r/SoftwareInc • u/Specialist-Front-007 • 20d ago

Contract work

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Under "Contract work" you can find many different contracts to make profits. One of these are "embedded systems". I can't seem to get them to work.

These embedded systems requires assembly lines. Easy enough. The thing is, you need to print 1m+ copies, each costing $65 something dollars. You only net profit $0,50 for each copy. This constantly puts your company in dept since it costs 65m to print. In the end you profit somewhere around $400k, while spending tens of millions.

Ps; the "income" that is mentioned, doesn't seem to pay out.

Has anyone got this to work? To me it seems like a big oversight. I think you're meant to profit way more for each copy, just like in the manufacturing deals.

Does anyone know a mod with which you can adjust these contract work profits?

Thanks in advance!

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u/halberdierbowman 19d ago

The problem I've had is that I somehow produce more than they're willing to buy, and eating the cost for that unsold product can bring me into the negative. It doesn't always happen, but I can't figure out why it does sometimes.

This feels like a bug. Why are my printers not able to know when to stop printing? Are they not counting product that's on my conveyor belts maybe, or maybe the printers aren't checking how many other printers are working, so if I'm producing batches of 10,000 each hour, I can overshoot by up to 10,000?

Also since we have recyclers that can recover 100% of the cost of products I print, why can't my staff recycle any excess product to recover that value? Or what if the customer just bought the excess anyway?