although you need a lot of money to install a much better framework it surely pays off because it drops the CU required for every online user.
Have a look at this video (it's in german, the english version will be available presently).
https://youtu.be/pIHvYMll0go

Regards, Andreas

[Rheam]

Originally posted by CowboyChip:

I see the top players who have billions of users/customers. How? What's the formula? I have tried many different settings and have not been able to pass 5K users/customers. SOOOO frustrated lol. Any tips would be welcome ;-) Thanks in advance.

Don't trust the numbers, most people cheat anyway.

[kochan]

Hi, Rheam,

it's true that there are some mods which give you unlimited money or happy employees. However, to successfully play a game in Startup Company you don't need any cheats as I've proven for example in this video:

https://youtu.be/kfN6g6ogMdE

It took me a while to figure everything out especially because there was no tutorial around. But this will change maybe rather soon so that new players can get started with more success and fun.

Regards, Andreas

[Tenzek]

In short, it seems like you don't really need any funcitoning services beyond the landing page and/or login. Work on the efficiency of both until it becomes expensive to you, then just work on the quality of one until it is maxed. The quality cost never increases. Dedicate dozens of employees to producing the required components and improving the instance you are focusing on.

When you are ready, set the landing page, for example, to live and then work on the quality of the login while the project's quality (which increases max possible users) allows you to gather new subscribers. When that is maxed out, you should have enough saved to work on its efficiency. Get that to max, and then switch out live with the landing page to work on the landing page's efficiency.

Am I missunderstanding anything? This is counterintuitive, because it can make a lot of money without actually having any working purpose. The key is having a lot of quality so that you can have a lot of users, and getting the most efficient framework/servers so that the cost per user is minimal. Then working on efficiency will further reduce cost/user.

[kochan]

Hi Tenzek,

although its not explicitly written the landing page contains various functionalities but on a very basic level. Take the login system for example: Of course you can login (otherwise, what would be the point of a social medium) but you can't upload your picture or create a profile. And the security is very low. This is why you add a new feature.

Regards, Andreas

[Tenzek]

Uh, I am talking about the mechanics of this game in particular, not in terms of how this would actually work in reality. You can make a million dollars per day with just the login feature enabled, but nothing else. There is no need to enable any other features in order to get millions of subscribers and dollars. Is it not clear why this makes no sense?