Sugar/Dairy Demands ... What do you do?

I think we can all agree that we can never have enough sugar and diary products.

So, I’m curious about something.

Does anyone here have a practice they have adopted for keeping up with the demands for the sugar and dairy products? Other than NOT filling BOs that require them, which is something I already cut out.

Everyday I say to myself, “ok, I am NOT going to make a single item for a TO, instead I am going to make nothing but the sugar products and dairy products until I have AT LEAST 20 of each!”

It never happens.

I guess I have a compulsion when it comes to filling TOs.

Also, my barn is only at 625 and by doing that, it gets full fast.

Maybe what I need to do is this…

Concentrate on expanding my barn, get it to at least 750.

Then after I do that, take a whole weekend and truly do nothing but make the sugar and dairy products. Don’t fill a single TO or BO. (best time would be when a special event is NOT taking place)

Try to get my stock to at least 30 each of white sugar and cream, 25 each of butter, cheese and brown sugar. And 20 each of syrup and goat cheese.

Of course, something tells me that this will only last one day.

As soon as I start producing this like cream cakes, strawberry cakes, potato bread, ice cream, baked potatoes and coffee products… there goes my stock!

So, I would like to hear from others on how they keep up with the demand.

In my game I actually make sure I have 15 of each before I send off truck orders. I make sure I have enough product for one board plus 8 more of everything. Pretty much the same way when I was going for TT 3.

I also started another game to use as a helper to my main game.

well lol you already know mine, just dont let your par drop. its a business practise just like as if you would run an actual business. You manages your stock.

i wanted to include a SS of my barn but i think that will risk me being asked to sell dairy products so i would refrain.

btw you have your dairy spelt wrong in your post. they are all "diary"

It will be fun to see the responses to this. Right now I just make sure the machines are going all the time. Of course, we all do that, and it's not nearly enough, lol. I keep thinking I will stop filling orders of any kind just to get my stock up, but my barn and silo are only at 475 right now, so I wouldn't be able to stock much.

My strategy is simple: keep enough for boat orders (or half of boat orders), sell surplus and everything else :).

Regarding sugar/dairy:
Of course I don't do boat orders asking for those items. Syrup and Goat cheese is manageable if I have enough time (overnight) and don't need to produce products using Syrup or Goat Cheese right away.

I max out dairy and sugar mill before anything else. I don't feel the need to stock up sugar/butter/cream because I use them right away to make products. You can say I stock them in other forms :). The benefits are:

• dairy/butter/cream not being the 1st and 2nd highest amount, visitor will NEVER ask for them
• ready for boat orders, if not, have enough time to make what needed
• can always help boat orders asking for 1 or 2 products

When my barn was at 600, I used to keep 5 of each. Ores stay by the mine, metal bars used right away, never keep more than 2 or 3 axe and saw if not needed.

That is true, if you have too much than the little people will ask for them. That is a good thing to keep in mind.

So, I guess I will just keep doing what I'm doing. I mean, I am at level 54 and doing pretty well for myself.

And just so you know, I have 5 slots opened on both my sugar mill and dairy. I save making syrup, cheese and goat cheese while I'm sleeping. I've thought about opening another slot but it bugs that it goes to a new line.

Sorry about my typos. I will go fix them.

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Concentrate on expanding my barn, get it to at least 750

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I have a barn size of 800 and was STILL maxing out. So, I sold off all my bolts. Yes, all 50 of them. I also sell off all LEM and SEM as I have fully expanded my farm and am not expanding my silo. I intend to keep expanding my barn but will gather bolts again once I have enough tape and planks which take FOREVER for me to obtain.

I tend not to keep much sugar or syrup on hand. I have all the slots open in both sugar mill and dairy and will fill them all with white, brown sugar or syrup. I'll just keep making sugar until I have about 20 of each then I use most of it up to make products. I do the same for cream and butter and sometimes I will end up with at least 10 each which I find is enough. I make syrup at night and then use them up to make apple pies in the morning. But I find I can just not ever have enough cheese, no matter how much of it I stock up in my barn.

Anyway...the trick to not maxing out is to sell sell sell...or fill boat orders. I sell off everything once I have over 10 of that item (even jam!). I also do not keep anything in my barn that is easily obtainable in the store- except eggs, which I sell to the little people. I always make sure that I have more eggs than anything else in my barn.

Sugar mill

Around 5 PM I begin to load syrup. By bed time I will have about 7 loaded to run while I sleep. No more than 2 syrups remain in the morning and I load sugar. I alternate brown and white until it's 5 PM again and repeat the cycle. When I first started this (last year) I stopped making products that require sugar so I could actually build a surplus. Once I had 40 on hand I started to use them again. My present par is 60 sugar and 40 syrup.

Dairy

Same principle as sugar regarding loading items with longer production times at 5 PM. By morning 5-7 cheese and 4-6 feta are made. I alternate between loading 18 cream and 9 butter while actively playing.

The real task is how you use your supply. I try not to make the same thing back to back on the same machine unless that particular item is 10 or more lower than the rest. 9 cream cakes in a row will deplete you. I generally load items in succession from lowest production time to highest.

My dairy and sugar mill never stop. I keep 25 to 30 of ALL sugar products and 20 to 25 of every dairy except goat cheese. I run both machine at night with syrup / cheese so during the day I can crank the sugar, butter and cream out.

