YOU THINK YOU CAN USE MY OWN TACTICS AGAINST ME? - Big Ambitions Rivals Gameplay - 12 

Fr dude, I’d already be down several millions XD

Ingrid responds with traffic cams and free donuts for the beat cops 😆

Or your vehicle gets a boot and you have to go to traffic school to remove it

Feature request for region-based pricing has been submitted. Whether that happens or not isn’t up to me. ;)

The place is clean enough already though. Why incur costs that won’t materially matter for sales? It has no cleanliness issues impacting sales anyways.

@@CharliePryor I know I’m just saying I do the full time ones for like a pretending they sweep the hair up kind of thing

Plus the foot prints. But I also have one of the 75 occupancy buildings as the hair salon

Glad you enjoy it!

Some people minmax. Some people just roll with the fun. All good

I do things that are less efficient as well .. Example, I only do one type of insurance, Gold. At one time I just automatically put gold on every single HR Manager. Now at least I only have as many HR Managers with Gold as required to serve anyone who wants Gold or Silver or Bronze insurance and I add another new 'Gold Manager' when they fill up. I know this is less efficient, but I choose to do it anyway. This series convinced me to change this from everyone gets gold to only people who want insurance get gold, so thanks :) I also used to have a pod of 4 Purchase Agents, 1 Logistic Manager, and 2 delivery drivers for every 16 businesses. Then I did an analysis. I picked 64 Businesses as the goal. using my initial pod methos I would have 16 Purchase agents, 4 Logistic Managers, 8 Delivery Drivers (with eight large delivery trucks). This required 2 ten person offices with 20 computers and 4 dual bay warehouses. All the warehouses were completely independent and there was much duplication of supplies. I then shifted to a 1 single bay 'Imports warehouse' instead. In this setup .. all incoming items go into the Imports warehouse first and then to one of 4 warehouses that support the same 64 businesses. In this set up I have 5 Logistics Managers, 4 Purchase Agents, 9 Drivers (8 Large trucks and one Van). Since everything comes into one spot, there is much less duplication of supplies. In this setup I am +1 Logistics Manager and 1 extra driver with a van .. but minus 12 purchase agents and minus one 10-person office full of computers. You can swap the van for a large truck and then add 4 more 'Delivery Warehouses'. That means up to 128 businesses from the one centralized hub. The old way for 128 businesses would take 32 PAs, 8 LMs, 16 Drivers and 40 computer setups. The new way 4 PAs, 9 LMs, 17 Drivers and 13 computer setups. Basically, 1 extra Logistics Manager and extra 1 Driver with a large truck and one extras 2 bay ware house .. but 26 less employees and 27 less PC setups. And much less duplication of supplies. This is an example of more at the beginning (extra driver, van, Logistics Manager early), but it pays off big time when you want to add business number 17 that needs a delivery. I have no issue doing employee cleaning .. but it is just not as efficient in the long run. You said it is more efficient because you could use less HR Managers and reuse employees for two functions. I 'USED' to think this as well. But I actually did the math and it is not true. That is why I brought it up. It is less efficient. Absolutely, one can chose to do something less efficient for roleplaying reasons or just because they want to. I just didn't want people thinking it was actually the most efficient way. For me .. hiring the least amount of employees to get the most work out is my goal for the game. Other people certainly can have other goals. Regardless .. I absolutely LOVE this series (and several others you do). Please don't take my comments to mean I don't enjoy your content or that I think you are horrible at the game. Neither is true. Thanks for the content. I am greatly looking forward to the next video and this entire series.

I know. It doesn’t match the theme of the store. Nobody puts in counters like that for a store like this.

I like that idea. Would require changes in how products exist in the game, but I like it

Glad you like it!

Whatever works for you! My entire point was that multiple ways of doing it yield the same results. You’ve added a full time worker (increased workforce) for 42 hours of pay a week. I have my existing employees add a couple hours after their shift. It cost about the same, and gets the same result. ;)

I wonder if there will be a cleaning service option, so one person or team can maintain multiple businesses. Skill tree kinda like the logistics side.

24/7 places can still use this method, but the issue mostly is that it’s tedious to set up, since HR auto-assign is never going to do it that way. ;) Using cleaners makes things easier always. The notion that it “reduces costs” though, is the theory I’m attacking. ;)

It totally would. Unfortunately it wouldn’t WORK better. Can only be accessed from one side.

@@CharliePryor It'll be good if they gave you the option of which side can be accessed so you can have it set to behind the counter for staff service or in front for customer self service.

@@MerlinKernow75 change is pending on it. ;)

All sorts of methods work. All yields the same results. That was sorta my point. It’s why I’m going to use many different combinations in this playthrough, just to show they all work well.

Price still influences sales/demand. If I lowered prices, even as the only shop in town, I’d actually sell more. Been considering doing that actually. - I was hoping that setting prices high would invite more competition in (just testing how this simulation works). Hasn’t happened yet though.

Behind the scenes unlock 😮

Just remember that recruiting those who are already really good will cost you more overall in salaries. Just like the real world in that sense.

Slight, yes. In general your 100% CS people will be paid $8-10 per hour more than a cleaner at 100% cleaning. But there are benefits, at scale, of keeping your organization leaner, with less HR/equipment/insurance needs. Also, since they are working less hours than full time cleaners will require, your wages will not be impacted much by that difference anyways.

Thank you 😊

They do. Once primary skill is trained to limit set.

It’s just in the options.

Correct. There could be. I’m not staffing every chair.

Probably should say "Henry" in French is "Hun-ree" as well.

It's all about what the market demands are. Night clubs cost a lot to get into, and if there's little demand for it, it's unlikely to yield as good of results. I know pizza and donuts aren't flashy, but they are effective, in my save. That said... every video I want to at least be working towards progress of opening up something new, and while a "night club" specifically isn't in the next few videos... there are some things I think that'll be worth it anyways

Balance changes are iterative. Rivals is brand new. I’m certain future updates will have changes to many systems. ;)

Giving her fair market value for stuff that’ll eventually be closed by my price war anyways doesn’t sound like good money management. ;)

​@@CharliePryorI agree totally with you here. In my playthrough, I've seen Ingrid start closing stores already and it is very satisfying. Just pick up those open spaces to rent if they are in a good location, right?

@@kevinrussell3501 yup!

Once the schedule is set then it’s set. A CS person with 100% cleaning can clear an entire small store in an hour. The cleaning schedule for them get’s smaller as they get trained. For a single business, a cleaner will save money. For an organization with 20-30+ stores doing this over and over, you’ll have significantly less HR need over time than if you were adding cleaners to every business. The savings of less HR reps, less equipment, and less insurance to pay for every day, makes up the difference in salaries on those few hours of cleaning per day. Both methods work equally well the larger your organization gets. There isn’t a materially significant difference. When you are making $1M+ a day later… you aren’t going to care about having 15-20 of your stores spending an extra hundred per day in wages.

Do you remember how much it costs to use them?

And they work significantly less hours than dedicated cleaners will require, while also costing less HR than adding more employees will. Like I said in another comment, on a single business, a cleaner may save money. When you get dozens of businesses going, the extra cost of HR and extra work time the cleaners add is gonna offset that small wage cost difference. It’s not going to be materially different. A CS rep with 100% cleaning will clean the entire small store in an hour. You only need a few hours a day to keep the clean rating high enough to not impact sales.

Yup! Same here.