Uncle Nelson's Schedule 1 Guide to Building Your Empire [Mid-Game+ Guide]

Your automation is likely going to be bottle-necked by resupply issues (base meth or coca, mixers, or both). Best thing you can do is to get more friends to help out. Regardless, some of these tips may help.




You can't place furniture outside of your own properties. However, you can park Veepers practically anywhere.

Example: Expanding "loading dock" storage

1. Buy Veepers at $9k each and use them as storage by parking them beside the loading docks
2. Unload everything into the storage Veepers
3. Immediately order new deliveries

To increase the rate of requesting dead-drops from various suppliers, stash as much cash as possible in their stash in advance. By paying in advance, you can request drops back-to-back as you go about your day.

In the current version of the game, it seems that only dead-drops earn you relationship points with the supplier. (This seems like a bug / oversight.) Maxing out the relationship with any supplier ASAP is recommended because this will unlock phone deliveries for that supplier.




The largest shelf in the game currently holds 8 stacks of items. If your growing pots are set to use all 3 additives (Fertilizer, PGR and Speed Grow), you will find that you need to restock these shelves frequently -- there's just not enough space!

To make matters worse: botanists become stuck when their supplies are missing any one type of additive assigned to any growing pot!



Until Tyler gives us a larger shelf, a better alternative is to just have more growing pots across multiple properties and drop 1 additive. I use only Fertilizer and PGR.

Assign each botanist their own supply shelf to make supplies last longer. Botanists don't work very fast, and when fully assigned 8 pots / racks, they take a while to complete their rounds.

Each property can only hire up to 10 employees. One property working on a 8-mixer coca automation will not have enough automated growing and drying output for coca to keep the mixing automation working all the time.

Manual support from players will help, but we ideally want to automate as much of it as possible.

With one property dedicated to growing plus drying, and another for mixing and a little growing plus drying, you'll be making several bricks per day fairly easily.

1. Produce base meth or coca at one property, and do all mixing in another
2. You can drop 1 additive during growing to make supplies last longer for botanists (see above)
3. Only buy or deliver additives (Fertilizer, PGR, Speed Grow) from hardware stores
4. Gasoline and Extra Long-Life Soil can be supplied by Oscar's Store instead of the hardware stores to free up delivery slots

Possible spoilers ahead: In the game files, there is a "manor" or "mansion" property mentioned which I think is the Hyland Manor beside the Barn. For this reason, I set up my grow farm at the Barn. (If... or when the manor is added, I'd then move my mixing operations to the manor so that they are close together.)

1. The game time stops at 4am, so you have plenty of time to move supplies
2. Zero pedestrians that will walk into your vehicle and accidentally trigger a police chase
3. No police road-blocks
4. Remember that you can park a Veeper in the loading parking spot of stores to buy items from the store into the Veeper's inventory directly

 

As you run around town, you should make street deals whenever you can.

Street deals let you see the % chance of success, and this lets us optimize the final offer down to the exact dollar.

To do so, you need to figure out the customer's maximum spend for that day:

1. Offer some product to be able to set a price
2. Increase the price using the buttons until the success rate changes from non-zero to zero (unfortunately, the success rate only re-calculates when you use the buttons)
3. The exact dollar before it changes to zero is that customer's maximum spend for that day

Once you've discovered the max daily spend, simply offer MORE product until the % chance of success is high enough to your liking.

Usually, customers of the same spending tier have similar max daily spends. (Annoyingly, there are some customers who are exceptions to this rule.)

There are currently 46 delivery locations in the game. Only a handful need special mentioning:

1. "Next to barbershop" and "South Overpass": Depending on the time of day, there is a police sentry or roadblock directly facing these locations. Crouch and place yourself behind the tree nearby to prevent the police from catching you.

2. "Behind the dealership", "Behind the western Gas Mart" and "Behind the auto shop": You can talk to the customer through the fence.

When giving product to dealers, bricks are better. The dealer will automatically "unpackage" the bricks into jars and baggies on their own.

By the way, fun fact: you can unpackage product in the Packaging Station by clicking on the "package" arrow in the UI. This will reverse the inputs and outputs -- you can get back your product and baggies this way.

Different customers have different spending amounts. You should assign Low Spenders to dealers, and take all Medium or higher Spenders as your own customers and deliver during Late Night (12am - 6am) for a 20% curfew bonus.

Remember: the game clock stops at 4am, so you never run out of time for Late Night deliveries.

