Post by Silicon Consolidated Products on Feb 12, 2020 7:31:30 GMT
Hi I am Silicon Consolidated Products Inc. and I'm here to attempt to make the definitive guide to all the Personal Assistant quests.
Obviously I messed up with some of my answers, so I'd appreciate it if anyone else could tell me what the optimal answer is, thanks in advance!
Outcomes in PURPLE are the best option to choose, those in BLUE are either to be confirmed since I'm sure I messed those up or not the best answer to go with.
1/26/21 Edit: Super Mega Bigly thanks to The Center for occasionally editing this guide to make it clearer since some people apparently can't find a quest they're looking for (even if it's in there) and then contact the wrong person about it lol.
Contributors: Fluffy Sheep Inc., Allen Industries Ltd., AG Forumer Inc., Marsh Industries, KMP LTD, Noobish Products, THE CENTER, Chengyil. Paragon Inc., Blackdiamond Inc., Villarinas Corporation, ChinatownPeddlers, MTL Electronics Inc., Williams Manufacturing PVT. LTD., Big Bang University, Kolmar BNH, Makuhe, Potato Enterprises, Stonka LLC, Baynock Inc., Otter Well Industries, Median Price, Crazy Place, remo1977, Sir Cheesy Cheese of Biscuits, Victim Co, Wolf LLC, basket, rogerinbrown, Alsadius Inc., Oas General Trading Co. W.L.L., tunacompanies, ZECO Mining n Manufacturing, Suoncorp, Bahaa STC, Arctic Corp., Orion Aerospace, Evans Corp., AlexFromDubbelCo, Knowledge is Power, QnA Corp., Nonstandard Oil, HDN Electronics. Co, Alzeyer
Link to the German [DE] Translated Version:
Quests der persönlichen Assistentin
EDIT: I am numbering the PA quests because of the amount of players that insist they are not in the guide. The numbering system is only for this guide; the actual quests are given in random order in the game. (The Center)
8/13/22 Edit: Quests which affect production/retail increase/decrease will not stack when done on the same production cycle, meaning you can't save up all the quests which increases/decreases production/retail by 5% then finish all those quests at once, well you can, but you'll only get the effect from the first quest you've finished. Thanks to DSFJ Energy for pointing this out!
4) Sir, my sister-in-law started working for the FPA. I thought you would be pleased we have someone on the inside.
Good to know, but I do not plan to control multiple accounts, it's against the rules.
5) Boss, a close relative of yours came by down on their luck and looking for a job.
Great! Make them a Manager and give them an office near mine. Some of your other employees felt injustice and did not work very hard.
I don't believe in nepotism. Have them submit a resume to HR like everyone else. Your employees applaud your sense of fairness.
6) There's a bum by the door offering to sell 3 brand new tablets for $100 each, it's very obvious he has stolen them. Do you want them?
Get the tablets and tell him to never to come back here again
You got 3 tablets
7) You have a visitor, he claims to be a refugee scientist offering to sell research he has stolen from his country. It's 20 units at $10 a piece. Boss, that's way below the value, you should buy it and sell it on the market right away.
Great idea, tell him we buy it
You got 20 [random] research
8) Boss, local farmers are sourcing more seeds for this season. They will pay $0.3 per unit
We cannot deal with seeds right now. (Buy from the exchange then sell to the farmers to make a profit)
9) A charity called, asking for $1,000 donation towards a hurricane relief in caribbean. What do you think?
You have donated $1000 to the charity. (No effect)
Em... maybe later, you see I already gave money to cancer something yesterday. (No effect, but you don't have to donate $1000)
10) There's a group of immigrant construction workers bad on their luck, claiming they will increase one level of one of your buildings for just food. Boss, let's get them 200 sausages, this is an amazing deal for us.
When can they start?
Your [random building] was upgraded to level [+1] (Read kolmarbnh's post in this thread for a more detailed analysis and explanation of this quest!)
11) Boss, your employees want to have a Christmas party, will you pay for it? It's gonna cost $500 or maybe $1,500.
Answer: Sure, they have been working hard whole year, spare no expense
The party cost you $2,000. It was a success: everybody was very drunk
Answer: Tell them to get back to work!
No penalty
12) Boss, the school in the block is preparing for easter, they need eggs.
We can send them 5,000 for $1.10 each.
Answer: depending on the market price and/or if you produce your own eggs this could be a great deal instead of the other answer.
Made $57^
Made $595^
Please donate 2,500 eggs. My kids go to that school
Boss, the kids were very happy with the eggs we gave them. As a thanks, they gave us their nicest decorated egg. (You get a q7 egg. EDIT: December 9, 2021. This is NOT a Collectible)
13) A man who is believed to be the local mafia boss is asking for our help with transporting "stuff" out of the country. He stressed that it's all "perfectly legal". This will cost us 2,000 transportation units and he promissed to pay us $4,500.
For that kind of money, I will drive the truck myself
Your truck did not get caught but mafia paid you just $1,700 (No idea if there's a better outcome)
14) Boss, for the yearly fair they are looking for fruits and sausages. Are we able to supply them?
Yes, send 2,500 apples @$2.20 a unit (you should supply them with sausages as long as you profit from the transaction)
15) There's a politician on the phone: "I will make a lot of people happy, it's gonna be huge. I just need your money to make billions and billions of dollars for this country."
Answer: I support honest people, my personal assistant will write you a cheque for $1,000
You have donated $1,000 to the politician party.
Answer: Are you for real? (Hang up)
No penalty
16) You have a visitor, he looks like the wall street type, he said: "I have a once in a lifetime investment opportunity for you. I deal in new equity derivative instrument, it's very similar to a call option on a basket of ETFs, but has fluctuating strike price dependent on settlement price of unrelated commodity futures."
Well .. what? Em.. that's sounds like a great idea. I am in! Here's $2,000
The investment plummeted but then it picked up again. You made $2,080. The investment guy made a fortune.
Wait, what? I am not interested.
17) Boss, business is going good. The sales department wants to celebrate. Maybe we could organize something for them?
Answer: Yes, budget $3,000 for a party.
Sales department was happy with the party. I am sure new good orders will come in soon.
Answer: No time for parties at this moment, we should all focus on the business.
No penalty
18) Boss, SimConstruction called to ask for a favor. They urgently need 2000 bricks to avoid breaking a contract and paying a penalty. They will pay, of course.
Sure, I can help out, send the bricks.
Boss, SimConstruction is grateful for our help. In appreciation, they will send construction workers to help us during our next renovation. Our next upgrade will complete in half the time!
19) Boss, there will be an event in our city, my brother-in-law is one of the organizers. They could really use a sponsor donation of $5,000.
Your family is my family, of course, maybe we can even get good advertisement out of it
The event was a success, the positive exposure got you +1% production/sales speed bonus
NOTE: If, for some reason, you didn't give the $5000 needed for this quest to get the 1% production/sales speed bonus, you will get another chance with another PA quest once you reach level 23, only this time it will cost $150,000.
"You get another chance at level 23, don't screw it up though, it costs $150k at level 23" - The Center
20) Sir, an employee found this envelope full of cash. It's $2,300.
Please take the money to the police, otherwise it's technically a "theft by finding".
The police was not able to find the owner. As the envelope was found on the company property, you get to keep it. (Keeping the money will give you $2300 as well, there's no penalty)
21) I just heard, our workers are voting to form a Union. I'm not sure if we want to do anything.
If they want to Unionize I'm OK with that, we'll stay out of it and negotiate with them fairly.
There's a union now, this resulted in an increase in salaries and one time fee of $4,000. Workers are happy. (You will only lose 4000 total, the "increase in salaries" part is just flavor text)
Promoting the employee would also cost you $4000, same thing.
8th of January - union PA quest updated
Third Option:
5% decrease in current production and retail speeds.
Trying to prevent the union from forming will stop the construction, upgrade or production of a random building, you lose the materials as well, you've been warned!
Another possibility is to stop all map activity then choose "This is ridiculous, I will not tolerate unions in my company!", the outcome will be "there is a union now" but with no negative effect, and you won't have to pay out $4000.
22) Hi sir, your son is here. He wants to buy a brand new eye-phone which costs almost $1,600 what would you like to do?
Of course, only the best for my family. I am sure he needs it. Success. Your son has a new expensive toy. Let's see if it lasts more than a month until he drops it.
(Choosing to either give him a cheaper phone or not giving him a phone is the better choice, there's no downside)
23) Boss, our transport company is asking if we can help with a new truck? They can pay just $5,000.
Ok, I think we can do that. Send them 1 truck.
Sir, the transport company threw in 20,000 transporation units extra as a big thank you.
24) We are facing a patent lawsuit and have received an offer to settle for $10,000.
I won't settle. It's a frivolous lawsuit. Let's fight it no matter what it costs!
You won, but it costs $25,000 in legal fees! Fortunately, other companies formed a fund to help end ridiculous patent suits so you come out even!
25) Hey boss, there's a salesman from a mobile network company. They are offering us a business package which includes a very low rate and 6 Smartphones for $2,000.
Yes, sounds great, accept it.
You got 6 phones
26) Sir, I need the 100 steaks for the company barbecue. You remember right?
Sure, take steaks from our warehouse!
Everyone had a great time at the barbecue (Random building instantly finishes what it was doing; production or selling)
Note from SimTimes issue #49: "The Steak Quest will automatically pick on a building tocomplete construction or complete whatever it is producing/retailing." EDIT: Strikethrough is on complete construction because this is no longer true. (June 21, 2021)
27) Boss, sales department sees opportunities in selling at the millionaires fair this week. What do you think?
Great idea! send them with 10 watches and 10 necklaces
They sold it for $40,000!
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NEW PA QUESTS (Released 2/18/20)
If you haven't gotten the new quests yet, here's Patrik's explanation:
I'm too busy being innovative. Can you go in my place?
I gave a brilliant talk and got many more invitations. I am now a regular on the lecture circuit.” (no effect)
This is an extreme honor. Help me prepare a stunning presentation.
Sir, you have delivered an excellent talk and it already created great interest for our firm. We have got business leads worth $50000.
33) I heard that the workers want us to establish a gaming room they can use to decompress during breaks and before and after shifts. This would have board games, video games, and even tables set up for role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.
Games give me a headache. We make things, we sell things. There's no gaming in business!
2$ for over 60s year-old and 4$ for everyone else.
A local newspaper noticed the discount and made a free advertisement. The cinema was full. 50% of people paid $4, everyone else was over 60 and paid 2$. Your total earnings are: $3,000, you get $1,500.
I know nothing about cinemas, sorry.
NEWERER QUESTS (ADDED 08/11/20)
42) You are at a work party, your colleague made a $1,000 bet you won't be able to answer a tricky question. Imagine we find a water supplier that offers the water cheaper than we currently have by 10 cents. If we buy all our water from them, the sausages we will get (assuming we produce everything else by ourselves and all other factors being equal) will be:
Easy, 80 cents cheaper!
Easy, 42 cents cheaper!
Your colleague is very surprised, your answer is correct, so you get $1,000 and lots of respect from everyone around you.
Easy, 10 cents cheaper!
Sorry, I'd rather enjoy the party
(No response)
Notice: Changed due to Food Expansion update (Oct 2021)
You are at a work party, your colleague made a $1,000 bet you won't be able to answer a tricky question. Imagine we find a water supplier that offers the water cheaper than we currently have by 10 cents. If we buy all our water from them, the grapes we will get (assuming we produce everything else by ourselves and all other factors being equal) will be:
Easy, 50 cents cheaper!
Easy, 41 cents cheaper!
Your colleague is very surprised, your answer is correct, so you get $1,000 and lots of respect from everyone around you.
Easy, 40 cents cheaper!
43) Hooray! We have finally closed a deal on a perfect new office space. Most of the area is open-space, but there are a few offices to be distributed. As usual, there is more people wanting an office than there are offices. Also some offices are larger, and some have windows with nice views. Boss, how should we decide who gets which office?
Make an optional sealed-bid auction and donate the money to charity.
The highest bid was $250, the second one was only $50. The winner was the only one to complain. Everyone else is happy and thinks that the distribution was fair.
Based on seniority and roll the dice when there are too many people.
Many people are happy, but many are disappointed as well.
Based on seniority and at my discretion.
Everyone who did not get the office they wanted, so almost everyone, feels unappreciated by you and many even feel you do not like them. As a result they hate working here, current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%
44) Sir, one of your top managers complains that his salary is insufficient to cover his family's basic needs, but we already compensate him very well. It's the one who smokes all the time: $5 pack a day. He also coughs a lot... He's here to chat with you.
Smoking is bad for your health. You should give up smoking. This will also save you money.
Your manager laughed and asked you "You think I don’t know that?!". I am pretty sure he's going to ignore your advice
You can save $1,825 each year. Would that help?
He seemed interested, right until you told him that he should give up smoking. He claims that it's the only pleasure in his life left. He doesn't want to give it up.
Would you like to have an equivalent of $36,500 in the bank generating you 5% interest?
He was very interested. He was also disappointed at first, when you said he has to give up smoking, but he considered it for the next few days, and gave up smoking. He's very grateful for your advice and gave you a new quadcopter as a gift.
Fire her! Dammit, these people ...
Sir, the replacement hire required some training which cost us additional $5,000, but what's even worse is that everyone is now afraid to make mistakes and works slowly, current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%
Obviously I messed up with some of my answers, so I'd appreciate it if anyone else could tell me what the optimal answer is, thanks in advance!
Outcomes in PURPLE are the best option to choose, those in BLUE are either to be confirmed since I'm sure I messed those up or not the best answer to go with.
1/26/21 Edit: Super Mega Bigly thanks to The Center for occasionally editing this guide to make it clearer since some people apparently can't find a quest they're looking for (even if it's in there) and then contact the wrong person about it lol.
Contributors: Fluffy Sheep Inc., Allen Industries Ltd., AG Forumer Inc., Marsh Industries, KMP LTD, Noobish Products, THE CENTER, Chengyil. Paragon Inc., Blackdiamond Inc., Villarinas Corporation, ChinatownPeddlers, MTL Electronics Inc., Williams Manufacturing PVT. LTD., Big Bang University, Kolmar BNH, Makuhe, Potato Enterprises, Stonka LLC, Baynock Inc., Otter Well Industries, Median Price, Crazy Place, remo1977, Sir Cheesy Cheese of Biscuits, Victim Co, Wolf LLC, basket, rogerinbrown, Alsadius Inc., Oas General Trading Co. W.L.L., tunacompanies, ZECO Mining n Manufacturing, Suoncorp, Bahaa STC, Arctic Corp., Orion Aerospace, Evans Corp., AlexFromDubbelCo, Knowledge is Power, QnA Corp., Nonstandard Oil, HDN Electronics. Co, Alzeyer
Link to the German [DE] Translated Version:
Quests der persönlichen Assistentin
EDIT: I am numbering the PA quests because of the amount of players that insist they are not in the guide. The numbering system is only for this guide; the actual quests are given in random order in the game. (The Center)
8/13/22 Edit: Quests which affect production/retail increase/decrease will not stack when done on the same production cycle, meaning you can't save up all the quests which increases/decreases production/retail by 5% then finish all those quests at once, well you can, but you'll only get the effect from the first quest you've finished. Thanks to DSFJ Energy for pointing this out!
1) Sir, the local general contractor introduced himself and is offering 3 Construction units for free, no strings attached.
That's perfect, that would cover half of the plantation build up or upgrade cost
You got 3 construction units
2) There's a trader by the door wanting to sell 4,000 units of water for $0.13 a unit, do you want it? Boss, even if we can't use it, we can sell it on the market for a lot more.
Of course, please write him a check
You got 4,000 units of water
3) There's a vineyard owner short on his harvest this year, offering to pay $3,000 for 200 units of grapes. It looks like he needs them badly.
It's his lucky day! Get the grapes from warehouse
You sold 200 grapes
That's perfect, that would cover half of the plantation build up or upgrade cost
You got 3 construction units
2) There's a trader by the door wanting to sell 4,000 units of water for $0.13 a unit, do you want it? Boss, even if we can't use it, we can sell it on the market for a lot more.
Of course, please write him a check
You got 4,000 units of water
3) There's a vineyard owner short on his harvest this year, offering to pay $3,000 for 200 units of grapes. It looks like he needs them badly.
It's his lucky day! Get the grapes from warehouse
You sold 200 grapes
4) Sir, my sister-in-law started working for the FPA. I thought you would be pleased we have someone on the inside.
Good to know, but I do not plan to control multiple accounts, it's against the rules.
5) Boss, a close relative of yours came by down on their luck and looking for a job.
Great! Make them a Manager and give them an office near mine. Some of your other employees felt injustice and did not work very hard.
Offer them a position in the mail room so they can prove themselves. Your relative appreciates the chance and works hard.
I don't believe in nepotism. Have them submit a resume to HR like everyone else. Your employees applaud your sense of fairness.
6) There's a bum by the door offering to sell 3 brand new tablets for $100 each, it's very obvious he has stolen them. Do you want them?
Get the tablets and tell him to never to come back here again
You got 3 tablets
7) You have a visitor, he claims to be a refugee scientist offering to sell research he has stolen from his country. It's 20 units at $10 a piece. Boss, that's way below the value, you should buy it and sell it on the market right away.
Great idea, tell him we buy it
You got 20 [random] research
8) Boss, local farmers are sourcing more seeds for this season. They will pay $0.3 per unit
We cannot deal with seeds right now. (Buy from the exchange then sell to the farmers to make a profit)
9) A charity called, asking for $1,000 donation towards a hurricane relief in caribbean. What do you think?
You have donated $1000 to the charity. (No effect)
Em... maybe later, you see I already gave money to cancer something yesterday. (No effect, but you don't have to donate $1000)
10) There's a group of immigrant construction workers bad on their luck, claiming they will increase one level of one of your buildings for just food. Boss, let's get them 200 sausages, this is an amazing deal for us.
When can they start?
