1.3 Beginner tips

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It is important to get a good start in Tycoon Online. Play your cards right, and you will have a head start on your competition. Also, the better start you get, the faster your company will increase in value.

Do not waste your money
When you have created an account and logged in, you will have an account balance of 7 500 iKr. Founding a company will cost you 5 000 iKr, which means you will only have 2 500 iKr left! This is not a lot. To build your first buildings, you might want to take up a loan with the bank. In the beginning, you can lend a maximum of 5.000 iKr, but be warned; the money will have to be repaid so do not choose a loan you cannot handle.

Another way to raise money is selling shares. Each company starts out with 50 shares. They are worth a total of 5 000 iKr. You can put some of them on the stock market and hope that someone takes an interest. If a share is bought, you will receive its value added to your savings, and the buyer will gain ownership of one of your shares. As your company grows, your shares will increase in value, and you will gain more money from them if you sell them at a later point. It is advised to keep at least some of them as their value grows quickly if you grow your business successfully.

Choose your first buildings carefully
Start out simple. Being new to the game, a safe option is to build a raw materials factory and produce goods such as oil, wood, wheat, etc. This allows you to get a feel of the mechanics of the game. If you start out building a factory that refines already produced goods, you will have to afford raw materials and be able to be online to look for them on the market. A big, expensive factory is a huge waste of money if it is not stocked with the goods it needs to produce its merchandise.

After purchasing the building you choose to build, it is time for you to choose a location in the city to place it on. Start by checking what kind of ground the building needs to be built on. There are three types of ground: city, rural and offshore (water). Now, you need to buy the zones to build on. To do this, go to "Zones" in the left menu and choose the "buy zones"-option. This will take you to the city map. There, choose a sector, for instance, rural (light green) and buy the zones needed. Your first 10 zones are free. Now all you have to do is to wait till next tick (every tenth minute) for the zones to come in. After this, go to the building you bought and place it on the zones, and then place staff in the building and it will start being built.

Employ the right staff
When employing staff, you will notice that each person you can hire has been trained for a specific job. If this job matches the building you put the employee in, he or she will work very efficiently. For instance, an oil driller will do best working on an oil drill. However, this is not a requirement. A doctor would also be able to work on an oil drill. Having the right staff in the right buildings is nice - but the most important thing is to have your buildings fully manned, no matter what type of staff work in them.

When employees work in your buildings, they will gradually improve their performance. Their attributes will rise over time. Highly skilled workers are the best to have in your shops and factories as these will produce more goods than poorly skilled workers. If you are running low on cash, keep an eye on the salary demands of the people you hire.

Don't ever forget that you will need to pay salary! Once every week, you'll have to pay your staff, and make sure you know when this happens. Click Staff" on your left hand menu, and then the "Salary" link, and you will find your salary information. The salaries that are paid your employees are taken from your salary account, so you have to make sure there is enough money on it when payday comes. You can deposit money to your salary account on the "Salary" page. If your salary account isn't full when it's time to pay salaries, the remainder will be taken from your savings, together with a charge of an extra 25%. Such an event also increases the dissatisfaction among your employees the following midnight, which increases the chance of your staff going absent from work. To make your staff happy, go to the "Absence prevention measures" page, which also is located in the "Staff" section and carry out an appropriate absence-prevention measure to lower dissatisfaction.

Produce the right goods
To know what goods are the most profitable, it is important to keep an eye on the market prices. Good players are flexible and often change their production several times during a round to get the most out of their production. For more information see (see the "Calculation of market prices" help file).
Make use of market bonuses
When buying and selling goods on the market, you can earn special bonuses that refund part of what you spend or award additional company value. Find out how to do this on the "Market" help file.

Watch your warehouse capacity
You start the game with a warehouse capacity of 500 units of goods. You can increase the capacity 500 units at a time by upgrading your warehouse. The maximum capacity of your warehouse is 10 000 units of goods. If you hold more goods in your warehouse, you will be fined for every good that exceeds your limit.

Use the stock market carefully
You get dividend from your stocks only once a week. Don't spend all your money on stocks as it'll take time before dividends rise to serious amounts. However, in the beginning, stocks are cheap and as companies grow, you will eventually be able to sell them with a nice profit.

Do not waste money on transportation too early
Transportation does not increase your income much. Instead, they generate a lot of company value, which offers players who has built the maximum number of buildings an excellent way of further increasing the company value they earn. Vehicles are best bought once you are satisfied with the buildings you own.

Note that the price of vehicles increases depending on how many you own. Thus, if you plan on owning both cheap and expensive ones, save money by purchasing the expensive ones first.

Ask for help
A lot of players log on to Tycoon Online every day. Many of these are active on the forums and on the chat. If you are experiencing difficulties with playing the game, or have questions not answered in the help files or the FAQ, never hesitate to question the more experienced players. Among them, the forum moderators will be delighted to be of assistance. Please post only serious threads in the forum and treat other players with respect. Sexual and racial slurs as well as other harassment will not be tolerated.

Be patient and never give up Tycoon Online is a long term game. While a good start means a lot in Tycoon Online, keep in mind that a round lasts 70 long days. You have plenty of time to devise your own business strategies and plot to make it to #1 at the end of the round!


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