Too much competition ?!

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

Hey guys. I recently buyed this game on GOG, but I hope its ok to ask my questions on Steam.

Whats is it with the competitions with other dealers ? It just wont stop. I do always have to decrease my prices to get rid of them but they keep coming over and over again, although my relation is on point with em.
Also my weed has quite high quality and always around epic. But it wont help that these competitions take a long time.
I also use favors from employees, to convince other folks to buy from me, but it also has its limits....
Later on in this game, (until the police chief quest), I do have 5 competitions at a time.....

Do you guys keep on buying rooms for dealers, everytime you move to a new building ? That would drive me instantly insane, if I had to deal with other dealers on every new spot.....

How to get rid of other dealers ? And how to defeat them, if you have no place to buy a new spot for dealers or for more strains. There is no way, that you can defeat other competitors with only one available strain at the spot....

Do I have to sell growing rooms to make more space ? But that would toally destroy my money flow...

For example :

Lets say the building has 4 rooms. To be able to compete, you need 2 strains. That means only 2 rooms left.
So you have to use them for growing. But you just cant plant 6 plants, you also need equipment. At the end of the day, you got 3-4 plants in that building, which wont produce enough, to get rid of other dealers at this spot AND you almost have no money left.

IT KILLS ME !!!

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

Originally posted by Riedy:

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As I said I went legal, but to me grow rooms were more important than dealer spots. I think I had like two dealer spots per city, only sold one strain, which was one I created myself for each NPC.

I guess thats the problem. I tried to compete on almost all spots with selling weed, and was just impossible to defeat them all.

Good point mate. Im gonna focus on specific spots and not on all of em. I just thought, you need to defeat every single building, and that made it very stressful.

[Kirbymaxer]

the best way to defeat competition is very simple.

Find the most expensive customer at that dealer spot, the one with the highest price point. Then match what that customer wants by creating a strain that matches their desires perfectly.

Grow that and sell it 1 dollar below the competition. They will be gone in no time.

[BonPadre]

And I have an other take as well.

As long as the ones in the spot I sell are not harming me, I usually don't do targetted things to defeat them, because I had some that were way more aggressive than others, I keep my "bullets" for those ones.
So while ofc you sell more when you are alone in one spot, some can be a bigger pain, so I prefer to keep weak less agressive ones around for longer time.

So usually with the police chief action and 3 of your employees you can almost get rid of one dealer at one spot. So if any goes agressive toward me, then I do it all at once to clean the place. If not, I will mainly naturally defeat them, just by selling better quality stuff (even more expansive) but that fits the higer paying one.

Also I usually have main selling points where customers pay the most, and maybe then I set 1-2 selling spots, and in other places where clients are "cheap" I usually just keep the place to grow.

Anyway, there are quite some ways to go. But all advices here were very good, and I usually use a very good combination of friending dealers, the police chief (and later the officer in charge of the selling spot), friending my employees, and than I have multiple ways of getting rid of them.

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

Originally posted by UnScottable:

the best way to defeat competition is very simple.

Find the most expensive customer at that dealer spot, the one with the highest price point. Then match what that customer wants by creating a strain that matches their desires perfectly.

Grow that and sell it 1 dollar below the competition. They will be gone in no time.

A good idea and it works well as long you are good on stock and it gets very tricky, when you have more than 2-3 competitions @ the same time.

Originally posted by BonPadre:

And I have an other take as well.

As long as the ones in the spot I sell are not harming me, I usually don't do targetted things to defeat them, because I had some that were way more aggressive than others, I keep my "bullets" for those ones.

Yeah, I guess its better to go easy on that and not try to make it too complicated.

Originally posted by BonPadre:

And I have an other take as well.
Anyway, there are quite some ways to go. But all advices here were very good, and I usually use a very good combination of friending dealers, the police chief (and later the officer in charge of the selling spot), friending my employees, and than I have multiple ways of getting rid of them.

There are indeed some ways to get rid of other competitors, but you will get to your limits, when you try to sell on more than 3-4 places simultaneously, before even unlocking the police chief option.

Im trying to focus more on getting enough weed on stock and just sell my strains on single markets/buildings and not on all buildings at the same time.