Counteroffers (i.e. via text message) and street deals use slightly mechanisms for calculating success but they share many factors such as:

• Customer's adjusted weekly spend (affected by relationship)
• Customer's order days (affected by current addiction and relationship)
• Customer's average daily spend
• Customer's max daily spend (calculated as 3x average daily spend)
• Value proposition of customer's offer (affected by product market price, and your asking price per unit)
• Value proposition of player's offer (affected by product market price, and your asking price per unit)
• Product enjoyment (e.g. customer product affinity, product quality)
• Customer's current addiction
• Customer's relationship

All numbers below assume that you meet these requirements:

• 8 mixers by Shibka[schedule1-calculator.com] recipe (fair market value of $735)
• Max product quality (Heavenly / gold star)
• Max customer relationship
• Max customer addiction levels
• Product priced at $999

If you haven't met these requirements yet, or are getting rejections, you can lower your offer initially by a few hundred and then work your way up in small steps.

Recommended Counteroffer:

• If customer asking for 2x, offer 3x for $2600 (Baron) - $2900 (Kingpin)
• If customer asking for 1x, offer 2x for $2200 (Baron) - $2500 (Kingpin)

Recommended Street Offer: Same as counteroffer OR 4x for all their cash (except Lily and Ray)

• ~$2931 @ Baron V (??)
• ~$3085 @ Kingpin II (75%)
• ~$3171 @ Kingpin III (66%)

1. Fiona Hancock
2. Herbert Bleuball
3. Jen Heard
4. Lily Turner
5. Michael Boog
6. Pearl Moore
7. Ray Hoffman
8. Tobas Wentworth
9. Walter Cussler

Recommended Counteroffer: 2x for $1700 (Baron) - $1800 (Kingpin)
Recommended Street Offer: Same as counteroffer OR 3x for all their cash

• ~$1735 @ Baron ? (??)
• ~$1767 @ Baron V (??)
• ~$1851 @ Kingpin II (75%)

1. Alison Knight
2. Carl Bundy
3. Chris Sullivan
4. Dean Webster
5. Dennis Kennedy
6. George Greene
7. Geraldine Poon
8. Hank Stevenson
9. Harold Colt
10. Jack Knight
11. Jackie Stevenson
12. Jeremy Wilkinson
13. Jessi Waters
14. Karen Kennedy

Recommended Counteroffer: Always 2x for $1300 (Underlord) - $1500 (Kingpin)
Recommended Street Offer: Always 2x for all their cash

• ~$1473 @ Baron V (71%)
• ~$1542 @ Kingpin II (68%)
• ~$1585 @ Kingpin III (66%)

1. Anna Chesterfield (Docks)
2. Billy Kramer (Docks)
3. Cranky Frank (Docks)
4. Genghis Barn (Docks)
5. Javier Perez (Docks)
6. Jerry Montero (Westville)
7. Lisa Gardener (Docks)
8. Mac Cooper (Docks)
9. Marco Barone (Docks)
10. Melissa Wood (Docks)

Northtown:

1. Austin Steiner
2. Beth Penn
3. Chloe Bowers
4. Donna Martin
5. Kathy Henderson
6. Kyle Cooley
7. Ludwig Meyer (1x for $771 @ 68%)
8. Mick Lubbin
9. Mrs Ming (1x for $771 @ 68%)
10. Peggy Myers (1x for $1234 @ 33%)
11. Peter File
12. Sam Thompson (1x for $771 @ 68%)

Westville:

1. Charles Rowland
2. Doris Lubbin
3. Joyce Ball (1x for $723 @ 71%)
4. Keith Wagner
5. Kim Delaney
6. Meg Cooley
7. Trent Sherman (1x for $736 @ 71%)

Downtown:

1. Elizabeth Homley
2. Eugene Buckley (1x for $1234 @ 33%)
3. Greg Figgle (1x for $1157 @ 36%)
4. Jeff Gilmore
5. Jennifer Rivera
6. Kevin Oakley
7. Louis Fourier
8. Lucy Pennington (1x for $1234 @ 33%)
9. Philip Wentworth
10. Randy Caulfield

Docks:
None (all customers are Medium to High Spenders)

Suburbia:
None (all customers are Medium to High Spenders)

Uptown:
None (all customers are High Spenders)

Dealer Configuration 1 - Low Only

Dealer Configuration 2 - Low + Medium

Dealer Configuration 3 - Low, Medium and High

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