Doing The Decorating | Big Ambitions - Part 16 (Business Simulator RPG - Early Access)
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Big Ambitions continues and we finally get round to doing the decorating in Big B's Boutique and Big B's Bouquets! Hurrah! Granted it takes a bit of loan money but that's fine, we can afford it.
The boutique looks fabulous with it's properly completed floors and Bouquets looks amazing with a very vibrant colour scheme! We throw in quite a lot of neon too, just to finish the look, a look that Bernard is indeed very proud of.
However they're not the only two stores that we have decorated because... we pay for someone to decorate Big B's Bobs&Braids! Granted it's not the same building we purchased last time because that was MASSIVE, this is a smaller location, but my goodness it looks tremendous. Such vibrant colours!
Now all we need to do is get enough employees into Big B's Bobs&Braids, stock it with products and open up! If only it were that easy...
NOTE: This is the early access version of the game.
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Your bank balance is tiny, but your ambitions are big.
With a little help from your uncle, you get an apartment and your first job. But then it's up to you to achieve success and take over New York City any way you like.
Slowly build multiple small businesses, grow them into huge corporations, or carve your own unique path - the possibilities are limitless in this vast business sandbox. You've never played anything like this!
Go from a small apartment and public transport to luxury suites, fast cars and designer furniture. Put your money into investment funds and real estate. Succeed, fail, rebuild. But remember to take care of yourself, sleep and stay happy on your rise to the top.
Go from nothing to the most prominent tycoon in New York. Start a business, work smart, make it thrive and enjoy your life. How do you want to be successful? How far can you push it? How long can you make it last?
Start your own gift shop, supermarket, coffee shop, law firm, clothing store, liquor store, florist, and more. You decide what success is - whether it’s a single shop, a chain of fast-food restaurants, a huge corporation, or making millions developing websites.
Take out a loan, rent a building, design the logo, renovate the store, get stock, manage your money, hire staff, and build your infrastructure. Soon, you may have to start importing products from the harbour and distributing them through a network of warehouses.
A bigger business means managers. Hire HR Managers, Logistics Managers, and Purchasing Agents. They all need desks and computers, so you’ll need a fancy headquarters.
Need a delivery truck? Travel to a dealer and buy one. Need food? Go to a supermarket, but make sure you have a refrigerator at home. Big Ambitions is a life sim where your character has to physically interact with the world to survive and succeed.
Enter any building in New York and buy it. Go from a small apartment to a dream penthouse in midtown, a luxurious townhouse in Hell’s Kitchen, or a series of skyscrapers. Fill each with furniture that suits your style and standing. Invest your hard-earned cash in real estate to grow your empire. Take over the city piece by piece.
Spend your wealth however you wish. Buy a big SUV, a speedy sports car, or the new luxurious Mersaidi S500. Maybe risk it all at the casinos or put your money into investment funds and reap the rewards.
As you progress, you always need to ensure you get enough sleep and stay healthy and happy. Enjoy the journey, for as you grow older, you’ll discover that money can’t buy you time... or can it?
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I am almost caught up with this series!! I’m loving it! Thank you for doing long videos
Idea for potential short clip:
39:34 Bernard on the shop's dancefloor "You uncultured swines!"
You should deliver atleast 2000 paper bags to the hairdresser since it has 2 cash registers.
With only 1000 in stock you could end up with only 1 register having all of them and the other be empty, they can hold 1000 each.
And the hairdresser don't need a security guard.
You're gonna want a speaker in there tho.
And yes, that 116K item in Luxconsept is a speaker. You could afford that gaming rig tho, it's not that expencive.
The price at Big B's Billboards was fine, the bottleneck is capacity, you're already at max customers.
Only way to increase profit is to hire a 2nd shift
Oh, OK, so we're at max customers... this game confuses me. A lot.
@@TheGeekCupboard You could extend the opening hrs and get more customers in through the day, 8am to 8pm split into 2 shifts, also do the same with the lawyers.
The building limit is how many you can have at a time, once the morning shift leave you can get in 8 more (they can share desks).
Also, the rest of your businesses could pay more if you extend the opening hrs.
@@TheGeekCupboard You're at 4 capacity out of 10 (you could actually hire 6 more people I believe)
Thanks for another fun episode! Opening a business is always a journey.
Hey Penge! Are you going to play "Thank Goodness You're Here"? It looks like a wacky game right up your alley. 😄
PS: I'd also love to see you play "Shapez2". I can hear you say, "Ohh...I'm terrible at these kinds of games", but wait...you can totally take your time - there's no timer - now that IS your kind of game, right? 😃
I hadn't heard of Thank Goodness You're Here before you mentioned it but I have since made enquiries!
As for Shapez2... there's an embargo on it until a certain date, but let's just say it's on the way soon-ish!
@@TheGeekCupboard Went to look at the trailer for Thank Goodness You're Here and another fun looking trailer popped up.
What about Little Kitty, Big City?
czcams.com/video/LWUdu2q88K4/video.html
@@TheGeekCupboard Yay!! Can't wait!!😃🤩
@@DonGorgen Oooh! That looks good too! Looks a little similar to Untitled Goose Game. And the cat wears hats...
a GIANT clothes store with other date night incidentals, like a romance department store. everything you need before you need to go to Big B's big Bills for a prenup. ? I don't know how well it would work. I know that they can come one for the primary item, and might add on some flowers
Thank you for a good video!
