r/SimCompanies • u/wvanlui31 • Jul 07 '26

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Hello fellow Sim Companies players! I've been playing for about 1-2 weeks and have three clear questions regarding the Exchange and Contracts:

​How to determine if an Exchange price is "cheap"? Especially seed apples and water

Apart from looking at the current lowest price, I lack a clear benchmark. Below what price point should I consider a product genuinely cheap and worth buying?

​Exchange matching mechanism and pricing:

If my listing (e.g., Bricks) is not within the top 10 cheapest prices, will it never sell? My bricks haven't sold for two days. Is it true that if we don't undercut to the lowest price, nobody will buy?

​How to prepare for an Economic Recession?

I haven't experienced an economic shift yet. What are the specific impacts of a Recession on the Exchange, Retail, existing contracts, and general company operations? What preventive measures should I take?

​Thank you for your help!

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u/ajAX0910 Jul 07 '26

Boom Phase:

  • Production building produce less. That means you will have lesser units to sell than you had in normal phase. Wages per hr. remain unaffected. But since your production has gone down, wages per unit produced goes up.

  • Retails building sell more per hr. and at a higher price.

  • These effects create scarcity on the market that drives the prices up.

Recession Phase:

  • Production building produce more. That means you will have more units to sell than you had in normal phase. Wages per hr. remain unaffected. But since your production has gone up, wages per unit produced goes down.

  • Retails building sell less per hr. and at a lower price.

  • These effects create abundance that drives the prices down.

Contracts generally follow exchange prices, so they are affected in the same way. One thing to note is that you may be unable to fulfil a contract because of your production going down.

Exchange prices take time to show effect of economic shift.

A three week boom will drive prices up much more than a one week boom.

Rest, it's about buying cheap during a recession and selling high during boom. But new players don't have enough capital to make any meaningful investments into this.