First of all, I really love this game. I’ve played it for a long time. In version 0.8, I built a retail empire that included fast-food restaurants. I defeated other fast-food chains by undercutting prices in each district, achieving a monopoly, with three stores in each region. That’s a total of fifteen stores—ten 225-square-meter stores and five 1,000-square-meter stores.
In version 0.9, due to the introduction of importer quantity restrictions and insufficient factory production capacity, the scalability of fast-food chains has been significantly reduced, undermining the “regional monopoly” I carefully built in version 0.8. Here’s the current situation: I now have three 225-square-meter fast-food stores and one 1,000-square-meter fast-food store. They sell 12,049 portions of fries, 14,035 burgers, 12,646 chicken skewers, 18,499 hot dogs, 4,351 ice creams, 7,929 pizzas, 6,788 salads, and 7,064 canned sodas per week. Then, I started hitting the importer quantity limit. Sometimes, I have to drive to wholesalers to buy goods and transport them to warehouses to make up for the shortage.
Now, I’ve set up factories. I bought 3 food cutters and 12 food fryers to set up a fries production line, which takes up half of an I3-type (1,292 square meters) factory. One food cutter and four food fryers can produce 2 portions of fries every five minutes, so the entire production line can produce 12,096 portions of fries per week.
So, half a factory can just barely supply fries to 4 stores. I would need two I3-type factories to supply 16 stores with fries. But what about the other 7 types of food? And fries are the simplest production line—other production lines require even more space. So, at the very least, it would take 8 multiplied by 2 I3-type buildings, totaling 16 I3-type factories. Sixteen is definitely not enough—I think at least 20 I3-type factories would be needed to produce enough inventory for 16 fast-food stores. With so many warehouses needed, my coffee shop and supermarket chains would also require the same number of warehouses. How am I supposed to build all that?
Now, do you see? Imposing quantity restrictions on importers is very unreasonable. I strongly recommend removing the quantity limit and leaving factories for Zanaman phones and expensive jewelry. Alternatively, increasing machine production output would also work.
Love from China.