Monday, August 16, 2010

Maximize Your Stores Income


How to improve your income without really trying too hard.
  1. BEST EMPLOYEES IN THE BEST STORES if your great employee is hanging out in your level 1 store, he's not generating as much money for you as he would if you put him in your high level store. Don't forget to assign a store manager as soon as possible!
  2. PROMOTE YOUR STORES maybe this is the most grueling job but make sure to get all your stores to 50-59 popularity for maximum returns. To speed things up look at your best store and do promotion on all based on your best store. Everything else is just secondary.
  3. GAS AND GOODS BEFORE YOUR ALLOWANCE and NPC daily rewards maximizes your potential income from those activities. Also goes for 30th day landmark rewards.
  4. CLEAN STORES to 990 for more bonus
  5. AVOID OVERSTOCKING come on, you're going to play once a day.. put on 24 hours at a time. there's a storage fee you would like to avoid so don't put too much goods in your stores.
  6. AVOID COMPETITION and BEING IN THE WRONG LOCATION lovely thing about BTOA is you can get a moving company to move your store. Silly isn't it?
  7. MEDIA BONUS can go up to 50% but its a bit expensive at the start do. So it slowly
  8. VIP BONUS if there's anything worth buying its a VIP card or maybe you can just win one? Try Arena or Travel

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Arena Survival Guide

Arena can be a tricky thing to stay on top of. Taking time and strategy. Here's some tip on making the most out of it.

  1. PARTICIPATE, sure your 6 greens with 6 whites have no hope of winning but there is always that random chance of winning something.
  2. LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP, take a few seconds to view MATCH RECORDS of your next victim, you'll see his formation, and whether he randomizes. Take advantage of this. I actually keep a spreadsheet for faster look-ups.
  3. VARIETY, with your attacks and defense will confuse people who look up match records. Don't forget to check the RANDOMIZE box on your defense. Change up your setup once a day. Keep them guessing
  4. LAST MINUTE RUSH, if you are after getting in the top 50, and are not strong enough to be in the top 10, go for a last minute rush. This prevents you from climbing up beyond your team's strength, and getting the living daylights kicked out of you. Also you will get to use as much of your vitality for attacks of your choosing, rather than your vitality being sucked up while you are not playing.
  5. FIRST IMPRESSIONS LAST, if you plan to climb to top 10 start arena as soon as you can, you will be able to attack players that you will never see again. I've seen as much as a 6000 point first day buffer.Just remember if you are up there. You're name is on everyone's bullet. Poke everyone often!
  6. SCRAPE THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL, when you do get in the top 20, the best source for points is cycling number 18-19-20. If you drop them down to below 20, number 21 pops up ready for you to poke. Repeat til it jams, then start massaging the people that you can win against.
  7. GEAR UP, do not be swayed by confidence gear, they are practically useless in the arena, go for execution and management gear. Upgrade them whenever you can. 
  8. DO NOT SLEEP, if you get attacked once, you can bet your allowance you will be attacked again with the same formation. Set up a defense quick to match his attack.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

FACTORY FACTOR

Develop your factory properly, a factory gone off tangent will be stuck for a long time. here's some advice
  1. PRODUCE AND SELL EACH KIND OF GOODS : Each type of goods will give you sales xp for their particular industry. Sales XP translates to increased raw materials of that industry's type. If you let auxiliary raw materials lag too far behind it will slow your production. And Remember to Sell to System or to Market, not to your store, you do not gain SALES XP if you sell at your Store, You also don't gain SALES XP if you don't sell top quality goods. So SELL YOUR GOODS before you upgrade.



    Sales Experience
    Supply Rate Increase
    60
    x 2.27
    260
    x 5.70
    860
    x 11.0
    3100
    x 21.23
    5600
    x 31.47
    9700
    x 51.93
    21350
    x 64.91
    32076
    x 81.14
  2.  FILL YOUR CORPORATE CHART PRODUCT POSITION : filled product positions in the corporate chart will increase production.
  3. FIND A VEHICLE WITH GOODS PRODUCTION BONUS : Use it when you are about to produce goods, should increase production, just switch it out when you are done.
  4. SELL EXCESS RAW MATERIALS : if you warehouse is full and you have 2 days til your production is done, sell the projected amount of raw materials you will produce. Extra TCN for nothing!
  5. DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR DEVICE TOO FAST : If you upgrade your device too far before you upgrade your raw materials, you will grind to a halt as higher grade goods use up more raw materials.
    Device Upgrade List:



     Device
     Goods Level
      Output
     Device CC
     Goods of Quality H
     24cases/day
     Device C
     Goods of Quality G
     48 cases/day
     Device B
    Goods of Quality F
     96 cases/day
     Device A
    Goods of Quality E
     144 cases/day
     Device AA
    Goods of Quality D
     216 cases/day
     Device X
    Goods of Quality C
     270 cases/day
     Device X100
    Goods of Quality B
     324 cases/day
     Device S
    Goods of Quality A
     405 cases/day

    =====================================================================





    Device Upgrade
    Tech Experience Required
    Time Required
    Device CC -- Device C
    120
    1 hour
    Device C -- Device B
    480
    2 hours
    Device B -- Device A
    1440
    3 hours
    Device A -- Device AA
    4752
    4 hours
    Device AA -- Device X
    8100
    5 hours
    Device X -- Device X100
    12960
    6 hours
    Device X100 -- Device S
    28512
    7 hours
  6. UPGRADE YOUR WAREHOUSE when you have spare tcn lying around, there is a chance that your guild allowance will fill up your raw materials. Also Anything is Possible normally fills up 20% of one kind of raw material or once in a while fills up your entire warehouse, but it costs gold.



     Warehouse Level
     Time Required
     Capacity After Upgrade
     Cost (TCN)
     1
     0
    0
    0
     2
    1 hour
    1500
    20,000
     3
    2 hours
    3,000
    100,000
     4
    6 hours
    8,000
    350,000
     5
    12 hours
    15,000
    1,200,000
     6
    1 day
    30,000
    3,600,000
     7
    2 days
    45,000
    8,000,000
     8
    4 days
    60,000
    15,000,000
     9
    5 days
    90,000
    30,000,000
     10
    6 days
    120,000
    50,000,000
     11
    6 days
    250,000
    80,000,000

Monday, August 9, 2010

How to train your Employees

  1. FISHSOUP : use it strategically, if you don't have a bottomless pit of fishsoup, only fishsoup one attribute (either execution or management) to the increment of employee routines (30/60/120/170/260)
  2. ATTIRE : your attire gives bonuses to execution or management, again just make them wear enough to get one attribute to 260. and once the have achieved the requirement, leave them naked and pass the attire to your next employee
  3. ROUTINES : focus your routines based on the maximum points they can give your employees, there is a school of thought that you should focus on one employee, but that does not let you maximize the total number of points you can generate a day.
  4. EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION : communicate with your employees between 12:00 and 16:00 the bonuses are greater. And remember you can stack communication with your other routines so you can pad your activities so that your communication starts at 12:00
  5. HOLD A MEETING : hold one gentle meeting between 0900-1600 for maximum points, the other meeting should be serious
  6. TRAINING : Train twice a day, one hour duration, again for maximum returns
  7. FURTHER TRAINING : focus on your desired arena team til you get them to all purple, saturdays is best with the employee candidate having maximum proficiency