I’ve been begging for more of Big B. Finally!
Hey Penge love the decorations. The shops are looking marvellous. ❤
I maybe wrong but i thought the soda cans in the hairdressers was just for staff. As it seemed to me the fridges where in the back in the staff room. 😅
Probably what the design was intended to make it look like, but the game don't work like that, staff won't touch it and customers will go help themselves in the back room if they have to
@DonGorgen That's bizarre mechanics. Thanks for explaining thou. As I felt like Penge bought in way too much soda, just for staff 😅
@@Mirkwood42 He did buy in way too much soda for anyone, just to be able to make the order big enough lol.
Even with my multi million corporation I don't go through 10K a week
Penge, I know you're not min-maxing this, but I think it's a mistake not to use the big store for a Hairdresser. Yes, you have to hire a lot of people (roughly 30 people per shift, with 2 shifts) and install a lot of equipment (15 chairs, 8 head wash and 4 cash registers). But hairdressers are one of the best earners in the game right now, and the really big stores are basically money printers.
The good news is that having just one large hairdressing salon will launch you firmly into the mid game. You might need to take out a loan, but you'll be able to pay it back very quickly. The bad news is that Big Ambitions doesn't really have a good mid-game right now. Honestly, I'd just set a goal like reaching a position on the rival board (I usually try to become #1), or have a certain amount of cash in investments. You could try knocking out a rival, but that's a huge grind.
BTW, I find that aside from lawyers, offices generally don't make a lot of money. It's fine if you want to just mess around, but if you want to actually make money from offices, Law firms are the only practical way to go. I expect there will be a lot of rebalancing later on to make the other types of offices worth using, but for now that's how it is.
That big store would have been awsome for a electronics store, I find those to be great money printers aswell.
Quite expencive to fill the shelves with goods, but once it's all in the money will be rolling in fast
Honestly, I just wanted someone else to set up that store. Imagine if we'd have had to individually install 15 chairs and 8 head wash things and 4 cash registers and shelves for products and everything else, we'd have been there for ages! It just seemed easier to get a smaller store and get someone else to do it.
I think what I'm discovering is that there's a lot less RPG in the game at the moment and it's all just business stuff, fiddling about with numbers and settings and things, which I'm not overly into. Hence todays video where I just did lots of decorating because that's more fun that amending delivery schedules!
Personally, my favourite part is decorating and designing the shops.i see the money as a necessary evil to be able to afford more fun flooring and potted plants!!! 🪴
I would love to see you really step up the decorating in these stores in bernard's own unique style! 🌴 🌸
@@DonGorgen I saw a series of videos where a CZcamsr tested out all the different store types in the same M1 location (Midtown). The Electronics store was indeed a cash machine, earning over $260,000 per day. That edged out the Clothing store ($218K) and Book store ($213K). But the Hairdresser still came in at #1, making over $400K per day. Those numbers will change with demand, and what prices you're chargng, but broadly speaking the most profitable thing you can put into an M1 sized shop right now is a hairdresser. I fully expect some patch to balance things out a bit more in the future, but for now that's how it is.
BTW, it's worth mentioning that the worst sales in an M1 sized store was the Gift Shop, at $83K profit per day. Which means you can put anything in a store that size and make good profits, it's just that some stores make amazing profits.
@@TheGeekCupboard Agreed. I find Big Ambitions is more Spreadsheets, the game than Sims at the moment. It's why I find the midgame so much of a grind.
Good blueprints for M1 sized Hairdressers do exist though. You'll find them in the blueprints, which you can access from the menu. The one I like is Fox-SalonM1, although check the counters (cash registers) because last time I checked they were backwards. All the blueprints are very costly, the Fox version is one of the cheapest and it's more than $700K. But a good M1 sized hairdresser will easily make over $100K per day so it will pay for itself in about a week of game time. I've seen one make over $400K per day, although I haven't been able to make that much myself.
can you assign a purchasing agent to go to the warehouse where you go to buy bags, and all the other things? it might be marked up more, but you could save on salaries if you can buy more things in one place/
No, the purchasing agents only deal with the importers on the docks, not the wholesalers where we used to go to buy the clothes and flowers and bags and whatnot.
You mean the circus tent wall ISN'T your feature wall?
Why not chang the location of the clothes store into the bigger place and hair salon I to the smaller building ? ..... who doesn't want a massive clothing store lol
Its a shame you cant put multiple different types of retail in the larger units.
You kind of can.
You can open any kind of store and sell every item in the game in that 1 store.
@@DonGorgen penge, now that we know you can, please do a megamart.
@@thobu6576 Would be more beneficial to have separate stores tho.
Like if you make it a supermarket, all the supermarket goods will be primary and that's what the customers come in to buy. Everything else will be secondary goods they might pick up on top of what they came in for.
@@DonGorgen thats kinda what i meant.
The way supermarkets nowadays tend to do a bit of everything.
@@thobu6576 True, but irl you might go to that store with the intention of buying a phone or whatever, and if the phones are out of stock you might still buy a soda can
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The game don't work quite like that. They come in to buy a primary ware and if you happen to be out of stock of that item they are unlikely to pick up a secondary ware and just walk out without buying anything.