Your [random building] was upgraded to level [+1] (Read kolmarbnh's post in this thread for a more detailed analysis and explanation of this quest!)
11) Boss, your employees want to have a Christmas party, will you pay for it? It's gonna cost $500 or maybe $1,500.
Answer: Sure, they have been working hard whole year, spare no expense
The party cost you $2,000. It was a success: everybody was very drunk
Answer: Tell them to get back to work!
No penalty
12) Boss, the school in the block is preparing for easter, they need eggs.
We can send them 5,000 for $1.10 each.
Answer: depending on the market price and/or if you produce your own eggs this could be a great deal instead of the other answer.
Made $57^
Made $595^
Please donate 2,500 eggs. My kids go to that school
Boss, the kids were very happy with the eggs we gave them. As a thanks, they gave us their nicest decorated egg. (You get a q7 egg. EDIT: December 9, 2021. This is NOT a Collectible)
13) A man who is believed to be the local mafia boss is asking for our help with transporting "stuff" out of the country. He stressed that it's all "perfectly legal". This will cost us 2,000 transportation units and he promissed to pay us $4,500.
For that kind of money, I will drive the truck myself
Your truck did not get caught but mafia paid you just $1,700 (No idea if there's a better outcome)
14) Boss, for the yearly fair they are looking for fruits and sausages. Are we able to supply them?
Yes, send 2,500 apples @$2.20 a unit (you should supply them with sausages as long as you profit from the transaction)
15) There's a politician on the phone: "I will make a lot of people happy, it's gonna be huge. I just need your money to make billions and billions of dollars for this country."
Answer: I support honest people, my personal assistant will write you a cheque for $1,000
You have donated $1,000 to the politician party.
Answer: Are you for real? (Hang up)
No penalty
16) You have a visitor, he looks like the wall street type, he said: "I have a once in a lifetime investment opportunity for you. I deal in new equity derivative instrument, it's very similar to a call option on a basket of ETFs, but has fluctuating strike price dependent on settlement price of unrelated commodity futures."
Well .. what? Em.. that's sounds like a great idea. I am in! Here's $2,000
The investment plummeted but then it picked up again. You made $2,080. The investment guy made a fortune.
Wait, what? I am not interested.
(No effect)
17) Boss, business is going good. The sales department wants to celebrate. Maybe we could organize something for them?
Answer: Yes, budget $3,000 for a party.
Sales department was happy with the party. I am sure new good orders will come in soon.
Answer: No time for parties at this moment, we should all focus on the business.
No penalty
18) Boss, SimConstruction called to ask for a favor. They urgently need 2000 bricks to avoid breaking a contract and paying a penalty. They will pay, of course.
Sure, I can help out, send the bricks.
Boss, SimConstruction is grateful for our help. In appreciation, they will send construction workers to help us during our next renovation. Our next upgrade will complete in half the time!
19) Boss, there will be an event in our city, my brother-in-law is one of the organizers. They could really use a sponsor donation of $5,000.
Your family is my family, of course, maybe we can even get good advertisement out of it
The event was a success, the positive exposure got you +1% production/sales speed bonus
NOTE: If, for some reason, you didn't give the $5000 needed for this quest to get the 1% production/sales speed bonus, you will get another chance with another PA quest once you reach level 23, only this time it will cost $150,000.
"You get another chance at level 23, don't screw it up though, it costs $150k at level 23" - The Center
20) Sir, an employee found this envelope full of cash. It's $2,300.
Please take the money to the police, otherwise it's technically a "theft by finding".
The police was not able to find the owner. As the envelope was found on the company property, you get to keep it. (Keeping the money will give you $2300 as well, there's no penalty)
21) I just heard, our workers are voting to form a Union. I'm not sure if we want to do anything.
If they want to Unionize I'm OK with that, we'll stay out of it and negotiate with them fairly.
There's a union now, this resulted in an increase in salaries and one time fee of $4,000. Workers are happy. (You will only lose 4000 total, the "increase in salaries" part is just flavor text)
Promoting the employee would also cost you $4000, same thing.
8th of January - union PA quest updated
Third Option:
5% decrease in current production and retail speeds.
Another possibility is to stop all map activity then choose "This is ridiculous, I will not tolerate unions in my company!", the outcome will be "there is a union now" but with no negative effect, and you won't have to pay out $4000.
22) Hi sir, your son is here. He wants to buy a brand new eye-phone which costs almost $1,600 what would you like to do?
Of course, only the best for my family. I am sure he needs it. Success. Your son has a new expensive toy. Let's see if it lasts more than a month until he drops it.
(Choosing to either give him a cheaper phone or not giving him a phone is the better choice, there's no downside)
23) Boss, our transport company is asking if we can help with a new truck? They can pay just $5,000.
Ok, I think we can do that. Send them 1 truck.
Sir, the transport company threw in 20,000 transporation units extra as a big thank you.
24) We are facing a patent lawsuit and have received an offer to settle for $10,000.
I won't settle. It's a frivolous lawsuit. Let's fight it no matter what it costs!
You won, but it costs $25,000 in legal fees! Fortunately, other companies formed a fund to help end ridiculous patent suits so you come out even!
25) Hey boss, there's a salesman from a mobile network company. They are offering us a business package which includes a very low rate and 6 Smartphones for $2,000.
Yes, sounds great, accept it.
You got 6 phones
26) Sir, I need the 100 steaks for the company barbecue. You remember right?
Sure, take steaks from our warehouse!
Everyone had a great time at the barbecue (Random building instantly finishes what it was doing; production or selling)
Note from SimTimes issue #49: "The Steak Quest will automatically pick on a building to
27) Boss, sales department sees opportunities in selling at the millionaires fair this week. What do you think?
Great idea! send them with 10 watches and 10 necklaces
They sold it for $40,000!
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NEW PA QUESTS (Released 2/18/20)
Few conditions need to match
as you said, you need to have answered the previous one
there also need to be some time lapsed since you answered it
and lastly, some PA quests have extra conditions
Like I if you stand to lose $$$ it is only served if you have the cash
Or if the quests is about executives, your company needs to employ executives
as you said, you need to have answered the previous one
there also need to be some time lapsed since you answered it
and lastly, some PA quests have extra conditions
Like I if you stand to lose $$$ it is only served if you have the cash
Or if the quests is about executives, your company needs to employ executives
28) Boss, the workers are asking for a "Bring Your Pet To Work Day" but the facilities people are concerned about the mess and it might reduce production that day.
