how to make money?

[NightbladeGreyswandir]

What is the secret. What ever I do i just get really really small amounts just enough to keep me around zero. I do not have idea how to set trade between cities so they make money.

[Milok14411]

You can get money by selling stuff to the space station via trading portal or by earnings from banks and offices, or just keep less peoples than jobs.

[NightbladeGreyswandir]

no.
I am not asking basics.
I am asking how to make money from trade between cities. How to set up cities so trade make sense. on railroad, two? how to set amounts for trade?

[Milok14411]

Well like. Im making money from trade between cities by just buying and selling stuff that city needs. Nothing special, but ussually in the endgame, you dont need to trade anything.

[NightbladeGreyswandir]

I tested few ways to start.
basically you have to ignore tutorial missions, and to go for market as one of first buildings so it can make lot of money while you have salads. And you need one business building before 3D printer. That can help to stabilize economy before you get below 6k coins. Then if you are low with money you just have to wait.

[『Insperatus』]

Originally posted by NightbladeGreyswandir:

I tested few ways to start.
basically you have to ignore tutorial missions, and to go for market as one of first buildings so it can make lot of money while you have salads. And you need one business building before 3D printer. That can help to stabilize economy before you get below 6k coins. Then if you are low with money you just have to wait.

so you dont have any residence, power, water, trading platform?

[NightbladeGreyswandir]

Originally posted by Insperatus:

Originally posted by NightbladeGreyswandir:

I tested few ways to start.
basically you have to ignore tutorial missions, and to go for market as one of first buildings so it can make lot of money while you have salads. And you need one business building before 3D printer. That can help to stabilize economy before you get below 6k coins. Then if you are low with money you just have to wait.

so you dont have any residence, power, water, trading platform?

you are correct.
proper order so far is
-warehouse ;)
-2 small houses, upgraded to 20 pop, then build more as soon as you need more pops
-landing pad
-energy,
-battery charger
-water
-farms
-mine, upgrade to 2x matter
-salad farm
-market
-city center
-airport, all cargo drones that you can make
-when needed pharmacy
-business building
-university
-...

you add energy and houses when needed.

will try to make video with how this works.

[NightbladeGreyswandir]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1681959967

[Alukat]

You don't gain money from city trade, it just transfers money from one city to another. At least that's the way it should be (tough to tell if it is, with all the cashflow going on)

[miscellaeneous]

build a portal and a recycling plant. Buy debris and sell the matter you make from it with the recycler- the debris/matter price ratio is astronomical.
Apart from that, produce matter and sell it throught the portal, I think matter has the highest price...

[Marius]

You can save a lot of money in the early game by building cottages.

[NightbladeGreyswandir]

Originally posted by miscellaeneous:

build a portal and a recycling plant. Buy debris and sell the matter you make from it with the recycler- the debris/matter price ratio is astronomical.
Apart from that, produce matter and sell it throught the portal, I think matter has the highest price...

Originally posted by Marius:

You can save a lot of money in the early game by building cottages.

Just check video guide i posted in previous post. You can minimize trade between cliffs and make sustainable economy on each cliff without problems.

[Marius]

Originally posted by NightbladeGreyswandir:

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Originally posted by Marius:

You can save a lot of money in the early game by building cottages.

Just check video guide i posted in previous post. You can minimize trade between cliffs and make sustainable economy on each cliff without problems.

I'm just saying you can build cottages to save money. If you build 4 cottages you pay 8 matter to house 20 people. If you build a house with the upgrade, you are paying 10 matter and 305 cash.
Cottages can be recycled when you run out of space, by that point you will have enough income to build houses.

[NightbladeGreyswandir]

Originally posted by Marius:

Originally posted by NightbladeGreyswandir:

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Just check video guide i posted in previous post. You can minimize trade between cliffs and make sustainable economy on each cliff without problems.

I'm just saying you can build cottages to save money. If you build 4 cottages you pay 8 matter to house 20 people. If you build a house with the upgrade, you are paying 10 matter and 305 cash.
Cottages can be recycled when you run out of space, by that point you will have enough income to build houses.

Saving money on cottages will not make sustainable economy. You can make them or you can make houses, it makes no difference if you do not do other things you will end up with negative numbers on your account. You should be able to level your spending with income when between 3k to 5k, so difference in money between cottages and houses is not significant. You can build type of homes you like.