Throughout my time here I have found that certain cities offer the highest prices for particular drugs. I know obvious observation, but please bare with me. I have also noticed that in those cities 99% of the time the highest price does not always belong to the drug that is valued higher on the scale.

This got me to thinking about the way that you are pretty much locked in to what drug your DFP produces as you rank. And there is no option except waiting for your next rank in order to upgrade if you are in one of the cities that has an extremely low price all the time on a certain drug. For instance, Detroit, no one in their right mind would ever upgrade their DFP to produce Grain Alcohol. So players there are stuck with waiting until their next rank before upgrading.

My proposal is based on other things in the game also. The DFPs are the only thing in the game that can make you money that you do not have options.

So my proposal is to allow us the option of selecting which drug we would like our DFP to produce, in addition to the ability to upgrade the total units produced daily. Not just assigning one based on rank. If I am a Don and choose to have my DFP produce Heroin because my city often has higher priced Heroin then Cocaine, that should be my choice.

I do think that the structure that is in place concerning which drugs are available should stay. A Gangster should not be able to purchase a DFP that produces Cocaine.

There are only some extreme cases where the drug prices do not go in particular order, this is because we have one special city that has drug prices that swing a little higher than normal because.. well.. thats all it really has going for it.

Marijuana     138
Marijuana     138
Marijuana     138
Marijuana     138
Marijuana     138
Marijuana     138
Marijuana     138
Marijuana     150
Mushrooms     183
Mushrooms     183
Mushrooms     183
Mushrooms     183
Mushrooms     183
Mushrooms     184
Mushrooms     203
Mushrooms     231
Grain Alcohol     270 <-- Detroit (Special city drug for new players to get a sure-fire way to profit)
Hashish     527
Hashish     556
Hashish     556
Hashish     556
Hashish     556
Hashish     556
Opium     570
Opium     570
Opium     570
Opium     570
Opium     570
Opium     570
Hashish     588  <- few dollars off
Opium     591
Opium     593
Hashish     603 <- few dollars off
Amphetamines     744
Amphetamines     754
Amphetamines     754
Amphetamines     754
Amphetamines     754
Amphetamines     754
Amphetamines     815
Amphetamines     820
Grain Alcohol     950
Grain Alcohol     950
Grain Alcohol     950
Grain Alcohol     950
Grain Alcohol     950
Grain Alcohol     950
Grain Alcohol     1190
Morphine     1545
Morphine     1565
Morphine     1606
Morphine     1606
Morphine     1606
Morphine     1606
Morphine     1606
Morphine     1613
Barbiturates     4285
Barbiturates     4285
Barbiturates     4285
Barbiturates     4285
Barbiturates     4285
Barbiturates     4285
Barbiturates     4285
Barbiturates     4395
Heroin     6443
Heroin     6809
Heroin     6809
Heroin     6809
Heroin     6809
Heroin     6809
Heroin     6809
Cocaine     6870 <- low
Heroin     7224 <- high
Cocaine     7285
Cocaine     7310
Cocaine     7386
Cocaine     7695
Cocaine     7894
Cocaine     8005
Cocaine     8430?

Because of the very few DFPs that this would make a difference with, I honestly don't know if its worth putting the code into it.  Maybe this is something we can persue when we are done our to-do list, but giving the ability to pick a lower drug than what your highest is would have such a small financial impact on a very little subset of players only from a certain city - that it's not really worth the time to code it unless the game grows dramatically and it impacts more people.  I'm not shooting down your idea, im all for options, but this is one of those cases where the as of now, the work put in greatly outweighs the reward at this time.

P.S.  That special city wasnt refering to Detroit - Detroit has uber low Alcohol as a "sure fire" way for any newbie to make their first profitable drug run (since detroit used to be the start up city first on the drop down list upon account creation)

Are these numbers that you have posted here the median for each city?

If so that is not the number that would make a difference, as we do not sell drugs at the median level. We sell much closer to the high end of the price scale.

Now if you were to post those figures for each city and they were as close in value, then I can see how it would not be worth the time. That being said it still does not improve the situation for cities where Heroin is consistently being bought and sold at a much higher price then Cocaine.