I love animals. Let's give the workers a day to share their pets, but no reptiles.
Sir, the workers had an amazing day. But the clean up took longer than expected and production was impacted. I also found a "special delivery" under your desk this morning - It is already cleaned up. (current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%)
Sir, the workers had an amazing day. But the clean up took longer than expected and production was impacted. I also found a "special delivery" under your desk this morning - It is already cleaned up. (current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%)
Let's allow it, but all pets will be kept in one central area and we'll give them extra breaks to visit them.
Everyone enjoys visiting the "Pet Office". The workers appreciate you allowing this and work harder to make up time.
No way. Pets don't belong here.
Boss, the morale is impacted. Several employees call in sick citing "pet care" issues. (current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%)
29) I just learned that the company we pay to haul off our trash is having a strike and won't be around for awhile. Their competitors are trying to gouge us to take on the work temporarily demanding an extra $5,000. (Player must have at least 2 executives employed for this quest to appear)
Let's ride it out and let the trash pile up. It'll serve them right to have to do all that extra work when they are done striking.
Sir, the trash situation got so bad I was forced to call for help. We were charged $10,000
Boss, the morale is impacted. Several employees call in sick citing "pet care" issues. (current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%)
29) I just learned that the company we pay to haul off our trash is having a strike and won't be around for awhile. Their competitors are trying to gouge us to take on the work temporarily demanding an extra $5,000. (Player must have at least 2 executives employed for this quest to appear)
Let's ride it out and let the trash pile up. It'll serve them right to have to do all that extra work when they are done striking.
Sir, the trash situation got so bad I was forced to call for help. We were charged $10,000
Just pay the other company to keep things clean.
Done! We have covered the period of strike (Pay 5k to get rid of the quest)
Done! We have covered the period of strike (Pay 5k to get rid of the quest)
This is ridiculous - the other Executives and I will handle the trash personally! Be sure they know about this and are shamed into going back to work.
Sir, it was sort of fun for the first day, but then it got really difficult. We were all so distracted we missed out on an important deal. We lost $25,000.
30) The employees at our oldest work site are claiming it is haunted and refuse to work night shifts. Also a reality show "Spectral Binge" wants to spend a couple of days filming an episode at the plant. They will pay us $15,000
Never say no to television! Let the workers skip the night shifts and give it to the film crew.
Sir, it was sort of fun for the first day, but then it got really difficult. We were all so distracted we missed out on an important deal. We lost $25,000.
30) The employees at our oldest work site are claiming it is haunted and refuse to work night shifts. Also a reality show "Spectral Binge" wants to spend a couple of days filming an episode at the plant. They will pay us $15,000
Never say no to television! Let the workers skip the night shifts and give it to the film crew.
The plant output suffered, but we still ended up being $5,000 NET positive.
Ghosts? No way - get the place fixed up and add new lighting and I'm sure the "spookiness" will go away.
Boss, you were totally right. Once we modernized the place the rumors of spirits were put to rest. The renovations cost us $15,000.
Let them do the show and make sure our employees are in it promoting the company. Let's also make sure the place is "extra spooky" if you know what I mean...
Sir, the show's stars defrauded our company's attempt to create fake ghosts while being self-promoting. The show got their most watched episode ever and we didn't even get paid because of the breach of contract dispute.
31) Boss, our policy against workplace romance is becoming a problem as more and more company couples are springing up. What should we do?
Sir, the show's stars defrauded our company's attempt to create fake ghosts while being self-promoting. The show got their most watched episode ever and we didn't even get paid because of the breach of contract dispute.
31) Boss, our policy against workplace romance is becoming a problem as more and more company couples are springing up. What should we do?
Is there something in the water? I guess we have no choice but to ease up on the policy.
Boss, you are getting invited to a few "company" marriages (nothing happens)
Boss, you are getting invited to a few "company" marriages (nothing happens)
Let's take a scientific approach. Hire a dating company to rate the compatibility of all the employees and then reorganize so that only non-compatible people work together.
Boos, looks like after paying $5,000 for or all that work it did not improve the situation at all!
The policy is there for a reason! Make sure they know that any kissing on the premises will be a goodbye kiss!
Boos, there is a lot of tension in the workforce now production was impacted. (current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%)
32) I have received this letter today and you have been invited to give a TED talk on the rapid success of your company and innovative management style!
Who's Ted, and why would I want to talk to him?
32) I have received this letter today and you have been invited to give a TED talk on the rapid success of your company and innovative management style!
Who's Ted, and why would I want to talk to him?
(Nothing happens)
I'm too busy being innovative. Can you go in my place?
I gave a brilliant talk and got many more invitations. I am now a regular on the lecture circuit.” (no effect)
This is an extreme honor. Help me prepare a stunning presentation.
Sir, you have delivered an excellent talk and it already created great interest for our firm. We have got business leads worth $50000.
33) I heard that the workers want us to establish a gaming room they can use to decompress during breaks and before and after shifts. This would have board games, video games, and even tables set up for role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.
Games give me a headache. We make things, we sell things. There's no gaming in business!
Boss, I noticed whenever you pass a break room workers are sweeping things off the table and hiding them behind their backs. Morale suffered. (current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue decreased by 2.5%)
Gaming on breaks is fine but we won't subsidize it.
I can hear rowdy games during breaks (nothing happens)
Great idea! Let's spend $20,000 on this and make sure there are devices running SimCompanies!
Boss, the new gaming area is a hit and production is up! (current production yield increased by 5.0%, current retail revenue increased by 2.5%)
34) A tax auditor is here and wants to go through the books to make sure we are paying our fair share.
Oh no! Well let's delay them as much as possible and make sure we only show them stuff we've already audited ourselves.
Sir, the auditor was not happy, but he found everything perfectly balanced since we made sure of it. (no effect)
Give them full and open cooperation. Let's hope they don't find anything too costly.
