| PhilinCt | Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 06:14 pm 
Hi all, I am losing hope of ever making my enterprise profitable. I tried everything I can think of, adjusting trade strat from 200% above quality to 20% below, move companies to low tax rate places, buying products my companies need to 90% and raising by 10%...well I could go on and on about what I have tried, I sunk 10's n 10's of trillions into the enterprise to keep it in the plus. I guess I will just have to fold up shop and find another game to play, I have been working at this one for around 5 months and nothing to show for it... I am asking one last time for some help and guidance on how to make my enterprise profitable..PhilinCtLTD with PhilinCt as my main...Thanks for anything you can tell me, Phil |
| Mizore | Sunday, December 23, 2012 - 09:01 pm
Search the forum for ASQ strategies.
Good trade strategies and building in low tax countries only help if you're already earning money.
The biggest ways to improve your enterprise situation is lowering salaries as much as you can get away with... which given that C3s now pay 300 to state workers is probably 305+. Then the aforementioned searching for ASQ on this forum. Manipulating the supply quality to reduce costs and maximise revenue is the single best way to make more money.
Searching for countries with both low tax and high welfare is another thing you can do... welfare is more important than taxes for turning losers into winners.
Once again though, you need to figure out how to manipulate supply quality... and pick "winner" corporations in order to actually succeed. If you have consistent losers, you'll probably want to close them.
If you've spent 5 months playing, I hope if you spend another 5 months that you'll play smarter and spend the time researching things for yourself rather than having to canvas other players for opinions. You know, play smart, that sort of thing.
Personally, most of my time here is spent talking to people and using spreadsheets. My last recommendation is to get allies or friends. Getting allies is more than about them helping defend you or giving advice, it's about getting people that you can work with to solve problems and figure things out so that you are generating knowledge rather than absorbing it. |
| SweetPea | Monday, December 24, 2012 - 07:02 am
Seems to be a dangerously high responsibility and burden of micro-management.
Save the clicks. |
| Halo Cyborg | Monday, December 24, 2012 - 12:55 pm
C'mon be nice.
what rank and world are you on. so we can look at it. |
| Crafty | Monday, December 24, 2012 - 01:20 pm
Scarlet, players need to absorb enough info to understand how it all works before they can start generating knowledge, trying different things and writting up spreadsheets.
Spreadsheets? ho ho ho, R U an anorak or what! |
| PhilinCt | Monday, December 24, 2012 - 04:13 pm
Thanks for the help. I'm on GR PhilinCt and PhilinCtLTD. I am currently ranked 2nd. So, what I have so far that helps is: lower salary to 305ish, move to high welfare/low tax countries, make friends and eat more fruit n veggies to get many much more smartnesses.....oh PhilinCtLTD is 12th or 13th something like that |
| PhilinCt | Monday, December 24, 2012 - 04:14 pm
oh and.... ho ho ho ho a very Merry Xmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours... Phil |
| Halo Cyborg | Monday, December 24, 2012 - 05:04 pm
ok...
there is alot wrong but dont ask me how to play your common market contract thing. |
| Andy | Monday, December 24, 2012 - 05:33 pm
Salaries are at 305.
that is OK.
quality of raw materials is not consequently set.
You should set all at 170 (180 for state corporations).
you have many at market which ends up at 250 and you have many at 120 which is a guarantee to have losses.
Upgrading is also not good enough. It should be set automatic. (quality) and go to the max.
Last but not least:
There are too many corporations producing some weapons that are in oversupply and the price goes very low. The corporations cannot make a profit.
some of these corporations must be replaced by corporations that produce products that are in short supply.
if this will be done, the enterprise will fly, like many enterprises do.
The profitability of private corporations in Simcountry is excellent and market values are sky high. |
| Halo Cyborg | Monday, December 24, 2012 - 07:54 pm
thank you Andy. |
| Crafty | Monday, December 24, 2012 - 08:06 pm
Effectivity of corps should also go to the max for corps in player controlled countries, as a courtesy to the president. |
| SweetPea | Tuesday, December 25, 2012 - 07:53 am
Good advice Andy. I think I may have a few adjustments to make. My supply quality was too low and probably causing me some problems. |
| Andy | Tuesday, December 25, 2012 - 01:16 pm
I agree Crafty, but this requires a higher "empathy" level. It does not bring a major advantage to the CEO.
Some advantage because the total of salaries declines slightly.
I am not sure it compensates for the cost of the upgrades.
The largest advantage is for the country where a smaller work force allows more corporations with the same population count. |
| PhilinCt | Wednesday, December 26, 2012 - 04:01 pm
Thankyou for your suggestions, all changes have been initiated. I am wonduring about my local and common market. Somehow the total of accepted contracts keeps going over 100%, it is a long process to go thru and cancel individual contracts. I would like to be able to cancel ALL contracts both the ones I accepted and the ones I have offered. Like a clean slate and start over? |
| PhilinCt | Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 11:29 pm
2 days after changes have been made. Started on the 25th losing -74b a month, now it's over -117b per month?.......... |
| Mizore | Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 11:47 pm
The graph shows that this is actually normal for what your enterprise was earning. The 90-somthing B losses were good months, haha.
Corporations >> Contracts >> Accept or Cancel Corporate Contracts
I'm pretty sure this page will let you cancel all contracts at once.
In either case, your corporations are still using very high quality supplies... and judging by those flashing icons, you still got contracts out. Those FMU contracts are killer, you don't ever want to be contracting full Q FMU to yourself under any circumstances. This is one of the highest cost, lowest use products... which is absolutely terrible for profits. Additionally, it usually takes 3 days for corporations to burn through supplies. Even so, some remnants of the old quality remain and it can take longer for the corporation's actual supply quality to match the quality you're ordering. You may consider setting supply quality to 120 for a few days, then going to 170 or 180 or whatever.
Your enterprise also has incomplete quality upgrades. While I do not doubt that you're upgrading quality, this process takes time and higher quality supplies is not helpful at lower corporation qualities. I'd advise setting it so new corporations order 120 Q supplies, then you can go back later and set the supply quality to 170 or 180 or whatever you're using. |
| Crafty | Friday, December 28, 2012 - 02:33 pm
Yeah, agreed. Especially in that it may take somewhat longer than 2 days for things to start changing appreciably. Give it some more time Phil. |
| PhilinCt | Saturday, December 29, 2012 - 01:35 pm
Ok will do thanks bunches, -109B 12/29....Should I keep contracting military stuff/supplies to myself? |
| PhilinCt | Monday, December 31, 2012 - 02:22 pm
-74B trending towards profitability many many thanks for all the great suggestions.... |
