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Post by licat on Feb 24, 2012 14:24:21 GMT -5
1. You do your own Check-ins 2. a. You do jobs and level up. . b. You Upgrade and pay Bucks to immediately raise one level As of Feb 24, 2012, 10 is the highest level for a business 3. Other Town Mayors do Check-ins 4. Other Town Mayors franchise your business.
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Post by skyton on Jun 6, 2012 11:57:17 GMT -5
I'm no expert on the game, so please correct me if I'm wrong on anything.
The current strategy being touted on this forum is to aim forum is to try to get high popularity businesses, generally by changing your location to be able to buy for coins. High pop businesses give more income, which helps the player buy more cool stuff. And more businesses. It also enables the player to help other players through franchising their businesses, giving them a cut of the value. The impact of this strategy is that a few businesses are really high, for example those in NYC or LA, while other businesses are really low or non existent. Even in local areas, where cost of a business rarely goes higher than 20 bucks, most of the businesses are the zero price of 800 coins.
The result of this is that a clever player will switch his or her location to a high pop area and buy higher pop businesses to advance the game more, and the lower pop businesses are left in the dust.
The altruistic side of the forum also effects this. When a business is franchised the popularity goes up. A kind gifted will franchise the highest pop businesses in the town they are giving to so that the receiver gets the most benefit. This drives the pop of those businesses up higher, leaving their low pop businesses languishing, again. There Was once a thread about franchising low pop businesses (that I now can't find), arguing that they still get a buck, a 5% income bonus and higher pop. But generally the robin hoods tend to give to the highest pop business, not the lowest.
The end effect, that I can see, is that of the general market we live in: the big businesses get bigger while the smaller businesses stay small.
The effect on players is that (due to a narrowing field of cheats and glitches) it is harder for noobs to get the income needed to buy these expensive businesses, and people are actually punished in the game for being loyal to their actual location.
I enJoyed the NY NY game, but wonder about the possible repercussions of pursuing a low pop focused strategy. Are there downsides that I'm missing? What would be the benefits of choosing to franchise more low pop businesses?
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Post by Precious on Jun 6, 2012 12:58:00 GMT -5
Just talking to someone about that last night. I am in the middle of doing a test, however I have not put all my data together. Will let you know the results. Let me first start by saying, I didn’t find this forum until I had most of my land cleared. I didn’t know about location switches. I am in the Phoenix market, and although it is the 5th largest city, there is only 1 business (that I can see) that has a pop 3500 plus. (This is for the whole state of AZ). In addition, when I first started the game, I didn’t know about franchising, so most were bought from the Booyah store. Figured it out later by accident. I will also say, I did purchase bucks, when they went on sale (will not disclose how much- Ha!) I finally branched out and bought Caesar’s Palace with bucks. Wow was that a bold statement from this conservative banker!! And it actually paid off. I still have about 8 businesses from the Phoenix market. The pops stink- One is at 93!! 24 hour Fitness. The only one that has a good pop is Daily Grind- pop 4881 The next highest is Tom’s restaurant at 2258. (I never even heard of the Daily Grind or Tom’s restaurant before this game, so this is even more interesting why these 2 have the highest pops?) If you go into my stats- the total popularity of my town is 600,825. Not bad for having 7 really low pops. So why do I keep them? Besides sentimental reasons, well I have my old faithful’s from the Phoenix market that are grinding away because they don’t know about the “cheats”. On the other hand, I can’t franchise these business’s for them, since I have it. The way I look at it, they are “pure”- meaning they show the true statistics because no one is messing with them. Want to know the kicker to all this- If I went to sell 24 hour Fitness pop at 93- I would get $658,350. The highest one from the Phoenix market with a pop of 4881- If I sold it, I would get $670,141. If I sold my highest business- Creperie O’Regal that has a pop of 84,492- I would get $152,811 New York Times- pop 21,618 I would get $122,728. This game has a lot of mysteries? ? To answer your question- “What would be the benefits of choosing to franchise more low pop businesses”. To me, it would be just to help out your fellow neighbors (in RL) that do not know about the cheats. Bet you didn’t expect that long winded answer. Just find this stuff interesting. I don’t just fly around looking pretty, like some people think!!
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Post by Joe on Jun 6, 2012 16:08:22 GMT -5
This is an interesting topic. There is probably some truth to the self-perpetrating loop of the big businesses getting bigger while the smaller continue to shrink.
Some of my best earners are local businesses because people tend to franchise and keep them more often. I only have a few high-pop businesses from New York but none of them have more than the 5% bonus thanks to various Robin Hoods (thanks again!). By contrast, I have several local businesses with much lower popularity earning more than the high-pop businesses due to multiple franchises that are leveled up.
