Good evening
What does the little box next to a player’s jersey stock mean? Bear in mind that I have space in my warehouse and in my total stock

Hello, you can only sell the shirts of 7 different players. I think you have shirts for more players than that, so the players with the fewest shirts to their name aren’t for sale, and there’s a little box for them.

Personally, I can only sell kits for 5 different players – does this number increase depending on the workshop’s level? (Mine’s at level 4)

No, at level 4, you can sell flock-printed shirts featuring 7 different players. However, you need to be able to produce them. If you want to produce them all at the same time, that means you need 7 flock-printing workshops.

Is it not possible to rotate players between different flocking machines?

Currently 6
It’s possible that the shop’s level is affecting this figure, then

OK, thanks

Why is there an orange symbol? I’ve got the same one on one of my players – what does it mean?

Just a quick question: is it better to stock blouse fabric or miscellaneous items for the shop?
I’ve already ordered six bales of thread

And 5 embroidered canvas items

Ah, maybe I’ll let you know when the revamp of my shop is finished

In any case, for me, the orange icon appears on my two players with the most followers, at 300 sales a day

Same

Hello.
Do you know the difference between ‘stock’ and ‘total’ when it comes to flock-printed shirts?
Thank you.

I’m probably not looking at it with enough perspective, but it seems to me that the total number of printed shirts isn’t changing.
And that the shirts in stock are simply being added to the total.

Inventory refers to current stock, whilst total refers to total sales, I believe (since production began?)

OK, thanks.
We’re not quite ready to turn a profit just yet.

Yes, definitely. After all, it’s quite profitable. But at the moment, we just need to avoid producing everything in-house. We should focus on a few products, limiting the number of workshops to five or six at most.

The current cost of the workshops is now prohibitive beyond a certain level (the price doubles without increased production rates, which severely limits profitability). If that’s reviewed, there’ll no doubt be a way to do a bit more.

Now, perhaps it’s intentional not to produce everything in-house.

Yeah, I think that’s the key. In terms of VF, profitability needs to be viewed over the course of several years. Typically, we’re currently making a profit by focusing on a few specific productions. (If we imagine having around a hundred workshops at level 10).

Producing everything, on the other hand, takes decades – it’s not worth it at the moment.

When it comes to R&D, we’re obviously talking about x8
On the other hand, we need to strike the right balance to maximise profitability as quickly as possible; typically, producing only flock-printed shirts isn’t necessarily the best solution at the moment, as we need to focus on scaling up R&D. And that’s clearly what will take the longest

Would it be possible to have an option to resell materials I’ve already created? For example, I’ve got 10k embroidered canvases that I made in advance; they’re just sitting there taking up space, so I can’t make room for anything else. Is that something that could be looked into? It would also provide an extra source of income, even if it’s not much at all.

R&D – are we always looking at an 8x multiplier?

OK, thanks

x 8, then x 80, then x 640

Oh yes, it’s exactly 10, but that’s the most I can see on the screen 😂

When you restock the shop automatically, you lose quality – is that normal?
For example, I was at 5 per cent quality on home shirts; I restocked 2,000 of them and then lost half the quality.
The same thing happened to a mate in my alliance – in fact, he was the one who noticed it (hi Tyrex ^^)

Yes, that’s normal – quality only matters for items you make yourself.
If the quality is 5 per cent, it will drop to 2.5 per cent if half of your jerseys are made by you and the other half are bought ready-made.

So my question is this:
Is it viable in the long run to do everything yourself, given the number of machines you’ll need, the cost of upgrading them, the price of the components and the running costs?
Aymeric, can you tell us whether the time saved is significant, or whether we’re just wasting our time for peanuts?

Once it reaches 100 per cent, does the value remain fixed?

I doubt Aymeric will give you the answer; it’s up to us to decide whether it’s worth it or not.
Doing it all yourself will take ages for very little gain.

The other thing that makes me a bit wary of investing heavily is the possibility that recipes might change in the future.

At the moment, it’s not really an issue because no one has reached level 10 in the workshop with all the slots available yet. But if that does happen and the recipes change, if you have to switch workshops, that’s money completely down the drain.

What’ll be unmanageable is that, even if it’s somewhat automated… Managing a hundred or so workshops (because there are always little changes to make) is just not possible. I’m not sure about a kit management game…

If you don’t want to, you’re perfectly free to stick with the old method.

This is more of an improvement designed to optimise or boost the shop’s takings, provided you’re willing to put in a bit of time in return.

Hello,
Would it be possible to have the stock of jerseys with a player’s name printed on them available when you select that player on the machine, please?
It’s rather a nuisance having to go back and forth between the stock and the machine ^^

Thanks in advance!

It would be nice to be able to sell your machines on. Not necessarily for the original price – why not at a discount? After all, you can sell your stadium seats 😅

Start selling beers and sandwiches 🤣🤣🥰

So we’ve just seen a massive drop in sales and followers.

I’m quite happy to accept that adjustments are needed, but for my part, out of 1,620 daily jersey sales, nearly 250 have gone up in smoke, just like that.

Was it really necessary to wipe out 15 per cent of turnover just a few days after making massive investments?

15 per cent of turnover vanishing in one go because of an update. Couldn’t it have waited until the return on investment had stabilised?

I’ve only just realised that potential sales are falling… You invest in machinery and then suddenly you end up with excess capacity – it’s ridiculous

Is there any way of finding out what drives follower growth?
Because unless you’ve got Thanos, it’s impossible to reach 300 sales a day

Thanks for sharing, Brewer.

Given that the sales take place very early in the morning, does that mean we just need to adjust the instructions after our matches so that our players are at their peak NG by the time the sale starts?