I do the same with bestajunior. I don't do truck orders asking for sugars/dairy. I see them and rip them out right away. I don't do dairy/sugar boat orders either. I am level 74 and have never done a white/brown sugar or butter/cream/cheese boat. Even during captaincy. Got lucky there :) So I see a sugar/dairy boat and I send them away 2 seconds after they dock. When I have a surplus I sometimes do a syrup/goat cheese boat.

Now that more items need goat cheese, I don't plan on doing goat cheese anything.

I do both cheese and syrups at night. In the day time I do mostly cream and butter but I'd insert a cheese here and there so that I don't have to check on HD every other hour.

Dairy - cream, cream, cream, cream, butter (repeat) all day up to about 7pm, then the overnight cheeses go in...
Sugar - white, white, white, white, brown (repeat) all day up to about 7pm, then the overnight syrups go in...

Obviously the slots are all maxed up, and I have been running this way for months, and this suits my strategy fine... It's how you use them that is the problem...!!! Any truck orders for any of these items gets immediately trashed, as do boat orders, and if you plan your machines carefully, you will find you have enough, and keep some in stock as back up...

John.

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Originally Posted by BOROYOB

Dairy - cream, cream, cream, cream, butter (repeat) all day up to about 7pm, then the overnight cheeses go in...
Sugar - white, white, white, white, brown (repeat) all day up to about 7pm, then the overnight syrups go in...

Obviously the slots are all maxed up, and I have been running this way for months, and this suits my strategy fine... It's how you use them that is the problem...!!! Any truck orders for any of these items gets immediately trashed, as do boat orders, and if you plan your machines carefully, you will find you have enough, and keep some in stock as back up...

John.

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yup, i should have explain that in the how to make coins thread. any truck orders asking for dairy and sugar is not worth it the gold and the xp. I always look at combined worth before i trashed it. but i made a general rule anything that asked for dairy are trashed immediately, no second thoughts.

Thank you everyone for your input.

I think I will upgrade my sugar mill and dairy to 8 production slots each. I only have 5 on each right now which is not enough when I'm sleeping.

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Originally Posted by Holidae

Sugar mill

Around 5 PM I begin to load syrup. By bed time I will have about 7 loaded to run while I sleep. No more than 2 syrups remain in the morning and I load sugar. I alternate brown and white until it's 5 PM again and repeat the cycle. When I first started this (last year) I stopped making products that require sugar so I could actually build a surplus. Once I had 40 on hand I started to use them again. My present par is 60 sugar and 40 syrup.

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Wow! How big is your barn?! :eek:

I do pretty much the same thing as everyone else. I run my dairy and sugar mill continuously or as much as I can....work sometimes gets in the way:rolleyes:I do check in during work when I can...I'm working right now..lol..;). I try to keep over 50 of both sugars and at least 30 syrups on hand...cream and butter are a little harder for me to keep up. My barn is at 1050 right now.

edit: oh and I will also use tom to get cheese if I'm running low.

my tactic is:

Sometimes I have like 10 tapes / nails or 15 shovels in excess. Then I trade them on the forum for 30 cheese / 30 syrups.
Meanwhile my machine is running brown and white sugar all day. And cream/butters. This helps me have enough of all at all times.

Every week I have atleast 15 gems saved up from playing this game. So on the weekend I hire tom. I use him to stock up on the hard to get items like lobster soups, jelly beans, choclate bars, jams, etc.

If I have not much time to play, I just log in to keep machines working and create a bigger stock. If u only make items wich dont require sugar/diary, u can stock up quite well in just one day. (25 white sugar + 25 brown in 1 day)

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Originally Posted by bobbyrae2

Wow! How big is your barn?! :eek:

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Only 3000. I'm a handful away from my next upgrade and a few hundred behind my neighbors I trade with on a regular basis.

I try to keep 3 dozen or more of the sugar products, and the dairy products, except for goat cheese. I seldom make it. I have Tom on a regular retainer and goat cheese is one of the items he gets for me daily.
If I'm having trouble keeping the stock up, I'll have a 'time out' day. trash all the truck orders (except for those that have items in production). I'll let all the production machines run out of stuff to do, if it requires sugar or dairy. then spend the whole day in just producing sugar and dairy. (loom keeps running, as do juice and jam machine) I may make things that require no sugar or dairy in the other machines, but usually just let them sit for a day. And I'll run a barn clearance sale in my rss to clear out excess products, keeping 3-6 of most items on hand.
I MAY fill a truck order that asks for a single sugar/dairy product, if the other items aren't heavy on s & d.
And if I wind up with a lot of orders for cream cakes, I may send Tom for them if the xp is good. otherwise, i trash the orders.
I created a 'helper' farm to supplement the sugar/dairy, but the onsite manager decided to specialize in cheesecakes, feta pies, cookies, and ice creams. As a result, my 'helper' farm keeps me in cheesecakes and cookies, but has an even harder time keeping up with the S & D than my main farm does!

My strategy is pretty much the same as everyone else's. After I kept running out of sugar, butter and cream I stopped producing everything requiring those items, maxed out the slots on both machines and just made sugar (alternating brown and white) and cheese, butter and cream for about 2 days until I had 25-35 of each. Now I don't let my stock run below 20 for any of those items and keep my machines going 24x7. During the day I produce sugar, cream and butter since I check my farm while I'm sitting at my desk at work. At night I load the longer-producing items like syrup, cheese and goat cheese.

Depending on which neighbor is asking, I will sometimes fill boat orders asking for cheese, goat cheese or syrup. However, I rarely, if ever, fill boats asking for sugar or butter as the quantities are too high. I also don't do truck orders asking for sugar or diary.