10:52 Absolutely doing these kind of analysis is critical. I personally also so shifts so I can click the 'Shared Schedule" button. I do 7 hour shifts for full time (7 hours x 7days/week is 49 hours) so I'll do most businesses open for 14 hours and optimize to get the max profit. Each register (or guard locker, etc) would require 2 full time employees to do 14 hours or 3 full time employees to do 21 hours. I have experimented with also adding a 3 or 4 hour part time employee shift for one of the 7 hour shifts, but i don't like part time employees (they cost the same amount for healthcare and provide about half the work). The only business i don't do the 'Shared Schedule' for is Nightclub as you really only want thst open Thursday 19 to 24, Friday/Saturday/Sunday 00 to 05 and 19 to 24, and Monday 00 to 05. The rest of the time you can't really make money.
Charlie got a GLIMPSE of the POWER of the CharMart.. Thats why competitors close business as soon as they hear another one opens ;) BTW charlie, I know the new store is hitting cap for alot.. But I'd still do at least a little adverts so the times you arent, you do :D
39:10 Red means too expensive and will likely impact sales. Cold means higher thsn default but not outrageous 😊 They might buy it now, BUT rivals will eventually build one to compete.
47:21 the offices all do half or less business on weekends. I personally don't open them since i do 'shared schedules'. But you probably could look at hours sold on Saturday and do a fraction of hours based on total sales. So if you sold 25% of weekday sales then use 25% of rhe employees on that day compared ro the weekday, etc
If you don't know it, in the schedule tab if you right click an employee it opens the employee tab of that one, could be useful. Also, loving both your videos and this game especially, thank you for this!
43:11 to find employees that want things. I have a uniform that's bright green called FIND ME and when some one wants something they get publicly shamed and have to dress like pea soup for the day. Got tried of having to re do my purchase agents contracts and my hr cause I moved them to a new desk
Gong back a video or two regarding HR managers (and touching on this one) and micro-managing insurance. One thing to consider is the base cost of them. A full quality HR manager costs between $60 and $85/hr (for me hiring a lower cost and training them ends at ~60, hiring a fresh 95% one is ~85/hr). They work 40hr/week so their weekly cost is between 2400 and 3400 which means their daily cost (counting 7 days a week) is between 340 and 485 dollars. At $19/day for gold insurance that means that the pure cost to hire an HR manager is the same as 18 to 26 people getting gold insurance. So if you have an HR manager with fewer than that number of people, it will almost for sure make more financial sense to simply move their employees to another HR manager with higher insurance (even if that one has gold) and simply fire them. That number increases as the difference between the insurance they have decreases (i.e. it never makes sense to hire a separate bronze HR manager if you have space in your silver manager and only makes sense if you have space in your gold manager if the bronze one will be >= 30-43 people depending on HR manager wage). The far larger source of savings is to hire employees low skill and train them up instead of hiring them at high skill from the headhunter. You save a dramatic amount on hourly wages. Their wage rises as they get training, but not near as much as if you hire them max already. For customer service employees that can mean ~$600/employee for a full time week. Or if you have say 100 customer service employees and average of 8,500/day in lower wages which is four times as high as even the maximum amount of insurance micro-management you can do. If you have a large law firm it can be tens of thousands a day in difference. In my current save a Lawyer recruited at the lowest possible skill and trained to 100 has a salary of 72-74/hr. A freshly recruited 100% skill lawyer has an hourly wage of 145-146/hr. If I have a law firm with 20 lawyers that's a difference of 28k per 8 hour day in wages alone.
I think another tweak to the schedule page that would be good is for the desks to order most expensive attachments to cheapest. So the executive desks with the zanaman computers and tablet with screens will be at the top
Supposedly EA 0.6 (next major update) is working on the UIs. They are going to at least make Scheduling so you can tell what type of equipment each deak has in the form AND show the player names when you are walking around. They alsonsiad that when you move a person to a new desk they will not forget their job (so they remember their order list if they are a Purchase Agent or their employees if they are your Fold Insurance HR Manager).
7:36 heck, I would take just remembering the business name when you click 'Marketing' so I don't have to remember which one it is and find it every dang time 😊 Also a 'back' key so I go back to the same business I was in so I can easily fix the next business in my list without creating some external list to keep track of where i am whilr trying to do markering foe several businesses. I frequently do a 'marketing check' once a week after the businesses I started last week have reached equilibrium and I can see how much marketing they need. Having to make external checklist vs. Doing it in game when you have 40 or more businesses and are opening 5 or 6 per week is a PITA 😅
that weird overcrowding in the supermarket happened on my game as well. i was afraid the game crashed and then every person on the map seemingly was inside my market. Then they all just left in one mass exodus. Also thanks for the vids, this game would not be as fun if you didnt teach me how to play it!
