Interface Tips
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This guide is to cover the features of the game that players may not know exist.
NAVIGATION
ICONS (at bottom)
Map - takes you to your map of buildings where you can access your Headquarters, Warehouse, and the Exchange.
Warehouse - takes you to the warehouse and headquarters where you have access to all your products including research.
Magnifying Glass - can search for products, buildings, player profiles, and game guides.
Chat - accesses the chat rooms. General, Social, Sales, and Help chat.
Exchange - takes you to the exchange where all market orders are listed.
DROP DOWN MENU (at top)
About - will take you to the front page of the game. Can see leader boards and other information here.
Library - takes you to the library for guides and Sim Companies Times
Encyclopedia - accesses all resources and building information.
Referral Program - a program that allows your to invite others to the game. Note: must be a brand new accounts. Sharing the referral link in game will not work for existing accounts.
Achievements - takes you to achievements that you can and will earn while playing.
Notes - takes you to a page where you can keep personal notes for yourself and on other player’s profiles.
Realms - takes you to a page that shows basic info about features avaible in each of the realms according to current phase. Can switch between the realms here as well.
Log Out - logs you out of the game on the device you are currently using.
ACCOUNT SETTINGS
To access account settings; click on your logo either in the upper right corner or in chat; to go to your profile and click on “Edit Account” below your name.
CHAT
Using emotes in chat. The game has the ability to for you to post any product and building in chat.
To do this use type any product and/or building:
:product or building:
Also can use Emojis by typing:
:emoji:
To mention companies type: @company-name
(As long as the player was in chat recently.)
Can type “guide” into chat and bring up all the guides of the game to link.
Pressing on the gray arrow at the right of the player’s name will create the @ for that company (creates a hyperlink to that company).
Pressing on the Envelope will take you to their Private Messages.
Pressing on the two (2) pieces of paper copies that company name to your clipboard.
Tip: Clicking on emotes in chat for a product or building, will take you to the encyclopedia for that item.
Sim Companies Forums for a complete Resource Number list (re-#),
PRIVATE MESSAGE SETTINGS (PM, DM)
There are four (4) functional settings you can use when clicking on the cog or gear next to a company name.
Pin conversation with [company name] to the top. This will save the PM with a pin at the top of your contact list. Clicking it again will unpin the company.
Hide conversation with [company name]. Will remove the conversation from your recently spoken to contacts.
Ignore messages from [company name]. This will block any incoming messages from this company and incoming contracts. In chat, the company will show as grayed out. You can see what they typed pressing on the “click to show” to reveal what was said. Hitting the ignore button again will unblock the company.
Report - Allows you to report the conversation as going against the Terms and Conditions.
PRODUCTION VALUES
When in a Production building you can enter "am", "pm", "hr", and "m" (time codes).
Examples:
"3pm" your production will end at 3 pm
”10am” your production will end at 10 am
”5hr” your production will end in 5 hours
”30m” your production will end in 30 minutes
In the gif above; typed 1hr and 1am
Retail buildings need to have the Price filled before entering the time codes.
The game will reduce a time such as 1:30hr to 1 hour. To get past this use total minutes instead; 90m
PRODUCTION QUALITY
Can chose to produce whatever quality you want as long as you have it researched.
In the production menu you can select the amount of gold stars to set the quality you want to produce. Reminder: still need at least 1 quality lower inputs of the quality you are trying to produce. (i.e. q2 needs at least q1 inputs)
WAREHOUSE
Repeat the same contract by clicking on the circular arrow.
Copy the the contract setup to send to another company.
Cancel the contract with the red X.
Recent movements can display Contracts Only or All movements (exchange, production, and contracts).
Can download recent movement to a CSV file (comma-separated values)
Outflow Summary
Under the Outflow Summary you can resend contracts with the circular arrow.
Current Market Orders
The box at the bottom (current market orders) of the product screen can be clicked/pressed to take you to the exchange for that product.
Tip: Use this box to access the exchange easy when comparing your price to exchange prices.
Pinned and Unpin Contracts
In the outgoing contract screen, you can Pin contracts for reuse. Simply hit the pin symbol in the upper left corner and it will save that contract until you Unpin that contract.
Blocking Resources
Sometimes we have resources in the warehouse that we want to protect from being consumed or sold. Can select the Quality you want to protect and hit the “block use” button. This will lock the product. Can be Unblocked by pressing the same button.
EXCHANGE
Using and understanding the Exchange.
The blue arrows will take you to the next product on the exchange.
Select what Minimum Quality you would like to be purchase. Quality shows up as Gold Stars.
Quantity you want to buy.
Encyclopedia link for the current product.
Product (Power in image).
Quantity being sold by specific company.
Company that is selling the product.
Price per unit.
Total price of selected products (shows up after making a selection).
