My TOP 10 TIPS To Get Started Right! Big Ambitions Guide - Big Ambitions Early Access 

Miss any cool tips? Head into the comments and let others know your favorite tips below!

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My biggest tip is: Do the bare minimum when your uncle asks you to open the fast food restaurant. Complete the mission and immediately close the business. Fast food is a slog early game, and there are better options available. I closed the fast food place and opened a clothing store instead. By day 20 I was making 30k+ a day with my initial gift store (with other items) and a clothing store.

Great video, thanks for putting it together! Very nicely edited too. Just a note for tip #6, be sure to talk to the store managers every time you enter a new store! This will allow you to call them instead of physically travel to the store, even if you haven't placed an order yet.

Great list! I had actually discovered the large wholesaler early in my gameplay (~40 hrs. and going strong) because I had started opening businesses before our Uncle recommended them. The only nice thing about the small wholesaler is they open a bit earlier than the large wholesaler. Which has saved me from a few of the mistakes I've made....

Wow that is extremely helpful to know that the line in the store is just visual. I couldn't figure out why the line out the door of my burger place wasn't getting better and why I was making less and less money by adding more people and registers. I sort of realized there was a maximum capacity system with the store equipment but I didn't really realize there was a point at which I was only hurting myself instead of helping by adding more

Finally, a video about tips for the game, I've literally been waiting ages for this.

Thanks Charlie! Been following your playthroughs and this quick guide will helps new players for sure!

I found this video very useful even though I have been playing the game heavily since the first day of early access. A lot I already knew but I definitely picked up little things I hadn't noticed/thought of before.

Tip 11 would be you can put a fridge & bed in your store room, so you either a) don't need to rent an apartment or b) simply have another rest stop if you are cuaght out sometimes w/ hunger/energy and such. You can even do this with happiness features. TVs you can watch in your store, give both the decor satisfaction AND you as a player can get 4 hours watch time on it.

OK!OK!.... thank you THE CLEAING PART WAS AWESOME... I would higher 2 ppl to work and had 1 to clean b4 leaving... now i can just have them to clean in closed hrs ....

I just bought the game yesterday, excited to watch this! Thanks for making these videos.

great video, great playthrough. I have a tip: the HR manager should be your first employee in the HQ. When you set up the HQ initially, you do not have the supply lines up., but you will have employees. So why not have the HR manager get to work training and managing them first, so they are working in the background before you start setting up the logistics and purchasing contracts. Heck even hire two managers right off the bat, have them train each other and then you wont have to think about that yourself for the rest of the game...(ish)

I just wanted to say thanks for providing entertaining and informative videos.

My tip is that using a cart on the subway is quite good alternative to a car

Greet job, good video, yes that was a few things you miss like marketing and late game tips. But I did learn not to use cleaners, thanks for the tips and was nicely explain.

The shops where you sell stuff seems to be much more profitable than restaurants at the moment. You can still make a fair amount on the restaurant so I'm not saying skip it. Although they are much easier to keep stocked once have your own warehouse and trucks, and the HQ with the supply chain and logistics in place. I agree with that someone should wait until they have about 3 businesses going to set all that up, and probably over 100k in cash to get it going. I found somethings in game hard to keep stocked up before having the warehouse fully running. The aforementioned fast food restaurant runs out of products if you don't keep a pretty close eye on it. I also had trouble keeping up stocking wine at my wine and cigar shop. I would take my van sometimes multiple times a day to the warehouse store and load it up with wine 100% and hauling you know what back to my store just to keep it stocked. You'll feel like you're truly spinning your wheels at times. Maybe that's why the game starts you with a gift shop? They are fairly easy to keep stocked and make good money. Get it staffed 24/7 as soon as you can. I also closed my first gift shop and opened a new open with the higher 30 customer capacity as soon as I could. Use the matching customer capacity of a checkout lane instead of the cash register so you potentially have double the customers with the same amount of employees. This isn't obvious! The game tells you nowhere that this is an option. I told you in a comment I felt like I cracked some code when I stumbled into this lol I just started a law firm and huge, multiple purpose stores in the richer parts of town town. Not sure how profitable these are yet. Have fun playing this great game everyone

As someone who grew up up middle class (parents brought in about $90k-$110k total, then got semi-rich (living in a $3M house for 3 years), then hit rock bottom (living for $400/month in a shitty apartment on the living room couch with some friends and falling behind on all my bills) I felt like since I was failing with money, the best way to win with money, is to understand how it works. So I started studying finance and for myself back into a good situation. Got myself out of debt in a year and saved up an emergency fund in only 6 months, now I'm investing again and doing better than most my age. Finding a game like this is such an exciting thing. Not only does it look fun, but it looks educational. Totally my thing.

