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Originally posted by Guest_Jeremiah@Jan 29 2006, 09:59 AM
How do you buy additional buildings after you've filled up your original?

look up a few posts am sure any answer u need is there



anyway would like to say great game i had the same bug with workers dissapearing and multiple names
also found a cheat i think its worked once will try it again next time i play (probly tommorow k: )
changed my mind just re-tryed it

its fairly simple get a loan get a second loan pay off the first loan get a third loan
i just did that now and the third loan went into my bank balance but didnt register with the bank $250,000 for free (if only real life was so simple

because i cant be sure and it mite not work and als coz i feel like telling u heres how i found it

i got the largest factry i could find so i needed to get big income asap as the rent was huge so i chanced my arm and took out a $250,000 loan. T
he bank had already given me a loan for 50,000 when i went overdrawn so this was loan 2 but i took it out for 1 year by mistake (higher intrest and i had already spent the money when i noticed) so i took out a second 3 loan payd off the second no problem i then went overdrawn a little so i ended up with bank loan four and decided to get another loan as the plan was beginning to work (i think) my 5 loan i used to pay off the 2 small loans and buy some more stuff i was starting to make enough money i had about 12 machines all using convayor belts and storage bins some were interconected (i am still experimenting with that) loads of office staff so i went to pay off some of my loan and noticed 1 of my loans wasn't showing so i took out another and happy days it was free if u bothered to read that then i hope u followed it am not great at explaining stuff without hand actions LOL LOL


wud love to see this game updated i would like

1) overhead conveyor belts with several levels so u can move things round the factory undergound and level ground like now then a third level workers could walk under then maybe 2 more levels allowing u to criss cross belts and link up machines that are not adjacent to each other

2)the ability to buy a bigger place later

3)to be able to rotate a machine round when am reorganisin

4)owning more than 1 factory would be great u could have the option only to buy from other supliers if 1 of your companys didnt supply an item u needed for instance

5) buying out competitors would be fun but that mite spoil the game

6)using storage bins to make convayor belts split so 1 employee and 1 supply could load 3,4 or even more machines (i like the idea of using a maze of convayor belts and storage bins to automate the factory and just have a load of workers loading and unloading up a row of storage bins) k:

7) i would like to see the basic game stay the same just with a few more options its a great game so i wouldnt want to spoil it

thanks to all on this site i had never seen this game before downloaded it on a whim and have been playing it for the last 3 days its great (shame about the bugs but nevermind)

and starbug u have my respect please post up any update here if it happens
that would be cool LOL

[Icewolf]

He sure has a lot to tell... :blink:
I like that game as well but the mentioned conveyor-belt
problem is reall annoying when you wanna expand.

Nice game with a number of bugs.

Bug 1
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The people can disapper from the machines and this drives your profit down sharply. You can tell that the machine is not working if it appears stagnant on the screen. This can mean that your operator is missing from his machine. The disappeared people still register as one of your employees but they cannot be located!!!
Not sure whether their pays still conidered in the game though.

Bug 2
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The loan exploit.

Bug 3
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The people can get stuck at certain places.

Guide
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1) Start with an industry that has lots of consumers. This ensures that there is a viable market for your goods. (Or u can try the sell a product no one is selling. But this can be risky because competitors might start producing the same goods.) For example, steel industry and ic industry in New York are good industry to invest in.

2) Pick the cheaper staff with great stats. Some staff might ask for a raise later. If that happens, just agreed to their demand and fire them at the start of your next turn. Good cheap staff are important. (This is plain evil though)

3) Purchase the best office to ensure that your staff work in the best environment.

4) Change the equipment sourcing criteria to look for cheap goods.

5) Keep looking out for good cheap operators. I have 25 of them for 13 machines. Augment their ranks with maintenace operator and foreman.

6) The marketing and sales department are fast growing. The accounting and purchasing department are slow growing. You can tell that you need to hire more of a particular staff if you see your staff mentioned that they need more help.

7) Always keep a list of potential employees.

8) The game is not too difficult if you follow the above guidelines and you can afford to rent the biggest buildings.

9) Use your own products for producing your other products.

10) The stress level of your staff will increase sharply if you keep paying them low wages. So increase their pay by 1 or 2 per cent per year. Otherwise, you will see them leaving rather quickly.

11) Do R&D later on to monoplise strategic markets when you have the money to spend on it. I suggest that you earn at least 300k per month before you do R&D.

I earn about 150k per month at the end of the first year following these rules even when renting the biggest building (about 70k per month) and with 1m in the bank.


Overall a very nice simulation game. Hope to see a lot more features added if Starbug is writing the new simulation. Great thanks to Abandonia and the game publisher



k:

[Hobgoblin]

Originally posted by Icewolf@Feb 21 2006, 09:27 AM
He sure has a lot to tell... :blink:
I like that game as well but the mentioned conveyor-belt
problem is reall annoying when you wanna expand.

yeah i get caried away :whistle:

[Banana1]

hello people

the game has some annoying bug too, dunno maybe i missed
it while cross-reading the posts.

dosnt matter how hard you pay, people get convinced into
a strike, and you simply cant end it,
you have to fire and re-hire some people,
who after a time (as far as i remember) want more and
more money.

that was nasty too

a 2d remake of this game, would be cool.
why not form a team to do it?

arksole@ronop.com <-- here you can reach me.

have fun =)

Does anyone know why when you reach about 13-14 machines, people just stop working and go to the breakroom, never to return to work again?

Also, some tips from me...

1. When you have a small building, try to pair up the machines back to back, should save some room.

2. Two machines per maintenance guy works out just fine, three might work as well.

3. A good way to not haire so many people is to tick the auto paperwork option. That means you never have to deal with sales or anything ever again!

Why is there a pallet limit? I have such a huge manufacturing amalgum that there isn't enough storage space for my required materials. Is there maybe a way to memory edit around this with Artmoney or something?

I have a question... my work days seem to go very very slowly, and I was wondering how you could speed up the days. It usually takes 30 seconds or so to go through an hour and I was wondering how to speed it up so I could run my company for a long period of time without waiting forever.

[Icewolf]

There's this menu where you can adjust the game speed. I'm not quite sure where it was, haven't played it a long time. Look it up in the game's help.

Even IF you speed up your game, it devours your system speed. <_<

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Aramazon @ Jun 19 2005, 06:17 PM) [snapback]121484[/snapback]</div>

Hey is there a patch or sumthin cause mine has been bugging out. I got my company up and working fine, makin computers and the stuff i need to make em. Everythings fine until i decide to research multimedia computers. I hire a few researchers, get things going, then suddenly there are like 4 of the same people on my workers list(deb wittington, deb witt..., deb witt...), and they line up to get in the same office, and when i [/b]

I got the same problem, thats why I gave up on this buggu prog.