GFSN WIKI - FACTORIES
FACTORY'S
Factory's come in many different shapes and sizes, but they all have common features in which they consume 1 or more items, and then transform it into something else, usually a higher value product which is then either sold on to the markets, or itself used to produce yet another product. With well over 100 different factorys available for purchase in our system, we make buying and operating a factory easy.
Factorys can be profitable to operate, or can generate a net loss on your investment if you are not careful and ever watchful of input cost getting out of hand from reality. Growing or producing your own factory inputs can certainly help out a lot with your profit margins when operating your own factory. We have gone through great pains to engineer the factorys and prices so that the owner make a consistent profit, even when paying the highest prices for inputs and selling produced items at the lowest market prices. The harder you work at lowering your cost by buying low and selling high, the more profit you stand to make !
How many factory's can a player own per Game Server ? Since we all share each servers resources, there are 2 limits to be aware of. The first is the max factory limit allowed per server. This can be found on the map legend page. This total number specifies the maximum number of factorys that the server can support (both player owned and WSS factory's). This prevents the server from becoming overbuilt and to laggy to support normal game play.
The second limit is the player max factory limit of 5 per server. This is the most a player can own on any of our servers. Factorys are built on a first come, first serve basis, so there A - must be an available slot in the Server Max Factory limit in order for a player to build a factory and B - The player server factory limit can not have exceeded the the limit of 5 factory's. If either of these limits is maxed out, then the player cannot build an additional factory on that server !
Factory Purchase Pricing Factorys are priced out by the number of product's that they output. The cost is 100K per major product produced. In addition, each major product produced requires 25 slots to operate. If a production line outputs multiple products, then the MAJOR product is considered to be the one that produces the most qty. Minor products in a production line are charged at a rate of 50K each and 5 slots for each one produced at a factory.
Please note that Byproducts are not considered to be major or minor products and thus are not charged for !
Players should also be aware that multiple production lines that all produce the same output product will only be counted as a Single product when calculating a factorys purchase price.
When a player purchases a new factory they must build it within the servers industrial park, or they can build it on their own land if they have the intended building lot Zoned as Commercial or Mixed Commercial use.
Please be aware that the factory's wallet is direclty tied to your player account, so you will need to have cash on hand at all times to cover deliverys or turn off the inputs so that they cannot be sold to to prevent an unexpected financial nightmare from occurring when a player sells products or crops to you unexpectedly !
ADDITIONAL MONTHLY EXPENSES
Factory's also have maintenance cost which is assesed at 250.00 per Major product produced, charged monthly.
If your factory consumes electricity, you will get billed an additional 500 per Major product per month.
Trash removal is also billed monthly at a fixed rate of 1500 Per factory.
If your factory consumes water there is a monthly $ 200 waste water disposal fee.
If your factory
produces Used Boxes it will be billed monthly for pickup and removal at a fixed rate of 750 Per factory.
(IMPORTANT NOTE: A player owning a factory is prohibited from owning the same factory on any other server.)
Note 2 - WSS operates the core factory's on some maps that are needed to keep the economy running.
These factory's are not for sale to players. If desired a player can build their own factory, but the WSS factory will remain open to service all players needs !
If a factory is a specialty, end of the line , non-core (I.E, does not produce items used by other factorys for production needs) Then that factory can be purchased by a player from WSS. Player must pay the current mkt value for all supplys currently in the factory during the title transfer process !
This applies to all "unique" map factorys that are considered to be non-core like beer factorys, etc . . ..
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CUSTOM BUILT FACTORY MODS
WSS will consider allowing player created or modhub factory mods to be used on a map in our system, but they must pass a review process and be fully approved by no less than 3 staff members to insure that the mod is built to our stringent standards and operates in a fair manner with what it consumes and creates. Profits must correspond to input cost before the mod will be allowed in the system. Factory's that use little to nothing for inputs and then overproduce on the output side to grossly enrich the owner will not be allowed or will be modfied to meet our accepted standards for factorys.
Staff pre-approval and full acceptance of any new factory mod must take place before the new factory mod will be allowed into our system.
(Yes this aplies to even our own developers making new factory mods. They MUST be fully vetted and approved by 3 staff members prior to use)
OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT OWNERSHIP
Players are only allowed to build 1 factory of any given type and are not allowed to build multiples of the same factory ! Yes you can build many factorys, just not the same one !
Players can also upgrade their existing factory's to a higher production level with more built in input and output storage and also higher production rates simply by paying for a factory production upgrade (available once every 2 years).
* Total upgrade cost is determined by the amount of storage capacity that is added to the facility and the amount of additional production cycles added by the upgrade.