Govt. facilities corps question (Little Upsilon)

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If you have corps producing schools, roads, hospitals, etc. does it make sense for the supply quality to be anything except 100? Especially if you're contracting it out to your own country.

If your schools are 300Q, you're not getting triple the graduates or any other benefit are you?

With the school supply scene on LU my high and elementary have been taking a shellacking for years, and I'm tired of pouring cash into them.

But I need them (I'm only at 120 Ed. index right now)so I won't close them.

I'm currently running the 160 supply routine, and thought if I dropped the supply level to 100 I might not make a profit, but I wouldn't be losing a billion a month either.

Any thoughts on this are appreciated. I probably have the prettiest roads on LU ;).

quality of schools don't help education, just your corps net income. if schools are in high supply LU, and have been losing money it would make more sence to close them and open corps that will make a profit. You don't 'need' them if they are in supply, just order schools from the market and set the quality you desire.

Synicus,

Thanks for the input.

Take the reverse situation. My road corp is pulling in 2.5 to 3B per month (state corp).

But that's not country profit as I contract out to myself. So the corp is kicking, but it's costing my country unnecessary cash because the Q is in the 200s. If I drop supply level to 100 it seems like it'd even out. The corp would lose Q, but its' operating costs would also go down to the minimum.

And of course my country bottom line would improve, although the profit share money would fall so I'm wondering how the vets handle it.

What thoughts on that?

If you don't buy upgrades, quality remains low and production remains consistant, plus 100 quality supply is all good. The corporation also needs a relatively low salary. It then only matters that the corp produces a profit to keep it afloat.

The problem is in mixing low salary corps with high salary corps, Government salaries should be 76% of the average so it would need constant adjusting. imo

I used to do this. But I got tired of not making money. It's cheaper to just to push out high quality and buy cheap off the world market.

Listen to White Darkness. Don't contract. Don't self-supply. Sell your high quality roads on the world market for maximum profit and buy 100Q roads with your country when you need them.

All those ideas are outstanding, I appreciate it. My country has 100Q buying auto, so that wouldn't be a problem. And I finally broke the 120 trans. index, so I could stop the contracts and make some bucks off the rest of the world. Let the AI order more roads as I need them.

Then when I snag my c3 slave (or slaves) I can play with the different ideas presented here.

Thanks much, folks.

Currently it does not make sense to purchase high quality schools and universities etc.

Quality now makes sense for many products, including weapons, the space industry and all industrial products and natural resources that are used in the production process of other products.

In time, quality will make a difference with all the products in Simcountry.

Thank you, Mr. Willard. Brings some interesting possibilities to mind.

Germany style autobahns as opposed to the pothole-ridden ones in my state?

Can't wait for the developments.