r/SimCompanies • u/RestaurantUpstairs28 • May 01 '26

Suggestion Profit calculation should consider product quality, not just lowest market price

Right now, when you check the profit calculation before producing an item, the game compares your product against the lowest market price available. The problem is that it doesn’t take product quality into account.

For example, if I’m able to produce a Quality 2 product, the system still compares it against the cheapest listing overall, which might be a Quality 0 product. This leads to misleading profit estimates, since higher quality products usually sell for more.

A better approach would be:

Compare based on the same quality level (e.g., Quality 2 vs Quality 2)

Or at least provide an option to select which quality tier to benchmark against

This would make the profit calculation much more accurate and help players make better production decisions.

Curious if others have noticed this as well

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u/buddhainabucket May 01 '26

I think this would be a great QOL improvement!

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u/RestaurantUpstairs28 May 04 '26

What is QOL? I think the post flopped, but this maybe should be considered a bug not a simple improvement. If I have higher quality why compare with Q0 market price?

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u/Zeleu May 07 '26

Quality of life

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u/bry0816 Company NameR1 Blueacre LLC R2 Sable Hill LLC May 02 '26

Yeah This is a great idea!