Can you look into real estate? Would it be worthwhile to purchase any of the buildings your current businesses are occupying? Or acquire some buildings that your rivals are running businesses in and then they pay you their rent?
The rent though, is very small compared to the cost of the building…. At least it was back in 0.3 when I last played. We’ll see if that’s changed. Like a $15M building will get you around $300/day in rent. It was pathetic. The real benefit though was tax write offs, since you spent money on a building , it was an expense that counted against your profit.
Is i it not worth the fixed cost of just giving them the upgraded desk and pad with screen, etc., in the first place, to not have to deal with demands later on? Especially since the upgrade process is not straightforward?
Why would I want to pay her hundreds of thousands of dollars for a business that is actively losing her money every day, to then invest more into converting it into a business with very little demand anyways? Buying that business from her is the greatest gift I can give her. Look at it another way: you are doing your best as an entrepreneur with your own services, but you are losing money on your business every day. Every morning you wake up to see you’ve actually lost money compared to the day before. I come and offer to buy it from you. That’s a gift!
Charley, if you only want a button to hire employees at your minimum rec's you need to have a screen as to what your maximum requirements are! If there is not a filter to that aspect well, you're petty much ...... ...'. you! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really think it would be so much better to let it be a night club and make a seperate alcohol store lol , seem like a waste of time and effort which went into designing it.
Sorry you feel that way. I completely disagree. The night club has very little demand and is only profitable on select nights per week. It requires more staff/HR/Insurance than a liquor store, competes with the same product types as a liquor store, but is open significantly less time and costs more to operate. Liquor store is immediately profitable every single day of the week. Easy choice.
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10:52 Absolutely doing these kind of analysis is critical. I personally also so shifts so I can click the 'Shared Schedule" button. I do 7 hour shifts for full time (7 hours x 7days/week is 49 hours) so I'll do most businesses open for 14 hours and optimize to get the max profit. Each register (or guard locker, etc) would require 2 full time employees to do 14 hours or 3 full time employees to do 21 hours. I have experimented with also adding a 3 or 4 hour part time employee shift for one of the 7 hour shifts, but i don't like part time employees (they cost the same amount for healthcare and provide about half the work).
The only business i don't do the 'Shared Schedule' for is Nightclub as you really only want thst open Thursday 19 to 24, Friday/Saturday/Sunday 00 to 05 and 19 to 24, and Monday 00 to 05. The rest of the time you can't really make money.
Charlie got a GLIMPSE of the POWER of the CharMart.. Thats why competitors close business as soon as they hear another one opens ;) BTW charlie, I know the new store is hitting cap for alot.. But I'd still do at least a little adverts so the times you arent, you do :D
39:10 Red means too expensive and will likely impact sales. Cold means higher thsn default but not outrageous 😊
They might buy it now, BUT rivals will eventually build one to compete.
47:21 the offices all do half or less business on weekends. I personally don't open them since i do 'shared schedules'. But you probably could look at hours sold on Saturday and do a fraction of hours based on total sales. So if you sold 25% of weekday sales then use 25% of rhe employees on that day compared ro the weekday, etc
If you don't know it, in the schedule tab if you right click an employee it opens the employee tab of that one, could be useful. Also, loving both your videos and this game especially, thank you for this!
43:11 to find employees that want things. I have a uniform that's bright green called FIND ME and when some one wants something they get publicly shamed and have to dress like pea soup for the day. Got tried of having to re do my purchase agents contracts and my hr cause I moved them to a new desk
Gong back a video or two regarding HR managers (and touching on this one) and micro-managing insurance. One thing to consider is the base cost of them. A full quality HR manager costs between $60 and $85/hr (for me hiring a lower cost and training them ends at ~60, hiring a fresh 95% one is ~85/hr). They work 40hr/week so their weekly cost is between 2400 and 3400 which means their daily cost (counting 7 days a week) is between 340 and 485 dollars.
At $19/day for gold insurance that means that the pure cost to hire an HR manager is the same as 18 to 26 people getting gold insurance.
So if you have an HR manager with fewer than that number of people, it will almost for sure make more financial sense to simply move their employees to another HR manager with higher insurance (even if that one has gold) and simply fire them. That number increases as the difference between the insurance they have decreases (i.e. it never makes sense to hire a separate bronze HR manager if you have space in your silver manager and only makes sense if you have space in your gold manager if the bronze one will be >= 30-43 people depending on HR manager wage).
