A company is only taxed when it makes profits. So worry about making profits first!
You can deal with taxes via lobbying and spending more money by increasing your business.
The early game years are based around wealthy people. Since per capita is so low you have to target people who make 3, 4, 5+ times per capita. Those people generally live in the major world Hubs(New York, London, etc). As cost lowers, (1920s) and per capita rises the general public becomes more important. Things like sales price and minimizing cost per unit becomes much more important. Starting the game in 1900 you want to build in big wealthy cities, starting the game in 1980 you'd want something like Malaysia where labor is cheap and cost are low.
As I said the game is pretty historical. Look for areas where real companies started in 1900s and kept going. Detroit, Paris, Southern UK,Germany, Northern Italy. All very good places. But there are also a lot of AI in these areas since the AI is modeled after real companies. Chicago is a good starting place. It has a large population, and is close by other places with large populations.
You don't have to make cheap crappy cars. Just cars suited for the market. Though I do suggest making cheap crappy cars like Ford/Oldsmobile did, it's how they made fortunes.
After you get the hang of it, try making an Ultra Luxury company like Rolls Royce.
You can deal with taxes via lobbying and spending more money by increasing your business.
The early game years are based around wealthy people. Since per capita is so low you have to target people who make 3, 4, 5+ times per capita. Those people generally live in the major world Hubs(New York, London, etc). As cost lowers, (1920s) and per capita rises the general public becomes more important. Things like sales price and minimizing cost per unit becomes much more important. Starting the game in 1900 you want to build in big wealthy cities, starting the game in 1980 you'd want something like Malaysia where labor is cheap and cost are low.
As I said the game is pretty historical. Look for areas where real companies started in 1900s and kept going. Detroit, Paris, Southern UK,Germany, Northern Italy. All very good places. But there are also a lot of AI in these areas since the AI is modeled after real companies. Chicago is a good starting place. It has a large population, and is close by other places with large populations.
You don't have to make cheap crappy cars. Just cars suited for the market. Though I do suggest making cheap crappy cars like Ford/Oldsmobile did, it's how they made fortunes.
After you get the hang of it, try making an Ultra Luxury company like Rolls Royce.
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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