User Manual

Nevertheless, producing your own goods is worthwhile in many cases. Once the business runs
well, you can expect to get stable prices and a constant supply of goods. Moreover, you create
jobs, which helps improve your standing and encourages city growth.
Your trading office is the place where your businesses get their raw materials from and the place
where they store the finished products. If the raw materials are missing, your business will not
produce anything, but the running costs remain the same, so make sure the supply of raw
materials is secure. At your office, you can inform yourself about the materials you have in stock
and what materials will be needed in the next couple of days. If the prices for raw materials are
low, buy in advance, as this will reduce your production costs.
A trading office administrator can be hired to secure the supply of raw materials. Note that an
administrator will pay no attention to the prices. If there’s a need, he will buy. After all,
expensive raw materials are better than untapped resources.
You should also make sure that the goods you produced are removed from your office once in a
while. Your office has considerable storage space, but once its limits are reached, additional
storerooms have to be rented, which is not exactly cheap.
If you’re having a hard time transporting all the goods you produced, this could be the right time
to think about buying a new ship.
Housing
Your workers require housing. If the competition is not doing so already, you should build a
sufficient number of residential buildings. Per worker, there are four other people who need
housing. Apart from the rent you get, constructing such buildings will also raise your standing.
Again, your apartments will only be cost-effective if they are used to capacity because there are
running costs and taxes to pay.
Recognition through Trade
Whenever you supply a city with the goods it needs, your standing is raised. Depending on the
type of goods you supply, your standing regarding the three different social classes, which
require different goods, will rise accordingly.
It is not advisable to supply goods that are not needed. If you sell a certain commodity and
notice that the purchase price and the selling price get closer and closer to one another, then
the need is met for now. If you continue to sell that commodity, this will have no further impact
on your standing. In that case, it is better to sell it elsewhere or to store it in your trading office.
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