The auditor discovered that we overpaid the corporate taxes and we are owed $50,000!
Boss, the new gaming area is a hit and production is up! (current production yield increased by 5.0%, current retail revenue increased by 2.5%)
34) A tax auditor is here and wants to go through the books to make sure we are paying our fair share.
Oh no! Well let's delay them as much as possible and make sure we only show them stuff we've already audited ourselves.
Sir, the auditor was not happy, but he found everything perfectly balanced since we made sure of it. (no effect)
Give them full and open cooperation. Let's hope they don't find anything too costly.
The auditor discovered that we overpaid the corporate taxes and we are owed $50,000!
35) It appears there is a sort of "civil war" breaking out in the management team. About half of them want to apply Six Sigma principles to improve our processes and the other half all want to go with Agile techniques. It's getting really heated. What do we do?
Striving for perfection is good. Let's use Six Sigma.
We are now a Six Sigma certified company and with improved overall accuracy. As a result we landed few extra contracts worth $20,000
I like the idea of daily Scrum meetings. Let's go with Agile.
We are now an Agile company and launch into new projects is much quicker than ever before. Beating our competitors to new markets made us $20,000.
So war you say? Set up a massive paintball tournament and let them fight it out.
Sir, sorry, I forgot which side won, but we profited $20,000 by implementing the process changes they suggested.
36) Hey boss, a representative of the military is here and they are offering a special "boot camp" for corporate executives. It costs $50,000, but is supposed to dramatically improve their ethics, attitude, and ability.
We are now a Six Sigma certified company and with improved overall accuracy. As a result we landed few extra contracts worth $20,000
I like the idea of daily Scrum meetings. Let's go with Agile.
We are now an Agile company and launch into new projects is much quicker than ever before. Beating our competitors to new markets made us $20,000.
So war you say? Set up a massive paintball tournament and let them fight it out.
Sir, sorry, I forgot which side won, but we profited $20,000 by implementing the process changes they suggested.
36) Hey boss, a representative of the military is here and they are offering a special "boot camp" for corporate executives. It costs $50,000, but is supposed to dramatically improve their ethics, attitude, and ability.
Awesome! Military training tends to be the best in the world. Sign them up!
Sir, the staff had a rough time at boot camp but came back better for it. (+1 to all skills of all executives)
Sir, the staff had a rough time at boot camp but came back better for it. (+1 to all skills of all executives)
It's a good idea but we can't afford it. Let's have our own boot camp.
Sir, the event did not go very well. One executive sprained his ankle. (no effect)
Sir, the event did not go very well. One executive sprained his ankle. (no effect)
No way, there's no relationship between ethics, attitude, and ability in business!
NEWER PA QUESTS (Released 6/22/20)
37) Your business partner wants to upgrade her grocery store, and it will cost her $11,000. She doesn't have this kind of money, so she's considering borrowing it from her family with no interest. She estimates that she will earn 30 cents more on each purchase, and she has 100 purchases per hour and her store is open 24/7. She's asking you for advice on how long it will take her to pay off her loan.
Less than 3 weeks, I am sure.
Your partner borrowed money and was able to repay the loan in 16 days. She was so happy that she gave you half the extra profit from the remaining 5 days of the 3 weeks period as a thank you. You earned $1,800.
Less than 2 months, I am sure.
Your partner tried to borrow money from her family, but they could only give her money for 3 weeks. She ended up not investing in her business. Later she has calculated that it would actually have taken about 16 days to repay her loan. Obviously, she's very disappointed with your advice.
Less than 4 months, I am sure.
Your partner tried to borrow money from her family, but they could only give her money for 3 weeks. She ended up not investing in her business. Later she has calculated that it would actually have taken about 16 days to repay her loan. Obviously, she's very disappointed with your advice.
38) A street magician walked in the office and offered you a gamble. You flip your coin 2 times. If it lands on tail all 2 times, you give him $500, otherwise you receive 100$. Will you accept the gamble?
Yes, I am pretty good at flipping coins. Watch me!
Less than 3 weeks, I am sure.
Your partner borrowed money and was able to repay the loan in 16 days. She was so happy that she gave you half the extra profit from the remaining 5 days of the 3 weeks period as a thank you. You earned $1,800.
Less than 2 months, I am sure.
Your partner tried to borrow money from her family, but they could only give her money for 3 weeks. She ended up not investing in her business. Later she has calculated that it would actually have taken about 16 days to repay her loan. Obviously, she's very disappointed with your advice.
Less than 4 months, I am sure.
Your partner tried to borrow money from her family, but they could only give her money for 3 weeks. She ended up not investing in her business. Later she has calculated that it would actually have taken about 16 days to repay her loan. Obviously, she's very disappointed with your advice.
38) A street magician walked in the office and offered you a gamble. You flip your coin 2 times. If it lands on tail all 2 times, you give him $500, otherwise you receive 100$. Will you accept the gamble?
Yes, I am pretty good at flipping coins. Watch me!
You won $100 on the first try, but then decided to play more and more. After 4 games, you have won 3 times $100 and lost $500. In total you lost $200.
Nope, those odds are not fair
The magician said you have a talent for business and produced a luxury watch out of nowhere. You got to keep it. (q5 Luxury Watch)
I am busy, send him away.
(No response)
(No response)
39) A friend of yours just called. He offers you to set up the pricing model for his cinema for one evening in exchange for 50% of profits. He has 1000 sits, which price should he set up:
1$ each seat to make sure the cinema is full.
(You lose $700)
4$ even if it means we only sell out 60% of the capacity.
(You get $1200)
2$ for over 60s year-old and 4$ for everyone else.
A local newspaper noticed the discount and made a free advertisement. The cinema was full. 50% of people paid $4, everyone else was over 60 and paid 2$. Your total earnings are: $3,000, you get $1,500.
I know nothing about cinemas, sorry.
(No response)
40) One of your workers with a salary of $300/hour got into an accident and isn't able to work for the next 6 hours. We won't be able to find a replacement that soon, so we'll just have to wait for him to get back. But there is a drug that can make them recover in just 1 hour, it would cost you $900. The worker can't afford it and asks for your help.
