Hard modus, get bankrupt within a couple of month

[Toomy]

Started a couple of time in hard mode. I can only survice for 6 months or so. My DPP is dropping extremely fast each day, thus I am not able beeing profit for more than one months. Very strange.
I just open on research center in a filthy market my production plant in a poverty market switching it right a way to lev. 2. But my 500.000 PP is too large since DPP is dropping extremely fast. How you guys are managing hard mode?

[raki-can]

If the DPP is small, the basic cause should be one of the following

• Market selection is not appropriate.
  The market size may be small or Wealth may not be suitable for your startup.
  In the Historical map, you should start in Japan and Spain as shown in the tutorial and go to the US when your factory is big enough.
  Note that the filthy markets on the Historical map are too small to be a good first choice.
  
• Product prices are too high.
  This is true either by intentionally reducing the Wealth discount on the Pricing screen and trying to sell at a higher price in a poor market, or by simply setting the Base Price too high, both of which rarely happen in real life.
  Even in PRO mode, a simple computer can be sold for "Base Price = $8000" with all the parts that can be designed in the first place.
  
• The product is not attractive enough
  To be successful with your first product, you will need to incorporate all the parts you can create into your product.
  However, be sure to put the slider to the left on most part design screens. This is because it is not worth it to spend very high costs on very weak early technology to enhance the statistic points.
  The only exception is the operating system, which has a low base cost and is very important for getting Ease-Of-Use points.
  
  Basically, competitors try to avoid markets with other companies whenever possible and choose their initial markets based on completely different criteria than the basic strategy of the players, so there is absolutely no need to worry about the product being somewhat weak as a product that can be designed with initial technology by the competition or about the product price, and you can get this product with an You can put an $8,000 price tag on this product.

Also note that competitors, if they are profitable enough, launch a new product roughly every six months.
Even if they are not in the same market as you, their new product will affect your product sales.
Over the years, you should monitor Research Queue almost constantly and focus on acquiring technologies whose RP costs have been reduced by competitors' technology acquisitions as a top priority, and after that, focus on enhancing another important study to stand on technological significance.

If these "general" advices do not work, you can also join Progorion's Discord server, upload your saved data and receive optimized advice "for you".

[raki-can]

Also, remember that basically all players should focus on getting their first single Factory to Lv.5 as quickly as possible.
This is because in the current version, if your Factory's PP is greater than the size needed to meet its DPP and SPP, its budget is automatically adjusted to avoid overpaying.
This is like adjusting the work shifts of your Factory workers to temporarily increase the number of days off, suspend part of the production line, and reduce material purchases.
On the other hand, if the factory is short on PP, some of the profit you would have gained from more DPP is permanently lost.
This can be a really fatal loss, especially early in the game.

[Mongoose]

Weird, for some reason in my game it's not doing this, I still have to manually adjust my sliders to lower factory production to just over demand, and occasionally turn down my research to make money in the late 70's/early 80's until things pick up again.

[raki-can]

Hmmm, maybe the game has not been updated properly or one of the older open beta tests has been applied.
You can see the version number in the lower right corner of the title screen. Please let us know that.
Also, save data is most helpful to know more precisely what you are up against.
If you have a Discord account, the easiest way to share your save data is to join the Progorion server (the link to the server is the Discord icon on the title screen)

[Progorion]

Originally posted by Mongoose:

Weird, for some reason in my game it's not doing this, I still have to manually adjust my sliders to lower factory production to just over demand, and occasionally turn down my research to make money in the late 70's/early 80's until things pick up again.

If it is not because the game was not correctly updated (tho then you shouldn't have managers either I think), then what happens is just that you are still filling your SPP. You have to wait until it is full so that you are not paying for the "unused" PP - as you never pay for the PP that your factory is not using, but to fill your SPP you still use PP - you are not using PP only to fulfill the current demand.

The be successful on Hard, you really have to understand the basics of the game, and a bit more. I hope you have fun playing! :)

[Toomy]

Many thanks for your advice.