Broken Business [x]

[Caligrace]

Hart Psychiatric:
Stock: Average
Prices: very cheap
Advertising: Newspaper
(5 Rep, 42 pop, 10 morale on this one)

Aspire:
Stock: Bad
Prices: Insanely Cheap
Advertising: None


The Institute:
Stock: Awful
Prices: Insanely Cheap
Advertising: None

I realized now, that changing it to none for advertising, probably didn't help, lmao. I meant to hit newspaper. I'll tinker with that and see if it goes up any.

[Azraeth]

You should improve your stock, I think.

If you're struggling with reputation, you want to go with your absolute best stock and absolute rock bottom prices to help it grow.

[Caligrace]

Yeah, I had her set up similar to that - like I had Caligrace when she first started, who didn't have any issues with business. I'm starting to think business really is just a random luck game sometimes, lol. Or maybe Cali was just super lucky herself.

I switched it around to do that again. I'll post when/if things change. ~

[Azraeth]

I think at some point in the past, a person could start with average stock/prices and do decently well with rep/pop gain. It was never really supposed to work that way, so we modifiied it (I'm not sure exactly how long ago, but more than a year, maybe two) so that people sort of have to start from the bottom and work their way up.

[Tierney]

I actually do think Lana's right in something going wrong with reputation.

I always start out with good stock, low staff wages, cheap prices and local radio. One of Tierney's businesses has a 12 - it was started 9/13/18. I might not run it everyday, but I've not seen it budge in weeks. Her other business was started back in April, same stats, reached it in a matter of months. I've boosted it for now and will keep an eye on it though.

[Azraeth]

You should try starting with the best stock quality and insanely cheap prices to see your rep move. It may still take a couple of days to budge, but that's what I did with McTesty, and it worked for decently steady growth.