That's not my problem, we are not a hospital. Let him deal with it himself.
Your worker wasn't able to work for 6 hours, so you lost $1,800.
Sure, let's cover his treatment cost.
The worker recovered in 1 hour, you lost $300 in his wages and $900 was paid for the drug. The worker was very happy for how you treated him.
41) A journalist from a local newspaper called and asked your opinion as an expert businessman. The government wants to launch a big infrastructure project (building a very expensive and beautiful bridge). The journalist is curious if that should be classified as a fiscal or monetary policy. What should we tell her?
40) One of your workers with a salary of $300/hour got into an accident and isn't able to work for the next 6 hours. We won't be able to find a replacement that soon, so we'll just have to wait for him to get back. But there is a drug that can make them recover in just 1 hour, it would cost you $900. The worker can't afford it and asks for your help.
That's not my problem, we are not a hospital. Let him deal with it himself.
Your worker wasn't able to work for 6 hours, so you lost $1,800.
Sure, let's cover his treatment cost.
The worker recovered in 1 hour, you lost $300 in his wages and $900 was paid for the drug. The worker was very happy for how you treated him.
41) A journalist from a local newspaper called and asked your opinion as an expert businessman. The government wants to launch a big infrastructure project (building a very expensive and beautiful bridge). The journalist is curious if that should be classified as a fiscal or monetary policy. What should we tell her?
Monetary policy, obviously.
The journalist has published an article, but later was fired. The use of government spending is a fiscal policy, not a monetary one. She's written a blog post blaming you for giving her the wrong information. That post went viral and our business has lost $2,000 in sales.
Fiscal policy, obviously.
The journalist was very happy with your help, she mentioned your company in the newspaper which boosted sales. You earned $2,000 as a result.
I can't see the difference.
(No response)
(No response)
NEWERER QUESTS (ADDED 08/11/20)
Easy, 42 cents cheaper!
Your colleague is very surprised, your answer is correct, so you get $1,000 and lots of respect from everyone around you.
Easy, 10 cents cheaper!
Sorry, I'd rather enjoy the party
(No response)
Notice: Changed due to Food Expansion update (Oct 2021)
You are at a work party, your colleague made a $1,000 bet you won't be able to answer a tricky question. Imagine we find a water supplier that offers the water cheaper than we currently have by 10 cents. If we buy all our water from them, the grapes we will get (assuming we produce everything else by ourselves and all other factors being equal) will be:
Easy, 50 cents cheaper!
Easy, 41 cents cheaper!
Your colleague is very surprised, your answer is correct, so you get $1,000 and lots of respect from everyone around you.
Easy, 40 cents cheaper!
Make an optional sealed-bid auction and donate the money to charity.
The highest bid was $250, the second one was only $50. The winner was the only one to complain. Everyone else is happy and thinks that the distribution was fair.
Based on seniority and roll the dice when there are too many people.
Many people are happy, but many are disappointed as well.
Based on seniority and at my discretion.
Everyone who did not get the office they wanted, so almost everyone, feels unappreciated by you and many even feel you do not like them. As a result they hate working here, current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%
Smoking is bad for your health. You should give up smoking. This will also save you money.
Your manager laughed and asked you "You think I don’t know that?!". I am pretty sure he's going to ignore your advice
You can save $1,825 each year. Would that help?
He seemed interested, right until you told him that he should give up smoking. He claims that it's the only pleasure in his life left. He doesn't want to give it up.
Would you like to have an equivalent of $36,500 in the bank generating you 5% interest?
He was very interested. He was also disappointed at first, when you said he has to give up smoking, but he considered it for the next few days, and gave up smoking. He's very grateful for your advice and gave you a new quadcopter as a gift.
45) A worker in one of your facilities made a mistake that has cost us $30,000. Boss, what should we do?
Sir, the replacement hire required some training which cost us additional $5,000, but what's even worse is that everyone is now afraid to make mistakes and works slowly, current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%
Deduct that from her salary, that'll teach her.
Sir, everyone is now afraid to make mistakes and works slowly, current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%. **READ BELOW**
Sir, everyone is now afraid to make mistakes and works slowly, current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%. **READ BELOW**
Call her in, I will chat with her.
After talking to her, she have expressed how sorry she was, and suggested several improvements in the business process to avoid similar mistakes in the future. This story has spread, people are happy to work at your company and became more proactive about improving existing business processes. You lost $30,000, but we have 5% increase of the current production and 2.5% increase in retail.
A note for this quest from AlexFromDubbelCo:
After talking to her, she have expressed how sorry she was, and suggested several improvements in the business process to avoid similar mistakes in the future. This story has spread, people are happy to work at your company and became more proactive about improving existing business processes. You lost $30,000, but we have 5% increase of the current production and 2.5% increase in retail.
A note for this quest from AlexFromDubbelCo:
You made the last option purple, however if your production had a low value option 2 is preferred
With a lvl1 farms you produce oranges of a total sell value of $ 280 an hour. With 10 lvl 2 plants that is 280 x 20 x 48= 269.000.
Option 2 cost us: 5% of sell value. $ 13.450
Option 3 cost us 30.000, compensated by 5% of sell value ($ 13.450). So in total it costs us 16.550.
In this case I prefer the second option. The break even point is at the total sales value of production of $300.000.
With a lvl1 farms you produce oranges of a total sell value of $ 280 an hour. With 10 lvl 2 plants that is 280 x 20 x 48= 269.000.
Option 2 cost us: 5% of sell value. $ 13.450
Option 3 cost us 30.000, compensated by 5% of sell value ($ 13.450). So in total it costs us 16.550.
In this case I prefer the second option. The break even point is at the total sales value of production of $300.000.
46) You have 5% of blue-eyed people in your company. The blue-eyed people did an internal research and found out that you never promote blue-eyed people, and as a consequence they earn less money than people with other eye color. They are pretty angry and threaten to file a lawsuit unless you do something about it.
That's ridiculous, let them sue me, I don't care.
They went to the court. It turned out that blue-eyed people never actually applied for the promotion in the first place and that's why they never got it. The legal proceedings cost us $10,000
Set up an internal working group to investigate the claim further.
