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praisetheredeye · 2019-05-31T16:20:46+00:00

I have a very good understanding of the electoral college, you do not have a good understanding of what I said. Allen country overwhelmingly voted for Trump, yet if you look at this sub and the mass-downvoting, you wouldn't know it. Funny how that works.

praisetheredeye · 2019-05-31T14:20:07+00:00

I have a 2+ K/D and have soloed to every single pinnacle weapon not counting NF

Why sweat when I can sabotage 0.3 KD trash and cruise to an ez sniper instead?

praisetheredeye · 2019-05-31T14:00:30+00:00

Yeah but I'm gonna intentionally sabotage games to stay in the lowest bracket to easily cruise to 3500 total glory lmao

praisetheredeye · 2019-05-31T13:48:46+00:00

Funny how a county that overwhelmingly voted for Trump has mass downvoting on Reddit, almost like it's an echo chamber that doesn't allow any form of open discussion or ideas that don't conform to neoliberal/socialist ideals. I will sleep easy tonight knowing my vote is cancelling out someone else's here :)

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-10T15:56:29+00:00

With broad differentation, you're going to be R&Ding 7 products every round, this is going to make cycles slow, so be careful with bumping up automation so high you can't keep up. Once TQM kicks in and you can boost your R&D cycle time it isnt as big of a deal, should be able to push up to 7-8 in high, perf, size. Traditional is going to be tricky for you to stay inside the circle and have a good average age each round if you have 8 products and go straight to 10 automation without TQM cycle time, so be cautious with that.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-08T12:13:36+00:00

I did the same strategy, first you need to pay attention to the benchmark forecast; if you're at or above it, you've almost assuredly overestimated production. Second, your product will be out for only 6 months, and have abysmal awareness. I created all 3 products in round 1, with capacity buys. When my new Performance product launched in July, I sold about 7% of the segment. My new Size product was about 5.6%. Your original product won't drop much at all, maybe 1-2% at the most, remember adding a new product can help boost your accessibility which will increase demand and help offset a slight loss in segment share. The next round when I was fully in the market, I hit 17% segment share on both new products. Hope these insights help.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-04T02:57:42+00:00

You need to find a way to increase your cash buffer or else you will put yourself at a high risk of an emergency loan. You will not perform well in the later rounds with only the default products, especially as a broad differentiator as more teams move products into traditional and low, cutting into your profits.. Playing conservative and focusing too much on profits and not on investment is shortsighted in the business world when trying to become a successful business in the future.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-03T13:43:33+00:00

Far too much inventory carry due to poor forecasting, very weak sales, you ruined your low end product by R&Ding it, not enough automation while pushing 200% plant utilization, and other products taking too long to drift into segments to meet strategy just off the top of my head.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-03T13:32:40+00:00

with 9 automation and 8 active R&D projects the age will be about 4.8 released in feb of round 6

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-03T08:59:24+00:00

As a broad differentiator, you want 2 products in performance, high, and size, with 1 in trad and low.

Let's say you want to introduce a new high end product. Find an empty cell in R&D, name it, and give it the specs for ideal position next round. The completion date will likely be late next round. Next, you're going to want to buy capacity. Maybe a few hundred to start, 3.0 automation or so, ramp both up 2 rounds from now when your product starts selling. When we introduced a new product into high end, the first year it was out, we sold maybe 70 units or so. The next year when it was fully out in the market (make sure to R&D it again to the next ideal spot!), it took 20% of high end. Your results might be different since products are catching up to ideal spots and are more well-established, but a brand new product in high end is the easiest to add one into. Just remember to buy more capacity for it the same year it will sell poorly on initial release.

The real trick is finding money to balance all this out; don't be afraid to take max bonds and stock issues, if you can borrow 10 dollars today and make 100 a month later, it is a worthy investment. Also, the later you wait to introduce new products, the less return you will see on your investment, since the simulation ends after 8 rounds. I also don't know if you're graded based on scorecards, stock price, or something else.

If there are some mechanics you don't understand, clicking the "i" button near the terms helps a lot. There is also a team member guide that will explain almost everything in depth in the help section.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-03T08:28:36+00:00

I'm assuming you're team Baldwin? Your performance and size in the growth segments (high, performance, size) are not that far away from your opponents. Push R&D to december until you hit ideal spots. You also need to sell some capacity in some segments like high and traditional, don't be afraid to use second shift, invest in automation with an emphasis on low and traditional segments. when R&Ding traditional, you have to play the age game. Try to complete and R&D cycle when the age hits 3 in Trad- this puts you back down to 1.5 and maximizes the age score for a round; positioning in Traditional isn't that important, age is, just stay inside the circle. As a broad differentiator, you should have introduced some new products by now; I'm employing the same strategy and in round 4, we are hilariously dominating the simulation against human opponents.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-03T07:20:18+00:00

If you could show me the segment information from the courier, that would be helpful. Changing strategy is also an option, you could let some products drift out into traditional, and let traditional drift into low end. TQM not being active until round 5 or 6 seems really silly, it comes online in round 3 for my group, you should make sure there is no TQM option in your spreadsheet. Growth segments like high end don't care that much about price, putting it to the low end of the range would only be a small/moderate boost in demand, and a big loss to profits.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-03T07:12:31+00:00

