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 !

When a player purchases a new factory they must choose an existing factory, or build a new one in 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 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 200 per Major product per month.
Trash removal is also billed monthly at a fixed rate of 150 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 150 Per factory.

*Player must pay the current mkt value for all supplys currently in the factory if buying an existing factory during the title transfer process !

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 !

FACTORY PRODUCT PRICING GUIDELINES
Players are required to use our recipe pricing calculater to determine and set high and low pricing for their product or products. This sets profit margins and insures that your factory will make a profit based upon whatever the realistic current cost are for your factory inputs. Players should do this for each product that they are producing at their factory to determine proper and fair market prices. In the event that there are multiple recipies for the same indentical product, the factory owner is allowed to set the selling price to the highest cost recipe amount. This insures a profit for the owner no matter which recipe they use to actually product the product. If the factory uses a cheaper recipe, then their profit margins are padded accordingly with additional profits.

Players should take a print screen of each recipe and save them so that staff can verify that they are following the systems pricing guidelines and rules !

FARMERS SUPPLY CONDITIONS
If you are selling supplys like diesel or other critical and needed supplys like fert, seeds, lime etc to Farmers Supply it is understood that you are soley responsible to insure that all silos are well stocked on all servers with the product or product's you are supplying. If you fail to keep the silo's stocked at all times, WSS can and will cancel your supply agreement without notice and go back to filling the silo on it's own to insure that players have adequate supply !