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What's Producers & Traders?

Producers & Traders is an economic simulation with long-term motivation. Producers & Traders always offers new challenges posed by the tier system and the ability to play producer and seller. It is at the moment a pure leisure project and is currently in public beta test phase.

Office

Building

Here you will find all your building numerically sorted in a list after the building ID. The filter lists only the desired buildings.
It is possible to expand the size of each production and sales building. The building size (increased the number of potential employees) and the storage size can be increased arbitrarily. The wages of the employees must be paid, even if the building is closed.
The Durability of all products decreases every two hours by 2 hours. Coolable products, which are located in the Colling Warehouse, loose only 1h Durability all 2h. The personnel costs for 2 hours will be deducted, of course, only when the building is not closed for longer than 2 hours and the staff are laid off. On the overview page you will find information about the transports, building values, amounts and inputs/outputs of each building, as well as at the bottom the option to sell buildings . If the last login date is more than 72 hours ago, all buildings of the manager will be closed. At level 2, the condition of the building will be reduced periodically and they need to be repaired with money regurlarly. The training of employees is only meaningful in the game later on.

In the FAQ you can view a list of possible actions in the building overview.

Shops

If a storage slot is free, the goods will be stored automatically. In order to bring the goods into the sale, a sale price must be entered and sellers have to be assigned (at least one).
Per 50m² sales area a new employee can be hired. The sale runs from 8:05 to 23:50, every 15 minutes. At the first saletick the salecounters in the stores will be resetted. Besides the current stock(quantity) are also three smaller numbers about each other, the top number is the quantity sold today, the middle number the amount that you could sell if enough sellers would have been assigned, and the lower the percentage deviation of the two. The cashbook is important as well, you can look up, when and how much of each product has been sold.
In the store you will also find information about the factor in the stores and the range of stores.
Each newly built shop has 2 shelves and a range of 6.
As a Plusfunction building statistics can be found.

Production plants

One can only store as much merchandise as you storage rooms has (Note the produced goods also need a place to camp).
You can enter as much production lines as has been explored. Production lines have to be started.
Per 50m ² of production space, you can hire an employee, in factories per 20m ² of production space.
Here you can find the information on the producer price calculation , for here the quality calculation and here for advertising Produktruf .
Each newly built production facility has 4 storage rooms and a production line.

Company Building

An employee can be set per 100m ².

Advertising Agency : maximum 10 +5 per level campaigns possible per agency. Every 30 minutes, calculates the new advertising values. It can self-produced end products and their own businesses are advertised. Maximum 40 people per slot.

Research laboratory : a maximum of 10 + 5 per level research simultaneously. Here are quality research and research possible for new products. You get two products given at the start, all other products have researched werden.Maximal 40 employees per slot.

Finances

Balance

Here you will find the financial report on the business achievements of today and the total time. Here you will find further details about this: the financial system .
Here you will find important data for general business in the last 10 days. Every night around 0 clock moves all stats by one day. Sales, profit and profit margin to date, goodwill is 12:01 last night.

Statement of account

Here you find all the money transactions of the last days.

Fleet

Here you can buy and sell vehicles, you can see where and what cars are what they have loaded, etc. Also, the repair is possible. From 1 million goodwill vehicles begin to wear off. Without vehicles does not allow sending of goods is possible. Also, the merchandise is purchased in the wholesale market must be removed from our own vehicles. The transport time between buildings is dependent on the distance between the buildings, the condition of the vehicle and the design of the vehicles have Fahrers.Die pallets (for example, Transporter 2, 4 small vehicle, large vehicle 8, Tractor 12) and each pallet holds each coarse 400 kg. It is a variety of goods on a truck pack to the parking option. For Plus users, it is possible Automatic transports perform supply to create (from level 1) and look at the shipping lists of the past days.
Green vehicle status means the vehicle is free, yellow vehicle is traveling, blue vehicle has arrived yet to be discharged, and yellow / green vehicle is in park position.
At the beginning of the game you have to buy a vehicle in the depot in the town where you start.

