Hi, I see that in the roadmap there is hairdresser and delivery driver which is really awesome.
Would be great if we can have service based business that either player can do or hire someone. This can be plumbers, mechanics, carpenter - or can actually be more generic to start with i.e handyman.
The idea is similar to delivery driver, where you’d have a list of address where you need to attend to (for tradie type of game mechanics) or you can have people come to the shop for things like hairdresser or nail artist.
Big Ambitions is a great game its a type of singleplayer game ive been looking for, for a while now.
Understanding the game is still within the early stages. I do have what i think would be a great expansion to the game in regards to new bussiness opportunities.
Since seeing the Law Firm bussiness knowing that having such a thing where you hire someone a lawyer to offer as a lawyer service it got me thinking. How about adding Trade Business (im from the UK over here what we call a “Trade Business” is things like Plumbers, Joiners, Electritions, Builders, Brick Layers, Roofers etc etc)
I was thinking it would be cool to have a new type of building to rent and/or buy that would allow you to do the following:
Rent or Buy the building and start up a “Trade Business” from the selection of Plumbing, Electrical, Joinery.
Hire Workers in connection to the selected business (Plumbers for plumbing you get the idea)
Purchase a new veriety of “Work Class Vans” these vans would have bigger storage than regular vans and would come in a form of Small, Medium, Large Vans each having more storage in them
With renting or buying the building for your “Trade Business” simmilar to how the warehouses work have a veriety of sizes from small scale to large, the larger the building the more vans can be assigned therfore the more workers can be assigned to that building, additionally to holding vans space for storage shelves or pallate shelves to store items for the “Trade” you have chosen
Items for your trade could be purchased directly from a store such as “Trade Supplies” that would sell the items for all the trades and the player like in the game hand picks out what their business needs. Or have a new import company which can import these items to send to your owned warehouse which delivers them to your business.
Hired workers would then over time conduct work for said business type generating an income for you with the player being able set prices for the work done
Work can be done for Residential and Commercial buildings this would be a good way of adding in Bathrooms for businesses and for residents weather its your own residents or customers that complain or your rivals
As a side note i know this seems a lot for the game at the moment i wouldnt expect this to come in update 0.7 or 0.8 but if this was to come at some point a map expansion would make it work better, now like i said earlier i dont live in the states and i know the game is based in NYC i dont know how that city is with its zoning of residents and commercial buildings but even if a small suburb for the city with all the functions in the game already implemented to it along with my suggestion would maybe help this kind of thing work.
Hopefully you guys like this idea but please if you have any criticisms about this please let me know
FYI i thought about this while at work today, funny enough i work as a plumber with the ambition to have my own plumbing company so its a very vague idea and would be more than happy to answer any questions about it in more detail