It is really easy to get your resources poached. Lots of people build farms, factories, and warehouses with the intention of supplying their own stores (vertical integration). If you don’t explicitly set your “Selling Strategy” on each product to “Internal”, “No Sales”, or “No New Sales”, another business can swoop in and buy your materials right out from under you at cost (or less than cost unless you are careful with prices!).
The game could benefit from some different default selling strategies to prevent the above from happening, in particular to new players. The recommendation would be to err on the side of “Internal” except in cases where it doesn’t make any sense (ie. stores).
Recommendations for Selling Strategy on Newly Added Products:
Stores - External
Farms/Raw Materials - Internal
Factories - Internal
Warehouses - Internal
Currently everything is set to External by default.