Status of the vehicles

Image	Importance
	Vehicle is unused and free
	Vehicle is on the road
	Vehicle has reached its destination and can be discharged
	Vehicle is parked and loaded (partially)
	Vehicle is repaired

Purchasable vehicles

Type	Image	Price	Capacity	Prerequisite
Transporter		20.000€	2 pallets (2VE)	-
Small Truck		40.000€	4 pallets (4VE)	-
Big Truck		80.000€	8 pallets (8VE)	-
Tractor		120.000€	12 pallets (12VE)	Level 1

Organizer

Here you can save the business contacts.

Staff

Here you will find everything about personnel. For details, are also found among personnel within the company in the FAQ

Private

Here is the manager area. One can Manager salary to cash out and buy new status symbols.

Account

Here you can change the password or the e-mail address. It is also possible to delete the account or to give it a reboot. One can also find the company ID, which should be quoted in bug reports please. Likewise, you can get a company logo and a manager Upload logo to. The size is max. 150 x 150 and up to 50 kb. Here is also the vacation mode to find more information, visit holiday . One can also find the off switch of info boxes. Simply take out the hook!

City

Offer / Search

Here is the bulletin board where you can post short-term information. However, the same rules apply as in the chat. Impropriety information will be deleted without hesitation.

Map P/V

Here you will find the map of the city and the production and sale of building the player. The colors have a meaning just for the raw material production, there is a time bonus for raw materials during darker acreage

Map F/K

Here you will find the map of the city and the companies and consortium building the player.

wholesale market

n the wholesale market you can buy goods and set goods for sale. Every 2 hours are filled the camp of the local dealers in the city. To buy goods, we need our own vehicles. Note the capacity of the vehicles. You can also send various goods in the same vehicle in the same building.
The own storage space in the wholesale market depends on the bearing surface of the own building in the city (except contracts) + a flat base. The rule here is: Warehouse City / 4 + 1000

At the top left you can sort by product and upper right to the product group (Green = raw , red = intermediate and black = final product ) and sales building .

Self, in the wholesale market set goods can be send back to the building from which the goods have been delivered. The goods can be sold to the local dealer to poor prices, you can change its wholesale market selling price and you can place goods under the consortium marketplace move.

The consortium leader must create first. The setup fee is 10,000 €.
Thereafter, each member of the consortium access it. It can be found in the wholesale market at the bottom right! The running costs are 500 € for the consortium !
In order goods to the consortium marketplace to send one uses the ID 10th

Town hall

Here you will find the most important data of the city such as population, number of employees, number of players and building the economic barometer, which governs the reference prices of the local seller in the shops. Also here is access to the consortium to find.

Bank

If there is so much month at the end of the money is left, here you can take out a loan. Only 10 days after the company was founded, the bank grants loans. The loan interest is calculated daily and deducted at 23:55 clock. The credit interest and the MRP rates are calculated per day, the credited or charged at 23:55. The credit facility is based on the goodwill and on the level, beginning at 50% of average goodwill of the last 10 days.

Newspaper

Here you will find the current internal newspaper for the Gravy Train Gravy Train Times. Release date is every 3-4 months. If your interested, what to write, who turns to AG Valley

Business Directory

Plus only: You can find an overview of the producers of each product and the owners of the individual transactions.

Product Overview

Sales

Here you will find the sales overview of the goods (available only with Flash Player). Total Sales the last 10 days, the market shares of manufacturers and market share of the business of the day are always there. The 2nd Flash Chart can be changed by clicking the business name, dealer name, or brand name. Also, all businesses are listed that currently sell this product. Also over the images in the shops to get to these sales of its product.

Survey

Here one finds the product overview and the starting materials you need for the production of its goods.

Own Products

Here one finds the product overview about their own products, their quality, their reputation, their currently outstanding amounts (For end) and the hook for quality in research or Call Extension. On the far right is still active or inactive, so you can set a filter of goods into two categories. Inactive also means the goods no longer be seen in the yellow pages.

