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Anonymous
10 years ago

iron is the most profitable of the items

if you go through the profit per minute actually makes more than any other item in the game that you can make take shoes you make $1000 in 5 out in a little over five hours why did you can make at least $5000 on the same amount of iron in the same amount of $10 a piece

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    This assumes you always have buyers for iron at $10, and and they are buying as fast as you can produce it.  Otherwise you'd need a massive number of store slots to keep up.

    There are two sides to any transaction, supply and demand.  Supply (and rate of supply)  is relatively meaningless if there is not comparable demand on the other side.

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    What does it's also true massive time consuming things like shoes just 5 hours going to do something else also true on these massive works. Many items like shoes, hours to complete if only one or two minutes so if a man for them to 5 Plus hours. While iron only takes one to two minutes to complete.
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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    As in the real world, the most productive product is the one that you can't find for sale, and you can produce it with time, that is free.

    The most difficult items to find in the Global Market;

    1) Flour Bag

    2) Bread Roll

    3) Garden Furniture

    4) Fruit and Berries

    ANY quantity of the above, that you produce, will be sold immediately.

    Some of those require SEEDs (25min production), other require CREAM or TEXTILES.

    You can product it during the night, since they require hours to produce.

    IRON is fast, but ANY ONE can produce it fast, 1 minute.  I don't understand why someone would buy IRON.

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    There is a disproportion from the developers, related to the time it takes to produce some items.

    For example, 6 hours to produce Animal Feed... 7 hours to produce Electric Components... that is too much, 45 minutes will be extreme.

    Let us play... cut the "waiting time"... why is the reason?

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Yes iron is the best, but demand does drop off. I have over 20 selling slots, so I used to make iron with all factories till sales slowed down then I would switch to wood, until that slowed down, then I would switch to plastic, which allows a little time to click bubbles or go on the gthq as soon as I had room I would switch back to wood. You can easily make 20k per hour but it is a little boring.
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    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Iron allows you to free up your slots for building other things it's more expensive item black shoes n don't make no sense buildings production free apps ice cream for construction that means it's useless
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    I figure the 3 minute wood is best as you have to wait 5 minutes to add new items to your shop anyway. You'll lose money by making 1 minute steel in comparison.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    You can have the entire market filled with metal but not wood in five minutes and at rhe begining you have like two factories having 2 spaces that is 5 minutes for 10.
    Later on like me you have 10 factories @ 5 spaces 50 items. You start with space for 60 items in market if you expand you could have more. But you will not have 60+ of any other item in 5 minutes. Also, if the one advertised isn't sold you can keep adding more that will be seen. The best long term Item is animal feed. While per it value of microchips is higher it doesn't sell as well. Other are faster but don't sell as well. Good for putting on automatic. Metal and wood are god dor manual.
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    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Are you waiting for 5 minutes to use the free advertising in the shop or are you buying each slot for 1 cash? I'm assuming you're paying to fill your shop so fast with metal.



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    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    No I'm waiting. If you don't sell the one advertised which can happen if market is filled with the same item. You can ysw single ad for 3 hours. With metal you can actually keep it filled. No other item can even wood. You start wirh six slots and can empty as many as 5 per minute and still keep advertising one up for a potential of 2500 every 5 minutes
    You can run 150 slots in 30 minutes for potential income of 15000
    Wood can run 50 slots in 30 minutes for 10000 potential. Neither will live up to that and wood will get closer to 10000 than metal will. Remember metal obly has to work 66.67% of full to reach wood at full

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