Hello everyone.

Ive been playing CE for a few days now and can confidently say I am probably too deeply invested. I enjoy the gameplay loop and it manages to keep my attention longer than most things. 

I want to preface this post with a disclaimer; I am not an economics major, i am not as intelligent as I like to present myself and I am by no means qualified to talk about this. I also (obviously) dont know Diablos intended direction for the game.

But I've been wondering about something..

Currently there are 2 ways of making any significant amount of money:

1 - Steal supplies and sell them to people who can turn them into finished goods

2 - Produce the finished goods yourself and sell them to the consumer

However I think this model is flawed. Lets pretend I've got max production facilities purchased. According to the wiki I would need a daily total of:

500 fertilizer, 250 agave, and 120 coco paste.

Now lets also pretend Ive maxed prestige on each of the corresponding robbery jobs.

It would take me, assuming a conservative average - 

5 hours to obtain 500 fert

12 hours to obtain 250 agave

3 hours to obtain 120 coco paste

Now, you could argue that most people arent maxed out and wont spend 20 hours a day grinding out materials, especially as more content is released, true. Most people wont have 50 weed farms. They might only have 1 or 2, reducing their required materials to 10-20 fert a day.

So what will happen to these markets? I dont think you should be able to sustain these numbers by yourself. There should be a need to outsource some of your materials.

 Ive also wondered about what will happen when a larger percentage of the playerbase is producing more coke than they can ingest.

I know there is always content to be added and this is probably a non issue, just curious if anyone else has given any thought to this? 

(Btw who is even buying weed lol)

Post under suggestions! Some good ?? ! Nice job!