Can't level my employees

[dan.procaccini]

I own 5 shops and pay everyone what they expect to be paid, yet no one levels their respective abilities. What am I doing wrong?

[Lionbum]

That was meant to have been fixed in the last patch :/

[Willow]

Mine haven't made any exp. Plus they sell like one item every hour and their wages cost way more than they earn. I ended up firing them.

[Lionbum]

Ok will raise because this should have been fixed and was working on our build.

[Arcanum Elite]

Originally posted by Lionbum:

Ok will raise because this should have been fixed and was working on our build.

from what ive seen it is VERY diffifcult to make a profit with any of the shops... especially after the employees start demanding more and more money while selling items for extremely low prices...

perhaps you should reduce how quickly their requested payment rises? or increase the sale price for alot of items... most items you never make any profit on (like all the items that cost 1 and sell for 1)

It would also be nice if you could tell the employees not to sell the ingredients... the blacksmith goes broke selling all its ore instead of crafting it into items..

[Willow]

I've been selling produce for 3 or 4 coppers, and I spend the entire day being verbally abused by the NPCs for price gouging. Some of them still buy it, but call it rubbish as they walk off. I'm struggling every day to turn a profit even without staff and owning only one general store. I get that this is a generational game and progress *should* be slow, but it does seem a bit imbalanced.

[Balrogix]

From what I can see, the ideal for the General Store is to make food (preferably high quality) and put them for sale. I suggest doing the double pie upgrade, because pies, even though their minigame can be a bit long, they are very good to make high quality food with medium/low ingredients.

[Arcanum Elite]

Originally posted by Willow:

I've been selling produce for 3 or 4 coppers, and I spend the entire day being verbally abused by the NPCs for price gouging. Some of them still buy it, but call it rubbish as they walk off. I'm struggling every day to turn a profit even without staff and owning only one general store. I get that this is a generational game and progress *should* be slow, but it does seem a bit imbalanced.

thats kinda funny... cus my general store with full employees is making like 200-300 a day with the end of week report being like 1000+ on average which isn't bad...i do have to keep continuously finding new stock though

as long as you hire people with good bartering skills your make more money than you paid for the item (if you buy in more shipments) but selling things you find is always a profit.


blacksmiths on the other hand NEVER make any money... especially because they end up selling the ore for basically nothing...

[Willow]

Originally posted by Balrogix:

From what I can see, the ideal for the General Store is to make food (preferably high quality) and put them for sale. I suggest doing the double pie upgrade, because pies, even though their minigame can be a bit long, they are very good to make high quality food with medium/low ingredients.

That shouldn't be the only way to make money. There is green grocer specialty you can purchase for $5,000 in Tir na Gog. The other two specialties for the general store are a bakery and a fish market. So selling produce should be viable option if that's a specialty you can purchase. But don't ask me how to earn $5,000 first. I've got 40 hours sunk into the game and the most I've had is 700.

[Arcanum Elite]

Originally posted by Willow:

Originally posted by Balrogix:

From what I can see, the ideal for the General Store is to make food (preferably high quality) and put them for sale. I suggest doing the double pie upgrade, because pies, even though their minigame can be a bit long, they are very good to make high quality food with medium/low ingredients.

That shouldn't be the only way to make money. There is green grocer specialty you can purchase for $5,000 in Tir na Gog. The other two specialties for the general store are a bakery and a fish market. So selling produce should be viable option if that's a specialty you can purchase. But don't ask me how to earn $5,000 first. I've got 40 hours sunk into the game and the most I've had is 700.

the pies are generally worth the most money for their ingredient cost and how simple they are to make compared to everything else... i mean... sure you could sell grown vegetables but you have to buy the seeds... so you dont end up making much money from it whereas you can make pies with nothing but the ingredients you passively collect among your farm for no cost it is more labor intensive though... but far more money

[Balrogix]

Selling produce is a viable option, but it most likely requires you to sell them in bulk (50/100 items weekly, most likely), not that you won't be swimming in fish, or vegetables whilst trying to level those skill-trees..

[Balrogix]

Originally posted by Arcanum Elite:

Originally posted by Willow:

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the pies are generally worth the most money for their ingredient cost and how simple they are to make compared to everything else... i mean... sure you could sell grown vegetables but you have to buy the seeds... so you dont end up making much money from it whereas you can make pies with nothing but the ingredients you passively collect among your farm for no cost it is more labor intensive though... but far more money

The farming skill where you get seeds from using the sickle on ripe vegetables really help you maintain the amount of goods, and even increase due to the tool's own skill level.

[Willow]

Hmmm, guess I need to give up on produce and start making pies. Thanks for the advice. I'll try that instead.

[enimly]

just came to see if i was doing something wrong because mine aren't leveling either. glad a fix is coming.

[Kylorian]

yeah its still broke for me ask well. have gone throught many seasons and still havent gotten any skill for employees

[Willow]

I rehired my people to see if a bakery would help instead of selling produce, but I realized they were perpetually pissed off and my rep was tanking. Wage increases didn't help either. I have no idea how to make staff happy.