Schedule I: Essential Tips for Every Stage of Your Drug-Dealing Empire

Building a thriving drug-dealing empire in-game requires smart strategies from the very start through to the late stages. Whether you’re a newcomer or a seasoned player, these tips will help you maximize profits, manage resources, and level up efficiently.

Early Game Tips

• Quick Cash Boost: Buy gold bars from Bleuballs Boutique and sell them to Mick at the pawnshop for up to 80% more per bar. If desperate, smash ATMs and vending machines with a baseball bat for about $30 each.
• Heavenly Products: Currently, making heavenly products has no downside since all deals are accepted without quality checks.
• Inventory Management: Use Shift + Click to move an entire stack of items or Shift + Right Click to move a single item from a stack quickly.
• Movement Advantage: Jumping with the golden skateboard significantly increases your movement speed.
• Pricing Strategy: Safely increase product prices by 1.6 times the suggested price to keep demand while maximizing profits. Afterward, negotiate prices higher based on customer budgets.
• Experience Gain: Making deals on the streets-even unsolicited ones-grants valuable experience points.
• Product Variety: Creating different strains can be lucrative but requires careful management. You can produce up to 8 bricks of an 8-mix product before needing to restock a large shelf.

Mid Game Tips

• Dealer Behavior: Dealers don’t care much about what they sell or to whom; customers’ requests drive product sales. If addictiveness is maxed, dealers will request deals daily.
• Inventory Slots: Dealers don’t need empty slots to break down brick products; filling all 5 slots won’t delete items.
• Customer Spending: Each customer has a spending limit and tends to spend about 60% of it on requested deals.
• Product Pricing: Decide whether to produce higher-priced products or stick to low-priced ones based on customer budgets and spending limits.

Late Game Tips

• Botanist Hiring: Hiring a botanist is essential for cocaine production efficiency.
• Optimal Cocaine Mixes: The best 3-mix for cocaine is Battery, Horse Semen, and Mega Beans. The best 8-mix requires about $6,000 in ingredients but produces 160 products selling for roughly $1,000 each after upcharging.
• Maximum Pricing: The product page caps prices at $999, but you can still sell products for higher amounts through negotiation.
• Cocaine 8-Mix Recipe: Motor Oil → Cuke → Paracetamol → Gasoline → Cuke → Batteries → Horse Semen → Mega Beans.
• Extra Storage: Buying multiple Veeper vans for extra storage outside properties is a smart move for stockpiling soil or seeds.
• Long-Term Progression: Advancement continues well beyond initial milestones. For example, daily earnings can increase from $80K to $120K as kingpin levels raise NPC allowances and spending by about $21 each.

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By mastering these strategies, you’ll be well-equipped to dominate the streets, maximize your profits, and enjoy a rewarding gameplay experience from start to finish.