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DixiesHaven's avatar
4 years ago
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Fish Stew discrepancy

Why is fish stew so much more expensive to make that your cost can't be recouped from selling it? And knowing that, why include the task of making twelve of them for the CoM challenge?

I've encountered this task twice in this week's CoM, but the math doesn't add up.

Two spatulas at 250 coins a piece is 500.

One vegetable at 160 coins.piece

two fish at approximately 20 coins a piece is 40, making the total cost of making fish stew 700 coins, yet it only sells for 400 coins. 

Knowing that, shouldn't the price to sell be adjusted upwards to at least sell it for more than it cost to make it?

  • @DixiesHaven  I recently sent a request to technical support outlining the unreasonableness of CoM requirements. These assignments that are constantly being repeated every third one is absolutely ridiculous and shameful. Of course someone will say they are randomly selected by the computer but an individual wrote the program and did an absolutely pathetic job…phoned it in so to speak. I also outlined the overvaluation of war game tasks (which have no place in CoM - separate contests with separate rewards) as compared to others. 
    The response I got was “I understand and I hope the design team will take a look”…of course when I got the satisfaction form email I was not overly kind starting with how could I be possibly be satisfied…

    If you don’t like what you’re seeing in CoM send a report to technical support and let them know. They don’t read posts in the forum, but someone reads the satisfied / dissatisfied responses and historically have followed up on the dissatisfied…I’m guessing it’s a measurable for their job performance review. Good luck.

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  • @DixiesHaven 

    Hi!

    This game is definitely one in which careful consideration and decision making are factors. Most mayors would never choose an item like fish stew as their go-to simoleon-making item but, if they're competing in CoM and Plumbob payout is their priority, they may choose to do the assignment whether or not the simoleon payout is there.

    I totally get where you're coming from though.

    Good luck and enjoy the game.🙂

  • @DixiesHaven  I recently sent a request to technical support outlining the unreasonableness of CoM requirements. These assignments that are constantly being repeated every third one is absolutely ridiculous and shameful. Of course someone will say they are randomly selected by the computer but an individual wrote the program and did an absolutely pathetic job…phoned it in so to speak. I also outlined the overvaluation of war game tasks (which have no place in CoM - separate contests with separate rewards) as compared to others. 
    The response I got was “I understand and I hope the design team will take a look”…of course when I got the satisfaction form email I was not overly kind starting with how could I be possibly be satisfied…

    If you don’t like what you’re seeing in CoM send a report to technical support and let them know. They don’t read posts in the forum, but someone reads the satisfied / dissatisfied responses and historically have followed up on the dissatisfied…I’m guessing it’s a measurable for their job performance review. Good luck.

  • DixiesHaven's avatar
    DixiesHaven
    4 years ago

    Thank you @never2old2game .  I would never consider fish stew as a money making item, but to be losing that much money making an item makes absolutely no sense to me, as everything else makes a profit whether it's a small one or not!

    Thank you for taking the time to answer,  it is appreciated.  

  • DixiesHaven's avatar
    DixiesHaven
    4 years ago

    Thank you,  @PinnacleValley  I might just do that! It makes no sense that everything else makes a profit--albeit sometimes a small one-- bit in this case we actually lose money by making it and getting assigned to make it twice, in significant amounts during the same CoM is both costly, time consuming and redundant.

    Thank you for taking the time to answer, it is appreciated.