I still can't understand what are the buildings and build time that can make 120% difference in two weeks.Originally Posted by Tramp Stamp
I still can't understand what are the buildings and build time that can make 120% difference in two weeks.
Very detailed and comprehensive analysis. Thank you for sharing this valuable information. It is very useful to me as I try to build my economy. So far I think I have not really been doing a very good job - mainly due to my lack of knowledge. My economy remains weak and I barely make 16K/hour. Should I focus on upgrading my bigger buildins (movie theatre, dominican, beach motel) first or should I focus on upgrading my smaller more frequent payout buildings (ice cream, laundramat, italian restaurants) first? Or should I buy lofts and crematoriams before upgrading anything? I realize I need to do all of the above but what would be the best order to do so? Thank you for reading and your advice.
Simple really, 3-hour buildings. I never have downtime when something is not upgrading. 70% of the time it's a 3 hour building because that's my play style.
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I wouldn't materially change the strategy. You're past the opener part so you can skip Step 1 so I would start with Step 2, upgrading Laundromats. You'll accumulate a lot of money waiting for the Laundromats to complete. Use that to build the highest output buildings first. When it comes time to upgrade something else, pick the most expensive item doable from the list then keep building new high output buildings when more funds become available.
Last edited by Tramp Stamp; 12-24-2011 at 12:13 AM.
Thanks Tramp, I'll work on my laundromats first.
This is a good analysis tramp stamp!
in your opnion what would say is better,
you have 2 buildings you want to upgrade them both, do you upgrade 1 to level 2 then level 3 .... level 10 etc.. and then start on the 2nd, or is it better to, upgrade 1 to level 2 then the second to level 2 then the first to level 3 then the 2nd to level 3 and so on and so on?? which is better and why?
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The best thing to do is to upgrade them together, cause buildings dont genrate money while they upgrade.
Image you have 2 buildings each generate 10k, if you upgrade just one building, the other keeps genarating 10 k. While the building thats being upgraded doesnt make any cash, instead itll only costs you.
So always make sure your buildings are equally being upgrade.
This is an important point that should be expounded upon. Upgrading the high ticket buildings punches your economy in the gut in a direct exchange of available funds for future growth. Starting with an ROI base hedges this effect as a base built in parallel limits loss. The end effect of the Type A ROI base is a platform that generates approximately $10k/hr with frequent payouts, which provides more than enough breathing room assuming the player starts with the strategy. Over time regular operating income will increase, but in the short term the player is expected to survive off his "shanty town".
Last edited by Tramp Stamp; 12-24-2011 at 10:24 AM.
Upgrading in parallel will net in lower ROI. Upgrading in series leads to faster growth. In my opinion if ROI is important then a cheaper upgrade should be selected, so I am inclined to upgrade in series.
Last edited by Tramp Stamp; 12-24-2011 at 11:52 AM.
I just have a question about later on. My situation is I just bought 2 rock cafes and now I can afford to continually upgrade my MTs and lofts. so I put my lofts to level 4 and now my MTs are going to level 7, then i plan to put my lofts to level 5 for 6 million each which is not an issue. However after that i could afford to keep going but ROI tells me that zues theatres and churches come next which compared to the 6 million $ upgrades they aren't near as expensive.
Bottom line do I follow ROI at this point or continually upgrade my big ticket type a buildings until they become unaffordable?
Im almost in same postition as you are. And im going for churches and zeus. More lvled buildings = more money.
I'm inclined to agree with this, the upgrade times for those aren't that long either. I also want to save up for upscale clubs and condos. i may not have enough income to do all of this. Time will tell.
Thus far my analysis is strongest at the earlier stages, but when it comes to high level buildings, especially the gold ones, if there is a growth penalty compared to the "Big 3" Type As then it's very slight. Basically do what you feel like here. I might change my opinion on this later on, though. I will recommend limiting your choices as upgrading a bunch of high level Type Bs in parallel is not the fastest way to growth.
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