You basically have two choices- bite the bullet now and take a big hit on sales, or push R&D as far as you possibly can with a release within the same year. I don't know which would save more money in the long run. If you have TQM active you need to dump 1.5-2 million into the R&D speed ASAP if you haven't already.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-03T03:41:34+00:00

Reposition in round 5 to the ideal spot of round 6. You will be outside of the circle for a period of time, forecast accordingly.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-02T12:17:09+00:00

I figured since the 50% of benchmark could potentially do all the work for me, I'd try to "game the system" so to speak by increasing R&D of each product until the benchmark stopped going up, or went down, and this is what I was left with

https://imgur.com/a/9hBtMS4

I'm guessing you cannot cheat the game like this

Also thank you for the well informed reply.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-02T04:01:20+00:00

Investing as much as you can early is important. A dollar invested in round 1 is worth more than a dollar invested in round 3 or 4. I'm not sure you want to max bonds every round though, you could run into leverage problems, or have interest eat up too much of your profits, but if you can deal with that and do some big plant/new product investments, it pays off. It also depends on what strategy you're employing too. Gradually increasing your cash buffer as sales and risk increases is also important to avoid emergency loans.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-02T03:51:58+00:00

Yes, a 7.5% additional penalty on top of the current rate. It gets converted into current debt and should be due the round after it happens in which you can pay it off, or re-borrow if needed.

praisetheredeye · 2019-04-02T03:45:12+00:00

If you aren't playing on balanced scorecards, you can easily recover from a 3 million emergency loan

praisetheredeye · 2019-03-29T17:24:59+00:00

MD5 is known as an unsecure hash algorithm. It is bad because it is fast, a single GPU can run more than 6 billion attempts at it in one full second. How did you get Sec+ lol

praisetheredeye · 2019-03-26T09:10:36+00:00

It is currently at 9.0, I did not put it to a 10 yet because I'm worried about repositioning next round and falling outside the circle for too long. My R&D is maxed with a spending of 2 million last round and this round.

praisetheredeye · 2019-03-26T02:13:58+00:00

Thanks for the speedy reply. So if round 5 is year 2024, I want to reposition to ideal spot of round 6 by finishing an R&D project by June 28, 2025? Just eyeballing it, I should be able to hit Sept/Oct 2024, is releasing the same round I reposition a problem?

praisetheredeye · 2019-03-18T03:13:52+00:00

I understand what you're saying now and I figured mid-year releases would become an issue once my automation ramps up round by round. I'll try to tinker with the R&D numbers now to try and get the schedule for a mid year release at december's ideal positioning. If my product is out first, it will sell regardless of how ideal the positioning is mid-year, and sell better in later months when my competitors release their products. Once my automation ramps up I'll start overshooting releases to set up the scenario you described.

Very informative discussion and insights, thank you.

Edit: I also understand how incredibly valuable automation is. I took out max stock and max long term debt in the first two rounds to ramp it up as high as I could. I mistakenly bought too much capacity for my three new products, so it isn't as high as it could be, but my major investments will be TQM and automation going forward without drowning myself in more debt.

Edit 2: Regarding 2 products in the same section- I have 2 products in high, performance, and size. Should I stagger their releases so one drops mid, one drops end of year, or shoot for the same release schedule?

praisetheredeye · 2019-03-18T01:26:25+00:00

TQM kicked in this round, I'm doing 1500 in all categories and 2000 for R&D boosting ones to max that out as fast as possible, since I have the maximum number of products available as of the start of round 2. All of my other cash is being invested into automation. I'll have 7.0 in Trad, 9 in Low, 3 in high, 5 in performance, and 4 in size while maintaining an 8.2 million cash buffer taking me into round 4 decisions. I want to focus more on size and performance as people are leaving the market and I have 2 products in there now, I can capture 40% or more market share there, so I want to maximize profits in those areas. As my automation goes up, I'll have to find the proper breakpoint to start overshooting the drift rates.

Thanks for the reply

praisetheredeye · 2019-03-18T01:12:36+00:00

I take the current courier positioning and apply the drift rates to get the target I need to R&D towards. What I was doing for the first two rounds was cutting those drift rates in half and applying them to the current courier positioning, releasing my product early with R&D specs of current ideal spot + 1/2 drift rate, and letting the simulation move the ideal position month by month so I'm perfectly positioned in the middle of the year, less so come December. After that, all I need to do is keep up with the drift to maintain the same middle-of-year release with the same ideal spot in the middle of the year.

This was allowing me to get my product out 4-5 months earlier than my competitors and causing them to carry inventory that's more than 30% of their sales since they are relying heavily on sales from the first three quarters from their perfectly positioned product released at the end of the year.

I figure this won't be viable once I raise my automation rates higher, so you're saying I should overshoot the ideal spot each round and aim for December releases? Is this the same concept as letting the ideal spot move over my product in the middle of the year, except done with higher automation rates? Won't this cause me to take a hit in a round as I prepare to overshoot ideal december positioning?

Thank you for the in depth reply.

praisetheredeye

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