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Post by Marville on May 26, 2012 6:06:12 GMT -5
Ok,this is what I. Am doing....... 1-I find a low popular bus. 2-franchise/buy it with a few bucks/coins on rare occasions (usually1-12 bucks I spend) 3-let it build for bt 2-3 min. Then I delete it 4-go look for someone else to help Is this the correct way to help other mayors receive bucks after franchising their towns.......OR NOT? ?? Maybe PM , too if not care, too. I sometimes I forget to check post for days. Any help appreciated BB59 OK I do exactly the same thing as above so is this right or not guys and gals I think it is but am not really sure
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Post by skyton on Jun 1, 2012 14:32:26 GMT -5
I think the formula is +5% for each level the franchised business is at. From jonniva's numbers below, and my own businesses, if a business is at level 4 in the town that franchised it (e.g. Not my town, but the nice person's town) then the bonus is 20%. If the business is at level 6 in the town that franchised it, then the bonus is 30%. 4 x 5% = 20%. 6 x 5% = 30%. If a business is deleted, it stays at 5%. I just wonder what happens when a business reaches a higher level and then is deleted. Does it revert to 5% or does it stay at the last level reached? I just ran a test: The franchised business receives +5% Bonus Income for each level you upgrade while you STILL OWN the franchised business. It appears that once you delete the franchised business, the franchise and Bonus Income disappear from their stats. I tried this with both Level 1 and Level 4 businesses, and the franchises on both disappeared once the businesses were sold. I know it used to keep the franchise in the stats, but now it looks like one of the updates corrected that. I just checked a half dozen businesses of fairly low pop and high level (meaning there isn't a financial reason to keep them). Three of them were franchised by mayors who no longer have them. One of them was franchised by two different mayors that no longer have them. They all show 5% bonus. I have a half dozen hi pop biz at low or moderate levels that show they were franchised by Jerry and/or barracuda bay and my guess is they were sold before they completed. All those franchises show 5% bonus. Two of those biz were franchised by a different mayor, too. One shows 50% bonus and is at level 10 in their town. The other shows 25% bonus and they have it at level 5. Both of those were also franchised by Jerry and those franchises show 5%. Yet we can be certain those were sold, too. Finally while most of my franchises were bought while I was on the previous version, I am certain that 4 of them (no longer owned by BB) were franchised in the last 24 hours and after I upgraded. What does all that mean? I conclude biz another mayor franchises will persist after the other mayor sells them, will persist over the last update, will persist independently of what else happens with the biz, and persist for at least a week. But this is empirical and the plural of anecdote ain't data. Figuring out the machine is interesting.
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Post by jonniva on Jun 1, 2012 19:30:47 GMT -5
I think the formula is +5% for each level the franchised business is at. From jonniva's numbers below, and my own businesses, if a business is at level 4 in the town that franchised it (e.g. Not my town, but the nice person's town) then the bonus is 20%. If the business is at level 6 in the town that franchised it, then the bonus is 30%. 4 x 5% = 20%. 6 x 5% = 30%. If a business is deleted, it stays at 5%. I just wonder what happens when a business reaches a higher level and then is deleted. Does it revert to 5% or does it stay at the last level reached? I suspect it reverts to 5%. But let's see. I franchised your museum and I can get it to level 3 or 4 pretty quickly. If you will confirm when u see it higher than 5%, then I will delete and see what happens.
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Post by jonniva on Jun 1, 2012 23:05:53 GMT -5
I have it up to levelm4. Please confirm your stats show it is adding 20%
Thanks
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Post by skyton on Jun 2, 2012 3:05:32 GMT -5
I have it up to levelm4. Please confirm your stats show it is adding 20% Thanks Stats show bonus at 20%.
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Post by jonniva on Jun 2, 2012 8:59:37 GMT -5
Skyton, I have deleted the franchise. Allowing for booyah's servers to update, can you check bonus now please? And thank you for the gift!
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Post by skyton on Jun 2, 2012 14:04:57 GMT -5
It's gone now. I have no bonus. Not even 5%. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Weird. You would think that deleting right after franchising would leave less of a bonus than letting it grow and then deleting. Some factors to consider: it's Saturday, and so I've been on just about all day. So the bonus was recognised (for lack of a better word) and used, repeatedly. Would the bonus still exist if I had not logged on? (how would we know, I wonder?) I wonder if it's a timing thing, because I remember another bonus left suddenly, too. Not today, but some ages ago when some nice person went on a franchising spree in my town. Some stay and some go. Do you think the franchise monster has tea with the popularity monster? Oh, and I always try to gift people who are nice to me, if I remember and have enough, anyway.
