Monthly profit go's ups and down

[peter86 0]

 

Hi all,

 

I have a question about  the monthly profit its go's up and down without changing anything and i can't figure out why

 

I have 2 ore mines earlier they give me a good profit  bud now its Always in the red +/-    - 495.000 in the monthly ore report.

They boffed are minig 120 tons a day.

Why it is now Always in the minus?

 

I don't have a melting factory is that a problem?

 

 

I have also 2 processor  factories they give me good money, Always in the +/-  + 1.000.000 profit in the monthly electronic report

 

My monthly profit whas first  +/-  + 1.000.000 and now it comes down to - 277.696 without changing anything.

 

And this happes Always and i can't figure out why can some one please help me,,

 

Thanks!!

 

 

 

[simmarine 7]

well one thing is if the trucks from outside your city cant get in then your monthly trade goes down quite a bit. You dont control those trucks, just the roads and traffic they navigate in your city. It can also be that the trucs inside your city that take ore to a smelting plant can also encounter traffic and slow the deliveries. Do you get the red shield often telling you that there is a shortage of resources or that a storage lot is full. I have found when mining and exporting that you have to find the balance whjch makes the most money consistantly. Watch your trade screen and see where your trucks go and use the resources map that shows your levels of commodities and adjust for balance. It will never be perfect but will even out more with some tweaks.

[Cob92 360]

You need to stop importing alloy. Build a smelting factory and use your ore to make the alloy you need. Much cheaper to buy coal on the global market and smelt it with your ore.

[peter86 0]

Thanks for the response

 

I watch the traffic and the levels of commodities, bud I think they are oke.

I closed the ore mine bud its make no differents ..  

this evening I watch game only to find out what the problem was and I can get hardly 1 million ..

and the monthly reports telling me 2 million profit .. bud I don't see it..

 

has the speed of the game any influence on the game?

I played with that also, bud I don't now it jet.

 

thanks!

 

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@Cob92            

 

Thanks

 

 

i saw your message to late, I go try that tomorrow and see of that has any influence.

 

Thanks for all the support guys!!

[BravoGreenONE 120]

Thought this was a thread of ea's earnings. Read they were suppose to release those figures today

[simmarine 7]

Remember that when it says you made 3 million (for example) this is your gross so you have to subtract you expenses. The money screen will show you what you actually made for the month in thr bottom right corner.Cob92 is right about alloy, never buy it, always import the raw resources and make it. I imported some TV's once and it cost$250,000 for 1000, not a good deal. There are 2 types of mayors, one that cares and makes less money because they build hospitals and big fire stations. Then there are the mayors that treat the sims like slaves but make more money. If you are basing your city on mining then i say, keep them poor, stupid and above all digging.

[peter86 0]

@simmarine

 

i finally want to do electronics bud first i want to unlock the smelting factory and the rebuilt my city

I have now 3 cole mines and one ore mine.. bud I don't get near the 700.000 you need to unlock the smelting factory what do I wrong?

 

the mines are on top of the train station to export the ore and cole  and 12 trucks...

 

 

thanks!

 

[simmarine 7]

Okay

One thing you have to be careful with is what upgrades you choose as your HQ grows so you will need the MIning HQ and the smelting division so how do you get that. Depending on what you already have chosen could help or hurt you but lets not get into that. One thing I would look at first is your depots because I see you have both unless I'm mistaken. The Trading port storage lots hold 5 times the lots of a depot so consolidate everything you can as you may be way out of whack with storage which is wasted resources. I see you have a Freight rail terminal which is good but if you have the ability and of course water on your map the cargo ship docks move twice as much freight because trading happens every 180 minutes at a cargo ship dock and every 360 minutes at a feight terminal. You have to squeeze every penny out of your shipping and trading to get to that trading goal so you can get a smelting division on your HQ and build a smelting factory. If trucks from the outside of your city get stalled in traffic then your trading slows down which lowers your trading money. One thing I did which was more drastic was to dump population by raising taxes which helped with traffic issues. One other thing I do on my mining cities is I make no effort to educate or raise the standard of living as you need poor stupid people to work the mines. In my opinion a trading city is like a sweat shop which makes you a rich bad mayor. Screw the popularity, make money and grow.

 

Good Luck.

 

One last thing if you dont know. You do not have to bulldoze the who trade port to change storage yards, you can just use the bulldozer on specific one. If I remember correctly when you are looking at your port in bulldoze mode you can select the bulldozer again (think its yellow at this point) and choose individual storage yards to bulldoze.

[peter86 0]

@simmarine

 

 

Thanks for all the information I go try it tonight ..!