Production Guide
Production Guide
Manufacturing facilities transform raw resources into high-value intermediate components and advanced end-game products. Managing production cycles, machinery maintenance, and facility upgrades ensures maximum profitability.
1. Turn-Based Production Cycles
Production executes continuously on structured turn cycles:
- Input Consumption: On each turn cycle, active facilities consume required raw materials and energy directly from your warehouse stock.
- Output Generation: Finished units are deposited directly into your warehouse CBM storage.
- Byproduct Waste Stream: Heavy industrial manufacturing generates byproducts (Trash, Wastewater, Radioactive Waste) that require active Waste Certificates.
2. Facility Condition & Maintenance Repairs
Operating industrial machinery subjects equipment to wear and mechanical degradation:
- Tier 3 Activation: Equipment wear is completely disabled in Tier 0, 1, and 2. Degradation only begins once you reach Tier 3 (Multinational, €100M+ Net Assets).
- Gradual Wear Rate: Facilities degrade at 0.15% per hour (0.0025 points per minute) at 100% production speed, which equals roughly 3.6% per 24 hours. The minimum condition floor is 25%.
- Facility Condition Percentage: As facility condition drops, production output speed decreases proportionally. Keeping machines repaired ensures you produce at full speed.
- Manual Repairs: You can perform facility repairs at any time on your Production & Facilities page using cash and spare machinery parts.
- Chief Engineer Maintenance Discount: Hiring a Chief Engineer in your Corporate HQ performs preventive maintenance and equipment tuning, lowering fixed industrial maintenance costs by 5% per level (up to a 25% discount at Level 5).
- Maintenance Plan Boost: Activating a Maintenance Plan coin boost grants 100% immunity to wear and tear across all facilities.
3. Production Bottlenecks & The Self-Funding Safeguard
Manufacturing lines execute every turn cycle unless restricted by an operational bottleneck:
- Missing Inputs: If required raw materials or components run dry, facilities consuming them pause automatically.
- Full Warehouse: If your CBM inventory capacity is 100% full, factories cannot store new output and halt until stock is sold or storage expanded.
- Waste Storage Limits: Producing without adequate Waste Certificates for Trash, Wastewater, or Radioactive Waste pauses polluting units.
- Liquidity Deficit & The Self-Funding Exemption: When cash drops below your overdraft limit while burning money, production pauses to prevent runaway losses. However, if your company as a whole is cash-flow positive (total sales revenue exceeds operating costs), production continues running at full capacity because operations self-fund and pay down debt on every turn.