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Post by jonniva on Jun 3, 2012 9:50:58 GMT -5
It's gone now. I have no bonus. Not even 5%. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Weird. You would think that deleting right after franchising would leave less of a bonus than letting it grow and then deleting. Some factors to consider: it's Saturday, and so I've been on just about all day. So the bonus was recognised (for lack of a better word) and used, repeatedly. Would the bonus still exist if I had not logged on? (how would we know, I wonder?) I wonder if it's a timing thing, because I remember another bonus left suddenly, too. Not today, but some ages ago when some nice person went on a franchising spree in my town. Some stay and some go. Do you think the franchise monster has tea with the popularity monster? Oh, and I always try to gift people who are nice to me, if I remember and have enough, anyway. Aw, I'm sorry it didn't at least stay at 5% I have not been traveling. I am running on the latest update, which seems to have a new collection of bugs. I don't have an explanation. I just hope they stay out of the Mixer, or with a few drinks, who knows what sort of mischief they could do.
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Post by shadowtouchz on Jun 3, 2012 12:42:09 GMT -5
It's gone now. I have no bonus. Not even 5%. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Weird. You would think that deleting right after franchising would leave less of a bonus than letting it grow and then deleting. Some factors to consider: it's Saturday, and so I've been on just about all day. So the bonus was recognised (for lack of a better word) and used, repeatedly. Would the bonus still exist if I had not logged on? (how would we know, I wonder?) I wonder if it's a timing thing, because I remember another bonus left suddenly, too. Not today, but some ages ago when some nice person went on a franchising spree in my town. Some stay and some go. Do you think the franchise monster has tea with the popularity monster? Oh, and I always try to gift people who are nice to me, if I remember and have enough, anyway. Aw, I'm sorry it didn't at least stay at 5% I have not been traveling. I am running on the latest update, which seems to have a new collection of bugs. I don't have an explanation. I just hope they stay out of the Mixer, or with a few drinks, who knows what sort of mischief they could do. Yes a couple of Bugs like when STW we gain nothing , 5% Dissapear , one of my Franchised Business have Gone too
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Post by booyaa on Jun 7, 2012 6:03:27 GMT -5
I was wondering if I sell a business, will I then be able to buy a new one? or do I have to raise the population required first?
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Post by tattooed on Jun 7, 2012 6:25:20 GMT -5
Yes, you can sell a business and buy a new one without adding to your population.
Sweet Valley 37982240
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Post by cmeister23 on Jun 7, 2012 7:09:07 GMT -5
If your population dropped below the minimum requirement then you will have to raise your population back up to buy another business. For example you need 875k people to buy your 36th business. If you sell your 36th business when your population is below 875k then you will have to raise it back up again to buy another business.
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Post by booyaa on Jun 7, 2012 7:31:36 GMT -5
Hehe, one of you guys are telling the truth. Who?
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Post by March Vegas on Jun 7, 2012 7:46:29 GMT -5
It means that if you raise the population to a point where you can have 36 businesses (the maximum) and then delete some housing or decorations that take your population to below 875k and then delete a business, you will then have to raise the population back past 875k to build a 36th business again.
Capiche?
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tattooed
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Post by tattooed on Jun 7, 2012 8:14:56 GMT -5
If your population dropped below the minimum requirement then you will have to raise your population back up to buy another business. For example you need 875k people to buy your 36th business. If you sell your 36th business when your population is below 875k then you will have to raise it back up again to buy another business. I agree with this answer. I should have elaborated as well. Sorry.
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Post by booyaa on Jun 7, 2012 10:17:00 GMT -5
Thank you. It worked ;D Bought federal bureau-investigation. Didnt give me that much every hour
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Post by stuart1284 on Jun 23, 2012 9:50:34 GMT -5
I have a fair few businesses but some of these have poor popularity and I am thinking of selling them and replacing them with better pop businesses. I need to increase my population before I can build a new business, however, if I were to sell, say, 3 of my low pop businesses could I immediately buy another three business without increasing my population? If this is possible, is this a good strategy? Thanks in anticipation of your advice!
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Post by shotgunstina on Jun 23, 2012 10:08:50 GMT -5
You can buy new businesses only if you have enough population to support the new businesses. If you have 25 businesses now, but only have enough population to support 22, if you sell 3, you will not be able to buy them back.
Buying new higher popularity businesses is good strategy, though.
Hope that makes sense.
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Post by Raven on Jun 23, 2012 10:34:23 GMT -5
From the perspective of micro franchiser !!! Can I suggest to keep a couple with low pop - I don't have enough bucks or coin to help out or leave a handshake! if all the business are tooooo expensive other than that though the high pop seem to be the way to go ! Raven 29067906
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Post by City of SanJ3 on Jun 24, 2012 19:56:09 GMT -5
That is a good strategy to get rid of low popular businesses, but watching out for the population as told by another user. If you want to be franchised, sometimes the lower businesses can attract people who do not have much bucks. I've gotten rid of many of my low pop businesses because they simply make too little. I converted them all into offices and bough numerous stock exchange wonders. Now they all make plenty of gold coins.
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