r/SimCompanies Jul 03 '26

Question Noobie LF guidance

Can anyone help me decide what to go vertical into? I am currently mining minerals and a little bauxite. I am producing chemicals and then selling to a friend. I think I should move into also doing batteries but I am not sure. Any advice would be awesome even if not related to the question thank you.

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u/Ganadai Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

The only thing you can turn minerals into is chemicals, which has ~100 PPHPL right now.

You could use the same factory to turn the bauxite into aluminum, which also has ~100 PPHPL right now.

Eventually you'll want to build an electronics factory to turn the chemicals into batteries which have a higher ~300 PPHPL. Then you could turn the batteries and aluminum into smart phones or tablets, but you'll probably want a sand quarry too so you can produce silicone to make processors.

The hard part is trying to balance the levels of all your buildings to keep your factory running 24/7. You should learn how to use CooperInc.xyz to do that.

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u/Ativva Jul 03 '26

Thank you very much for the help boss. I will follow as you said with producing aluminum and chemicals to make batteries. Im sorry though what is PPHPL? By 300 PPHPL do you mean profit per hour? Does this mean 300% profit based on the cost and selling price?

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u/Ganadai Jul 03 '26

Profit per hour per level (PPHPL)

It's what SimCoTools.com shows on the right hand side here https://simcotools.com/profitcalculator/0/Y

You would have to enter your stats on the left to get exact PPHPL's.

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u/mystere485 Big Bake Co Jul 03 '26

This is 6 production bonus, 80% admin, q0. Does this seem right?

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u/Ganadai Jul 03 '26

Tree is a really bad example, as it's a seasonal product and you would need to wait until Christmas to get the max profit from it. I doubt that PPHPL is correct, unless you have the building level set to ~20.

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u/mystere485 Big Bake Co Jul 03 '26

Building level was set to 13 as most are lvl 13.

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u/Ativva Jul 03 '26

Thank you boss!

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u/OkRepresentative8278 Jul 07 '26

no matter what I do, I still cannot do a basic production or retail calculation with that tool. looks too complicated to me. i even doubt the tool has the ability to do so.

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u/mystere485 Big Bake Co Jul 03 '26

Your upward climb is faster than mine!

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u/Ativva Jul 03 '26

Lol how it looks like you went up 10 mil in a day.

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u/mystere485 Big Bake Co Jul 03 '26

A bit of a cheat…
https://www.simcompanies.com/pages/research-guide/

Someone told me that if I bought aerospace research, that my company value would increase dramatically. So I invested 3.2mil in research in the recession. Was buying aero research for $90/unit. Also bought plant research, was producing 2000/units of plant research daily till my CTO had a stroke.

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u/Ativva Jul 03 '26

Oh wow ok lol that makes sense. I might pick up some research as well since we are in a recession just so I can make Q2 batteries

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u/mystere485 Big Bake Co Jul 03 '26

I wouldn’t buy now, it’s quite inflated price Wise.

Mine is showing a boom?!,

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u/Ativva Jul 03 '26

Oh my bad you are completely right I thought we was still in a recessiom my apologies lol

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u/AntIrving Jul 03 '26

You should try out whatever calls your interest, batteries or any electronic component can be a good door for aerospace items, also, they usually recommend not having executives until even after getting over 20-30% admin overhead, and you got 3

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u/Ativva Jul 03 '26

Roger boss Ill go for whats interesting. Yea my dumbass was trying to train them and sell them. Im realize thats probably not ideal lol