Manual
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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
You can only store as much products as you have storage slots (Note that the produced goods need a slot as well).
After an automatic receiving of goods there will always stay at least 10m² available. It isn't possible to allocate this space by manual receiving of goods or by expanding the area of the production.
You can enter as much production lines as researched. Production lines have to be started.
Per 50m² production area a new employee can be hired, in factories per 20m² production area.
Here you can find the Information about the producer price calculation, here the ones about the quality calculation and here about Advertisment for the Reputation of a product.
Each newly built Production plant has 4 storage slots and one production line.
Company Building
Per 100m² a new employee can be hired.
Advertising Agency : maximum 10 +5 per level campaigns possible per agency. Every 30 minutes the advertising values will be calculated new. The self-produced end products and the own stores can be advertised. Maximum 40 people per slot.
Research laboratory : maximum 10 +5 per level researches at the same time in an Agency. You can research here quality for your products or research new products. You have been given 2 products in beginning, all the others products have to be researched. Maximal 40 employees per slot.
Finances
Balance
Here is 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 information about the general development of your Company in the last 10 days. Every night around 0 clock the statistics are shifted by one day. Turnover, profit and profit margin are up-to-date, goodwill is 00:01 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 are which vehicles, and what they have loaded etc.. Also, the repair is possible. From 1 million goodwill vehicles begin to wear off. Without vehicles products can not be sent. The products from the wholesale market have to be transport by own vehicles as well. The delivery time between buildings depends on the distance between the buildings, the condition of the lorry and the education of the driver. The lorries have pallets (as example the Transporter 2, small truck 4, big truck 8, tractor 12) and every pallet can be loaded with about 400 kg. Different products can be loaded by the parking-option. For Plus users it is possible to create Automatic transports, delivery contracts (at least level 1) and look into the delivery lists of the last days.
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 |
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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 |
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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 business contacts.
Staff
Here you will find everything about personnel. Further details are given under personnel within the company in the FAQ
Private
Here is the manager area. You can cash out Manager salary and buy new status symbols.
Account
The password, e-mail address, manager name and the company name can be changed here.
It is also possible to delete the account or to start from the beginning (Reset). The Company ID is here as well, which should be quotted in bug reports please. You can upload a company logo and a manager logo. The max. size is 150 x 150 and max 50kb.
Here is also the holiday mode to find more information, visit holiday. Here you can turn off the info boxes or activate the Facebook-login. Simply take out the hook or press activate!
City
Offer / Search
Here is the bulletin board where you can post short 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 buildings of the player. The colours have an specially meaning for the primary materials production, because you will get a time bonus on darker property.
Map F/K
Here you will find the map of the city and the companies and consortium buildings of the players.
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%
Statistics
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
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!