Business Update

[Kohola_KinG]

My store was making 250-300k a week before the update

If your business was making that amount of money then why were you trying so hard to get changes. You got changes (not well thought out ones, i do agree) and now you're back to square one asking for more changes.

Why change a business that brings in that much revenue? Surely that's bringing in profit, why change it? Why was the prices of the food raised when it was bringing in so much money it should have been the other way around. The price should have lowered to bring more people through the door.

A change you should maybe have considered was reducing the heals of ALL food items so more food items is required increasing the sales. If your business was making that amount of money, you could have increased the payout without increasing the food prices. You tried to keep that gap of profit and to have the ability of paying them higher wages. It doesn't work like that, you need to just raise your wages without raising your prices. You might lose a little money but happy staff and people wanting to work for you is very important.

Advertising is the most important aspect of business. If people don't know what or where your business is then how are you ever going to sell anything.

- leaflet drops. Think of the number of houses, sewer houses and apartments there is on era. Do they have a mailbox? Give business owners the ability to drop leaflets into their mailboxes every so often of recent news of their business. Owners can hire people to do this, creates more jobs.

- Undergo a makeover. It's nice to keep updating and changing your business levels, they get old and boring to look at. New levels encourages people to come and check it out, they grab some food while they're at it.

- Use the exterior of your premises.. By this i mean every business on era should have a window displaying the items the shop sells. You cannot buy from outside you can only see what is on display. This encourages and reminds people to call in and buy some items.

- Advertise your best deals outside your premises.. Ask for signs to be put up of what you best deals are. They could be put on top of your business or whatever.

- Reward loyalty.. Get loyalty cards that you grab on the counter and by having one in your inventory every time you buy an item you gain loyalty coins for that shop and maybe open a loyalty business shop (gui) where they can buy some cool stuff. Or by having so much points they get discount on by how much they buy etc etc

- Give out a free one... Give owners a stall... Let them have it in their inventory.. You drop it on the map and it opens a stall that's locked to you, you cannot move while this thing is open to stop you opening one and running away and leaving it. Then there would be no point having a shop. Once the stall opens a gui opens up where you can set prices to give people samples, or even cheap deals. (Who cares if people buy **** loads, it gives employees more work)

These are only some ideas that i am running of the top of my head. There is so much more that you can do and these are the type of positive changes that need to happen. Not just chopping and changing prices.

Also take into consideration that raiding is a big factor when it comes to sales. Without raiding activity food isn't really needed.

[Godzilla]

Originally Posted by Kohola_KinG

you could have increased the payout without increasing the food prices. You tried to keep that gap of profit and to have the ability of paying them higher wages. It doesn't work like that, you need to just raise your wages without raising your prices. You might lose a little money but happy staff and people wanting to work for you is very important.

That's exactly what I had, SP was making DECENT money compared to other businesses and that's why I proposed a change of pace in things. I stressed my concerns about raising the prices of things and well... like usual my concerns became reality.

I think I made a total of 100k in the 2 weeks of it making 400k + in total before the update, which really, sounds like a lot but with the current economy really it isn't.

I had my own paying system where I would give the top 2 stockers 25% of the total profits each, keeping 50% to myself, which after pay wasn't all that big.

I like to think I had a good thing going for SP but right now... my motivation has hit a wall.

[Kohola_KinG]

I also forgot to add. Why do we have to eat just the one doughnut when healing? It's a game, why cant we go through x3 of them per heal.

My point is. You buy x1 doughnuts at a time but when you heal you eat x3 of them at a time to get your 40hp heals per time.

Doughnut just an example.

You go through more food.. increasing the likelihood of needing more food a lot sooner. Increasing the sales & work.

[Kohola_KinG]

A huge problem is that people have huge bundles of food in their inventory's that they dont need to buy food for months on end....

It's very important that you add a method that food rots within a month of the day it was purchased. It then becomes useless and add the option of taking it to the recycling center and getting a % of what you paid for it. Just genius if i do say so myself.

You put money into the economy by spending it.. It rots, you recycle it, economy puts more money in and then you spend it again. Now you don't get more than you paid for it, by this i mean just putting money out there by spending it.

This needs to happen. People have massive amounts of food that they don't need to buy anymore food. I use to be one of those people, i still have around a thousand doughnuts etc left that lasts me for months. In fact, i can not even remember the last time i purchased food.

Summary: Food needs to rot, become useless. Give people a reason to go back and get more or they wont have any food to heal. Give them an option to recycle it to get some of their money back to go buy more.