The far larger source of savings is to hire employees low skill and train them up instead of hiring them at high skill from the headhunter. You save a dramatic amount on hourly wages. Their wage rises as they get training, but not near as much as if you hire them max already. For customer service employees that can mean ~$600/employee for a full time week. Or if you have say 100 customer service employees and average of 8,500/day in lower wages which is four times as high as even the maximum amount of insurance micro-management you can do.
If you have a large law firm it can be tens of thousands a day in difference. In my current save a Lawyer recruited at the lowest possible skill and trained to 100 has a salary of 72-74/hr. A freshly recruited 100% skill lawyer has an hourly wage of 145-146/hr. If I have a law firm with 20 lawyers that's a difference of 28k per 8 hour day in wages alone.
1:07 it’s so late at night and I have to drive all the way home 😂
For night club peak hours are 10pm to 5am to be profitable
Yeah I see that. Doesn’t really make a lot of sense compared to other higher-demand businesses that have longer hours
I think another tweak to the schedule page that would be good is for the desks to order most expensive attachments to cheapest. So the executive desks with the zanaman computers and tablet with screens will be at the top
Supposedly EA 0.6 (next major update) is working on the UIs. They are going to at least make Scheduling so you can tell what type of equipment each deak has in the form AND show the player names when you are walking around. They alsonsiad that when you move a person to a new desk they will not forget their job (so they remember their order list if they are a Purchase Agent or their employees if they are your Fold Insurance HR Manager).
7:36 heck, I would take just remembering the business name when you click 'Marketing' so I don't have to remember which one it is and find it every dang time 😊
Also a 'back' key so I go back to the same business I was in so I can easily fix the next business in my list without creating some external list to keep track of where i am whilr trying to do markering foe several businesses. I frequently do a 'marketing check' once a week after the businesses I started last week have reached equilibrium and I can see how much marketing they need. Having to make external checklist vs. Doing it in game when you have 40 or more businesses and are opening 5 or 6 per week is a PITA 😅
that weird overcrowding in the supermarket happened on my game as well. i was afraid the game crashed and then every person on the map seemingly was inside my market. Then they all just left in one mass exodus. Also thanks for the vids, this game would not be as fun if you didnt teach me how to play it!
HK is pretty wild for fast food. My first business was earning more there than the next 5 GD businesses.
Yeah seems pretty strong.
I comment and like just to support a better auto fill switch for schedule
Just cathed up with whole series lol
Can you look into real estate? Would it be worthwhile to purchase any of the buildings your current businesses are occupying? Or acquire some buildings that your rivals are running businesses in and then they pay you their rent?
The rent though, is very small compared to the cost of the building…. At least it was back in 0.3 when I last played. We’ll see if that’s changed.
Like a $15M building will get you around $300/day in rent. It was pathetic. The real benefit though was tax write offs, since you spent money on a building , it was an expense that counted against your profit.
Is i it not worth the fixed cost of just giving them the upgraded desk and pad with screen, etc., in the first place, to not have to deal with demands later on? Especially since the upgrade process is not straightforward?
lol @38:02 i love that song lol
Loving this play though
Just give the employee a ridiculous set of clothing and it will set him/her apart.
How about a lawyer’s firm as I saw on the number 1 rival he’s making over 100k a week on that alone
We’ll do every business type eventually. Just playing stories and to regional demand. ;)
Why not buy Ingrids Web Development agency and switch it to a law firm?
Why would I want to pay her hundreds of thousands of dollars for a business that is actively losing her money every day, to then invest more into converting it into a business with very little demand anyways?
Buying that business from her is the greatest gift I can give her.
Look at it another way: you are doing your best as an entrepreneur with your own services, but you are losing money on your business every day. Every morning you wake up to see you’ve actually lost money compared to the day before.
I come and offer to buy it from you. That’s a gift!
I like this game but my least favorite part is the tinfoil car?
Charley, if you only want a button to hire employees at your minimum rec's you need to have a screen as to what your maximum requirements are! If there is not a filter to that aspect well, you're petty much ...... ...'. you! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really think it would be so much better to let it be a night club and make a seperate alcohol store lol , seem like a waste of time and effort which went into designing it.
Sorry you feel that way. I completely disagree. The night club has very little demand and is only profitable on select nights per week. It requires more staff/HR/Insurance than a liquor store, competes with the same product types as a liquor store, but is open significantly less time and costs more to operate.
Liquor store is immediately profitable every single day of the week. Easy choice.
@@CharliePryor its okay.. still enjoying your every video 🍻😇
What happens when you do not pay taxes to the government
They begin to take your money by force, including resolving your investments/businesses. You cannot avoid the IRS
Oh ok
Couldn’t you just make a restaurant with a bar? Many sports bars serve food too.
You wouldn’t sell very much alcohol doing that. The demands you satisfy depend on the business type you select.