How to sell advanced goods

[gegejake]

So I see that you can make cars, pies, beer, etc in this game. But the only things that the stores will buy are raw goods like grapes, berries, or coal/iron. How do I sell these to the cities?

[jcmeerman]

When cities grow you can add a shop (e.g, toy shop, home goods, grocery shop, etc). Still, it could be that a certain good is not bought in any of the town (or you just produce too many of them). In that case you can always sell to the state. Especially at the higher tiers, this still generates a nice profit.

[ladicken]

check the wiki page for what different shops sell

https://riseofindustry.fandom.com/wiki/Shops

[Thalassophobia]

First ,you must raise your town level.
You must keep selling your product to the town you want to raise.
The population of that town will grow after it consume your product.
When the population reach certain high ,the level will raise.
It'll open another shop you can sell to. This new shop will buy higher tier product.
Car and Computer are the last tier shop to be open in a town.
Selling any of them will get you Game Over.

Tip is sell as many type of product you can to quickly make it grow.
When the town grow up ,you can make more sale as demand increased.

[gegejake]

how long does upgrading a city usually take? at around 4 years in my first ever save and i think it would be good to get a ballpark estimate

[ladicken]

How fast a city upgrades, or adds another shop, depends how how much you are supplying the city. If a city is in "prospering" status, it will grow faster than if it's in "growing" status. To get a city to prospering status you need to feed it four items. In any case, at around 150,000 population or so (it's always different, but around that) your city will get it's first promotion where you select a shop. At somewhere around 300,000 population you'll get your next promotion, then around 500,000 and 800,000. Those are just estimates, they'll promote if they get near the numbers, or soon afterwards.

[gegejake]

thank you!

[SGreenwell]

I'd add as a general note - In Rise of Industry, unlike a lot of games, it's much more important to diversify your supply chains, instead of producing like 999 units of Berries or Rubber. If you over-supply the shops, depending on your difficulty level, it can cause the price to free fall.

[gegejake]

Originally posted by SGreenwell:

I'd add as a general note - In Rise of Industry, unlike a lot of games, it's much more important to diversify your supply chains, instead of producing like 999 units of Berries or Rubber. If you over-supply the shops, depending on your difficulty level, it can cause the price to free fall.

yes, I realize that, and ive been diversifying my production accordingly. this game is difficult !!

[socratessoul]

The latest information I read is that the population increases by 500-1000 people for every Fully Supplied item you have.

[Thalassophobia]

Originally posted by gegejake:

Originally posted by SGreenwell:

I'd add as a general note - In Rise of Industry, unlike a lot of games, it's much more important to diversify your supply chains, instead of producing like 999 units of Berries or Rubber. If you over-supply the shops, depending on your difficulty level, it can cause the price to free fall.

yes, I realize that, and ive been diversifying my production accordingly. this game is difficult !!

If you're not playing in the hardest mode then it's not difficult.
It's very easy ,easier than a lot of management game I know.
But there's a lot of basic to take in when you start learning this game.

In this game ,you do have rival AI.
But those rival AI will never put you through pressure of competition.
They'll never win. So you don't have to worry about them.

You lose the game when you go bankrupt.
So you will never lose the game if you know what production line make profit.
Lets say ,you can build few farm ,your sale net you positive profit.
You don't have to build anymore. Just let the game run ,you won't lose.

In one game ,I bought only 1 more territory ,build profitable products such as fruit and vegetable. Stop all research. Just let the game run. And keep buying rival's stock when I have enough money.
My rivals bought all the rest of territory. Research many tech. Build many things.
All of them became mine after I get all their stock LMAO.