Wednesday, September 23, 2009

What Should I Buy?

 So as we all know by know the rent value multiplier has changed, old news, been there said that, but what does it mean. So here is the rub as I understand it for everyone, when you buy a building with a value less then 1Million there is a multiplier that is used to determine what the rent for each building should be on the street, before the change this multiplier increased with the value of the street with no cap. What this boils down to is if you bought a 30million dollar street the building rents would be enormous as the cost of the street was applied to the multiplier, well now that is capped and you get no more rent on a 30 million dollar street then a 1 million dollar street.

So is this good or bad? Well that all depends on how you look at it and where you stand in the game, if you had already spent the money on a high value street in order to take advantage(not in a bad way) of the multiplier your hosed because your no longer making more. If you are just starting out or started out small its not going to have as big of an impact on you in the long run as you can change your build and investment strategy to accommodate the new change (still sucks though lol).

So below is part of the multiplier scale that determines how much rent your making, the important part since the street value effect is now capped. When building on a street you want your multiplier to be as close to 1 as possible since 1 means your getting even money for your investment, whatever you pay you will make back in 1 day. As you can see by the scale and as I stated in my blog prior to this anything over 500k and your return begins to lower steadily to the point where you are paying for a building but you wont be making any profit on it for several turns. Since profit/income is what your position is based on you want to make as much money as possible in the shortest time with the least investment to build your wealth fast and keep it up.


Building NameBMultiplierB*M
Green House50150
City Centre Cottage75175
Cane Top Multiplex1500.8333125
The Sentinel1750.85714150
High Reach Place2000.875175
Nova Tower Block3000.9270
Polyhedron Plaza4000.875350
The Grid Building5000.9450
Four Sided Fortress6000.8333500
Nori Place7500.7333550
Honeycomb Complex9000.7222650
Blanco Bastion11000.681818750
The Photat Building15000.56667850
Cubic Quarters20000.475950
Opaque Overlook28000.392861100
Tri-Rectangle Tower39000.307691200
Spear End Summit50000.261300
Unbounded Megaplex60000.233331400
Hummer Head House70000.214291500
Tobo Place84000.214291800
Hips Plaza100000.22000
Difo Square120000.183332200
Brouette Tower150000.166672500
Blemith Centre190000.142112700
Graduating Megastructure240000.1253000
Sky High Tower300000.133334000
Monopoly Tower1000000.055000



So now that we have all that covered with a little more detail what should you spend on a street? Well your going to make the most money on a street that is 1 million or more in cost, as stated your not going to make more rent on a street higher then 1 million dollars but you are going to make then buying several lesser valued streets. 


So my tip in a nut shell is this, buy streets that are greater then 1 million dollars in price but buy them based on length and not location or any other factor. If your going to pay more then 1 million for a street do it because its very long, a long street means more space to build and therefore increased rent because you have the room to build more structures. When building remember that once you cross the 500k mark on cost your spending more and taking several turns to recoup the cost of the building instead of 1 turn to recoup 90-100% of the cost after which everything made is pure profit. 


So my final words are this...


Buy streets costing 1 million plus, buy long streets, and build more little things vs big things :-)