03-29-2013, 10:32 PM
There is a bug that sometimes pops up when building a factory... You found it 
The branches are probably a little too expensive in easy mode, but not unsurmountable. The key is to dilute the cost of running a branch by selling more vehicles. At a certain price point you're maximizing sales for that particular model. At that point no matter how much you lower the price you're not going to move more units. A person looking to buy a pickup truck isn't going to buy a microcar. So offering more variety will increase the amount of units moved thus lowering the branch cost per unit. (You can view these expenses in the Sales Log in the office.)
Since you're starting in Northern Italy use FIAT as a model, by 1903 they were offering 8 different models. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fia...since_1899
The branches are probably a little too expensive in easy mode, but not unsurmountable. The key is to dilute the cost of running a branch by selling more vehicles. At a certain price point you're maximizing sales for that particular model. At that point no matter how much you lower the price you're not going to move more units. A person looking to buy a pickup truck isn't going to buy a microcar. So offering more variety will increase the amount of units moved thus lowering the branch cost per unit. (You can view these expenses in the Sales Log in the office.)
Since you're starting in Northern Italy use FIAT as a model, by 1903 they were offering 8 different models. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fia...since_1899
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski