Rookie Guide: Do not miss it!

happiness

It is said that Business Tycoon Online will launch its closed beta now! How exciting! My friends introduced this game to me and I played it for a week in Malaysia Server. It is really worthy a play. Thought I am still a rookie, I'd like to share my experience to you all.
1. Select an industry. There are four industries in the game, including Entertaining Industry, Catering Industry, Retailing industry and Service Industry. Players can only open stores of the industry he chose. So think of which kind of CEO you want to be before you open a store. Otherwise, you should start over again if you want to change the industry you are in.
2. Select a position: there are three different zones in Liberty City, respectively Residential Zone, Downtown Zone and Commercial Zone. In different zones, the land price, store rent, population density and street development value are different. Stores of Business Level 1 are suggested to locate in Residential Zone. Stores of Business Level 2 and 3 should open in Downtown Zone and stores of Business Level 4 and higher have to locate in Commercial Zone. Otherwise, your revenue will be reduced more or less.
3. Store upgrade:
Stores develop as the following nine steps:
Terrible-Bad-Substandard-Standard-Good-Excellent-First Class-Perfect. You can upgrade your store to a higher level if you have enough Store Upgrade Point and as a result, your revenue increases. A new player can get 1 Store Upgrade Point/2 hours in the first three days. And three days later, he can get 1 Store Upgrade Point/4 hours.

happiness

Hey, I just found some information about this game. I am a green hand and let's share this information together.
1. Board of Directors:
Sometimes, you want to get more resources to carry out your business, or the cash flow problems of the company, and then you want to obtain a sum to help you through the difficult times. Also, at the monthly board where you can put forward some demands to the directors. The success depends on the impression you normally given that the directors are good.

2. 16-hour Activity
You cannot work behind closed doors when you are living in a freedom, bustling city because there has a wealth of social events or business meetings waiting for you to attend. More to participate in these activities, the income it might get rich! From morning to evening, every day regularly open to the players to participate in some activities, you can see it by clicking "City" – "16 hours" activity, oh do not miss one.

3. Title System
Liberty City will give the player a specific title when the player reaches a certain conditions. In addition, Title system also proves player's abilities; the title has also added some extra incentives or property to experience the difference between players.
4. The City Hall
The City Hall is the largest agencies in Liberty City. It is the major competing objectives of every Guild's president of commerce. It sets the position of total five levels inside, from the bottom of representative to the highest level of the City Hall president. Positions in each grade have a corresponding authority; for example, adjusting the land rent and even it can adjust the entire rate of the game. Each position of election is through voting decisions, and only the Guild of Commerce has this disqualified to be elected. Also, all players are eligible to vote so that popularity very important. On the other hand, you may always be impeached by lower or flat-level officials, so it's not the iron bowl if you obtain this job through your efforts. Even The City of President, if the impeachment is passed, you will lose your job immediately. In conclusion, you should do your job well if you gain the valuable job.

happiness

I am back! Now let's have a look at employee system and interaction system. I think these two systems are the most fascinating in the game!
1. Employee recruiting and training:
After you establish a store, you need employees to work in it. Different employees have different abilities and skills, which are essential to your revenue. So if you want to increase your revenue, pay to your employees and train them. The more able your employees are, the more salaries you should pay to them. So, try to be generous if you want to hold capable employees.
2. Guild system
A guild embodies the unity of players. It is a regional organization and an important link between players. Besides the wise leadership of the chairman, its members' supports are also indispensible to a guild's prosperity. Players of a guild get more revenue. Guilds can be divided into five grades. The higher grade a guild is, the more profit it can provide to its members and the more members it can hold. Guilds can build its own organizations. Guilds of higher grade build more kind of organizations. These organizations can provides other special attribute as well as more revenues.
3. Interaction
Besides developing your company, you can also play with other players to enlarge your social circles. You can choose proper interacting methods according to your level. There is a saying that two heads are better than one. When you and your friend are intimate enough, you can invest to each other or cooperate with each other.
4. Strategy system
In business world, players can compete with others by array of means. You can attack your competitor by different strategies and it is profitable. And your competitor will suffer a loss according to the strategy you adopt or even stores temporarily closed. Here, I have to remind you that if you stir up troubles everywhere, you are probably encountered with a unanimous attack by other players. So don't go too far!

jack

thank you for sharing, guy

happiness

I have played Business Tycoon Online for some days with my Malaysian friends. Here, I'd like to share my experiences to you all; through I am a rookie too. However, I can only tell you something about being stores of Business Level 2. About being stores of higher levels, we can discuss here later.
All companies newly established are private companies and a private company can establish two stores. To open a store begins with a click at a vacant place.
Please note that store of business level 1 and 2 can only be established in Residential Zone. Otherwise, their revenue will be reduced due to Zone Effect.
Stores of Business Level 1: the basic revenue of stores is 1,000TCN. One grade higher, you get 10% more revenue. The grades of stores are as follows
1. Terrible, 1 point is needed to upgrade store of such kind to next grade.
2. Bad: 1 point is needed to upgrade store of such kind to next grade.
3. Substandard: 2 point is needed to upgrade store of such kind to next grade.
4. Standard: 2 point is needed to upgrade store of such kind to next grade.
5. Good: 3 point is needed to upgrade store of such kind to next grade.
6. Excellent: 4 point is needed to upgrade store of such kind to next grade.
7. First-Class: 5 point is needed to upgrade store of such kind to next grade.
8. Perfect:
Stores of Business Level 2: the basic revenue of such store is 1,700TCN. One grade higher, you get 10% more revenue.
Since Standard Stores of Business Level 2, 1 more point is needed to upgrade to next grade. Each upgrading, stores' revenues increase by 10%.
The grades of stores are as follows:
Standard: 3 points are needed to upgrade to next grade.
Good: 4 points are needed to upgrade to next grade.
Excellent: 5 points are needed to upgrade to next grade.
First-Class: 6 points are needed to upgrade to next grade.
Perfect.
My suggestion is to close all of your stores and then open them again. Choose proper advertisement methods. It will increase your revenue. However, be careful. Too much advertisement will cause side effect.
To accelerate the upgrading, it will cost you 1 Gold/hour.
A player can get 1 Store Upgrade Point/4 hours and a private company can hold 6 Store Upgrade Points at most. So use it up when you have Store Upgrade Points. Otherwise, you cannot get more.

happiness

I am here again! Anyone welcome me? Today, I want to mention that you can earn money if you have no stocks.
According to this game, your stores will close automatically if there is no stock in your stores. You have to click "Purchase" and begin to purchase goods.
1. Purchase Type:
Very Little: The goods is enough for 1 day's business. It costs 100 TCN.
Small Amount: The goods can be used for 2 days. It costs 250 TCN.
Moderate Amount: The goods is enough for 3 days' business.
Large Amount: The goods is enough for 4 days' business.
Super Amount: The goods is enough for 5 days' business.
(the cost of rest purchase types won't be mentioned. Basically, the cost varies according to store's level. )
2. Transportation type
Slow: It takes 12 hours and 100 TCN.
Standard: It takes 6 hours and 300 TCN.
Fast: It takes 3 hours and 500 TCN.
Expedited: It takes 1 hours and 1 Gold.
Express: It takes 2 minutes and 3 Gold.
Please note that it saves a lot of money if you begin to purchase 1 day's stocks when you still have 13 hours' stocks. But it is difficult to do that because maybe you are not available when you need to purchase.
During your purchasing, do not click too fast; otherwise, you may agree to transport by "" which will cost you 3 Gold.

LifesaverM

Thank-you for another great guide. I especially did not know about the upgrade pts cap, I'm glad I'm using them up.

Hendricks

MERGED ALL HIS GUIDES

Nuohlac

thanks, very helpful.

GUC

nice post, the planning of your shops deliveries isn't easy must say

rsdceto

these guides are a good way to start the game

Ciukex

these guides are a good way to start the game
rsdceto Posted at 4/24/2010 20:36

yea but nobody read em when they start game they make em after read

sam12239

good guide, thanks

skilerous

Very helpful too. Thanks for sharing

ayurikurama

This is very helpful, you explain it very clearly.  Good job.

BearFoxLtd

One thing that needs to be updated in the guide.

Level 1 and 2 businesses should be built in Residential Zone or you will take a revenue hit under zone location.

Level 3 stores should be built in the downtown area.

Level 4 - 7 can be built in the commercial zone.

You can build your stores anywhere you want but if you don't follow this formula you will see in the pop up of your store a red deduction for zone and you will lose a portion of your income due to wrong zone no matter how much you upgrade your store.

Luckily if you made this mistake there is a prop that you can use to move your store anywhere you want. You get a couple free moving company props when you start out the game as a beginner, if you nee more you can buy them in the shop.

destroyer-

That was a nice reminder BearFoxLtd. This is the common mistake of the beginner. They are actually confused about the zoning effect.

txblunt

Also, they should pay attention to how many and what kind of stores are needed for the next upgrade so they dont build to many of one kind and waste sups to upgrade it, and then to only find out it needs to be a higher lvl.  At that point you either have to remove the unneeded stores or by a store expansion agreement to add more.  You can see what your need under the company info

Humpfree

Hi

I seen somebody today come back 3k points in 3 hours to take first place in elite battle.. How is this possible?

Any tips on timing, and making the most out of the team I have would be much appreciated.

destroyer-

It is very possible. You can even take a score of 4k+ in that time. You can challenge all the players in the arena 4 times and if you win all the battles you can take that score. In my server, I can even take 4k+ score in just 2 hours, depending on the availability of the opponents.

Humpfree

How do you challenge all players in the arena if you are in 2nd ??? You mean you can challenge below the rankings?? How do you challenge everyone?

Humpfree

Added this to help with employee decisions. Just click image twice


do not post external links please just upload directly to the forum

Zuni

Thanks a lot!