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Anonymous
10 years ago

What do you sell?

I know this is quite subjective. I typically like what I call single-tier items: you take factory items, make them into goods, and sell them. I avoid making chairs, for example, which need hammers and nails first.

Most important to me, however, is a predictable time cycle. I've been using a 3 hour cycle, because I've been making and selling flour bags for a long time. Textiles take 3 hours, and in that time I can make 6 flour bags plus 1 vegetable (I often forget the vegetable). I recently added making sugar, so in 3 hours I can make 6 flour bags and 4 donuts. In the same cycle, I can make 4 cement bags. Overnight, I make flour bags and milk; in the morning I turn some flour bags into bread and sell that.

So basically I sell bread, donuts, cement, and excess flour bags. If I have the time and inclination, I hunt down materials for watches and throw some of them in.

I know this leaves several stores unused or under-used, but I prefer a simpler and more predictable schedule to a super-efficient one.

What do you do?

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    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    Nails.

    Nails give you the best return of money for the time it takes to produce.

    Whenever I have the Building Supplies Store idle, I set it to produce nails.  Even when busy doing other things elsewhere, I can leave one factory free to produce metal, to feed the Building Supplies store.

    I find other stores like the Hardware Store and Farmers Market are often too busy - I tend to need a lot of production here, for Contest of mayors assignments and such.   Anyway, it is easy to interrupt nail production to get out a couple of planks or something. I don't have to wait too long, even if I have the whole production chain full. (I have 6 slots)

    I guess I like to keep things simple, and it doesn't get much simpler than nails. 🙂

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