markyears wrote:Hey, I am a newbie in this game
After a few games, I find out an interesting phenomenon: at the beginning of the game, usually very "primary" products like meat, milk, eggs have very low quality by local retailers, usually negative rating. This means it is easier for plays to sell these products. Products like computers or cars have very high rating.
Am I right? If so, what is the implication of this? So we are encouraged to start from very basic product?
I'm very curious about the philosophy behind this (If I'm making sense).
I think what you're saying is you've noticed animal products tend to have a very low city overall rating in your retail stores at the beginning of the game, which does hold true in almost any game, whereas computers typically start with a much higher city overall rating than what you're selling if you try to retail computers from a seaport. This isn't the game trying to dictate your play style, but as a rule of thumb this holds true.
You'll typically find the highest profit seaport goods at the beginning of a game are animal products, food, snacks, beverages, sporting goods, and furniture. In low real wage rate cities where brand is a little less important other products like apparel, leather goods, and footwear can also be pretty profitable retailing from the seaport early on
Products that are usually less profitable are appliances, computers, and cosmetics, especially in high RWR cities. Basically the more important brand is for a specific product the less profitable it is to retail from the seaport, and the more wealthy the city is the worse because the more important brand rating will be, and the higher the local competition's brand rating will be.
I'm really over simplifying here, but I hope it gives you something to go on