W3C - Game News Nov. 18

Is that only mobile conventional missile batteries that participate in defence or also standard conventional missile batteries as well

Mobile Devices Corps need some tuning Andy? I have several fully upped and they're loosing between 18B/20B per year. This is on FB. The market has severe shortages yet the corps are making these huge losses? I've looked at other presidents corps also and they're all making similar losses. Prob has something to do with the huge cost in supplies needed per corp.

i was curious about the very thing DD said, mine aren't upgraded, but they are doing really poorly

After looking more closely we need 13 supply products to produce them. Almost 1M units of software per month, 1M electronic components per month. That seems alot

They most certainly are NOT I-Phones....we need a Steve Jobs type manager to look at those margins.

Mine is also losing money. I checked the structure again and it is correct.

These corporations are bigger than most and as with most very large corporations in Simcountry, they are less profitable when they are not upgraded to high levels, and very profitable when upgraded.

I see the graph going up steadily and they will improve a lot. These are high tech corporations and they should be very profitable.

Also the product price is increasing and will contribute to the results.

I've just super boosted one, so let's see if it will turn a profit now. I'll post some results when I get them.

Mine were all fully upgraded from day one and are not making any profit. That isn't the answer to these corporations.

I've upgraded two (in two different enterprises with slightly different settings) Quality about 211, profit about 150 million with upgrades at 202. The quality should continue to upgrade and so with that in mind, I'd say these corps should turn a decent profit. But, probably not as much as FMU or high tech services.

Thanks for testing.
I am sure they will turn out more. if not, I will check them again.

Actually at top price (7,700) and nearly upgraded (174) my state corp North West Mobile Devices (North West Apo, KB) makes a hefty 1B/month profit now. I don't know what changed, but it's ok now.

Btw, what kind of a "mobile device" costs $7,700 lol

And what king of bomber costs so much, and the same is true for nearly any other product.

and this is after so many reductions.

we want to continue gradual reduction in pricing in Simcountry and reduce amounts used across the game.

The mobile devices corps don't produce a profit. The price is at its max and my CEO has some of them fully upgraded and all 8 are doing poorly. Same settings as my other corporations.
Cl industries on WG

+1

Mine are profitable and increasingly so.
Market value is increasing too.

I expect them to increase profits.

What world and country? I just want to check your strategies.

andy on FB
there are two of these corporations.

Well my mobile device corps are not profitable. They are fully upgraded and many corps with the same settings are very profitable. This is on KB. I will give them some more time before they become something else that is profitable.

How about the battery corps? They are much worse than the mobile devices. Is there any projection when they may become profitable?

Ok here's what I saw. As a CEO, a player will make losses. The income that your corps are making a month is too small to cover a ceos country resources cost, so yes mobile devices can turn a profit, but just not for a CEO.

OK Andy I took a look at your two Mobile Devices corps on FB. Benita makes 170M/month (2B/year) and Richmond makes 200/month (2.5B/year). They are both fully upgraded and employ 300K employees.

Let's now compare them to your only Def Weapons Maintenance corp, Zerbst, and one of you Factory Maintenance corps, Martina (they're all the same). Both are fully upgraded, their product prices are the highest possible, and the slight differences in revenue are only a result of supply prices fluctuation:

Zerbst makes 600M/month (made 10B last year) with 272K employees.

Martina makes 750M/month (made 9B last year) with 263K employees.

I won't make any comparisons to Off Weapons Maint or Airforce Maint corps, as their products are very cheap right now.

So Andy as you can see there's something really wrong with the setup of Mobile Devices corps. Either supply quantities must be lowered, or output raised by 15-20%, or preferably the top price must be made substantially higher (a 18% increase should do it).

Update: my CEO mobile devices are beginning to turn a tiny profit (<150m) not enough for me to actually build more, but at least its something I guess. I'll update if things change.