Also, if you know you'll need employees in the future, but don't need them in a day, extend the days of the job search at the recruitment companies and expand it to 2+ candidates. A) it gives you two options instead of one so you can get a lower wage / easier to please employee, and B) By making the job search 4-5 days long, you lower the cost for finding each employee. This can easily save you 3-5k in the early game.

Cleaning and labor in general: 1. Offices (including HQ) require cleaning too. (Neither Web Devs nor Lawyers will clean) 2. Overall employee wages for Retail do not matter (Fast Food being the exception, don't do Fast Food in general, margins are too slim). Let's take $45 an hour wage, 8 hours of open, 2 hours of cleaning each day. That's $450 per day in wage, in a 15 customer capacity an hour shop selling just Cheap Flowers one will make $850 a day easy, going to Expensive Gifts, Clothes, or Jewelry, and that $450 a day is a rounding error. (This means having a cleaner at 50% would require two hours to take a place from 0% clean to 100% clean) 3. How Cleaning works (or is suppose to work) The cleaning skill is how much cleaning that employee can do in one hour. The reason it doesn't seem to matter is that how dirty a store becomes is dependent on traffic flow per hour, then how many hours that traffic flow occurs between cleanings. So even in a 75 customer per hour store open every 24 hours, using a low skill cleaner once every 4 hours will be enough to keep the store "clean". 4. Cleaners should be able to be assigned to different businesses 5. Manual training costs Hourly Wage x 8 hours per day of training. These are tax deductions, so one gets a 30% "credit" on one's tax bill. Anything bought from the Truck Shop is also a Tax Deduction at 30% too. (So that $6000 van is a net buy of $4200 due to the $1800 tax deduction.)

Great video, big fan and you convinced me to get the game after the first video I saw you playing in the alpha. Just wanted to share a tip that may be useful for some getting a shop or office setup. If you are outside the Garment area, I would take the bed and fridge and spend some time there while getting the appliances and furniture delivered. Since parking is between $8 - $15 a day, and you get exhausted and have to head back to the apartment. So do one trip with your bed and fridge, get at least 10 fresh food for the fridge, park your car\van\truck in the garment area, and take the train close by the shop. Once you are done then move your apartment stuff out and head to the next one. Saves time driving and in-game money.

Thanks this was very very helpful

Great video, very helpful and I love your series

Thank you!

Just bought this game and your video will help! Thanks. :D

Currently, it appears that as long as you have at least one employee at a time and enough registers, you can hit the max occupancy. Ie. 30 person limit building with 2 registers and 1 employee should cap you at 20. But it’s still a30 cap.

If you have a fast car and speed it around a corner, you can flip your car. Just found that out.

Also having nice decor actually helps your business too :)

To touch on the loans aspect, you can refinance your loans. Take out a smaller loan to pay off the rest of your larger loan. This will reduce your interest payments incrementally.

Important tip: experiment with the price you charge your customers! Both goods and services can sometimes be sold for over double the original selling price. Look inside the store whether your customers start complaining. If they don't, you're good.

I bought the game because of your videos, these guys deserve every cent I payed, this is such a great game, I'm loving it! BTW: you should do tips for advanced players also, it would help a lot

I wish the game had actual mini games in it. Like in the park there could be chess boards to play an actual game. Or playing video games, have some space invaders or pac man type games. etc. Often I have nothing to do while I wait for my cash to earn.

I did a little experiment today. I finished the gift shop so that i have a income of around $2000-$3000 a day. And i borrowed 250k and i started a jewelry shop in a 1000m2 location. Finished it, so that it can have 75 customers every hour. I hired some staff so that it can be open every day from 8 hour in the morning to midnight. And it makes around $37.500,- to $40.000,- income a day. And it is not even day 30. I call that a good experiment, you should try it.

Thanks for the tips! I played this for just over 2 hours and missed the Refund window. It’s literally just dropping stock off lol. Maybe i was playing it wrong.. I’ll defo try again with this though 🙏🏽

Excellent video (s) Can we use checkout counter for fast-food. Uncle Fred's mission wouldn't let me , but I'm wondering in general

The small wholesaler does have a point to the game. It is the most obvious situation where the player can tell that goods cost differently based on where you get them. As part of the tutorial, it teaches the player to pay attention to dollar signs.