Purchase History

Here you will find the overview shopped which inhabitants. Every day buys a half of the population. At the end of the day the chessboard is full.

Market Overview

Here you will find by the percentage distribution of the produced goods of players stores listed. Even goods in other buildings flow into the competent shop with a. The values ​​correspond to the percentage of the previous day.
red = over 75%
yellow = between 50% and 75%
green = below 50%

Rankings

Here are the rankings sorted by goodwill, profit, revenue, profit divided by enterprise value and the consortia rankings. (Gray selected players have received a warning, marked red players have been locked)

Records

Here are lists of the largest factories, the most turnover, etc. .. in many different categories.

Managers online

List of all currently in the game manager.

Yellow Pages

List of all managers. After 50 days of inactivity, these managers will be deleted. By entering names you can search by company name.

Build Menu

At the start you can see the first two approved buildings (BG) within 5 seconds explore. City and type of BG does not matter.
The first building that you build can be built in a short time. Note the price of land .

Building Permits

Here you can building permits apply to build new buildings. At the beginning you have 2 building permits that you can choose freely. No matter what kind or in what city.

Production building

Here, depending on the level of existing and building permits production building can be built. The minimum size is 30 square meters and the maximum size is 10,000 m² (+10,000 sqm per level of the player). At level 5, the building size limit is lifted. Such buildings from 1500 m² are profitable.

Shops

Here, depending on the level of existing and building permits businesses can be built. The minimum size is 50 square meters and the maximum size is 10,000 m² (+10,000 sqm per level of the player). At level 5, the building size limit is lifted.

Company building

Here, depending on the level of existing and building permits office building can be built. The minimum size is 100 square meters and the maximum size is 10,000 m² (+10,000 sqm per level of the player). At level 5, the building size limit is lifted.

Stock

Here one can from level 1 and existing building permit warehouse or cold storage are erreichtet. The minimum size is 100m ² and the maximum size is 10,000 sqm (+10,000 sqm per level of the player). At level 5, the building size limit is lifted.

In general, you can always change the camp, or even the building rückbauen (minimum size 100 sqm). Even buildings can be rebuilt within its type (eg farm in livestock). These functions are often located within the building (office / building).).

Plus

Services

Here you will find the various available services for Plus.

Charge

Here you can buy Schottertaler.

Account

Here you will find the overview of his Schottertaler (which can be obtained by charging or by Vote now top left). You can see its current duration Plus, can his gravel dollars in plus days (at least 48 = 1 day) convert or Schottertaler to other players (managers name is needed) pass!

Settings

Plus only: Here you can change the profile.

Help

Level

Here you will find the conditions for the next level and the challenges these will be incorporated into the game after a certain goodwill!
All conditions must be met to the next level in 10 days. (The days need not be consecutive). The progress is displayed in the overview above (number in parentheses).

Quickstart

Here are the first steps are to find.

Manual

This is the link to the book here in the wiki.

FAQ's

This is the link to the most frequently asked questions: Game-FAQ .

Sale

Here is the overview of the sales building is to be sold there with the products.

Products

Here is the overview of the production buildings of the products is to be produced there.

Support

Here is a direct e-mail connection to the P & T to find support.

Forum

Here you'll find the link to the forum. Your you must separately sign up there to write something there. Some of the pages in the forum are only to be read if one is logged on

P & T Forum

Chat

Here you'll find the link to Pandt chat. You will be logged with your manager name. If you using a chat program want to go in the chat, you can read about it in the FAQ. Consortium members are also equal to a consortium chat open.

News

As soon as the news is red is present in one of the lower compartments a message for you. This remains red as long as you have not read

Post office box

Here you can receive or send messages. In the overview you can see even if you get new messages.

Company News

Here you will find all the news from the company collect to read.

Production News

Here you will find all the latest news from the field of production

Game-News

Here's a link to the Changelog.

Voting

Here you can vote for the game. While the indicator is blue, it is possible to obtain gravel dollars for you. Please help the game and vote!