The working group has found out that blue-eyed people never actually applied for the promotion in the first place and that's why they never got it. They also claim your company isn't big enough to confidently say anything about the population of 5%. The case is dismissed. The investigation cost you $1,000.
Create a rule to always promote at least 5% blue-eyed people.
Blue-eyed people were happy with your decision. Yet you notice that blue-eyed people never actually applied for a promotion in the first place, and that was likely the reason for the lack of promotions for them. On top of that people with different eye color feel that it's unfair to promote people taking into consideration their eye color, current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%.
47) Boss, your CTO is here: I have identified 2 production units we can upgrade, upkeep for the first one is $5/hour and I can make it run for $4/hour which is saves us 20% of the cost! The seconds one costs $20/hour to run, and I can make it run for $18/hour, which saves us 10% of the upkeep! We can only upgrade one of them, which one should we chose?
The first one!
Boss, the update was effective for 100 days, saving $ 1 an hour, his quick decision resulted in an astonishing $ 2,400 profit. But, I still wonder, the second option would have saved $ 2 an hour, wouldn't that save twice as much?
The second one
Boss, the upgrade was effective for 100 days, with $2 savings per hour, it is $4,800 of profit. I think this was the right choice, the other option would have saved us only half as much.
That's ridiculous, let them sue me, I don't care.
They went to the court. It turned out that blue-eyed people never actually applied for the promotion in the first place and that's why they never got it. The legal proceedings cost us $10,000
Set up an internal working group to investigate the claim further.
The working group has found out that blue-eyed people never actually applied for the promotion in the first place and that's why they never got it. They also claim your company isn't big enough to confidently say anything about the population of 5%. The case is dismissed. The investigation cost you $1,000.
Create a rule to always promote at least 5% blue-eyed people.
Blue-eyed people were happy with your decision. Yet you notice that blue-eyed people never actually applied for a promotion in the first place, and that was likely the reason for the lack of promotions for them. On top of that people with different eye color feel that it's unfair to promote people taking into consideration their eye color, current production yield reduced by 5.0%, current retail revenue reduced by 2.5%.
47) Boss, your CTO is here: I have identified 2 production units we can upgrade, upkeep for the first one is $5/hour and I can make it run for $4/hour which is saves us 20% of the cost! The seconds one costs $20/hour to run, and I can make it run for $18/hour, which saves us 10% of the upkeep! We can only upgrade one of them, which one should we chose?
The first one!
Boss, the update was effective for 100 days, saving $ 1 an hour, his quick decision resulted in an astonishing $ 2,400 profit. But, I still wonder, the second option would have saved $ 2 an hour, wouldn't that save twice as much?
The second one
Boss, the upgrade was effective for 100 days, with $2 savings per hour, it is $4,800 of profit. I think this was the right choice, the other option would have saved us only half as much.
48) Boss, there is a conference coming up where we can potentially reach 10,000 new customers, each worth $21 if they convert buying our product. What marketing materials should we prepare for our stall? It's either: a set of souvenirs worth $10 each with estimated 50% chance to convert the customer; or we can prepare a set of leaflets worth $5 each and a set of brochures worth $5 each and each has estimated 25% chance to convert the potential customer.
Prepare the souvenirs, 50% conversion
The souvenirs cost $100,000 to make, but we made 10,000 times 50% times $21 = $105,000 from sales, pocketing the difference.
Get the leaflets and brochures ready, 25% and 25% conversion
The leaflets and brochures cost us $100,000 and we got 4,375 customers who paid $21 each = $91,875. Some of them reported that they only needed one item to be convinced. Our analysts later explained the effect the following way: the chance of both the brochure and the leaflet not working is 0.75*0.75=0.5625, so the chance of at least one of them converting the customer is 1 - 0.5625 = 43.75%. We have lost $8,125.
I don't want to go to any conference. Leave me alone!
(no response)
Prepare the souvenirs, 50% conversion
The souvenirs cost $100,000 to make, but we made 10,000 times 50% times $21 = $105,000 from sales, pocketing the difference.
Get the leaflets and brochures ready, 25% and 25% conversion
The leaflets and brochures cost us $100,000 and we got 4,375 customers who paid $21 each = $91,875. Some of them reported that they only needed one item to be convinced. Our analysts later explained the effect the following way: the chance of both the brochure and the leaflet not working is 0.75*0.75=0.5625, so the chance of at least one of them converting the customer is 1 - 0.5625 = 43.75%. We have lost $8,125.
I don't want to go to any conference. Leave me alone!
(no response)
Robot Quest (Added 6/17/2021 or 17/6/2021)
49) Boss, your CTO has suggested taking out a loan at 1% interest a day and automating one of our buildings. We need 36 robots at $900 each. It will save us 3% on our salaray cost of $10,000 per day. We just can't figure out how many days until we start to see a profit.
Less than 60 days
About that, I decided to have an accounting firm re-calculate it. And it's not as clever idea as it sounded first. The capital cost is higher than saving - we would have never get the investment back. The accounting firm charged us $2000. (You lose $2000)
More than 60 days
About that, I decided to have an accounting firm re-calculate it. And it's not as clever idea as it sounded first. The capital cost is higher than saving - we would have never get the investment back. The accounting firm charged us $2000. (You lose $2000)
That's a terrible idea!
(Nothing Happens)
49) Boss, your CTO has suggested taking out a loan at 1% interest a day and automating one of our buildings. We need 36 robots at $900 each. It will save us 3% on our salaray cost of $10,000 per day. We just can't figure out how many days until we start to see a profit.
Less than 60 days
About that, I decided to have an accounting firm re-calculate it. And it's not as clever idea as it sounded first. The capital cost is higher than saving - we would have never get the investment back. The accounting firm charged us $2000. (You lose $2000)
More than 60 days
About that, I decided to have an accounting firm re-calculate it. And it's not as clever idea as it sounded first. The capital cost is higher than saving - we would have never get the investment back. The accounting firm charged us $2000. (You lose $2000)
That's a terrible idea!
(Nothing Happens)