I feel like the small wholesaler has a very niche use case, I haven't done the math but potentially in 'speedrunning' scenarios, it could be beneficial to roll for a start next to it and very quickly supply it while also having time for jobs

A note on cleaners: Though Charlie is correct that generally you can make customer service people do cleaning, cleaners are still situationally useful. For instance, some businesses (florists, gift shops, clothing shops) do not benefit from being open 24 hours. For these shops, it's more useful to be open 14 hours a day with two workers working 7 hours a day (49 hours total, putting them near the limit for full time staff). This gives you very little time to assign cleaning, so having a part time cleaner who comes in for a few hours each day is more effective. Also, good luck getting lawyers, programmers, or your corporate goons to pick up a broom. You'll need part time cleaners in their offices, too.

A lot of these I didn't know, I didn't know about the ika bulk orders, image all the trips I made in a van for the last 14 hours lol

Man not me driving my beginner car up and down for ever buying the same items over and over again wouldve loved to know about the truck earlier

Great tips! You missed a big one and it is completely hidden to the average player. Being able to edit the que for the cash registers is a really big deal and it's never explained to the players in game. Not being able to find a cash register is something that customers complain about and my sales went up after altering my que. I would have never known to do that with out watching your series, Thank You!

Good video, some useful information you forgot to mention though in my opinion : -The metro runs at all hours, costs close to nothing (3 bucks in storymode and normal mode, might be free on easy some say) and you can transport goods in handtrucks in it. They're also very very fast, way more than a car or taxi. -Taxi is also a transportation option using handtrucks they bring you directly to your destination but you can't call one you have to find one on the street, they take some time to reach destination and cost some money (60 bucks the only time I took one, no idea if it's depending on distance but it should) -Handtrucks , they're nice and all but only allow to transport 4 boxes ... but Ika has flatbeds that are free to use and can hold up to 8 boxes, they can also be transported in taxi or metro. So borrow one and forget to bring it back ;) Only issue with this is that if you leave it in a building and go outside or the other way around it'll disappear ... if it's empty. So don't let it be empty. When you go grab the flatbed grab a small plant that is on the coffee table just behind the wall below the TV and next to the speakers, they cost 10 bucks and you can simply use it to prevent the flatbed from disappearing. I have a flatbed in all my buildings carrying a boxed small plant, when I need to use it I simply leave the plant on the ground there and put it back when I'm done. I have them in the shops, in the warehouse,in the offices for when I have a lot of furniture delivered to the door and even at home. Also 2 comments about tips you gave : 1-cleaners, you're absolutely right however it's not always possible to use that trick. For example my shops on average are open from 10 am to midnight every single day because those are the hours where I have most customers. Therefore I have 2 shifts of 7 hours each = 49hours per shift, I can't use any of my cashiers to also clean or they would have 56 hours per week and be very unhappy. In big shops where I have say 3 checkouts and 6 employees total then I can have each do one extra hour per week and one of them 2 reaching 50 or 51 hours weekly per employee and not need a cleaner but that's a 75 customers shop they're not the most common ones. If you have your shops open 24/7 on the other hand it's 4 shift of 6 hours so no issue having each employee making one extra hour per day to clean but I've noticed that my shops barely have any customers before 10 and I'm not sure that the few sales that take place during that low period are enough to pay for the salaries including the extra HR people you'll need to take care of the extra employees. I removed 2 shifts and made it 10 midnight and had better income per shop even with the extra cleaning staff. Just make sure that you hire part time cleaners they don't need to spend more than 2 hours per day to keep the shops perfectly clean even without training. I usually give them 2 shifts, one hour each 9 am and 5 pm 2-The activity you see in your shop is not the real one it's just fluff. This partially true, in fact it should be true but there is a bug at the moment.If you enter your shop during working hours it's empty before starting simulating customers and while it shouldn't matter in reality it affects the numbers. Check it out, enter your shop during a very busy hour and you'll see in the recap the next day that at that exact time the number of customers went from full to 0 and went back up to where it was before the next hour. So until this bug is solved I would advise that once your shop is setup and doesn't need your input stay out of it during opening hours.

Great list, although I learned it already by following Tip 11: You can always watch Charlies Let's Play

great video 👍and As a video suggestion you can make a top of the best businesses.