Select the Minimum Quality ( number 2 from above image)
Quality 1 thru 7 is available to chose from. One gold star = Q1, Two gold stars = Q2, etc.
Note for retailers:
If you select a quantity of products (apples, oranges, etc.) that can be sold in retail buildings, the following will be displayed: demand, average retail price and revenue minus wages per unit.
COMPANY TAGGING
Tagging is a way to find contracts. Instead of using sales chat to find a buyer/supplier you can use Tags to designate what you are looking for to BUY or SELL.
To make a Tag you need to go your Public Profile.
Clicking on your Avatar (pfp) in the upper right corner or in chat, will take you to your Public Profile.
Once you are on your Public Profile look for Search Tags and the EDIT button.
Clicking on the Edit button will bring up the Add Search Tag menu. You can choose to either BUY or SELL any product in the game. Once you select your option it will appear on your profile above the Edit button.
Removing Tags is the same process as adding a tag. Open the Add Search Tag menu with the Edit button and select the product(s) that you already have tagged to remove the tags.
FINDING CONTRACTS
To find companies that are buying or selling with the Tagging system you can access the search through the Exchange. The option is the second icon on the top row that looks like a money.
Opening the TAG SEARCH will show the current tags of the item you are looking at in the exchange. When opening the Exchange the default product is Power. If you were looking at Limestone; then Limestone tags would show when opening the TAG SEARCH menu.
When searching for tags you can choose either BUY or SELL or do both. To remove the current search products click on the BUY or SELL items under “Listing companies with tags:”
Typing in the items will bring up options to select BUY or SELL for the products.
You can search many products at one time. In the example below this search is looking for Research.
Tip: After setting a search; bookmark it.
BUYING MORE TAGS
Every company starts with 1 tag.
To purchase more tags you will need to be using all of your available tags to bring up the options to buy more at the top of the Add Search Tag menu.
Each new tag is worth 200 Sim Boosts.
There are a max of 4 tags per company.
HEADQUARTERS
Can check any box to display the information you want. Can download a CSV file for your account history.
Tip: Can search using whatever function allows you to search for specific words on your device.
(i.e. search for crude -- it will find all instances of crude for the last 7 days in your account history)
This search revealed 66 instances of crude.
Account History drop-down arrow
Pressing the little arrow next to an item in your Account History will open a drop-down box containing detailed information.
Contract items will show details, such as Quantity, Quality, and Price
While other entries vary in information.
BUILDINGS
Can rename buildings. Open any building on your map by clicking on them. A menu will pop up and a number of selections will be available to you. Select rename to change the name of the building.
This is a helpful tool that can help you to set up a production line of products.
Renamed buildings are client side (only you can see the edited name).
Tip: keep track of abundances in quarries, mines, and oil rigs. Excellent way to know how much abundance has decreased over time.
Reposition Buildings
Can reposition buildings. Open any building on your map by clicking on them. A menu will pop up and a number of selections will be available to you. Select reposition to move buildings on your map.
When repositioning buildings they will disappear from your map and a construction slot will be in place of the building.
By clicking on any empty construction slot; the place building menu will pop up.
Select what building you want to place.
You can see these buildings have already been renamed.
Can re-arrange your entire map!
Tip: reposition your buildings to setup production lines or pipelines of products.
NOTES
You can keep anything you want in your notes. It is just like a notepad. Keep important information or a schedule, to even sales/buying lists for sales chat.
Example:
Buying
:re-18: q0+ [aluminium]
:re-16: q0+ [silicon]
RE-number needs to be used when copying from your notes to sales chats
For a complete list:
Sim Companies Forums for a complete Resource Number list (re-#),
Tip: keep news article links in your notes for easy access.
It's completely up to you what you put in your notes!
Player profile notes
There is also an option to place private notes on other player profiles.
These are also listed on the notes page. Makes it easy to find the players you made notes on.
Tip: Add a note for each contract you have with other companies and never lose track of a client!
Sim Companies Forum on Notes - Private Notes
DICE ROLLS
In chat we are able to roll dice. Mainly used for Roleplaying (chatrooms); but have been used for fun to predict economy changes.
Syntax for the Dice rolls:
:roll-XdY:
X = number of rolls, Y = number of sides
Number of Rolls 1 to 20
Dice Sides 1 to 100
Number in parenthesis (XXXX) is the total sum of the rolls.
CHARTS
All the charts in game can be manipulated. Can turn on/off products and items that have a box corresponding to a chart. And can zoom into a certain time frame. This includes the chart in your Headquarters (HQ).
To reset the graph, click the show all button in the top right.
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Library Guides:
Frequently Asked Question (FAQ), Guide for Beginners, Research guide, Construction guide, Bonds guide, Executives guide, Government orders guide, Aerospace