Capitalism 2 and Capitalism Lab Forum

Hello,

I am trying to supply all my gas stations around the world and my current network is at capacity. I would like to know how best to go about satisfying the demand without too much micromanaging. My system is as follows:

Oil well > Oil warehouse > 7 factories, each producing gasoline > 1 gasoline warehouse (7 inputs, 2 outputs; outputs are overloaded) > Gas stations around the world.

My issue is that I would like to have all the gas stations pulling from the same warehouse if possible... Or have my COO automatically pull from a second warehouse if that is the way to do it (I don't trust her to optimize the sourcing). I would like to avoid having to manually change my modules in the gas stations (retail stores) to pull from a second warehouse.

Let me know if this makes sense or if you have any questions. Thanks in advance! Love this game.

Best,
Claude Debussy
CEO of Genron

My setup to supply a big city is as follows (for gasoline or diesel)

-Oil well: 1 oil well // 3 extraction, 6 sales

-Factories: 12 in total (divided in 3 groups of 4) // 1 purchase, 6 manufacturing, 2 sales.

-Warehouses: 3 warehouses (each warehouse servicing 4 factories, and 6 gas stations) // 4 inputs, 5 outputs.

-Gas stations: 18 gas stations with 3 floors each (divided in 3 groups of 6). // 3 purchase, 6 sales.


Once I set everything up and link everything I don't have to micromanage anything, I let my COO to control only the prices (better supplies and better products set to NO).


At full capacity I can get a 100% market share with low prices, but I usually set a "balanced" strategy for my COO which keeps the system at about 85% market share, very high utilization of every unit involved in the process, and very good profits.