Buy yourself a king-size bed! Your stamina/energy will recover much quicker thus you have to sleep less for a full bar. Time is money, so less time sleeping adds to your productivity.

No 10 hits me hard 🤣. Coz i never decorate my shop 🤣

Another tip: as soon as you can afford it, travel everywhere by taxi. A taxi can hold 4 items. Have furniture stores and appliance stores deliver everything to where you need it. Basically: don't drive cars. It saves a lot of (real world) time.

how do you add cash registers to the schedule icon?

Thank you for the valuable tips, Charlie. I'll use them once you crash your car and give us that free key :-). Who knows maybe I'll win hahahaha. Keep it up buddy!

Just tried the customer capacity here, mine were all red, weirdly enough, not making anymore money, if anything slightly less

When I saw the Van at first, I am like "this has no business being this cheap with that tank size and carho capacity"

In one video you mentioned that your toon had a really bad limp or something. I have noticed this as well with mine, I think it starts if your hunger and/or energy bar reaches complete zero? My toon walked and ran perfectly well for a few weeks but two years in and it looks like he has a broken hip or something, I went to the Hospital for a check up, but couldn't find anything interactive there. It looks like I've been hit by a truck! Any idea's?

Clothing stores are legit a cheat code, went from 15k a day to 170k a day in one day

is there any settings i need set to run this game at full capacity

Just curious to clarify on the micro loan. So when I'm told to get a 15k loan by my uncle for example. Get three 5k loans instead and just scale that to my needs? Is there a limit to how many many mini loans you can have? Can you have 100 loans at once? Love the game so far and thanks for the tips!

Charliee do a Challenge!!!! dont fix your car until IRS call again HAHAHAHA, if its broke.. you need to buy a new one :D

What I find annoying about the game is that I feel like I’m forced what business I should have. For example my gift shop is more profitable than my coffee shop I spend 20000 on (I started it because the demand on donuts and cupcakes are high). The coffee shop even got more max capacity (which I reach) and way more index. It makes me feel like I’m wasting my time by not just creating more gift shops since they give much more profit. That while gifts aren’t even that high on demand. I guess I’m just gonna dominate the industry with gift shops...

does the hours (schedule) matter? Will I get the same amount of customers during the middle of the night vs daytime?

Incorrect, the visual of customers you see inside the store IS indeed an accurate representation of your actual customer count. 100%. But only while you are in there. You can count the customers served over a time period while standing there, and that will be the exact number represented in the charts. However, this number will almost always be half or less than half of what it will be if you are not in store. The rule is to not be in the store, the game uses a different customer calculation outside than inside.

How can I increase my customers in my restaurant ? I did everything possible and get 9 customers every hour

0. Starter tips: You need money to make money, so max out loans early while keep expanding without paying back as long as the cost of interest and fees is lower than the surplus (average).

Hi.. um.. i play about big ambitions.. but how to own at least 2 or 10 or 30 buildings? i don't understand.. lol..

Can anyone explain tip number #9 please ? I did not fully understand, is that a "hack" ? Like if you just pay the interest, do you pay them forever as you are not repaying your loan.. Thanks

I don't understand the bit on capacity. Can you elaborate?

Bmc van is faster and mor space then mimic

When you are on late game and makes tons of money, just park illegally, it only cost $125 per day per vehicle, and it's even cheaper than park legally for 24 hours on $15 zone!

Customers say I need uniform but not sure what they are talking about

umm, i hope they fix so that a small store cant have more than 20 customers. this is dumb, because the reason you move out of an old store, is because you need more space, there is NO reason to exspand if you it never will be over 20. If i have an online store, i could easily have 10000 customers.

Does this run on M1 Mac?

It's disappointing that the activity in the store is just fluff. It means the layout of the store has no meaning.

I have 4mil cash now and i dont know what to do with it. I have a profit of 200-250k a day. Anyone any tips?

1. Start with a small loan of one million dollars.

Not sure what I’m doin wrong but I’m on just about 850k daily income - could anybody pls help me?

The British way (the true way Step one wait for the casino boat Buy the tickets Create a save called 5k Gamble all of your money if you lose it reload the save If it works Create save 10 k 20k 40k ect Gamble again =profit

or just dupe at the casino lol

Rule #1 : CARDIO.... Rule #2 Never trust advise given on the internet ;)

i have 900 billion money in the game 🗿