Prioritize clients

[asc2]

Please make it such that it is possible to prioritize supply from a factory/farm/warehouse to specific clients that user selects
Example, in the View clients list, add a button to "Prioritize", supply should satisfy demand that has been prioritized first

[Arcnor]

+1

[David]

How would you suggest the interface for this should look like and how exactly the "prioritize" feature should work?

Should it always buy from the preferred supplier regardless of the prices/quality/brand of the preferred supplier's products so long as there are sufficient supplies or only when the supplier's products have reached specific criteria? If it is the later, how exactly such criteria can be set and how the interface for it should look like?

[asc2]

Hi David,

The prioritization is to more intended to prioritize supplying material produced by say your own farm to your own retail store, instead of telling the AI how to prioritize in terms of looking for supplier as the retail store

The problem I am having and that is why I am trying to make this suggestion is that I notice when a farm/factory is supplying a product to a retail store, if there are more demand than there is supply, the supply appears to be allocated either evenly or not in a desired manner.
For example, I have a farm and it produces 100,000 units of products, if I have 1 retail store that will sell 80,000 units, I'd like for the remaining 20,000 to be sold to AI or stored in the warehouse. At this moment, this cannot be setup because should I setup a warehouse to purchase from the farm, my store will no longer be selling at 80,000 units but somewhere lower than that.
If I can tell the farm to prioritize selling to the retail store first, the hope is this will solve the problem

[Parkerrush92]

+1 This could be done simply with a "prioritize supply" option, button, or game setting.

This would make a.i. clients a secondary priority, and player stores, and outlets, a primary priority.

[Parkerrush92]

This would be a great feature to expand on warehouses.

[Parkerrush92]

To elaborate, I frequently stop playing because of this problem. I have to find ways to meet demand to my own stores AND demand to a.i. I essentially double production at factories. Obviously more money is made when I sell to my own stores. In this game, with essentially unlimited demand, many, many factories have to be built to catch up to my own demand while selling to a.i at the same time.

[asc2]

Any comment on this David, even a simple checkbox to prioritize own firm first for supply would be good enough