As an aside, I was in New York on business last week. It is pretty insane the popularity numbers on totally random businesses. If I open up the Check-In window with "Current Location" while in Houston, I usually see most of the businesses with 0-10 Popularity with the occasional ones hitting 100-200. It seemed like every street corner I did this from in NY had minimums in the 400-500 range. Population density is insane.
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Post by Solsville on Jun 7, 2012 18:02:53 GMT -5
Everyone has different reasons and strategies for playing this game. Some like a nice town. Some like to get as much money, popularity, population, etc. I guess the first question to ask is: Why do you want businesses? If it's to make as much money as possible... then I would definitely say go with the highest pop businesses. Here's an extreme example of the differences: My lowest pop (local biz): Last Rites: pop:89 Level 9, 5 Franchises, totaling about 90% My highest pop biz: Creperie: pop: 84,524 Level 9, 4 Franchises, totaling about 45% The money making potential is 4X on the higher pop business. Add a few Wonders on there, and blitz it with the 2x speed boost, and you can make some good coinage pretty fast. Plus, if you get franchised by RH's, you'd receive about 1 buck on the low pop biz and the full 50 on the high pop biz.
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Post by skyton on Jun 8, 2012 10:37:08 GMT -5
Everyone has different reasons and strategies for playing this game. Some like a nice town. Some like to get as much money, popularity, population, etc. I guess the first question to ask is: Why do you want businesses? If it's to make as much money as possible... then I would definitely say go with the highest pop businesses. Yes, but without income, and serious income later in the game, you can't buy land and other items. No land, no cool town. Period. If players can't get more land/items at a reasonable rate, (and they don't want to spend real money), they'll quit. So in order for players to keep playing, they need to gradually build up to buying more and more popular businesses. This means that fewer businesses are going to be made more popular through franchising/jobs/check ins. So the lower businesses stay low. And the higher businesses get higher. When this is combined with the general population density of world cities, it means that it is entirely natural that businesses in LA and NYC would be more popular. Their natural advantage by being in a large city is exaggerated by the fact that people from smaller cities and rural areas aim to buy them to make money to buy more land and items. But that's the effects of choosing to franchise more popular businesses. I'm just wondering what the effects are of choosing to franchise less popular businesses. Lower personal income, for sure, but otherwise?? How would it effect game play on a larger scale?
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Post by Potrero Hill 28839110 on Jul 26, 2012 12:31:07 GMT -5
how do you check in to another mayor's town? When you franchise a business from someone else, how long do you have to keep the business for the other person to get the benefit of popularity boost? do you have to wait for it to be built? level the newly franchised business up?
I check into my businesses all the time and the popularity is still LOW. Potrero Hill 28839110 (San Francisco)
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Post by AJ Town on Aug 2, 2012 2:08:33 GMT -5
I'm sorry if this q sounds stupid, but is there a possibility that the popularity drops?
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Post by Raven on Aug 2, 2012 11:46:38 GMT -5
Yes- they call it the "popularity monster" lol - no rhyme or reason for drop !!! It's talked about in one of the threads!?!
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Post by licat on Aug 5, 2012 23:20:35 GMT -5
Like Raven mentioned, there are lots of threads all relating to Business Popularity. It is a complicated subject so there are multiple discussion threads, including chat about the infamous "Popularity Monster". It is not a real Booyah creature, but was named by our own forum members because of drastic population drops that occur unexpectedly. A good starting point is the Top 30 Businesses - Popularity thread. Do take the time to go through the Tips Hints and Tricks subforum for even more information.
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Post by Yarn Goddess on Aug 6, 2012 0:16:37 GMT -5
An easy way to find out the answer to a question quickly is to run a search using keywords. The search function is below the large box at the top of the page and is the fourth from the left. For instance, if you want to find out about business popularity, just type in "business popularity" and see what comes up. If you don't get the answer you're looking for, just try different words until you get what you need. Chances are that the topic has been discussed somewhere, at some time, in the forum.
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Post by skyton on Aug 12, 2012 8:54:32 GMT -5
The number of people who own a business effects the popularity; the more people who franchise/buy it, the higher the popularity. Given that, if the business is in storage, does it still count as owned? Say everyone put their new York times into storage for a couple days, would the popularity decrease at all? Thoughts?
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Post by Snibull on Sept 15, 2012 22:47:40 GMT -5
I have a level 7 business and a 4 hour job only brings 2k and my most popular business is the Beverly hills hotel, a very popular one at that but it only brings 1k on 4 hour, what's the deal? Please help, need coins and jobs are chief source of income. Hey Chevy- the business level does make a difference to your job payout. You would double your income (just about if not more than double) buy upgrading Beverly Hills Hotel to a level 10. Also, with you having a circus and the playboy mansion, try changing the skin to an entertainment skin... Take a screen shot or jot down the coin amount with the current skin vs the entertainment skin... You'll see it'll be higher with the entertainment skin!
