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Market Imbalances

Day 5,913, 02:39 • Published in Canada Canada

• by Natster

Hey guys, it's been a while.
Life has been hectic and crazy all at the same time. Have still been clicking away, slowly chipping away, etc. However, I couldn't sleep last night and I discovered a market imbalance. How I came about to this, was I was reevaluating my current program that I'm running to move people around to where it makes the most sense. It led me down the dark deep path of bathing. Please note, I can only use the data that I have for this article. I worked out the ratios for the different companies. Time would fail me to do them all so I focused on the ones that were the most important to me. There's room for more down the road, but I think that what I show will help you discover how to work out the other ones as well. So, here are the results:

Initial productivity with 1 work

Q5 plane: 9.15 at -9.15 raw
Q1 house: 38.6% at -3.86 raw
Q2 house: 19.3% at -3.86 raw
Q3 house: 9.65% at -3.86 raw
Q4 house: 4.83% at -3.86 raw
Q5 house: 3.48% at -3.86 raw

Raw productivity metric with 1 work
House raw material : 4.825
Plane raw material: 4.99

Total work cost
Q5 plane : 1 + 1.83 = 2.84
Q1 house : 100/38.6=2.59 +2.59(for raw)= 5.18
Q2 house : 100/19.3=5.18 + 5.18 = 10.36
Q3 house : 100/9.65=10.36 + 10.36= 20.72
Q4 house : 100/4.83=20.7 +20.7=41.4
Q5 house : 100/3.48=28.735 +28.735=57.47

So, there we go. Now, I am using my production rates for this worksheet. I may not have the best production for some of this stuff, but at the same time I'll have a reasonable idea.

How do I use this data, you may ask? This data helps you work out how much you need to sell an item for profit. Or, it can give you insight that someone else may have their products. Subsidized, have better production or are having lower costs at somewhere. I'll give you an example.

I am going to use the q5 plane as my working metric.
As you can see above, my q5 work cost is 2.59.

The best market rate at this time of writing for a q 5 airplane is 1470.
So, I can take that 1470 and work out a rough cost to produce:

2.59@5500.00 CAD (current best job pay)
$14,245.

$14,245/9.15
$1556.83

Basically, I would lose money if I paid someone to work for me in my q5s for airplanes. It also May indicate a market imbalance and that we are likely to see prices increase by at least 5%

It also May indicate that I need to find better production that can lower my cost by 5%. I'm not sure where I can do that cuz I don't think I can get 5% better ratio but if I can, definitely looking into that.

Comments

Wilhem Klink Day 5,913, 06:23

The Housing market is driving labor costs. It's the only industry where a market wage of ~5,200cc makes a profit. All other industries lose money using workers, even with the recent price rises.

The work as manager industries are also (mostly) riding profits even with the jump in work tax as wages rise as long as you produce your own raw materials and do so in a high bonus area (185%+). The exception is Q1 weapons. Assuming you're making WRM with a rubber planation (the cheapest way) market price would need to be 3.70cc to cover costs even at 200% bonus. Right now, its 3.30cc

Natster Day 5,914, 04:11

Market wage is 5500. At that whale, Q1 house needs to be around 28,500. Even Q1 is underpriced. But, in actuality true value to the purchaser is 7 days of double time. So, 11k per day at 3 days and you're in green for the purchase of your Q1 home.