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Post by Snibull on Sept 29, 2012 17:28:16 GMT -5
Hi! So, I've been playing My Town 2 for a few months and have been struggling to figure this out. I have several Level 6 businesses and when I select the 10 hour option to collect rent on all of those businesses, the most I can collect 10 hours later is $1,000. No matter how popular the business is, I can only collect $1,000. I keep leveling up and that $1,000 does not increase. Is there any way to increase that amount higher than $1,000? I am at level 40, level 17 in population. What am I missing here? Thanks in advance for any help with this!!! Hi Hornacho! Here is a thread you may find useful. www.mytown2.net/index.cgi?board=tips&action=display&thread=50Unfortunately, your job payout is probably going to remain the same until you level up again (go from Level 6 to Level 7). Businesses from Booyahtopia, the 1st town when you explore in your location, are the only ones that will have a dramatic change in popularity if they are purchased for $1 in airplane mode. Regular businesses just won't see that big of a change in day-to-day playing. Since you've registered for the forum, read over the "New Members Please Read Thread" and let us help you through franchises if you post your town info in the franchise me thread. www.mytown2.net/index.cgi?board=newmemberswww.mytown2.net/index.cgi?board=gifts&action=display&thread=3Good luck and happy building!
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Post by hornacho on Sept 29, 2012 18:26:18 GMT -5
Thank you very much Snibull! I searched a few of those pages before I posted but wasn't finding my answer. I posted to the Franchise me thread so we'll see what happens. thanks again! ;D
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Post by Snibull on Sept 29, 2012 19:30:49 GMT -5
Edit: I am losing my mind- I thought Sardi posted to this?! Sardi- my one track mind was thinking of the base payout from popularity only and was not thinking about wonders! Wonders definitely will help with payouts. Thank you for pointing that out! Hornacho- no need to repay me. The Beverly Hills Hotel you have at Level 2, if you increase it to a Level 10, it will pay out $4K on a 10-hour job. This is based off my town (no wonders that will boost the payout on a hotel).
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Post by hornacho on Sept 30, 2012 14:15:30 GMT -5
Snibull: Actually I upgraded the Beverly Hills Hotel to Level 7 and I'm getting $4,000 for a 10 hour job. I also added the Weebo Store San Francisco and Walt Disney buildings at Level 7 are getting $5,000 for 10 hrs. Not sure if it's some wonders that I have that are increasing those but I'll take it! LOL!
Anyhow... thanks again! Greatly appreciate the help!
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Post by Snibull on Oct 1, 2012 20:25:55 GMT -5
Snibull: Actually I upgraded the Beverly Hills Hotel to Level 7 and I'm getting $4,000 for a 10 hour job. I also added the Weebo Store San Francisco and Walt Disney buildings at Level 7 are getting $5,000 for 10 hrs. Not sure if it's some wonders that I have that are increasing those but I'll take it! LOL! Anyhow... thanks again! Greatly appreciate the help! That's fantastic! Congrats
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Post by Amstel Bear Hugs on Oct 8, 2012 12:59:35 GMT -5
My highest job payout now is still only 3k but I guess booyah hates my town lol, I keep getting population on stw and my pop is maxed out Chevy, It is not your pop that is max out. It states Max because you have the maximum allowed number of businesses. If you were to sell one, you would see your pop number behind it. This number does not max out, so getting the pop on the STW is a good thing. Me, I always get the XP's and I am maxed out at 75.
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Post by fleetwood on Nov 29, 2012 7:51:34 GMT -5
Why is having population good?what do we get from it? Popularity should be a consideration in adding a business to your town. Having businesses with popularity helps your coin and buck earning potential. Popularity makes your business an attractive franchise prospect. The more franchises you can get (along with multiple wonders), the better your business will perform in job income (and will help the popularity level of the business). In whatever location you are playing, you want to have some of the local popular businesses to attract coin franchises. Businesses with 3000+ popularity can earn you the 50 buck max when franchised by someone 200 miles away. When I first started, I used my gifts as calling cards to let surrounding towns know that I existed so that hopefully if they needed a business then they would consider my businesses. Some players quest for the 100000+ businesses but my experience has been that with multiple wonders and multiple franchises my businesses with 3000 - 40000 popularity are earning more for me than my business with 178000 popularity (only a few players can afford to franchise it and it is a location that not many players go to look for a business). And my local businesses 700-2500 worked well for me (b/c they were some of the highest businesses in my real location). While earning mattered to me I avoided businesses with popularity under 100. Population helps you to get to the max number of businesses (currently 40). After that, it doesn't help so much strategically. It is more of a bragging point in seeing how high you can make it go. Most of the time I don't have the max number of businesses out on my land so I see my population count at the top of my game screen.
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